- 3 months
This is second hand from a friend, but he said he overheard a conversation between 2 coworkers:
Person A: looks like you got some sun this weekend
Person B (badly sunburned): Yeah, I just bought a convertible and did a lot of driving with the top down. I figured that the wind would stop me from getting sunburned, but I guess it wasn’t cold enough
Person A: That’s… not how that works
- 3 months
My family always called it windburn. Not that it was caused by the wind, but that because you have airflow you don’t feel as hot so you dont think your being burned.
I got second degree burns over most of my body on a FL beach through sunscreen in the 90s similarly. 0/10 do not recommend.
- 3 months
Damn Florida. I got burned on the bottom of my foot when one of my sandals broke halfway through a beach walk in Florida. It absolutely sucked.
- Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish3 months
Meanwhile I frequently wear them when it’s sunny after snowfall…bright white mounds do a lot to make the sun more annoying.
- 3 months
they probably think being a very snowy area means you wont get sunburn either.
- one_old_coder@piefed.socialEnglish3 months
I’ve already told that story but anyway: a relative told me that the GDPR was a conspiracy from Europe to destroy the European internet (why? why not!)
So that guy literally deleted his own web site (full of old stuff, it was a big project) so that… he would not be forced to delete his own web site by the big bad Europe.
He is also anti-vax, and allergic to Wifi and Bluetooth… except when he is in our house filled with Wifi and Bluetooth (but we have never told him, he could die!)
- 3 months
He is also anti-vax, and allergic to Wifi and Bluetooth… except when he is in our house filled with Wifi and Bluetooth (but we have never told him, he could die!)
A relative of my husband always requests we turn off the router, because she’s allergic to 5g. She starts feeling nauseous and itchy when it’s turned on. We used to sigh and just do it.
However, I’ve found out she’s not actually allergic to 5g or wifi, it turns out she’s actually developed a reaction to the power light. Ever since I put a tiny bit of tape of the little green power light, she stopped complaining about the wifi entirely! My husband won’t let me tell her about this amazing medical breakthrough though, I wonder why.
3 monthsOne time I was at a grocery store and they sold out of a particular drink I liked.
A manager was standing nearby and I asked when they would restock it.
“Never.” He said. “It always sells out and I don’t want to constantly order and restock it, so I’m not going to get more.”
- 3 months
Reminds me of the story of the warehouseman who refused to give someone the last of an item in the warehouse because that would mean they’d be out of stock.
- 3 months
I worked at a printing factory once, and we often needed to replace roller pins for paper, it’s an enormous metal cylinders that, despite being couple of tons hunks of metal, were very prone to being harmed. They were in pairs and should’ve been changed in pairs so they wear out evenly. The problem is, in a warehouse, the item is “a pair of pins” but the task for a repair crew is “change a pin” which includes ordering a transportation. The problem is, if you’re making a “change of a pin” you can only order a “transportation of a pin”, but warehouse can only issue a “pair of pins”, which transportation can’t move. The corpo spent weeks trying to solve this conundrum, until the machine broke completely (a roller pin snapped if you can imagine that). After spending the entire year’s revenue on fixing it all, they fired a bunch of people for following their corporate rules too precisely.
- 3 months
Ah. There’s a reasons for that, as told to me by a supply sergeant in the military. A lot of suppliers had a BEL (Basic Equipment List), which says all stock must have a minimum and a maximum of XYZ in order to meet government spec. Some large items, like diesel generators, have a BEL minimum of 2, but also because of their size and storage complexity, have a maximum of 2. So it order to get a new one, you must get rid of one of the old ones. But if you get rid of the old one, you are below minimum BEL, and could fail inspection or an inventory check, if it takes a while to get a new one. Large items don’t always “hang around,” but they get manufactured on demand, so the only way to get a new one is to be without one for a very long period of time. Thus, you risk failing inspection. The best way to avoid that is to keep two and never order any.
Military logic.
- 3 months
On top of that, everything is ordered by article number. So it happened on a boat that they needed two replacement bolts for the engine. The engineer wrote the order, and the captain signed it and sent it to HQ.
They were informed the order would take (a long time). When they finally got the word that the order was in, they were astonished that two heavy load trucks were waiting for them. Each containing a turbine nearly as big as their boat. Which had nearly the same inventory number as the bolts. With two digits switched.
- 3 months
While I get the joke, I feel obliged to point out that the military is one of the very few places this could potentially makes sense (not saying it does in this case): You can basically decide that the warehouse is responsible for holding emergency stock, not ordering materiel that is produced on-demand for daily use. Essentially, if it’s produced on-demand, why would you want to go via to warehouse to get it? There are plenty of reasons you could want that of course, but if we ignore those, then the rationale can make sense.
- 3 months
Reminds me of my buddy’s story from his time as a warehouse manager for Blockbuster (yeah, we’re old…) Blockbuster’s management did loss prevention and breakage based on item count, not item value. If a new hire shoved a $30 DVD down their pants and walked out with it every week, corporate wouldn’t care. After all, it was only 1 DVD each week. And 1 is an acceptably low number. But if that same hire shoved a $5 box of 100 pencils down their pants, corporate would lose their fucking minds. Because each pencil was counted as 1 item, so they were suddenly 100 items short.
It was sort of an open secret in the warehouse that if you were going to steal something, you should only go for the high value shit. And only do it if nobody else had already done so recently. So if the system said you had 5 in stock and there were 5 in the bin, it was open season. Because as long as you only stole one of them, corporate wouldn’t care. But if you pocketed a dozen 50¢ “impulse buy next to the register” toys, loss prevention would be patting people down as they clocked out.
- neidu3@sh.itjust.worksEnglish3 months
That’s how Dylan Moran runs his bookstore in Black Books.
Paraquoting off the top of my head: “Customers?? Who wanted to buy something??? What the hell do you treat them nicely for?!” … “You don’t get it; Paying customers who get what they want means books get sold. Which means you have to restock them and deal with additional customers!”
- 3 months
I asked about a certain type of cake that was on sale and wasn’t in stock. I asked when it would be in stock. The manager launched into a big complaint, because they always sold out when it was on sale. See, he only ever ordered 10, because they never sold more than 10, and when it was on sale, they would sell out immediately.
He got very upset, calling me stupid when I said “If you only have 10, it would be pretty hard to sell more than 10”.
- 3 months
I worked in retail for a while, and it was staggering to uncover that the majority of people with the control over inventory thought the same way.
- It takes 21 days for an ordered item to arrive at the store
- A manager orders 5
- 21 days later, 5 come in
- 2 days later, all 5 are sold
- A month goes by and the person sighs, frustrated that they have to order more while simultaneously not understanding why sales are down.
Have you ever considered ordering 10 or 20 to see if they sell out in 4 to 8 days or less? Maybe then order 40 or 60?
- 3 months
Funnily it’s the same people that also insist on having 6 weeks worth of stock, even if the supplier delivers in 7 days 95% of the time.
- 3 months
That’s what happens when the profits of a company do not benefit its employees.
I was once stopped by an elderly couple.
One side of the couple was arguing that the sun went out at night.
The other couple was arguing that the moon covered over the sun at night, and that’s why we couldn’t see the sun.
They asked me to clarify which one of them was correct as an independent third party, and I told them that the earth rotates, and so when you can’t see the sun, it’s because it’s on the other side of the planet.
They both paused for a moment, looked at each other, and then looked at me and said, “oh, yeah”, and that was the end of the argument.
- 3 months
Should have said its because the mothman spreads his wings at night and covers the sun. But he only does that so he can see you better because he sees better at night.
- 3 months
Seattle just passed a millionaires tax. Howard Schultz, the old Starbucks CEO, made a big stink of it and moved away.
Thing is, Howard Schultz is universally reviled in Seattle. Even corporate shills agree that he fucking sucks.
- 3 months
Somebody once told me they don’t read recreationally because authors are lazy for making readers do all the work of imagining what their story looks like. He was completely sincere, and actually became agitated at the idea of people reading anything beyond manuals or mandatory sorts of things.
- 3 months
I had a similar talk with a guy in his 30’s, who said that books didn’t have nearly enough information density for his hyper intelligent super brain. “It’s ok, if you’re a slow reader, you can fix that with practice!” was apparently not the answer he wanted to hear.
- 3 months
The conversation wasn’t exactly productive. In any case it wasn’t just that he didn’t care for reading books, but he actively opposed it which was really a wild position.
- 3 months
I’ve mentioned this one before, but it’s worth retelling.
I briefly knew a guy, absolute hick ass trailer trash, who said a large number of incredibly dumb things to me, but this one stands out. He once told me that Southern Baptist was the one true religion, because, and this is a direct quote, “His name is John the Baptist, not John the Catholic!”
And for him that was a QED moment.
Dumbest motherfucker I’ve ever encountered.
I was at a trailer park party once as a non-white person in the south.
Apropos of nothing, I was approached by probably the skinniest human on the planet. Like, he was so skinny you couldn’t tell if you were looking directly at his bones, or if his skin was actually a paper thin covering over his bones. He was so skinny, he could have performed in some sort of advertisement explaining how the price of a cup of coffee could help feed the starving southerners.
As I was scanning my periphery to see if I could identify the Necromancer that was animating this creature, this person told me, of their own volition, that in church they had learned that white people were made by God and therefore had souls and black people evolved from monkeys and therefore did not have souls.
In his mind, this was a way of reconciling the truth of evolution with the faith of his church.
He had no idea that he had just lobbed the most racist thought that I had ever been exposed to in my entire life at me.
- 3 months
This is extremely close to what the Mormon church told their followers for a long time. Cain slew Abel. God found out, marked Cain, and cast him out of the garden… The Book of Mormon states that the Canaanites (Cain’s children) were cursed by a “blackness” descending upon them. Yes, that was interpreted in the most racist way possible.
The Mormon church used to officially preach that Cain was marked by being turned black. So black people were descendants of Cain, and therefore couldn’t officially be part of the church. Black people being accepted into the church is still a relatively recent thing, and only because of massive amounts of external pressure. The church didn’t disavow their racist teachings until 2013. Literally less than 20 years ago. There are fucking middle schoolers who have been alive longer than black people have been in the Mormon church.
- 3 months
In his head, you are now the non-white friend he can claim he has to prove he’s not racist.
(Also, username checks out…?)
- 3 months
the most racist thought that I had ever been exposed to in my entire life
Damn, the white southerners have started behaving themselves since I left a couple of decades ago if that’s the worst you heard! Barely even joking, I’ve met so many people where I live now who are from the south that say ‘I just had to get the fuck out’. Gorgeous places, tiny clusters of great people, and vast swathes of shit straight out of Deliverance.
