Knightfox

Become ungovernable

My experience is as anecdotal as yours, but it seems to me that the typical conservative male is more likely to return the cart than not. Conservatives, as backward as they can be, typically have irrationally higher expectations for certain rules.

These are the same people who would be ok with police brutality, but would be upset with swearing in front of an old lady.

The people I see leaving carts more often than not are older people (perfectly capable of walking into, through, and out of the store but act like they're too frail to return the cart) or two different groups of women (stuck up Karens or moms who are by themselves with children).

And they use stone (14 pounds) to measure body weight.

Majority of the bottlers who are of notable size buy "blanks" which are heated, blown, and formed by equipment as part of the bottling process. Blanks are essentially the lip and cap portion of the bottle, but instead of a bottle below that it's a vial of plastic about 2 inches long and an inch wide. It's cheaper to ship blanks and blow them at the destination than it is to ship fully formed bottles. The benefit of this method is that the bottler can have their own bottle design, but buy blanks from any standard producer.

From blanks to formed bottles filled with water is literally fractions of a second the process happens so fast. It takes longer for the bottle to get a label and end up in packaging than it does to form and fill.

EDIT: Also, very few bottlers produce their own water. They use tap water from a large municipality and then additionally treat it to match brand specs (taste and flavor). If you drink Dasani or Aquafina you're essentially drinking tap water.

It's not a set number for the US either, we have Family Medical Leave (FMLA). When they say you have sick days it's referring to paid sick leave by your job. If you're sick you can be out for sick leave for quite a long time and the jobs can't do anything against you, they just don't have to pay you. If you're so sick that you're on FMLA for a long time you'll probably qualify for Short Term Disability which you might also supplement with Short Term disability insurance.

It's only common for government jobs and isn't universal there either. Many government jobs in the US receive multiple different types of leave concurrently. So for example you might accrue 12 hrs of vacation leave per month, 8 hrs of sick leave, and have a floating holiday of 8 hrs per year. If you reach a certain cap (say 100 hrs) the vacation leave rolls over into sick leave.

If you quit your job they have to pay out the vacation leave but not sick leave.

The result is that many government employees, with long careers, historically have tons of sick leave they aren't using (as in several hundred hours). When someone has a life event it's not uncommon for coworkers to donate some of their leave to the person (think having a baby or a cancer diagnosis).

You can of course take more leave then you have sick days with FMLA, but they will be unpaid (by your job, you may qualify for something like short term disability, idk). Sick leave that you have when you become eligible for pension retirement typically can apply to your retirement (potentially allowing you to retire earlier), but you still have to qualify for retirement first.

If you're 3 years from retiring and you can't qualify for early retirement with your leave, then you might have hundreds of hours you're not going to be able to use.

I took some time in thinking about your response, I want you to know that. That said, "There’s lots of places in the US where cops are paid significantly above median wages for the region as their base pay," doesn't mean much in the context of my original statement. My original statement said very much the same in fact. Cops, on paper, get paid above average and have tons of opportunity for overtime. What your response misses is the danger associated and the expectation of overtime.

It's one thing when you can have unlimited overtime and another when you are expected to take unlimited overtime. There is also a disconnect when that overtime comes with an expectation of being shot and killed. With those expectations it's no surprise that police are the largest portion of a city government. If you have a group of people that you expect to work long hours, work extra overtime, meet the municipality's needs, and potentially die in their duty, then they should command a large portion of the budget.

If you don't want to pay people to do these things then you can't be upset that they don't do those things. You get the cops that you pay for. I'll be the first to say Fuck the Police, but I'll also be the first to say we get the Police we pay for.

Care to elaborate? I won't argue that funding for the department isn't a problem, but at least in my own anecdotal relation of an individual experience that seems to be the problem.

You're right though, being a police officer comes with an expectation that doesn't match your pay. If you're on the subway, there is a police officer in uniform standing nearby, and a guy attacks you, the expectation is that the cop would save you. However, in 2011 Maksin Gelman had a stabbing spree in NYC that culminated in an attack on Joseph Lozito. The attack occurred on a subway, with Lozito being stabbed in the head and face while police watched from the conductor's booth. It wasn't until Lozito had wrestled his assailant to the ground and detained him that the police helped him.

Lozito sued the NYPD for not helping him and the judge decided that it wasn't the police's duty to save his life. On the day of the assault the police didn't even perform first aid on Lozito, it was another subway goer that save his life.

EDIT: I'll be the first one to say fuck the police, but if you want actually good police then the first step is to pay them to match what you expect of them or else you'll end up with a bunch of gun toting assholes who won't do shit.

Of the responses I have gotten I feel like you have the closest response to the truth. Having good cops comes down to trust. If we had a police force of non-opportunistic saints who will go through anything to do the right thing then we might have something which meets the public's expectation of the police. Short of that they are people who put their own lives and well being above that of the public. Police aren't out there to save you, they aren't really out there to stop crimes. They are out there to charge people with committing crimes. I feel like some understanding should be out there for the public though, police aren't there to save you, they are there to charge people for having committed a crime. Ideally they will stop a crime as it is occurring or by their presence prevent a crime from occurring, but if you think the Police are there to save you then you're wrong.

That's the average scenario. That's the Uvalde cop looking on as a school shooting occurs. The idea of a cop running into a school shooting is the "BEST" scenario.

Unfortunately the norm for police is far less than that, because the pay doesn't incentivize better people to want to be police. It comes down to those the factors: pay, work life balance, and danger. Pick 2 of 3, low danger, high wages, or good work life balance.

Yeah, but that comes back to the same point where pay incentivizes bad cops. It's not quite that clear cut, but it's not far from the truth. I don't begrudge someone working a second job, and assuming we're talking about good cops not getting kickbacks, police shouldn't have to work two jobs to make ends meet.