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[Kamilah Hauptmann]

I don't go to bookstores to have coffee.

You’re doing bookstores wrong.

 

[Free]

You’re doing bookstores wrong.

I go to independent book shops, not behemoth, neighborhood bookstore killing chains.

Am I still doing bookstores wrong?

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

I go to independent book shops, not behemoth, neighborhood bookstore killing chains.

Am I still doing bookstores wrong?

 

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[Soen Eber]

I go to independent book shops, not behemoth, neighborhood bookstore killing chains.

Am I still doing bookstores wrong?

That's why I buy used when I can. Keep it local, don't make more megas for megacorps using subcontracters as slave labor.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Caribou Coffee has the nice comfortable seats and no one bothers you for lingering. But then, the people lingering do buy things or leave tips (well, I do at any rate). Not sure if it's a regional chain or national, though.

Might be regional. I don't think we have any here in California.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Free]

They're so used to acting like employees are little more than game pieces, they're genuinely surprised when the pieces realize they don't have to play along.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

“Please call me” means “I don’t want a written record of what I’m about to say.”

Also: don’t quit, play chicken and make them fire you. Then show the unemployment office your approval of leave and that convo.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

What it's like working as a picker in the fulfilment centre for a major British online fashion company:

My month undercover at Boohoo: ‘A wrist strap tracks our every move’

This article is the subject of a legal complaint from Boohoo PLC It’s 3am when the pain, fatigue and boredom really kicks in. For eight hours I’ve been on my f

www.thetimes.co.uk

Evernote link

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Soen Eber]

More confirmation for my decision to buy used from Craigslist. I hate the way capitalism has evolved.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

A hundred UK companies sign up for four-day week with no loss of pay

Thousands of employees to be moved permanently to four days in policy described as ‘transformative’

www.theguardian.com

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

I work the IT support desk with a team of other people, a job that includes assisting external customers who call in with issues with our website or our software. I have no issues with those, but unfortunately we do get some spillover from the CS queue from customers who don't want to wait in that queue and work their way through the voice prompts until they reach a human - usually us. These often end up being the "I know you work in IT, but I want you to find and deliver my package NOW!" types. I usually punt them right back to the end of the CS queue. Still, I catch a little of what customer service reps go through, and I could never do that job. I'd either get fired for telling a customer to go fuck himself, or I'd end up needing a lot of therapy!

 

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[Kamilah Hauptmann]

“It’s important to me because I grew up here in Reykjavik,” he says. “I grew up with parents who did not have a lot, I have a disease, and there’s a lot of things that are needed in my life that our society has provided for. I know that if I had been born in other countries that don’t have the same kind of system that we do, I would not have been able to do what I did. School was free, health care was free, I went to university and got a couple degrees, which is mostly free. If I had been raised in, for example, America, that would not have been possible. We have a functioning society, and I believe the tax system is the best way to pay for all that.”

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]