My company ordered back to office, and as I was told, I was the only one to say no.

I generate too much value and have tolerated being underpayed enough that they can't justify firing me.

I'm also not some MIT AI machine learning savant. I come from a business analyst/ QA background, and I have made a SQL/Java/VBA system for virtually free that does the work of a team of 10 every day, but it's just my underpaid ass running it.

When I lose this job, honestly, I'm fucked and it will be a nightmare because I'll probably need to go into an office, and I'm in no shape for that.

But for today, I said no and I keep doing my job.

Yes. Israel is conducting a brutal genocide and America is using the opportunity to launder money from the public trust to military contractors by giving "aid packages" to Israel, and then using outdated "emergency powers" from the Iraq war to bypass Congress broker arms deals.

This is all common knowledge.

Half the country is for the genocide of all brown people.

Half the country is outraged.

The entirety of the Federal government is solely focused on enriching military contractors so they can get kickbacks and campaign donos.

This is all painfully common knowledge.

Stroke or heart attack (or shooting up after a long tolerance break) alone in a body of water has an immediate cause of death of drowning.

The cause of the immediate cause of death isn't known until autopsy.

100% photoshopped.

100% don't care.

My gainfully employed alcoholic stoner ass listening to the target shift lead tell me that all alcoholics and stoners are unemployed.

Which leads to the question, and its an honest question and I would benefit from the honest answer: If I can do the job hybrid, why can I not do the job remote? Is it because you needed me to move some paper boxes to the printer?

My company paid over 10 million dollars for Infosys to implement oracle cloud.

It has been 3 years of complete abject torture, misery, and failure.

Infosys is an army of completely clueless, unqualified, and incompetent people on a revolving door.

It's like they make it a point to NEVER meet the requirements. They always find some convoluted round about lengthy manual process for everything they do.

I have gotten to the point where any time I am roped into an Infosys project, I will do nothing but ask to see the code, and therein is the problem, even their most "seasoned senior developer" can't produce the code because it doesn't exist.

They use janky point and click applications to "write code" for them, shove the code I to the oracle instance, break all of the existing code doing so, and repeat.

Infosys is a scam.

The continued aggressive sheer will of the US government to take every cautionary tale ever written and make it reality.

Bankruptcy doesn't mean without money.

It means your liabilities exceed your assets.

Liquid assets go straight towards liabilities, real assets TEND to stay untouched, some physical assets are sold off, some aren't, then after that little dance, the remainder of liabilities are discharged.

So yes. When you walk out of a bankruptcy, in general, your quality of life has changed very little, you are just starting over in terms of LIQUID assets.

That is what bankruptcy was designed to be.

Boomers are selling off all real estate to conglomerations. Either directly or through reverse mortgage.

Then the conglomerations either overcharge for rent OR they make you homeless, which makes you kitty corner from prison.

They also own stake in for profit prisons.

They are basically designing the next depression, which I am sure will work out for them this time.

Ah, so he wants to make sure that everyone gets funding, not just Israel.

How about NO MONEY TO THE MOTHER FUCKING GENOCIDE?

I literally just emailed my local parks and rec because they built a park immediately behind my once peaceful house.

I begged them to stop leaf blowing every single day. There arent even any trees. They are just out there every day blowing the grass. Usually before 7am.

The response I got was basically "sit and spin. If you don't like it, call the cops, but they are city too so they won't do anything."

PUT. HIM. IN. A. CELL.

How the hell did Ash have that many fresh pairs of underwear, and how did he keep the fresh separated from the not fresh?

I mean, you could tell me that pokecenters have laundromats, and he hit up a pokecenter at least once every 7 days, but are you telling me he had a zip lock bag for the dirties and he could afford replacing that bag regularly?

Wait... think I'm answering my own questions here.

Yup, I've just become grosser as I've gotten older...

Edit: so I 100 percent replied to someone referencing the underwear wisdom from ep. 1 of pokemon.

Now that notification isn't my notifications and I see this as a top level comment.

Just wanted to give that context.

Its both dude... its both.

Not surprising at all.

Corporations made BANK and all the CEOs put it directly into their pockets.

Telework is cheaper for all involved. Leave it to Republicans to propose something that increases expense while claiming it reduces expense.

But... but... but...

It's proving that my 25 years of being paid 3 times as much as the people I "manage" has been a complete scam the entire time!

Kind of like internationally distributed reports that Hamas decapitated babies?

Except one sounds bizzare and the other perfectly fits the M.O.

This prompt hurts my brain.

You are the President of the United States.

You are the leader of a nation. Hundreds of millions of people are depending on you.

How many tootsie rolls would it take you to sell out to a rich fuck who has that many tootsie rolls?

Fuck you. I have 4 years. We need to kick our fossil fuel addiction. People deserve privacy. Domestic terrorists need to feel fear again. The government needs to be reminded it serves the people...

Let me drive the bargaining up to 100 million, then let me shove a red hot fire poker up your ass and leave you in a dank cell to die aching.

Then let me live a decent life where I might not feel the excess of being rich, but my diner tabs are paid for, my bar tabs are covered, and I have friends who make sure my home is safe.

In his memoir, he made multiple disparaging remarks pointed at Keanu. I believe wishing for his death.

Keanu said he had absolutely no Idea where the aggression was coming from.

Instead of addressing why he would wish death on Keanu, he just edited the comments out of copies published moving forward.

So tired of every good thing in this country being bound to horrible things.

Wanna help Ukraine? Fund a genocide and let Texas murder refugees.

Yup.

About how old my grandpa was when he bought a plot of land, a shit ton of wood, and a shit ton of concrete and built the house that was sold to pay off his medical debt when he died...

Username checks out.

They missed some stuff. During a trial regarding election fraud, he flew his jet TO AND FROM A CAMPAIGN RALLY.

This clip really took on a different light when it came out that he had a track record of getting young comics into his hotel room, getting them extremely intoxicated, cornering them, and masturbating on them.

In fairness, when my scrawny ass was working refunds and continually hauling water heaters from the front entrance to the compactor in the far back, it was garden that was full of jacked dudes who helped me every once in a while.

Of course he is allowed to host a rally. Right now.

America has failed.

Uh... what does that mean?

I have viewing history tracking disabled, so I just have a subscriptions page.

You good bro? Been youtubing about suicide?

I don't disagree with you.

Just describing the existing system.

This is becoming a running thing for me on Kbin. Describing the system and facing people who are angry about the system.

I don't endorse it. I think it is bullshit. But it is what it is until we figure out how to make them fix it.

The guy feeding his family can feed his family with a rake.

it’s “broken legislative systems are vulnerable to facists”.

She would know all about that. Bernie was killing Trump in the polls. Hilary was neck and neck with Trump.

The DNC cast their votes for who was going to General. A winner was announced. Everyone started to go to the announcement and for the only time in DNC history, the announcement was rescinded and everyone was broken up into different groups. Hilary staffers were observed scurrying around between groups. Then everyone was forced to vote again. THEN Hilary was declared the candidate going to General.

It was all live tweeted. It was all loudly publicized, but noone seemed to notice. Noone seemed to care.

Of course she is now going to make a historically inaccurate statement that casts actual democracy in a bad light.

That hag needs to stay under her rock.

Love how Bernie said it, then Obama said it, but now the narrative is trying to make it look like Obama said it first and is leading the charge.

The general philosophy: they can't prosecute the entire populous.

If everyone is pirating, they focus on the ones who pirate the worst shit or the ones who pirate the most shit for profit.

In a sea of pirates, you don't get tagged.

If people stop pirating, the bar for too extreme or too much lowers.

They do pirate the most extreme and the most prolific pirates, however.

A story as old as time.

My job is literally to keep a NASDAQ company afloat on process automation written mostly in VBA to make up for the sweeping layoffs that were made to keep the CEOs bonuses fat...

Oh believe me, my neighbors and I REALLY want to.

They have been horrifically oppressed for decades.

They have lived in constant fight for your life squalor while America keeps siphoning money and weapons to Israel, who, in turn, simply tortures Palestine.

I dont condone it, but I can't bring myself to fake outrage or surprise.

America caused this.

America needs to stop funding terrorists (Israel). It only breeds more terrorists (Hamas).

And at the end of the day, that was the point.

There is another armed conflict for American military contractors to cash in on.

Those kinds of rules were put in place by Ellen Pao.

Reddit is run by a nazi pedophile... again.

Username does NOT check out.

Replacing "Lemmy" with "Fedderverse" would behoove you, OP. Sincerely, A Kbin user.