@joepie91 were actually open. So he lost his job of 10 years and was out that extra paycheck. When I was working at Walmart I applied for a couple of position that were outside of my department only to be told that they also were not actually open. This is not new and it’s not a secret so how anyone can say “no one wants to work these days” when they’re the ones not actually hiring is insane to me.
@joepie91 that meeting and tell about 7 employees that they are no longer and had two options. To leave with two weeks pay and the opportunity to reapply after 12 months or to reapply to any open positions in the store immediately (with no guarantee of being approved for the job btw) and not take the money. I took the money. My direct supervisor reapplied, a man who’d been working with Lowe’s for over 10 years, and he wasn’t hired bc none of the positions listed on the website
@joepie91 back in 2019 Lowe’s made the snap decision to dismantle its in house FSA (maintenance) and Assembly teams, I woke up on my 30th birthday to about 100 text messages from my coworkers asking if I knew and if I was okay. I was off work so I called in to ask and was told to come in when I could so they could go over it with me. That morning in their morning managers meeting corporate had told the management team that we were to be let go effective immediately. They had to leave
I think it's honestly kind of funny the very random mix of things I post on this timeline. Everything from "I am mad about some current awfulness in the world", to "Here's a fluffy story about a cat", to "aaaaaaaa help I can't sleep jrwlkjwkjrlejkrlk", to "hello everyone take care of yourselves please". And all kinds of other nonsense in between. I'm surprised anyone knows what to do with this lol.
If someone else needed this, I made a simple Opus compression GUI to quickly preview on which bitrate encoded samples start sound crappy beyond very audible threshold: https://codeberg.org/archydragon/ohtoo
@joepie91 Can't even get to a phone interview at most places with a decade of experience on your resume but sure, "nobody wants to work". Right.
It’s the city of Columbus so crashing into a bank means you get to claim you discovered it https://614now.com/2025/hot-topics/car-crashes-into-clintonville-bank
Note for new people; Not due to anything happening, but hoping to prevent some bad stuff in the future
Block evasion is harassment
If someone blocked you, they're saying "don't interact with me"
Blocking is about as clear a boundary as you're gonna get
So if someone blocks you on Fedi, but you can still view their Public posts, or if you have an alt that they haven't blocked, or if there's some way that you can still circumvent that clearly communicated boundary
Don't
the UIC fucked around and found out (ignored our responsible disclosure)
https://www.ccc.de/de/disclosure/uic-public-public-key-management
@merlin i notice all the software used by infrastructure people has to undergo at least one shitty license change and subsequent fork
De vakbonden hebben NS een ultimatum gesteld. Voor 3 juni 17:00 wordt er weer onderhandeld, anders volgen er stakingen.
Er volgen eerst regionale stakingen. De eerste zou dan op op vrijdag 6 juni voor de regio Midden zijn, gevolgd door dinsdag 10 juni voor de regio West, donderdag 12 juni Noordwest en Oost en maandag 16 juni Noord en Zuid.
A large container ship that ran aground and crashed into a garden in Norway last week has been refloated.
Johan Helberg, who owns the house the ship nearly crashed into, said he "wouldn't have traded this experience for anything" as he watched it being removed from his property.
"Get a ship in your garden, and you'll find life worth living," he told Norwegian TV channel TV2 on Tuesday.
punchin' nazis
It's nice to see nazis get punched. I honestly didn't have "nazi at punk bowling festival gets punched" on my radar, but like, good on you, ya punk bowlers
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.