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I believe UK uses a combination of metric and imperial units.

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I rarely tip at restaurants.

Because I rarely eat at restaurants. We enjoy making and preparing our own food at home. We spend Sunday hanging out with each other, listening to music or playing something on the TV while we prepare the week's lunches and dinner menu.

That said, when we dine out, I tip 20% regardless. Good service, bad service, it's all the same to me at a restaurant, I hate waiting for food and service and would prefer doing it myself. We'll eat out for meals that are too much to prepare at home or for something interesting and different.

I kind of chuckle at people using the DoorDash and UberEats services. Fat asses too lazy to fetch their own food and leave shit tips for the delivery people. That's exactly the type of service you should tip well if you can't be bothered doing something for yourself because you're locked on the couch in a K-Hole.

The US not using metric thing is so tiring.

The tooling in the plants to build them wasn't metric........

I was a toolmaker apprentice at the time - I was working on a lathe with one of the old timers, he wipes some grunge off a small metal badge on the front of the machine and says "See that?" It said "Inspected DoD 1944" or something - he said "we were building tank parts for WWII in here". Pretty cool.

That reliant is fuckin sweet lol. What a sleeper. The only giveaway now is that you rarely see K cars on the road anymore

A lot of commonly used integrated circuits spacing is based on inches still because the Americans invented them, so take that! I still do my PCB design mostly on a in inch grid because of it. 2.54mm and divisions of that come up a lot.

0.156" = 5/32"

One of the gallows humor part of my first engineering job was my division training our replacements, based out of Poland, on this concept called imperial measurements.

“What’s a mil? Do you mean millimeter?” “We don’t have the tooling for this, can you guys ship it here?”

The first tech drawings and products coming out of that plant I swear…

Millions and millions spent to save thousands.

A 3-6 month training ended up going past 2 years…then my company was sold and I left so I still don’t know if that plant ever truly came online.

The whole standard vs metric thing is just another example of how the US has fallen behind the rest of the world. Another example of refusal to change with the times because 'merica'. Old people stuck in the past unwilling to look at things and realize things were not better 80+ years ago. Same as people who think tipping should still be a thing 'to keep costs down', and that minimum wage jobs shouldn't be livable. Change isn't always easy, but I think some people are in for a rude awakening as things change and leave them in the dust. Don't misunderstand me, some change for the sake of change is idiotic, which happens all too often in the business world.

While I agree compensation should be pegged to merit What is the point of working if you're not able to make ends meet? To feel good about yourself? To pull yourself up by your bootstraps? A lot of decent paying jobs with benefits are disappearing if not have disappeared. I doubt the average Joe can get a job from high school work hard and support a family. That is exactly what my did and we lived on a shoestring budget and it worked. That type of job he had is long gone. Why work for McDonald's for a minimum wage only to have the franchise and McDonald's get money off of your labor? I can understand your frustration with work ethic but when it comes to employment issues every man for themselves. The system we currently have has brought us to this point. Thank God publicly traded companies have a few does fuduciary responsibility to the shareholders and damn everything else.

cash for clunkers was awful and all around a gigantic failure. Fuck that program.

Should "work" be a requirement for "living?" What about those with disabilities or illness? You speak of effort, but why do "the ends" seem to be so far apart for some?

If you don't like the environment - don't work there. What justifies being a shitty person as a form of 'pay back'??

I would imagine that most of us know someone who is nearly or completely disabled and unable to take care of themselves or anyone else. That's a totally legit use of welfare. But the scenario you described is seen all too often. Temporary, basic sustenance for able-bodied people who are down on their luck is one thing. But making a better living off the system that someone who is scraping by on a meager existence, but doing it themselves, is simply not right. Who's policing the funds?

Since you seem to be stuck on this one little aspect of the conversation, and I'm not saying I don't agree with you, but would you rather have a somewhat warm body or no body at all? If the option is bad, or none...which would you prefer, assuming you aren't willing to change anything?

Ah yes, because the healthcare industry isn't crappy and completely overpriced, benefitting seedy corporate healthcare companies and their investors over the healthcare of their clients. I wait weeks to months to get an appointment now, have much higher copays and billing, and the level of care has dropped dramatically over the past decade. The healthcare industry in America is broken and overpriced.

A major change needs to happen in regards to how healthcare and employment is done. I don't like that companies bypass this by only hiring part time. This is an example of them playing the system to their benefit. I realize there are use cases for part time employment, and ways to cut cost, but it is abused by many small/mid size companies. If your salaried full time employees are having to cover crazy hours because you refuse to employ anyone else at full time, then there needs to be regulations around it.

My company used to abuse this system and around the time the Obama thing came around they preemptively changed it. They never went back even though it fell through, and the quality of life for the workers is much better for it.

I don't get why people love to use some random anecdotal evidence to show how any program that helps average folk is automatically bad, meanwhile rich people continue to rob you blind on a daily basis. It's like rich people in the USA are some kind of untouchable gods that must be worshipped at all times regardless of how they constantly abuse the system, but Joe down the road abusing the food stamp system logically means that we must abolish the entire program and/or everyone must be a deadbeat.

Sysco and USFoods both operate in CT.

None - because dead weight costs and complicates your ability to hire in.

I want nothing to do with an employee who projects the attitude I responded to. If you are out to spite me, you're only going to cause more grief, more cost, and more trouble.

I'm not saying all jobs are rainbows and sunshine... but if your attitude is "the system sucks, so that empowers me to be a shitty employee by right" -- GTFO. You'll never do anything but waste time and space.

It is mostly because there is this bullshit perception that all rich people got there by hard work. The richest of the rich didn't' get there by hard work, they got there by being someones kid. Yes there are many stories of people coming up from nothing to be rich, but it is much fewer than people realize, and typically it is more about who you know, where you are, and timing, than hard work.

You can do reasonable by hard work. I do believe that, I've done it. I do think personal accountability is a huge thing that is lacking in this age, but I also recognize that there are inherent things in this country that are designed to keep people down. The rich make laws that benefit the rich, not the poor/middle class.

Worked for C in the mid 90's - mid 00's

And I agree, but the issue here is that, if you are only getting bad employees, there is more wrong here than just lazy workers.

You're one location is an anecdote. You are typically end of life healthcare (from your posts, have to be working at a nursing home).

The whole picture is per capita spending and healthcare outcomes. The conclusions drawn from that in economic study after economic study are unassailable.

You can try to suggest that - but you're still trying to make emotional, rather than factual or substantiated arguments. A stretch that is easily debunked by the common experiences and earlier cites.

You really going to argue there is something wrong with the business when people can't return phone calls? Or have the decency to own up to their own decision to not show up? Or literally, accept a job and ghost before even showing up for the first day of work?

How do you blame a system or employer for all those kinds of behaviors?

You are assuming I'm only referring to the business itself. In some cases that may be, but no I do not believe that is the at all the entire story. I too know people (who have questionable work ethics themselves) complaining about not being able to find people who want to work. I was just curious how you would handle a shortage of workers. Some fill the gaps and pray, and some make the rest of their people work harder. I for one am not a fan of the latter. In my experience those people are not rewarded for it.

The culture has always been, don't complain and be thankful you have a job. Those people are taken advantage of in most cases. The # of actual bosses who appreciate it and show it is small, because those people are usually just another cog in the wheel trying to get by in their own job. I think part of what we are seeing is a no...I won't be thankful I have a job. You should be thankful you have me. I realize that can problematic when they don't want to show up at all, but that might be what we are facing for awhile.

Gen X starts in 1965. A master tech at barely 19 is impressive.

the issue with "policing the funds" is that the cost of administration/oversight makes the program that much more expensive, there will still be "fraud" of whatever standards/requirements you try to set, and there will also be qualified recipients who are incorrectly rejected from receiving the benefit. (and you can always reap back the "undeserved" benefits through taxes, i.e. on the back-end, versus having to gatekeep on the front-end)

means-testing benefits is purely a political smokeshow. it sounds good to the opponents of whatever benefit is being provided, it is a compromise for the benefits' proponents, and it means that the actual beneficiaries are not *everyone* so when you cut the benefit back later on, or eliminate it completely, there's significantly less pushback, as an example look at how durable universal benefits like social security and medicare are compared to non-universal benefits like SNAP or TANF.

My daughter worked at Starbucks late shift,at Closing time all sandwiches were thrown in the trash,She was able to bring them home instead and I delivered to Homeless people I saw on the streets.

that's great but pretty sure that's theft according to starbucks corporate policy (edit: apparently not anymore, was until 2020), there are in fact plenty of corporations where corporate policy is to lock dumpsters or taint otherwise edible food when it's put in the dumpster.

Thing is, in many companies if this had been caught they'd have been fired. I don't know if Starbucks cares, but most places do.

My way of doing things in my life was if I didnt like my job I kept it until I found a better one.And if you dont like a job start looking but never just shlep through it.When you take a job you agree to work and you know what your pay and benefits are if any.I have worked some crap jobs and later in life some very good ones.I can say many times in an interview I have been offered the Moon little did I know it was this Moon see photo

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Yes its crazy the amount of waste we produce,Would be nice if we could figure out ways to use some of these things.I know some places donate to food banks and such,I would like to see more.

I think you are correct it probably was technically wrong.

These are hardly the biggest problems with the healthcare industry in the U.S. and I see you making alot of excuses for an industry that has made record profits off of the American people while their services have declined, life expectancy has declined, and prices for healthcare have climbed astronomically. Most of the regulations that are in place are because these companies were using shoddy, expired products and making people sick for so long the people demanded government step in a regulate them. Part of government's job is to protect consumers through regulation, it's bull for corporations to blame their worse services costing more on a few regulations, paying their employees terribly, etc. while they make record profits.

My insurance is billed 650 bucks for a 5 minute telephone/skype Doctors appointment.But there are better examples of waste and abuse for sure.