In my 20s, I was definitely pulling extra hours for no OT or just off the clock. I'm now in my 30s and am suing my previous employer for wage theft.

If they're doing it to you, they're doing it to co-workers. Save ALL your receipts, stubs, emails, chats... Collect contact info from other employees, so you have that info when they/you quit. Found out it was actually pretty easy to find a lawyer willing to take a (in the grand scheme of things) small payout case on contingency. Don't know how it's going to play out yet, but it's looking good for something the employer considered me being petty.

Easiest way to get rid of undocumented immigrants is to grant them all citizenship. Problem solved.

Actually, the names were coined by a writer working for a pop magazine. He based the names on their personalities. After the article was published the names spread like wildfire with the public.

It wasn't till later that The Spice Girls officially adopted the names. At least some of the members actually hated them. Unfortunately, all their fans were already using them, so the group didn't have much of a choice.

Not even that bigger. Enlargement surgery is highly risky (even if this guy died of a heart attack), and only promises like 2cm in additional length. Girth increases are slightly more substantial though. It sounds like he was getting the type that is just an injection of fat in the dick, which is comparatively less risky.

The risks involved are wild. A sizable amount of doctors doing enlargements have questionable standings with their local medical boards. It's also not uncommon to find places that are very vague about what they are adding or changing about your body, while promising extreme results. Infections, loss of function, constant erection due to the addition of harder structures, decreased sensitivity are some of the more alarming, yet not uncommon risks. As it's an elective, specialized surgery, practices are often aggressive and manipulative in dealing with clients/potential clients. Is not unheard of for places to require multiple surgeries, when it turns out there were complications with the first one.

The thing is, you don't know if the customer is just an asshole or oblivious. So, I could confront you and risk being yelled at (which I really don't want to deal with at the end of a shift), then stand around waiting for a half hour, OR I could skip the yelling and just stand around waiting for a half hour.

I work at a restaurant inside a park. We open an hour after the park opens, and one of the store entrances is attached to the park welcome building. The doors for that entrance do not securely lock, and can be opened, with a bit of struggle, while locked. You know it's going to be an interesting day when you have to kick people out BEFORE we open. We don't turn the lights on until open, but every couple weeks people still manage to get in and expect to be seated.

You can hear them struggle with the door from across the room. They walk into a dark restaurant. You say "I'm sorry we don't open for another 15 minutes". Most of the time their response is not to apologize and leave. I've heard the open ended statements "Well we're here now", or "your doors were unlocked", or even the more presumptuous "can we eat in the trolley?". They are still made to wait outside and are inevitably mad about it.

I will choose to avoid confrontation anytime I can, as most of the time I don't have a choice.

Not enough caves.

For shits and giggles, I tried to go the path of "yeah but..." starting with his nickname. Surely he was named "big balls" a decade or so ago by other people, no he named himself. Surely his previous connections are just that, previous and years if not decades old, no, it's 2 years, at most.

"Big Balls" is 19 y/o 🙄 at this point. He gave himself that name and has ties to unknown hackers. He has "senior advisor" status, filling a role, that should likely be filled by a bureaucrat accountant - as opposed to a kid whose resume is being a 'techbro with hacker connections' and programming knowledge.

I just have to curse here. Jesus fucking Christ! What the hell! Dummkopf, i'idiot, idiota, was zur holle, що в біса, що в біса

I have a 2008 Infiniti. It's a luxury vehicle that I paid $5k for and runs like it's been smoking cigarettes the past 20 years.

I'm having a hard time thinking of garments that would be MORE likely to get caught in machinery than an ~8yd piece of fabric wrapped to include open ends, pleats, flaps and the over the shoulder option. A poncho or cloak is the only thing I can come up with.

And yet there is zero chance of an unfortunate zipper accident when wearing a kilt/skirt. Pant zippers are the leading cause of penile injury.

It's actually a really interesting question. It's commonly believed that on horses the vestigial remnants of additional toes/hooves/foot structure are the chestnuts and ergots. The first known horse had 3 and 4 hooves per leg!

Well let's start with the price of the required DRs appointment every 3 months. We're lucky, the Dr only charges $80 w/o insurance.

Your argument ignores the value of diversity within a business. A diverse workforce offers much more variety in how to progress the company. Peoples of similar traits and backgrounds tend to have similar ideas and methods. More diversity can increase problem solving, customer relations, and ingenuity by forcing all parties to see things from different perspectives.

The US has a long history of employers refusing to hire minorities/paying the "othered" less. We are not so far removed from these practices to reliably function without laws and regulations ensuring businesses not fall back to old habits. Slavery in the US ended around 150 years ago. The Jim Crow laws, officially, almost 60 years ago. Sundown towns were still around, though not as common, 45 years ago.

I'm a poll worker in Ohio. Last year was my 3rd presidential election. The amount of people who came in wanting to vote, but were not on our roles was incredibly high. I'm sure it's disheartening for the voters, but man was that rough for workers too. Having to explain over and over that it sounds like you've been purged get rough.

This is a trimmed chestnut. They grow a material similar to a nail or horse hoof - ergots are similar, but in a different location. When they get big you just peel or clip it off. They can smell a bit strong when you trim them, but hooves smell worse when the farrier comes out!

As a person who submitted multiple school papers on a '95 typewriter I can say this: the "newer"style presented a similar issue. Pressing a key was similar to pressing a key on a computer keyboard, as opposed to traditional typewriters where the key press is physically pressing a stamp into ink paper (the ribbon).

I'm not sure how the 1995 one worked, but there were no physical stamps, and it required power. It still left a visible impression on the ribbon though.

This one was fancy and had multiple ribbons in a cartridge. The bottom ribbon was ink, but there was also a highlighter ribbon and an eraser ribbon. For the time, this was very high end. Almost like having a real computer!

The ribbon is just 2 wheels on gears, that work the spool of ink ribbon from one wheel to the other. I've taken them apart a few times, and yeah you can just read what was typed. If you have a fancy one that does erasing, both ribbons move the same, so retyping will end up with a ribbon that has jumbled letters. On older typewriters you can still manually move back on the line you are working on. Depending on the machine, and it's mechanics, it might have a "backspace" button that might roll back the ribbon as well.

It's not going to remove letters, but you can go over the same space on the paper multiple times. (As example: you accidentally hit "a" instead of "e". You hit backspace to readjust to where the" a" is. You then press "e". Repeat that 5 or 6 times, and the "e" should be visible on top the original "a".)

If I'm not mistaken, there used to be typewriter tape available, might still be available. Used for instances that the ribbon gets tangled and you have to tape it back together. If that's the case, just rig the receiving wheel so that you can remove used ribbon. Burn the ribbon and done.

I used to make lots of comments on Am I the Asshole posts for this reason. Calling out fake posts, and listing reasons why they are fake. Would get a lot of push back that amounted to "why do you care if it's fake? It's a good story and an interesting debate." I cared because the more you read those stories, taken at face value, the less you think of humanity.

Sienna's are great! I've owned 4 of them (because I tend to total cars), and been happy with all of them. Gets decent mileage for a van, and they hold value better than just about any other mini van. Never felt safer when ramming into the back of a semi while going 70mph! The van was totaled, but me and the kids were perfectly fine.

I'm in the US. Got a text from my son, 12th grade, the other day at 12:09pm that said, "we just had our sixth fight today"

To clarify, he did mean 6th of the day, not the school year. He goes to the worst highschool in the area. Anyone with the capabilities gets their kids in a different school. We do not have those abilities. On the upside, he's learning how to avoid conflict and enjoying his phlebotomy class. He'll even be a certified phlebotomist by the end of the year (assuming his teacher can get access to funding for supplies that she's currently disappearing from her hospital job)!

*I'm donating blood tomorrow at the local bank. Usually donate a few times a year, but scheduled for tomorrow for a specific reason. I have name and phone number of his teacher, and a list of supplies. I'm donating now to give me an excuse to ask for a supply donation from the blood bank. It's a long shot, but the answer is always no when you don't ask 🤷‍♀️

Don't forget that they are still legally minors, and therefore cannot legally sign divorce papers without the consent of their legal guardian (spouse) or an advocate. Marriage is a contract, minors cannot enter into a contract, modify, or terminate a contract without an adult advocate. With most contracts that would be the parents (or child advocate), unless they sign those rights over through a parent consented marriage.