papalonian

No. Don't. Don't tell me this, don't do it to me, I'm trying to complete Satisfactory playthrough

Oh my God, these new subclasses are going to get me back into the game. The sorcerer and cleric subclasses.. ah!

I mean, yeah. Obviously. But to the other businesses or potential business owners that want to try a tipless model, that see these businesses failing, that's not very encouraging or helping to figure out what the underlying issue is. If people are trying to do a good thing but can't quite figure out how to make it work, should we just say, "guess you're not very good at this" and continue giving business to the places asking for tips, or should we try to look into what's going on?

I think a big flaw in your thinking is that you aren't considering that we still have all the people currently living to take into consideration. We wouldn't be instantly reduced to a tiny population that is easy to restructure and organize, there's still like 8b people on the planet, and none of the ones in charge are going to just say, "oh, well I guess none of this matters anymore, let's focus on sustainability".

It would take a couple years for us to see a significant decrease in population, and all the while, those currently in power would remain in power. We wouldn't suddenly drop to a few thousand like minded individuals, all ready to work together to rebuild. We'd be a declining population that is scared and clueless how to save itself, making mistake after mistake.

"That thing you like, is actually not good and you don't like it. Get something better" why are coffee people like this 😭

Re: wrenches.

I'm not sure where you're at or what kind of things you will be working on, but here in the US you generally want to have at least a cheap set of both SAE and Metric wrenches. Nothing is more frustrating than having a random bolt be SAE while everything else is metric, and stripping the bolt with a wrench that is "close enough".

You'll also come to a decision on if your like flat wrenches or angled ones, though it doesn't hurt to have a cheap set of both.

If you know for sure what set you'll be using the most (or even better, what sizes you'll be using the most), spending a little extra money on "ratcheting" wrenches can save you a ton of time and frustration. I do a lot of toying around on my car, and some of these bolts are in tight places where you can't turn a wrench very far; ratcheting wrenches let you get the wrench in place once and just wiggle the bolt out.

If the company wasn't constantly buying stupid shit like this and spending money on the most inefficient systems ever, I'd be more inclined to agree with you.

Idiotic business decisions are the recurring costs.

Example: We have a new program in place that is supposed to "balance" inventory across locations. My pharmacy has sent and received the same specialty medication back and forth to another location on the other side of the country 3 times now, with neither location having actual need for the medication. I'm sure we've got a good corporate deal with FedEx, but there's expenses outside of shipping costs (namely pharmacy labor hours) that we're expending to literally just ship a box back and forth across the country. And if we don't do it, they'll come harassing us to see what the "issue" is.

Yeah wtf is the first part supposed to have to do with the last line or image

It's not just in education.

Retail pharmacy. My company ~2 years ago decided to start offering clinical services to patients - great! In my store, they walled off part of what used to be the stockroom, expanding our waiting area and giving us a dedicated vaccination room (previously in a sectioned off part of the waiting room) and a health care room (where all the new services went).

To support these new services we got all kinds of really fancy tech - 20 inch 1440p (?) touchscreens for check-in. Very high end blood pressure machines. Two (2) computers in the healthcare room for the one (1) healthcare provider, because, you never know. These changes can be seen in a majority of this company's stores.

If you haven't guessed by now, they've decided to not go through with those clinical services. All of the tech we bought (if I had to estimate, very conservatively, $15k USD for my store) is either reboxed or installed but powered off on the sales floor, has been for ~12-18 months, and has no plans of ever being repurposed or sold. The vaccination room serves zero additional purpose to the area we had before, and the "healthcare room" is now used as the pharmacy stockroom (since, y'know, they removed part of the stockroom to build it). This is all ignoring the money spent on actually building these rooms (with lighting and climate control nicer than the rest of the store) and profits lost during construction.

But we don't have enough money for raises, or enough hours to functionally staff the pharmacy 🙃

Yeah I don't even get what is supposed to be the taboo thing that is sending the person to hell on this one. It's literally just a benign pun