Random Rants OA - I Have 71 Problems, But This Thread Ain't One

[Kyriakos]

^You cannot publicly discuss Arakhor.
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[GoodSarmatian]

Late shift today, early shift tomorrow. That means I'll have to get up tomorrow less than six hours after I get home today.

 

[Snerk]

I though his moderator hat was an enchanted Daedric helmet...

That's the one!

^You cannot publicly discuss Arakhor.
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But Arakhor is the king of decency!

 

[Broken_Erika]

^You cannot publicly discuss Arakhor.
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It's not 'cause he's a moderator. It's 'cause it's not wise to discuss a Dremora....
Now for another rant. I cant get any sleep. My cats like to play from 11pm to 1am, then get up and play at 4:30am......

 

[Arakhor]

I'm the Prince of Procrastination, actually, but less discussing individual posters and more ranting, please.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

It's not 'cause he's a moderator. It's 'cause it's not wise to discuss a Dremora....
Now for another rant. I cant get any sleep. My cats like to play from 11pm to 1am, then get up and play at 4:30am......

You mean you need more than 3.5 hours of sleep?

Rant: I had a dream that was prompted by a conversation on another forum in which we were talking about how much fun it would be to write a Highlander/Timeless crossover fanfic.

So apparently I literally dreamed one up... and now I don't remember it.

 

[Commodore]

The security guards at my work may have just screwed themselves over. We were just informed the guards are attempting to unionize. That's all fine and dandy, but they are ultimately going to lose their jobs over this. Why? While it is illegal for their employer to fire them for attempting to unionize, there's nothing that prevents us from not renewing our contract with that security company when it comes up for its yearly renewal. And yes, the higher ups are already looking at other companies and have indicated that we will be going with another company if these guards unionize.

While I support the guards' efforts (they are severely underpaid for the positions and responsibilities they have), I also support our company's decision due to the fact that we require 24/7 security coverage because of the work we do here and who our clients are (mainly the US military). We need to be able to guarantee our clients 24/7 security for the projects they have us working on, and we can't do that with a unionized guard force since there will always be a possibility they might go on strike. There's also the issue of cost. The main reason we went with this company is because they could give us what we wanted at the lowest price compared to all the other bids. With a unionized guard force, this company is no longer going to be the cheapest operation in town, and there are a whole bunch of other competitors out there that aren't unionized that can now provide security for us at a lower price than our current security provider.

So yeah, these guards just screwed themselves. I understand they want better pay and benefits, but fighting for it is about to cost them their jobs. That means they are going to go from being underpaid, to not being paid at all.

 

[Lexicus]

The security guards at my work may have just screwed themselves over. We were just informed the guards are attempting to unionize. That's all fine and dandy, but they are ultimately going to lose their jobs over this. Why? While it is illegal for their employer to fire them for attempting to unionize, there's nothing that prevents us from not renewing our contract with that security company when it comes up for its yearly renewal. And yes, the higher ups are already looking at other companies and have indicated that we will be going with another company if these guards unionize.

While I support the guards' efforts (they are severely underpaid for the positions and responsibilities they have), I also support our company's decision due to the fact that we require 24/7 security coverage because of the work we do here and who our clients are (mainly the US military). We need to be able to guarantee our clients 24/7 security for the projects they have us working on, and we can't do that with a unionized guard force since there will always be a possibility they might go on strike. There's also the issue of cost. The main reason we went with this company is because they could give us what we wanted at the lowest price compared to all the other bids. With a unionized guard force, this company is no longer going to be the cheapest operation in town, and there are a whole bunch of other competitors out there that aren't unionized that can now provide security for us at a lower price than our current security provider.

So yeah, these guards just screwed themselves. I understand they want better pay and benefits, but fighting for it is about to cost them their jobs. That means they are going to go from being underpaid, to not being paid at all.

They are going to contract with some other company that realizes that unionized security guards are going to be better at their jobs than non-union ones, unlike the idiots you work for.

 

[Commodore]

They are going to contract with some other company that realizes that unionized security guards are going to be better at their jobs than non-union ones, unlike the idiots you work for.

Or, they will get laid off by their company once they lose the contract, or they will split them up among their other non-unionized sites (because apparently security guard unions operate on a site-by-site basis, rather than company-wide) for even lower pay than what they are getting now, since guard pay is also determined on a site-by-site basis.

Also, Ohio is a "right to work" state which means "at-will" employment contracts are the norm. That means even the slightest misstep will allow the company to fire their guards legitimately without having to admit they did it because they were trying to unionize. In fact, one guard has already been fired since the push for unionization began for not meeting uniform and grooming standards.

So best case scenario for these guards now is that they end up at a crappier work site for even lower pay. Worst case is they are out of a job. It sucks for them that labor protections have been gutted so thoroughly now that workers have almost no chance of successfully unionizing.

 

[JohannaK]

Wow that's really horsehockey.

 

[Synobun]

I did the political compass test again after showing it to a friend who's becoming political in college. I vaguely recall being two or three places to the northwest from where I am now.

I'm becoming one of them. I hate libertarianism.

 

[Zkribbler]

Late shift today, early shift tomorrow. That means I'll have to get up tomorrow less than six hours after I get home today.

If a boss does this to an employee, it proves he/she/they are heartless idiots...but you knew that already, didn't you?

 

[Arakhor]

I was under the impression that the EU forbids work shifts less than 11 hours apart at a minimum.

 

[Traitorfish]

Do explain more.

I think that French philosophers should start impaling people on swords.

 

[Takhisis]

Well, they did wield those fancy swordstick combo weapons not that long ago.

 

[EgonSpengler]

I did the political compass test again after showing it to a friend who's becoming political in college. I vaguely recall being two or three places to the northwest from where I am now.

I'm becoming one of them. I hate libertarianism.

Assuming you're using this site, they acknowledge using the term "Libertarian(ism)" in multiple ways. The vertical axis is their social spectrum, while the horizontal axis is the economic spectrum. So the label "Libertarian" at the bottom of the square is the opposite of Authoritarian. They also use the term libertarianism to describe the right-most side of the horizontal, economic axis, the opposite of communism/collectivism.

Further, they write,

"The usual understanding of anarchism as a left wing ideology does not take into account the neo-liberal "anarchism" championed by the likes of Ayn Rand, Milton Friedman and America's Libertarian Party, which couples social Darwinian right-wing economics with liberal positions on most social issues."

So, on their chart, the U.S. Libertarian Party lies generally in the purple square, not in the green square.



This was my result on the quiz, taken just now:

 

[Lexicus]

It should be noted that US crypto-fascists (Ayn Rand, Milton Friedman, "libertarians" etc) coopted the word "libertarian" which originally meant opposition to state power as well as the private power of property owners, slave masters, and so on.

 

[Takhisis]

Yes, basically they argue that they need the freedom to oppress and exploit, i.e. the freedom to take away others' freedom.

 

[Traitorfish]

Also Ayn Rand was an enthusiastic and unapologetic authoritarian, she just didn't particularly trust governments do the authoritarian-ing. The lolbetarian fandom she's acquired in recent decades is just karma doing it's thing.

Rand is actually pretty solid proof that the political compass is basically bunk, that policy-positions do not translate straightforwardly into or from political principles. She shows up on the compass a "libertarian" because she disliked taxes and regulation, but her utopia was a sort of market aristocracy ruled by a constantly-battling elite of all-powerful Promethean supermen. She was basically a fascist who thought that the free market could produce a more effective fascism than the start, Walmart's answer to Gabriele D'Annunzio. Nothing "libertarian" about her, even in the bastardised, Swansonian sense of the world.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

If a boss does this to an employee, it proves he/she/they are heartless idiots...but you knew that already, didn't you?

Yeah, my supervisor isn't that bad, but his direct bosses are. Crap like that usually only happens when there's a shortage because two people are sick or on vacation at the same time.
Could be solved by just hiring more people, but that's an undue financial burden on people who just invested a million to dexpand their business and out their 21 year son in charge if the new branch.

I was under the impression that the EU forbids work shifts less than 11 hours apart at a minimum.

Germany didn't become the "richest" country in the EU by actually enforcing labor laws. I've also regularly worked 11 and in very rare cases 13 hour shifts in a former job.