They patent ways to generate green energy so nobody else can use them and they can continue to make obscene profits selling oil and gas.
I'm not surprised but lord that's bad
Those companies are just begging to be nationalized.
Similar strategy to software companies, who buy upcoming competing companies and then kill the products.
The physical infrastructure of the internet (fibre and copper cables) is held together with string and 'temporary' fixes. Not a metaphor in any way.
Wait 'til you hear about the software infrastructure.
Hey that random dude from Nebraska should not be lumped in with this.
Shell has caused a lot more oil spills, both big and small, than they'd ever admit. I didn't work there, but I've been on ships around their oil rigs.
We used to routinely disable safety interlocks on production machines. A guy almost got decapitated once while performing maintenance.
We as in you did? If so, Fuck you. I know too many people who have been injured because of assholes who disabled those interlocks. LOTO is a lifesaver.
Edit: ok I saw in a later post that you didn't do that. But still - to anyone who considers disabling a safety interlock - just jump right in after doing so.
I tell all the new guys "if your manager doesn't want you want to lock something out, call me. I'll lock it out. There's nothing in this place worth getting hurt for."
Here, our equipment is old enough that sometimes powering things down means they don't come back up properly. I'd rather fight getting a machine back up and running vs having to hear about someone being injured.
Calm the fuck down. This wasn't a "Russian lathe accident" situation. We were trained professionals, and never left the machines unattended in an unsafe state. There were no injuries and only that one close call (which IIRC was traced back to a faulty e-stop button).
We never fell victim to complacency and I am quite proud of that.
What? Why? It only takes one guy to refuse.
Not the original post, but it’s usually speed. Manufacturing employees get pushed for more output, and usually that means that maintenance gets rushed.
A decade ago I was working somewhere with massive production machines with big rollers to pull the product through. One guy left the machine running to clean it so he could just sort of buff the rollers to clean them instead of scrubbing.
He got his arm sucked in up to his shoulder before someone was able to hit the e-stop
Sometimes for maintenance, sometimes because manual intervention was necessary. The machines where we did this were built in the 90s and have been in near constant operation. Moving parts are worn out and the tolerances are gone. Replacement parts are difficult to find and expensive to manufacture, so if something more complex than a ball bearing or axle got out of alignment, we had to pound it back into place (sometimes literally).
I personally never bypassed the interlock, I wasn't paid enough to take on that responsibility. I would just file a downtime notice and call the on-site mechanic when needed. I didn't give a shit about reduced output.
Tagging @Remorhaz@lemmy.world
No one really cares if you have a nice day.
😱😱😱
I promise you I care, I don't know who you are but the idea that you're happy fills my heart with joy.
Similarly, strangers who greet you by asking how you’re doing also don’t care about the answer. People actually get really uncomfortable if you say anything negative.
I've worked for the government. However chaotic, beaurocratic and badly managed it is, it's 1000 times worse. Laziness is endemic and so many people just won't work
It is truly incredible when you see how someone can make themselves be such a roadblock. Like how are you even this way?
How long have you been alive?
Shocking
I feel like this should be common sense, but goddamn does it come up often as fuck. If you're going to a built-in bakery, like in a grocery store or Starbucks little bakery display, we don't fully make 90% of that shit. It comes in pre-made. The shit we do put in the oven is mostly to warm it or just finish it off.
We most likely don't even have the box to tell you exactly when the supplier baked it. We sell them that quickly. We just slap icing on.
We have to put out so much product in a day, on such tight timing, that if we had to mix and bake our own cakes and bread, we'd be constantly out. That is part of why our shit is cheaper than a high-end independent establishment.
Many SQL servers use scripts that run as domain administrator. With the password hard coded in.
Several of the various servers are very old. W2K, 2003, 2008. SQL server, too.
Several of the users run reports via rdp to the SQL server - logging in as domain admin.
Codebase is a mashup of various dev tools: .net, asp, Java, etc.
Fax server software vendor has been out of business for a decade. Server hardware is 20 years old. Telecom for fax is a channelized PRI carrying POTS - and multiport modem cards. Fax is used for processing checks.
About a 3rd of the ethernet runs in the office have failed.
Office pcs are static IP. Boss says that's more secure.
They were hacked about a year ago. They changed the domain admin password and restored the backups. That's it.
They processed money to/from the Fed.
The thing limiting it most is the last sentence, the rest I've seen as well :D
Many moons ago I was getting my W2K certs. I dropped a vanilla box into my home lab, installed W2K server, connected it to my LAN, and left to take leak and get a cup of coffee. By the time I got back 10 minutes later, some enterprising soul had installed SQLServer and Exchange 5.5 over the Internet in preparation for fuck knows what. I burped, farted, and disconnected my router. Then I sat down to reconsider my career choice.
They paid for the CEO to have an expensive townhouse downtown even though they only visited the area like 2 weeks total per year and lived on the opposite coast.
It’s really insane how some truly wealthy people waste everyone else’s money. Like, claw and fight to get more and screw everyone else over, then just waste their money on stuff like that. I know a guy who got very wealthy from starting a health insurance plan in the 80s (first PPO in a Midwest state). He owns this gigantic 20 million dollar house in the mountains in Colorado and is there for 2-3 weeks a year. Pays people to watch it, clean and maintain it. Such a stupid waste of resources.
Food bank in the US. Food drives and individual donations of food don't really mean shit to food banks and they result in overwhelmingly low quality food. Your local food bank isn't hurting for your expired cans of coconut milk or your forgotten boxes of Kraft mac & cheese. Sugary junk and expired food will be sorted out and tossed. Most staple foods at food banks are distributed by the federal government or purchased by the food bank. Most other foods are donated in large volume by supermarkets and manufacturers. What food banks really need from you is donations of money, not food.
Another thing about food banks is that some supermarkets and manufacturers abuse them to dump their spoiled, expired or overproduced goods and get a tax write-off on them. I worked at a medium sized food bank that would throw away multiple pallets of sugary bakery items from Walmart every day because they didn't meet our nutrition guidelines and Walmart had been told repeatedly not to donate them, but they did it anyway for the tax write-off. Ever walk into a Walmart and wonder how they can have so much bakery crap on display and sell it before it expires? Yeah, most of that stuff will be marked down multiple times and then trucked to the local food bank where it will be thrown away. Trader Joe's also does this with their returns (most of their donations are unusable). Whole Foods on the other hand is really amazing about donating tons of high quality stuff on a daily basis.
This only makes me hate walmart even more
I wonder if you could get some kind of IRS tax fraud bounty on Walmart for that, but I'm guessing the odds are pretty low especially with the current administration.
YMMV:
- Dollar General: nobody watches the cameras unless someone reports something
- USPS: exploitative. Has the ability to manipulate politics (political ads are not guaranteed to be delivered)
- Amazon Warehouse: exploitative
- Amazon DSP: exploitative. DSPs were created to bypass labor laws
- Restaurants: most fried foods, and many not fried, are frozen. This is not just fast food, think steaks.
What is a DSP?
Tons of restaurants serve premade stuff from US Foods or Sysco. Lie about it, too. I worked at a BBQ restaurant whose secret sauce recipe was adding smoke flavoring and red wine vinegar to 5 gallon buckets of Cattlemen’s.
Not sure how much of a secret or how unique this is to this industry but in sign writing, they'll charge customers bloated prices that includes the cost of all materials, then use offcut and leftover materials from previous jobs anyway.
This makes sense in 2 ways:
If they didn't have the offcuts, they would have to buy the materials anyway. So accounting for that cost is required.
If they didn't use the offcuts, they would have to bin/recycle them. This is a good reduce/reuse policy.It's similar with event kit hire companies. They might have 2 of one item on the book, and know they can subhire a further 2 items from a different company.
If you request to hire 2 of the items, it will likely be at the cost of what the other company charges (well, b2b rate at least) plus a margin (to cover delivery, processing, insurance).
Because the company you go to may or may not have 2 items on the shelf. They might only have 1 or none. And they can't suck up the cost of subhiring.
If they hire out the items on the shelf, great. Probably a bit more profit.
If they have to subhire, no big deal. Just slimmer margins
Automation is so incredibly resource intensive and generates so much waste. I can't see how letting ourselves become more dependant on automation is as beneficial as businesses and mislead common people make it out to be.
As demand increases, so does maintenance, upgrades and power consumption. Everything electronic requires plastic. Which is shipped in more plastic. Which is shipped on skids wrapped in more plastic. And when those electronics fail, then that is just more waste plastic because it's easier, quicker and cheaper to replace rather than fix.
Electronics and automation are so fun and interesting. It's amazing watching a line run at full speed in production. But it's so painfully depressing how awful it is for our environment. The dust and oils are awful for the living beings that work in those environments. The repetitive jobs that it creates is absolutely awful for the mental wellbeing for the people who work there.
The mental damage of being there was so bad to me that when it came time to discuss severance pay at the labour board meeting after my wrongful termination, I purposely let the lawyers keep in a part in the contract/paperwork saying I could no longer work at any company under that international organization. They thought I would fight that so they would have reason to lower my severance pay. Nah. I took my winnings, which included getting the HR manager fired, and fucked right off.
Years later and I still feel a deep shame and regret for the time I spent in the automation industry and for all the damage and waste I caused while being in there.
Along with eliminating wealth hoarders who generate extreme amounts of waste, lessening our dependence on technology and automation are things I personally believe will be key to a liveable future. It's a bit shocking to me how often I receive negative or angry criticism when I share these thoughts though.
The Factory Must Grow......
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Locally owned and operated retirement home that got new management after og owner retirement.
They changed the logo to a cross when they changed all their old company practices to a more for profit approach. All during covid when they cut everything too.
Hired on with the expectation of a 3 month raise. Lol no. First job and first lesson that if it's not in writing it doesn't exist.
One time I found molded beans in bulk storage. Was instructed to scrape off the top layer and use the rest since truck wasn't coming and we needed it.
Hardies would routinely ship molded product. Options were pick around the refuse or have nothing. Sometimes a dishwasher or line cook would go to the store with a list when it was too bad.
The actual secret? You can do a lot to food and still be ok. Honestly got me over my food pickyness. Don't fuck with the danger zone and you're good.
If something has mold, specifically, then that whole food and anything else in the same package is bad, even if you can't see the mold on other pieces. This is because mold is a microorganism and you only see it with your eyes when an extremely large amount collects.
it depends on the food. you can't really cut the mold off bread but you can definitely cut the mold off cheese.
in a restaurant kitchen i think it should be tossed but at home some stuff can be worth saving.
Privileged cunts get paid $300K+/year to do fuck all. But that is coming to an end, we just summarily cut one cunt’s salary in half and it’ll go lower if that cunt doesn’t actually produce. For complicated reasons, the cunt can’t be fired.
Everyone in the call center, hundreds and hundreds of people, despises you.
I think that's already the belief of most people that call into one.
Likewise
A lot of municipal and county work is pay to play. The well run counties will still fire poorly performing contractors and consultants, but it will typically require getting a foot in the door.
That doesn't work at my state's level, but that means you have to have a very good working relationship with the project managers running the various projects. I've seen some project managers make contractors do parts of their job; the contractors that do will maintain a better working relationship with their project managers.
