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I never understood this

Yeah, law enforcement has it's problems, especially in the US where pretty much every police officer is corrupt, but the US is rather an exception in the western world.

There ARE actual criminals out there that, of left unchecked, basically will grow to trump type mobsters who abuse the shit out of everyone and everything around them

You're fine with that, then?

Any governmental position really. It all sounds incredibly unstable with all of the news with federal wages and benefits. Unless you're an actual politician, life as federal worker must be incredibly stressful.

Not sure how anyone with two functional neurons to rub together would want to become a violent fascist goon. I mean, the hope is there that they will all be eventually swinging from gallows, but sometimes evil does get away.

I used to work at a payroll company and our highest workers' comp rates were:

Underwater welders

Seawall builders

Race car drivers

In that order.

You mean like actual sewage or just like any common corporate environment?

The best sales people are those who - on a per-interaction basis - spend as little time as possible working over marks.

It’s called fail-fast. You want to determine as fast as possible if the person you have approached is going to be an easy mark or not. You use a variety of openers and follow-up questions to determine whether you should just wish them well and move on, or actually focus on them to see if they’ll bite.

Honestly, the absolute worst salespeople are those who chase after people who will never bite, and take offence at rejection. Because being immediately rejected is the other person doing all your work for you - they are openly telegraphing that you will waste more time on them than any benefit that will come out of them. Which is why a “f**k off” should always be followed by a “thank you”. Take that as gospel, fail them fast, and move onto the next person.

I watched a video about UNDER WATER oil drilling (or something like that, not sure if I got the terminology correct), and like they talk about how workers have to go in a fucking submarine and then they have to live in a tiny living space under water and also they need to spend 8 hours to slowly depressurize...

Nah, fucking caustrophobia is gonna kill me.

Having done a few weeks of highly repetitive work, the worst was when I had to bundle items in groups of 10. I couldn't think a thought more complex, that repeating song lyrics to myself. When I got a few hours feeding a machine that counted for itself, it was liberating.

I have your nightmare job! Boiler water treatment

I've seen an awful lot of bodycam videos to agree. I feel bad for the ones that have to shoot somebody. I've even seen some bodycam footage where cops do breakdown after shooting someone. They're really wishing things never had to go that way, but did because some very crazy people do crazy things or decide to suicide by cop.

Regarding the last line, Macklemore has a song called "Light Tunnels." It's basically the story of going to some big music awards show (and his opinions on the matter).

I don't care about music awards, but I do like the song; at one point he's describing seeing his face on a big display and thinks to himself "just look normal, don't become a meme."

I think that's a pretty solid line but probably difficult advice to consistently follow in a public facing role.

I'm fairly certain HR don't like people either.

It's especially bad when you look at time of day stats and see that, on average, judges push harsher sentencing right before their lunch break.

It's wild that we have a system that ruins people's lives that's affected by how hungry one person is

My oldest brother went to work for McDonald's, then later for Hardees as a manager. I remember how his room smelled. Like old grease and sadness. He lost feeling in his fingers due to working the grill and was working all the time.

I vowed never to work in food, ever. Now 40 years later, I still haven't. Although for a bit different reason, as I love to cook and have made it a hobby. I would not want to make something I love to do into something I HAVE to do.

Hi! Local comedian here! I can help field this.

Every time I do a show, I go in with the intention of being funnier and more interesting than what people are scrolling through. Usually but not always, I succeed. What makes this challenging is that all my shows are in the same venue every single time, on a regular schedule, which means I have regular audience members. I can’t let them down, so I get really prolific really fast. More material than Ricky Gervais, Jerry Seinfeld, Louis CK, and every other goddamn hack under the sun, at the same fucking time (good comics excepted—shoutouts to Randy Feltface, James Acaster, and more). Most of it gets tested in my corporate call center day job, which gets me decent CSAT ratings.

Sometimes I wonder what it would be like if I did comedy as a day job instead of a night job. Would I enjoy telling the exact same show to a lot of different venues? Fuck no. Wouldn’t laugh at my own shit half as much.