DeaDGoDXIV
DeaDGoDXIV t1_j44u152 wrote
Reply to comment by Mr-Warmth in Exxon accurately predicted global warming from 1970s – but continued to cast doubt on climate science, new report finds by SelectiveSanity
You know, I remember the "ethics training" we had to take yearly at my first real job. In one of the yearly training videos they "highlight an example of favouritism" (names changed, of course) in which a manager was so impressed with the landscaping contractor the company hired and wanted to hire them for her property. She was reprimanded when the contractor reported it.
Meanwhile, three years before I'd watched that video, the head of the "Network Design and Implementation" department had the entire department outsourced to a tech company she used to be a higher up at, and still had stock in. She got a promotion.
The kicker? If my father didn't work in that department none of my co-workers would have known. While there was only about 30 of us in that shop, all 30 of us stopped buying hardware from that company out of principle. Doubt we made the tiniest bit of impact on their bottom line, but it was the only course of action we could take because our "Ethics Department" apparently didn't have any ethics and saw "no conflict of interest" or "favouritism" but the lady that wanted to hire a landscaping contractor she knew did good work did.
Gee, I wonder why?
DeaDGoDXIV t1_j30ezkn wrote
Reply to comment by That_Guy_Brody in Author Susan Meachen announces she's alive years after apparent suicide: We explain by atmoscience
That sounds believable, thanks
DeaDGoDXIV t1_j30a5r1 wrote
Reply to comment by ddr1ver in Author Susan Meachen announces she's alive years after apparent suicide: We explain by atmoscience
I thought insurance didn't pay out for suicides? Maybe that's just a popular plot device and has little basis in reality that I just accepted as truth.... but I'm drunk on Reddit so I won't bother researching...
DeaDGoDXIV t1_iutyfo2 wrote
Reply to comment by knight-errant52 in Cobra dies of child bite in Chhattisgarh! by BarknSpider
"Welsh isn't a language, at best it's sonar."
Either Jasper Carrot or John Oliver, can't remember which British comedian said that
DeaDGoDXIV t1_j4jbk1a wrote
Reply to comment by TheLapisFreak in Neighbors say store uses loud opera music to push away homeless by jab116
Oh no, as a bus and train commuter for 15 years now, the younger folk have no problem not using the smaller devices with their handheld devices and irritating everyone.