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[-] tobogganablaze@lemmus.org 334 points 1 week ago
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[-] JollyG@lemmy.world 251 points 1 week ago

This is not that funny but I was amused watching it happen. One time I was at the DMV in a college town and a kid was at the counter trying to get his license renewed. From what I could gather he had it revoked because he was underage and had a DUI. Lady at the counter bounced the kid and a few minutes later, the kid came back in with his father and they were apparently from a rich family. Or at least rich by Ohio standards. When the lady at the counter explained that he could not have his license renewed because he had a court order against him, the father started in on the "Do you know who I am? I will buy this whole town!" routine, but the DMV lady was not having any of it. Both the kid and the father insisted that the judge did not have any right to take his license away from him and that it would be over turned on appeal so the DMV lady had to give him his license, because dad would make sure she got fired if he didn't. But the DMV lady would not relent and issue a license. The father and kid were getting pretty animated, so finally the lady picked up the phone and said something to the effect of "Your kid lied on this form and is probably violating his probation, we can call the court right now and see what your judge thinks about that." Which at that point caused them to sheepishly leave. When I got to the counter she told me that was not the first time in her career someone tried to do that to her.

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 96 points 1 week ago

She's weaponizing the soulcrushing banality of the DMV for good! Her deadpan face and stolid "I'm here all day anyway" refusal to give an inch, and then the little chink of sunshine through her castle wall as she helped you, a normal person who treated her with respect.

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[-] themaninblack@lemmy.world 70 points 1 week ago

We are all equally worthless at the DMV.

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[-] ParadeDuGrotesque@lemmy.sdf.org 232 points 1 week ago

That submarine imploding near the Titanic will never be not funny. Especially since the guy who designed it believed in the "move fast and break things" nonsense.

Every person on board paid a pretty penny to be on that sub, so no pity from me either (except perhaps for the teenager who was reportedly terrified to go on, but did it to please his rich prick father).

[-] sbv@sh.itjust.works 127 points 1 week ago

It's the teenager that makes it sad.

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[-] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 66 points 1 week ago

I’ve seen some interesting YT videos about the engineering behind the sub. Turns out, that sub was a ticking time bomb, and many people had warned about it. The controller thing was perfectly fine, but the walls were not.

[-] Nighed@feddit.uk 46 points 1 week ago

Their crack detector thing actually detected a problem on the previous trip.... Just nobody checked it....

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[-] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 196 points 1 week ago

I worked security for a pro baseball stadium. Some guy and his teenage sons had front row season tickets behind home base. The boys were underage and openly drinking alcohol. We went to tell them the kids had to cut it out.

This guy (who was drunk too) throws a fit that we dared tell him what he could do. He starts shouting "do you know how much I pay for these tickets!? My sons can do whatever they want" blah blah blah.

I wave down the security head and he radios for the police to come deal with it. The man and his sons were marched out to boos from the crowd. They were ejected from the game and fined. They potentially lost their season ticket rights too, but I don't know for sure. I never saw them again though.

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[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 164 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm a union organizer, so I got to see some truly golden moments. My favorite was during a campaign, we took over a Q&A session with a member of the C-suite present. In a previous meeting he tried to convince me of some bs, so I asked him directly "why did you lie to me?" during this take over. The look on his face was priceless, and it took him over a minute to respond pathetically with "I don't appreciate being called a liar"

[-] insaneinthemembrane@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago

Can you tell us any more about the lie and the rest of the response? Sounds juicy

[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 64 points 1 week ago

Yea for sure! We were organizing around performance metrics, quotas, discipline, etc for quite a while. My work is in QA, where quotas are actually really bad for software development. We had been trying to get management to research and implement modern QA practices that would reduce/eliminate quotas, without much success. We also wanted progressive discipline with real guidance, because if you don't meet metrics then the performance improvement plan (pip) was really just a do-or-die meet the metrics for 10 days or get fired.

In the previous meeting, it wasn't a take over but coworkers and I relentlessly asked about pips, metrics, etc. We were very clearly getting under their skin, to the point where he asked me how I felt pips should work. He was probably thinking I never planned that far ahead and would discredit myself, but I had done significant research on modern QA management techniques and gave an overview of my minimum for a 3 step pip. Right before he ended the meeting, he essentially "confirmed" that we do it exactly like that, no sword of Damocles or anything.

Of course having done the legwork to actually talk to employees that had gone through the process, we knew that it was total horseshit. Just to be sure, we talked to a few more people to confirm that pips were still being used to cut people for cause instead of improving their metrics before planning the takeover. To open the meeting, I asked this to the COO:

I'd like to preface my question by saying thank you for hosting these sessions again, and preemptively note that a lot of us are here to discuss PIPs. In the last Q&A session I attended, I was told by you that PIPs follow a progressive discipline model. However, we're aware that most if not all employees that fail a PIP are terminated immediately, and multiple employees have been fired shortly after passing a PIP for failing to meet productivity expectations. Why did you lie to me?

His face went beet red and you could see the anger build in his eyes. After about a minute, he responds with "I don't appreciate being called a liar. You're hostility isn't welcome and I reject the question". After that, you could cut the tension with a knife. I reiterated my question that pips don't work the way he said they do, but he continued to refuse it until I moved on to the many other "hostile" questions I had.

For the aftermath, he lied to us again in that meeting when someone uninvolved with the take over asked about remote work, and said there's no plans to change anything for the foreseeable future, before RTO was announced a week later. There was another meeting about RTO with him that I attended, and he made a vague threat about "respectability" and ending the meeting if he felt disrespected after looking at the attendees. I wanted to ask a legit question over mic, and he ignored me until it was becoming obvious to others in the meeting. He stopped doing all q&a stuff after this for some reason.

[-] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I hear these isolated stories of bravery and no-BS defiance of corporate overlords, and for the longest time I've been thinking:

How do we start an organization that could train people to handle these jerks like you did, and plant these newly educated, hardened, prepared badasses-like-you in every organization in the country? These C-suite pricks need to be made famous, treated to detailed records and long memories of their every lie and falsehood toward their workers.

I've learned professional union agitators are called "salts" which sounds awesome, but their impact isn't very well understood or recognized, I think.

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[-] ultranaut@lemmy.world 123 points 1 week ago

Super rich guy tried to pick up my then girlfriend at an industry event after party kind of thing. She was not impressed by any of his shit. The look of disappointment on his face after showing off his $250k watch still makes me smile all these years later.

[-] LucasWaffyWaf@lemmy.world 84 points 1 week ago

I'm not even gonna lie, chief, if somebody shows me any kind of luxury fashion like that and boasts that it costs more money than I'll ever see in my lifetime, I'm just gonna ask if it was worth the human suffering incurred in the making of these luxury goods.

[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 96 points 1 week ago

There are apparently a surprisingly different levels of strata of "rich people". The groups in the middle range are apparently the most desperate to appear to be in the higher ranges of rich people.

So if someone comes up to you and brags about their $250k watch, you already know that they're not in the "rich rich" group, and they desperately want you to think they are. So hit them where it hurts with a reply like: "Ahh, I understand now. You're not really rich. People that actually are rich don't tell others how much they paid for a watch. Maybe someday you'll get to that level like really rich people. Until then, could you please leave me alone?"

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[-] Subverb@lemmy.world 123 points 1 week ago

About seven years ago when Trump was president the first time, my wife and I went to see Roger Waters in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

We bought 7th row seats but had looked at 1st row and they were something like $800 each so we passed. Well, day of the show and you can only imagine the massive vitriol spewing from Waters and the huge screen behind him for Trump. He had an inflatable pig drone with TRUMP on it flying around the arena and all kinds of elaborate props.

A group of four dressed in cowboy regalia, presumably MAGA, walked out from the front row, enthusiastically flipping Roger Waters off as they did it. The seats alone were $3200ish.

Roger Waters and Pink Floyd. What the hell did they expect?

Found this Australian video with clips from that tour. Being beneath the giant laser pyramid was awe inspiring. Waters says, "Haven't you been listening all these years?"

No, people don't listen to the lyrics.

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[-] Sequentialsilence@lemmy.world 121 points 1 week ago

I do events, one of the events was a medical conference. We had an exec for a pharmaceutical company presenting and he wanted the entire stage layout changed 45 minutes before the presentation. Like completely different projectors, screens, mics, that sort of thing. Not a quick fix by any means. We told him it wasn’t possible, his response,

“Anything is possible if money and physics allow it, and I have money.”

Their pharmaceutical company wasn’t invited back to the next years event. We were.

[-] statler_waldorf@sopuli.xyz 56 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

He forgot the most important variable in that equation, and it's time. I continually have to remind clients of that. You can throw more people and money at a problem but you can't get 9 people with uteruses to give birth to a baby in 1 month.

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[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 41 points 1 week ago

"Physics does not allow it"

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[-] Beacon@fedia.io 107 points 1 week ago

That video of the rich prick at a coffee shop who throws something at the worker and then gets put in a headlock and held on the ground and struggles weakly

[-] Tower@lemm.ee 135 points 1 week ago

Are you talking about Joel Michael Singer? The Joel Michael Singer who headbutts people and then gets his ass locked and then begs his daddy to use his money and influence to remove the evidence from the internet? That Joel Michael Singer? Because that guy is Joel Michael Singer, and that’s the only Joel Michael Singer I have ever heard of.

[-] P1nkman@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago

I can confirm that it was Joel Michael Singer. Joel Michael Singer was the guy in the video about Joel Michael Singer. We must not forget Joel Michael Singer.

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[-] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 99 points 1 week ago

I have this pet theory about how people who learn that their privilege lets them bend or ignore human laws subconsciously believe that they can bend or ignore any law. So I always enjoy it when rich assholes buy super-cars and wrap them around trees, a surprisingly common occurrence, because the laws of physics aren't impressed by your financial portfolio.

[-] davidagain@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

The learned experience that the cautionary advice other people gave them was inaccurate in their case is very real.

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[-] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 97 points 1 week ago

Some prick in a Porsche demanded that he get to pick his own spot in the valet lot where I work. The valet guy just grinning and shaking his head while the rich dude had a meltdown was some good schadenfreude. Then i got the spot he wanted because the valet guy was my homie.

[-] WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Reminds me of the police chef meltdown in Fear & Loathing and the clerks response

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KWATBOQCUqM

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[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 77 points 1 week ago

I only heard about it after it happened. Guy in the last year of high school said his parents wanted him to go to college but he probably wouldn’t because that was “stupid” or something similar. Girl in the group blew up on him because she desperately wanted an education and couldn’t afford tuition basically anywhere. She called him spoiled and selfish, I believe.

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[-] Hello_there@fedia.io 60 points 1 week ago
[-] Chozo@fedia.io 47 points 1 week ago

Dubya dodged them shoes like he dodged the draft.

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago

"God called me a duck that day."

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[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 58 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Donno how rich but Saw some model and photographer doing a photo shoot on a scenic overlook. They had a lot of equipment and she was doing wardrobe changes. Someone’s unattended large dog comes up right next to her and takes a big shit. Must’ve gone on for over a minute. While I cried laughing and they could hear me.

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