I felt like a fucking superhero with the level of general knowledge on history, geography, and politics I possessed.
And then you look back to what your great-great-grandparents knew...
NAGR, please!
HR no longer cares about quality or right versus wrong. They care about their social standing in the brave new world.
That's why Razorfist talks about "go broke, get woke", and others talk about companies rapidly leftifying before they die. How bad was the company before they went woke? We know after the fact that a lot of the other left leaning companies happened in response to financial difficulties.
And that doesn't even take into account the difference between raw ingredients. Was that cup of vegetables fresh and organic or frozen?
I'd buy that for a dollar!
I might just write in Goldwater/Coolidge.
The entire pay schedule for actors who aren't household names is beyond fucked. For example, every actor who gets an appointment for an audition is supposed to be paid one-half day's wage for making the appointment and showing up. This has been a rule on the SAG books since the Depression.
According to some of the smaller actors, no one has enforced this rule since the 70s. I might hate most film whores, but work demands wages.
Edit to add: look up how Clancy Brown was treated on Highlander. He earns more showing up for one convention than he did for acting as the antagonist in a movie.
Smitty, this is America. Anyone can sue anyone for any reason! How the case turns out is entirely dependent on who is either side, though.
I spent four years as a teacher and eight as a government drone. Government anything is expensive abuse.
So it has been written, so let it be done!
They also had a nuclear program.
looks at Biden approval numbers
looks at upcoming election
Abandon ship! Joggers and politicos first!
If you've never seen the documentary, there was one African nation that had a "space program" that involved oil drums and catapults. And purple capes.
Look, bigot, the Kenyan Space Program was a wonder of technology!
*if you have the right friends
140 gigabytes, $30+, after nine years and $4 million? How many hookers and cocaine merchants bought houses with the business the devs gave them?
He was the most popular and well liked ... so he saw himself as untouchable, and management responded by essentially fucking him over from every angle they could.
Something I have learned recently, there is no such thing as untouchable in government employment. Doesn't matter how good you are at your job, or how well liked, or if you uphold the ideals of the agency... if someone above you wants you gone, you shall be gone. Totally not speaking from experience, here.
"The need to be observed and understood was once satisfied by God. Now we can implement the same functionality with data-mining algorithms." -Daedalus, Deus Ex, produced 2000 by Ion Storm Austin.
"Sinners In the Hands of An Angry God", just about anything by Spurgeon, M'Gavin's sermons on sin (doubly so the Four Sins That Cry Out For Vengeance).
Whether you call it "Get Woke, Go Broke" or "Go Broke, Get Woke, Then Croak" or "Roll Left and Die", all these companies seem to have a set playbook where Step 1 of Financial Recovery Emergency Checklist is "offend every decent person you can".
It's a perfectly valid name, and as far as holy names go, "Jesus" is the Greek version of the name. Joshua is the Hebrew version- Jesus of Nazareth would have been known as Yehoshua/Yeshua ben Yosef in Jewish circles.
So, Company A buys out Company B, but Company B's C-level officers call the shots for Company A? Is this the fucking aerospace industry?
In some colleges, yes. The others will study it as an example of how to treat your customers.
I mean, it goes even beyond that. The modern "hippie Jesus" meme is an utter heresy. Christianity of the first three centuries was an utterly feared faith (Acts 17:6). One of the few peopl to be praised by Jesus was a centurion (Matthew 8:5-13). The first Gentile Christian was a centurion (Acts 10).