Well. TIL.

I honestly can’t understand why governments and businesses “allow” unions. How the hell do they intend to stop employees from coming together?! Anyone?

That scene is what my wife thinks the local black bears will do to us.

Installed a bidet 2 years ago when my wife moved it, have yet to use it. Can’t remember it’s there!

Right?! I can’t stop staring.

It was only a couple of years ago that I learned hedgehogs run wild in Britain. I’m 54. No idea where I thought they came from. Spontaneous generation in American pet shops?

The Trent Reznor version please.

I can’t get ChatGPT to even touch on anything political or sexual. But this works? Fuck me.

All I can say is you got to get some experience, doing anything. Hang in, do your damnedest, put that experience on your resume. Rinse and repeat.

For example; You could parley customer service experience into a tech support role, into a “higher” job, into more and more and more. Been there, done that. But you gotta start at the bottom, put in some time, quit and move on.

When we moved here 20-years ago, my buddy started at shitty oil change place, way below his skillset and managerial experience. Every year or so, he kept quitting and moving into better and better jobs. He finally landed at 6 figures running service for the biggest car sales chain. Good enough for him.

I laugh at young people’s view of capitalism and the workplace. They’re fucking you? LMAO, had an old supervisor that used to say, “Fuck me? Oh, no, no, no, fuck you.”

tl:dr; Take their pay and take your experience. They’re paying you to fuck them over. What’s not to get?!

Bruh. We’re talking about a certain piece of software. You’re getting a bit off track.

Well, no? It would be ridiculous to expect me to be a power user over all the software I’ve administrated. I judge what people need according to business demands and orders from on high. My judgement is that, yes, some business units require Excel.

LOL, Excel doesn’t mangle shit. It’s best-in-class spreadsheet software for a dozen reasons. #1 being that it never changes. It’s solid, no other software like it. Business won’t risk fucking around with anything else.

SOURCE: Sysadmin for several companies, and one that mainly used Google for Business. Accounting still had to have Excel.

Bullshit like like often only applies to the consumer, not the business version.

You’re thinking as an individual. Excel in the business is what keeps Office afloat. There simply is no substitute. Even if you want to go with another spreadsheet, who’s going to trust that to faithfully import Excel data?

Also good for oysters!

Wow that was well stated. Bravo.

Gods thank you. If lemmy is any indication of youth culture and beliefs and attitudes, fuck me. (Am middle-aged with mostly 20-something friends, they are not like y’all.)

Freaks the shit out of me how scared young people are of simple social interaction. “LOL, I’m too autistic to answer the phone!” Yeah, well there are reasons we no longer want to do so, but y’all are NOT all autistic and ADHD. “Hate talking to a cashier.” Fuck is wrong with you?! I want to scream, “You’re not autistic for being socially uncomfortable you wuss! That’s a normal part of growing up!”

Fuck me, thought I had a handle on it from my junior year until I went to college, BAM!, like puberty all over again. And then the same damned anxiety hit in my late 20s! “Welp. Guess I gotta do this every 7 years or so.” We had words for this: “Growing up.” It can suck, but we all have to do it. Get the fuck over yourself, you are not special or strange or different. The horror may be, you are normal.

And yes, anyone trying to mix us up, make us see through rose-tinted glasses, is a liar with something to sell. And anyone trying to make the past into a hellscape is at best ignorant, wasn’t there.

Boomerifty: To turn GenX into believing an idealized past as their parents believed.

Treasure your ignorance in this, hold it close, never let it go.

Literally forever for hominids. There are studies to back me, but I think gay people are an evolutionary advantage. Really weird that people think “it’s not natural”.

Gay men are an obvious advantage to the tribe. They get a body with the strength and endurance of a man, but who won’t add the burden of a child. Gay women, much the same deal. You get a nurturing member, who as a major bonus can lactate if need be, no baby burden. Gay are force multipliers!