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WashedOver

@ WashedOver @lemmy.ca

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"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
-George Bernard Shaw

2y ago

Musk promises to award $1 million each day to a signer of his petition
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WashedOver @lemmy.ca 2y ago
I wonder if he's going to pull a Trump card and not actually pay anyone in the end

2y ago

50 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down, economics study says

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WashedOver @lemmy.ca 2y ago

Surprise, surprise!

2y ago

50 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down, economics study says

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WashedOver @lemmy.ca 2y ago

Early Ford hated bankers and investors. He did some brilliant moves to cut them out and early Ford really seemed to be pro worker. Later Ford was not the same man.

2y ago

3 Reasons Gen Z Is Getting Fired From The Workplace — A Psychologist Explains

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WashedOver @lemmy.ca 2y ago

I'm speaking to #2 in the article and how some of differences in communication styles in my workplace that caused fiction between millennials and older Gen's especially those in industry not sittings at laptops or into IM or facetime.

They are usually doing sales on the road or building things in their shops. The customer service team gets frustrated they can't get instant answers by email but they won't try other methods of reaching the customer. Phone is what I choose as it is the one thing we all have versus are they using and actually checking, texts, whatsapp, Telegram, signal, FB Messenger, Kik, snap, facetime, zoom, teams, google meet, twitter, Etc.

As old as phone is, it's something that will cut through those other questions. So it's not always generational it can be situational too.

2y ago

3 Reasons Gen Z Is Getting Fired From The Workplace — A Psychologist Explains

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WashedOver @lemmy.ca 2y ago

I've just started watching Hacks. They do a great job of highlighting the differences between Z and boomers.

The things that were just plain terrible in the workplace the boomers just lived with and worked around like sexual harassment horrified and shutdown the Gen Z character, while the boomers just figured ways around it best they could being woman without much say in their times. They were laughing about it in retrospect, especially rejoicing in the sexual harasser boss being dead.

Those women put up with a lot of sh8t and trail blazed for their time. That's not to say any of it was right. As a Gen X it's interesting the different worlds we all have been raised in.

2y ago

3 Reasons Gen Z Is Getting Fired From The Workplace — A Psychologist Explains

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WashedOver @lemmy.ca 2y ago

Unfortunately many customers in my industry are of the older age set and they aren't glued to their devices or computers so the only way to get them quickly is by phone. That still works for immediately resolution of issues. I prefer email for the CYA aspect but some issues can't wait days or weeks of back and forth. A phone call with that older generation is fast acting.

2y ago

Can somebody explain to me why this needs Bluetooth?

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WashedOver @lemmy.ca 2y ago

To alert staff when customers have eaten the cake and it needs to be replenished

2y ago

it's a big deal jack

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WashedOver @lemmy.ca 2y ago

I've yet to see any footage yet and with all these comments now I'm wondering if bumbling Bush Jr looks like a genius now compared to these guys...

2y ago

Looking for cable management advice

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WashedOver @lemmy.ca 2y ago

I like the look of that one as it hides everything but it also hides everything so it could be hard to manage a bunch of cables and power bars but once it's setup up how often would you need to go in there?

I've used many of these over the years in office setups from IKEA. It's a open design but with lots of places to hook wire loops.

2y ago

I sure don't miss working in a bar.

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WashedOver @lemmy.ca 2y ago

Thank you. I'm all the years I've never seen the old lady without this

2y ago

House Republicans Propose Renaming Oceans After Donald Trump

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WashedOver @lemmy.ca 2y ago

Today after reading this I'm sure I'm taking crazy pills...

2y ago

Trump gets name of his doctor wrong as he challenges Biden to cognitive test

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WashedOver @lemmy.ca 2y ago

I think of the absolute horror and the whole news cycle dedicated to a tan suit...

2y ago

Unsafe levels of E. coli found in Paris' Seine River under 2 months before Olympics

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WashedOver @lemmy.ca 2y ago

I saw a crazy Instagram video where the citizens are upset they are only trying to clean up the river for the Olympics not for the people that live there. They were trying to start a viral campaign to have everyone Sh8t in the river after the clean up is done.

2y ago

B.C. coal mining company fined for more than 400 violations

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WashedOver @lemmy.ca 2y ago

I wonder if $45,000 even covers the cost of 1 or 2 of those clean ups?

2y ago

Unbound riders jailed after homophobic complaint in Oklahoma Mexican restaurant parking lot

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WashedOver @lemmy.ca 2y ago

Go to jail for this but large corporate farmers are given immunity from prosecution for destroying the water supply in the state...

2y ago

Everyday, as an American

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WashedOver @lemmy.ca 2y ago

I ended up on this last year as I was exploring the South West. I found it confusing even as a Canadian.

I then later was confusion when Google Maps told me to go 80 on Hwy 10 in Texas once I came up from Big Bend NP. I thought the GPS was confused. 80 kms on the highway in the US? It was then I realized I wasn't in Oregon anymore with their 60 mph highways. Texas goes fast and even 80 mph isn't enough for most people. Even the single lane highways with construction workers was 65 mph work zones in Texas.

It was the most amount of road kill I've ever seen in all my travels. I think at one stage a herd of goats must of tried to cross the highway based on the carnage I came across. I finally understood the reason for the huge bumpers on the front of trucks in Texas now.

2y ago

Bagged milk memories

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WashedOver @lemmy.ca 2y ago

I like to say a little before that time but it was in the early 80s

2y ago

Bagged milk memories

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WashedOver @lemmy.ca 2y ago

I recall the first time I saw these as a kid when visiting my mother in Alberta. I hated them then and I'm not sure it's changed since then. Haven't seen them in BC.

2y ago

Bagged milk memories

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WashedOver @lemmy.ca 2y ago

2y ago

Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide?

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WashedOver @lemmy.ca 2y ago

I've been a user since Dos 5.0 and Windows 3.0.

Today I mostly use Linux Mint on my dual boot laptops and need to convert my main PC over to dual boot Mint next. I rarely boot into windows at home and if it wasn't for proprietary software at work running only on Windows I would have been done sooner.

I was mostly able to go from XP to 7 and avoided Vista and 8 altogether. Windows 10 was sort of ok with the ability to go back to a Windows 7 control panel when needed but it always felt half baked and unfinished to me.

I've just not been interested in 11 at all and the tidbits I'm hearing about Co-pilot reminds me of not only Clipit but the forcing of IE/ Edge constantly on user's especially after every larger update but to mention resetting the default PDF reader to edge. In a work environment of 20 plus shop PC's I was managing for low tech skill employees it was a pain in the ass chasing down the changes that were not made on my behalf.

What will be the Co-pilot's flavor of this new round of BS from Microsoft? The forcing of a cloud account is another headache I don't want to deal with either.

I will say Mint just mostly does what I need for my web browsing and general productivity needs without the constant game of trying to keep it the way I want it versus what MS wants for me with every update.

I'm at the stage of get off my lawn and screaming at a cloud in the sky next. That cloud is MS these days when adding in the annoyances of their Android keyboard *Swiftkey injecting Co-pilot and Bing into my searches. I've not played in Office 365 for a bit now but I can only imagine it's just as bad now.