Me too. Unfortunately deep voice also carries. Even my whispers.

This is weirdly person example to illiterate the problem, also I’m not Canadian and I’m not sure why this group keeps showing up on feed. I’ll also add a bonus thing Canadians should expect from companies as your boycott (that I agree with) continues.

So the weirdly personal story. I recently got a new boss who has the military view of “break them down then build them back up”. I explained to him once “that works in the military because they have the resources and specialists to catch the people who don’t respond well to that approach. People like me. I have severe SEVERE ADHD. I can’t take medication for it because it destroys my already low appetite and I die. So I built up pillars on my own. Pillars for emotion regulation, pillars to control impulsive behavior, pillars that allow me to function in this world. It was a lot of work. It took a lot of time. If you come in swinging a wrecking ball blindly, if you break you down… You have no way to rebuild any of that. You don’t have the specialized skills needed to rebuild those pillars. So not only would I be temporarily destroyed and unable to do my job, I’d also have to rebuild myself which isn’t what you wanted”

My point about trump is he clearly is taking the “destroy them rebuild” approach and much like my new boss he is absolutely not capable of rebuilding what he destroys.

Anyway, bonus fact for the boycotts. Keep your eyes out for people adding “Canada” to the name of the company. Example: Great American Buckle Company is a Chinese belt buckle manufacturer. You should expect those kind of things soon.

Edit: and as an American I support these boycotts. The more his stupidity effects rich and powerful, the more companies feel his stupidity, faster he’ll be gone. So thank you. I don’t know the Canadian version of “God bless the USA” but just pretend I ended with that out of respect for you all. I would have if I knew it. Go Canada?

I can’t help with immigration but your replies moved me. I know how it looks in America right now. I understand you feel your life is in danger and I don’t even disagree.

I just wanted to let you know there are more people on your side than you might realize.

I’m a redneck cowboy. I grew up on a farm in Texas we raised horses. I live in Florida now working at a western wear store and a.dollar branded store.

I wear cowboy boots, I carry a 1911 kimber .45 all day every day hooked into the leather belt I made myself with a big brass belt buckle that says “Marlboro”. A promotional item I got back in the day by trading in my points.

If you saw me walk past you at a grocery store you’d think “there’s another trumpet, there’s another one who wants people like me dead”

My point is that isn’t true. Id gladly give my life to defend your rights and I’d be proud to do it.

My family has been here since the late 1600s. We fought the British, we fought slavers, we fought the Nazis, my grandad even helped eliminate the rabies problem that was going around.

This is my country and I’ll be damned if let anyone tell you it ain’t your country just as much as it is mine. Ill fight to the death to make sure it always is your country too. I can’t be everywhere, but we are everywhere. You might not see people like me when we walk by you. I promise you are there seeing what some folk are trying to do to you and we are very pissed off as well.

My grandad killed the Nazis once. I’ll kill them again if I have to. We are there and we are also worried about your safety. I’m pissed to. If pushing leads to shoveing, well, my friend I am a damn good shot with my gun.

I’m sorry my country, you’re country, has made you feel unwelcomed. I’m ashamed of that.

That’s all I wanted to say.

I think you misunderstood my joke. I’m not pro rich people I promise you.

And the people did covetith the land of the green. And so they therefore did proclaim that they it should be givith unto them.

But see that the people who coveted were henceforth shamed for their desires. For what they desired was not theirs to desire.

I’m not arguing that Elon musk is anything but an absolute tool.

SS numbers have 999 million options. Are we already repeating them?

“who do I want pointing a gun at my head today?”

Paying more than a few cents for coffee Spending more than $3 a day on food

I was being facetious. Well technically it wouldn’t … Doesn’t matter.

What you are saying was exactly my point. It’s a show about bad people doing bad things. It’s a bit silly to be like “they did a bad thing so I stopped watching” because… Well… That’s the show, that’s the point of the show.

Compare that to me saying “I couldn’t get into walking dead because the wife immediately starts sleeping with the best friend after she hears (but doesn’t confirm) the husband is dead”. That might be a personal issue, people could argue I should try to move past that and enjoy the show … However it’s not me missing the point of the entire show. It’s just a personal gripe. That was my point. If I complained “they focus too much on complicated interpersonal dynamics in emergency situations” that would be missing the point of the show. It would still be fine not to like it but changing it would remove the whole point of the show. That’s my gripe with the comment.

Complaining about a detail of the show is fine. Complaining about the entirety of a show is also fine. Complaining about the entire plot of the show like it’s a minor detail is just saying you didn’t understand the show.

My fist experience with peanuts was the school forcing us to watch the special “why charlie Brown, why”

So I’ve always considered it to be kinda of depressing. Also I’m not sure why exactly they needed all students to see that special… Was there alot of leukemia bullying going on back then? Was i supposed to be checking myself for leukemia? What message was I supposed to be taking from that beyond “life kinda sucks sometimes”

No idea. It’s the second most confusing inspirational story we were subjected to at that school.

Edit: off topic but if anyone is curious about the #1 confusing story: Local rich guy on career day. All is kids in the auditorium. He tells us a story about growing up poor but admiring a rich man’s Rolex. He worked and saved for several summers. He bought a Rolex and showed his father. His father smashed it and tossed into the fire. Now he’s rich but never bought another Rolex. No clue what the point was. If you work hard you can achieve your dream? That people will try to smash your dreams? Spend money wisely? Sometimes father’s are dicks? No clue. Someone thought it was important enough to bus all three middle schools over to hear it. Again all I learned was that life can be kinda shitty. I’m nearly 40 now. Never forgot that story, never figured out the point. If you’re out there local small town rich dude… The fuck was the point of that story? What message were you trying to drive home? Over 25 years …always remembered it, never figured it out. What was the idea you were trying to pass on to over 1,000 kids because you certainly didn’t foster change, only a lot of confusion.

I’m afraid I prematurely shot my wad on what was supposed to be a dry run… So to speak. Now I’m left with sort of a mess on my hands.

That reminds me of the time I stopped watching always sunny in Philadelphia because they made fun of a guy with rickets. let’s keep it above the belt comedy shows. No cheap shots.

Shrek movies have been a longer lasting era of american history.

But to be fair they haven’t killed quite as many people. I haven’t checked recently tho so don’t quote me.

That is probably correct to the phrasing of the question but I don’t think it’s correct to the spirit of the question .

If I have a billion dollars and everyone else has one dollar, I am powerful.

Time moves forward, inflation, whatever.

I have 2 billion dollars now and everyone else has 2 dollars.

Nothing has substantially changed in that scenario.

But even if we only allow me to grow:

Again I have 2 billion dollars now and everyone else still has 1 dollar.

Nothing has substantially changed.

That’s my disagreement. There is a limit. Diminished returns.

The difference between a one bathroom house and a 2 bathroom house is huge. The difference between a 20 bathroom house and a 21 bathroom house is basically meaningless.

You can only be “so” rich and people can only get “so” poor. At a certain point the change isn’t meaningful, but once you pass a a certain threshold it’s worse than meaningless. It becomes worthless

If you have all the money in the entire world and no one else has any money… The money no longer has any value at all. It then becomes pointless and valueless.

I’m not smart enough to point out the exact line. There is a line where the rich can’t be richer in a significant way. Elon musk i think is at the point. He could lose 50 billion dollars or gain 50 billion dollar tomorrow. It wouldn’t impact his life or our life.

Likewise people can only get so poor before the concept of currency breaks down completely. We kind of see a glimpse of that with credit scores. I have bad credit. I don’t care that I have bad credit. I’m not going to own a home anyway. I don’t care if a credit card company sues me because I have no liquidatable property or items. Even my wages can’t be garnished because my child support maxes that out alrwady. My debt and credit score are meaningless. Money itself can get that low as well. If the imbalance gets too far the money becomes worthless.

There is absolutely a limit. There is a line.

I totally get that. After pizza hut I worked for 4 months at a dominos franchise with my friend Kayla. The franchise owner would bring his son around sometimes. He was probably around 17-18. To be clear they were rich. Franchise owner of a dominos doesn’t sound like much but he owned like 10 including the one we worked at on international drive in Orlando Florida. It’s like the Vegas strip of Florida.

Anyway his son loved hanging out with Kayla and I because we didn’t give one single shit that he was the owners son. He thought it was wild that i would be a total smartass to his dad…Also Kayla was pretty hot. I’m asexual so we were only just friends but the boy clearly had a crush

Anyway some conversations I remember that shocked his son

His dad: I need the key to the cash drawer Me: it’s my drawer, only mine. I can ring the customer up. Dad: I’m not going to steal from my own business- Me: you’re divorced right? so you understand that mistakes happen even with the best intentions? No. You can’t have my key

Manager meeting at ale house.

Other managers order

Me: I’ll have a double scotch in water and (burger order)

Owners son: can we drink at this meeting?

Me: I can because I’m over 21 lol

Owner: no one can drink. It’s an employee meeting. Waiter cancel the scotch.

Me: I’m sorry Is this a paid meeting?

Owner: no it’s team building

Me: but you’re paying for all of our orders at least?

Owner: no, you aren’t required to order food if you don’t want to. It’s just an option that you can choose.

Me: cool. Since it’s my time and my money I choose to order a double scotch with water.

Kayla: I’ll take a margarita with my order.

Sorry I don’t have any real point I’m making. Just reminiscing. And yes scotch in water is a real drink. It’s not a common drink but it’s been around as long as scotch has. It brings out the more subtle flavors of the scotch.

Off topic but I was a manager of a pizza hut for a while. Drove my district manager nuts with technicalities.

“How many pepperonis go on a large one topping?”

“I look at the chart”

“As a store manager you should have it memorized!”

“As a store manager I have the training manual memorized. It says to look at the chart each and every time you make a pie. It specifically discourages memorizing the portion control. look at the chart every time.”

The answer he wanted was 56 back then btw. 56 pepperoni on a large one topping. I still remember that. The correct answer was “look at the chart” so that was the only answer I gave him.

Another funny story, it was my first food service job. He yelled at me for using the sanitizing cloth from the pizza area on the wing area. Cross contamination, I know that now.

I told him I didn’t know about cross contamination and that it was my first job in food service.

He yelled “I trained you myself”

I replied “yeah … I wasn’t going to mention that but you did train me yourself… Yet here I am not knowing anything about the concept of cross contamination… Maybe more time should be devoted to that in the future”

He did not like me lol

Edit: I had been a retail manager for a few years and got hired on as a store manager for pizza hut. I was vocal that I had zero experience with food. I don’t even cook for myself. I microwave or order food. I know it sounds silly now that I didn’t know anything about cross contamination. I didn’t know, he hired me, he didn’t explain it during training. Call me stupid for not knowing, that’s fine. Hes responsible for making sure I knew, he was my trainer. That’s his fault. I’m still a manger (retail again) and it is very much my job to train my crew properly and never assume something is “common sense”. If it’s important you go over it in training… But I guess I never trained any of my cashiers to not throw poop at customers I just assume that’s common sense… So I guess there’s that flaw in my theory lol

Clark is a well paid employee. Upper class. He approves and oversees food additives. He’s near the executive level but not an executive. He’s close enough to walk into the office of the company president and feel bad about the gift he brought with him. He’d be expecting a Christmas bonus.

That’s the movie.

I’m not making a point beyond Clark would be expecting a Christmas bonus at his job. Joke might be bad, the movie was accurate.

A better joke might be pointing out Clark was a ditz in the movies but had a high paying job. However he was also very imaginative in the movies so that might be why he’s successful in research and development.

They are complicated movies lol

I haven’t been in school for a long time. I’ll ask my son, he’s 17 just for shits and giggles.

It amazes me, and if you are in school it will amaze you later in life, how much more kids are expected to know and how early they learn it.

Well… Assuming America doesn’t completely tank education soon. That isn’t a jab at a political party either. We’ve never really supported education, we’ve never made it a priority, we’ve never paid teachers well.

My parents were both dedicated teachers, I’ve seen the work involved. I make more than teachers do as a store manager. I work ridiculously hard for my pay as well but my point is that it’s not nearly as important as teachers.

So that’s my point. We’ve never put much effort into education but children today are far more advanced than children of my generation.

Imagine what we could accomplish if our society DID value education. What we could accomplish in a single generation.

I’ve been told flat out the cameras are to watch employees

Can confirm… store manager.

I joke that our policy for shoplifters is to offer them a bag.

In reality it’s to offer them a cart as a non accusatory way of saying “I see you”

As for bills I had my boss suggest I take them to the bank. I had to clarify “and I tell them I believe there is a counterfeit in there… Right … Otherwise it’s dangerously close to trying to pass a counterfeit myself… A felony…”

He paused and answered “sure if that makes you more comfortable”

To be clear I understand and agree with a lot of it. Why should I ask my workers to risk their life over some toothpaste? Why should I ask them to risk their life confronting a counterfeiter who is already done commiting felonies.

I also understand it doesn’t help the company. One dead worker will cost the company more than all the product a person could steal. Even with insurance the cost of training even a cashier is nearly $1000. It goes up from there.

It is still frustrating and my employees often take a lot of training to convince them not to care if someone is stealing.

And customers also get frustrated when they tell me someone is stealing and I give them an answer like "that’s unfortunate " and go back to work.