That is how a plan comes together. Beautiful.

No wonder Trump is so enamored.

There were warnings. LP knew what was going on, and chances to stop were given.

He was restricted to using a specific register, only. If that was in use, he was put to work on menial tasks until that register was available, lines or no lines. In one instance, we pulled the person who was working, audited her till, and brought it back for him to use, while putting the previous employee on a different register.

Cameras were adjusted to have better line of sight of that register. He watched them make the adjustments.

A policy sign-off was circulated having to do with theft, grift, and consequences, as well as the consequences for lottery fraud.

He was essentially told, "We're watching, don't do it again."

Missing all those hints was ... self-destructive, at best? It was this or rob a bank for the rush, I guess.

The warnings might as well have been in neon lights, and he still ignored them.

As for ruining his life? The world still needs ditch diggers.

All that for a "dad joke"? Take your upvote and get back to work.

I don't make the policy.

I also did made sure everyone knew their actions were being recorded. There were 6 more cameras in plain view, all you had to do was look up, and see they were pointed at you.

Also, one of those cameras was how I found out just how far my bald spot went.

"Who's the bald guy?"

"You." -Loss Prevention

Old customers. My company was waiting for him to cross the felony threshold, after which he was escorted from the building to a waiting squad car. Misdemeanors can be left off his next job application. Not so much for felonies.

Having been employed at a store where a large jackpot was won, I can tell you that the lottery commission has gone over the footage with a fine-toothed comb.

Did you know the lottery machines have a camera in them? I didn't know, either. They caught one of our employees stealing from customers.

"One ticket for the customer, one ticket for myself..." He charged the customer 2x and said the fees went up.

Parents aren't there. These are the kidnapped kids. If you were wondering what happened to them, you can stop wondering.

I'd very much guess there are more kids behind the stage with guns to their heads. "Do what we tell you or your new BFF is dead, and it'll be your fault."

Putin blew up his own people to get into power, what's a few more foreign kids' blood on his hands?

That was well written, and well paced.

Guess Russian troops are taking over earlier than expected. What happened to 10 years?

Putin: "Why wait?"

Yeah. Sums it up rather well.

We keep passing the buck to the next generations, they may not exist to pass the buck to, in the near future.

There's a certain irony in our population hitting the point where a disease carried by one of our major food stocks is on the verge of killing off a good chunk of our population, mostly because we are denying the fact that the threat exists, denying the lifesaving powers of the vaccines we could save ourselves with, and in so doing, prolonging the current pandemic, which is just a warmup for what's coming.

Vaccines are my friend, but if my friend isn't embraced by everyone, a single mutation could doom us all.

Evolution in practice.

What's worse is that we can't do shit about what's coming. We are, at best, 20 years behind the environmental curve. What we did 20 years ago is haunting us right now. What we will be dealing with in 20 years, we are doing right now.

The glaciers will melt. The resulting sea level rise will cause more warming(snow/ice reflects solar radiation, the dark ocean absorbs it), causing more glacial erosion, causing more sea level rise.

It won't be Water World, and it won't be The Day After Tomorrow, but the result will be somewhere in the middle of that and what we have now.

What the world will look like will be anyone's guess. It isn't just sea level rise. Desalination, warmer oceans, more powerful storms, the breakdown of the North Atlantic current, followed by breakdowns in other currents, will all effect where humans will be able to live, what crops will survive, and what we will be able to live through.

You think the sudden invention of space tourism is odd? Companies want to put a base on the moon. A self-sustaining base. Where do you think the ultra rich will go hide, when they've finished extracting everything from earth?

I wonder what would happen if the religious leaders all got together and canonized suicide, removing it from the list of damning sins. Further, if they noted you'd go straight to the Rapture if you offed yourself.

What % of the truly faithful would voluntarily remove themselves from the human population? I realize not all of them, but I can see entire industries cropping up to take advantage of the suicide rate increasing by an order of magnitude, almost overnight. I also see a lot of fundies offing entire families in Tent Revivals, so a new set of laws requiring all suicides for religious reasons to be at least 18 years of age, etc.

Sanctioned suicide in jails. Find Jesus, remove yourself from the population. Burden on taxpayers is eased.

Why do we have religion, again?

I'm tempted to stock up on seeds. Just because.

Try reading Forever War. We are just before the Calorie Wars, or the Ration Wars. And we already have the military intelligence necessary to institute a "Fuck you, Sir" morale policy.

Missing the exoplanet colony ship getting destroyed by an unknown alien race, though.

A woman in her late 60s was trying for the golden ratio of years worked in the union(Kroger subsidiary). There's a point where we were finding her things to do, other than check people out. She was so ... damn ... slow. She required a walker to get to her spot, and was the single slowest checker we had. I mean, I get trying to get to retirement with the most work credit so your union stipend is liveable, but killing yourself to get there defeats the purpose.

We had another, a cart wrangler, who also was hitting retirement age. She was running her body ragged to complete her 20 years. Yes, you get less if you are not in that "golden ratio," but you also are less likely to be found half-eaten by your cats when the firefighters do a wellness check, after you miss 2 days' work. Her attendance record was spotless before that, so something was wrong.

Dude flipped and turned on an innocent man. Good job, police.

Christ you suck.

Um, technically, NOT the "first time."

Lot of posters aren't taking into account one really pertinent point. At that time, faith was absolute. There was a God, there was a christ, and the holy spirit was more than just the 3rd figurehead. These beliefs were set in stone. It was on the order of perjury of their immortal soul to deface a religious manuscript.

As for her existence, it really isn't that far fetched for a noblewoman to enter the service of the church at some point, and less surprising that they were literate in the local Olde English dialect and Latin. If her father was unable to find a match, or she was intractable, the Abbess position of a religious order would be the equivalent to a corporate golden parachute.

I'm guessing the book was hers, personally, and likely that was what she did while listening to claimants. Essentially, doodling. Why she didn't leave a family name, likely because she was known, and her name was enough.

So Hu is out, and anyone who so much as looked over at him being removed is going to be questioned by Party officials. This was power on display. Xi is emperor in all but name.

Dad's in a cabin deep in the woods. Mom and sons? 50/50. Not necessarily dead, more like they might have had a moment of clarity and noped the f&ck out.

3.5, actually. 38 days.