Correct.

With most things, like Ubers for example, there really is not a substantial dofference between an average job and an exceptional job. Like, sometimes someone really stands out as exceptional - but almost always, the one and only standard is “completed job without incident”. By giving your Uber driver 4/5 stars because they didn’t offer you bottled water or whatever, all you are doing is punishing some random person who did a perfectly fine job, possibly significantly impacting their ability to make money and pay their rent.

What should really happen is that these companies switch to a one star system. 1 star = completed job without major incidents. 0 stars = major incident.

*bath salts

Being called a corporate shill for pointing out the obvious. Lemmy moment.

Because you are the rare exception - a person who is competent.

There are dozens of us! Dozens!

The fact that they say that he adopted these dogs implies that they might not have been adopted. Like, he biologically fathered two golden retrievers. Furries rejoice?

…? How many kayaks have you been in? They are quite stable, which is why they are used both in the ocean and in whitewater.

I mean, those fish are entitled to their opinion, but need to get over the fact that most of the other fish do want at least some nice fisherman to reel them in. And given that the fishermen want the fish, and the fish want the fishermen, and there is a whole assortative matching problem going on that everyone is continuously trying to solve, the fish who don’t want to get hooked should just accept that there are going to be some hooks cast in their direction sometimes, and they can just not bite them politely and move on with their lives.

Also, all metaphors break down eventually.

Of course, lemmy is full of incels and doomers. But the fishing metaphor is a cliche for a reason.

In order to catch fish, you must go fishing.
When you go fishing, you can’t just sit on the boat and wait for a fish to jump in. You have to cast your line out.
By putting in time and effort, you can get better at fishing. You can get better equipment and better bait, find better spots, and become more skillful.
No matter how much time and effort you put in, some days you just won’t get any bites. It probably doesn’t mean anything - just come back tomorrow.
Don’t try to chase a fish down if it won’t take your bait. You aren’t gonna catch it, and you’ll look like a crazy person.
Catching fish is lots of fun, but if it’s all you think about while fishing you won’t have a very good time. Of course, cast your line - but remember that the real point is to have fun and enjoy the world you live in.

On one hand, fair.

On the other hand, this is what the real skill of leadership is - getting people to care.

Start applying for new jobs. Take your team with you.

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I mean, maybe - but its not hard to focus on stability instead of growth when you’re the only game in town.

I mean, it’s security theatre what actually does save the store money. Hence why walmart had greeters all those years ago. They found people were less likely to shoplift if they just knew that someone was watching them.

That’s a lot of words to say while not breaking stride. I just hand them my reciept and thank them for taking my garbage.

Because I care about leaving, so I do everything I can to be faster. In economics, this is known as the principle-agent problem. At my local walmart, it is known as “I’m not a septuagenarian who’s been hitting a vape pen for the last 5 hours.”

following the airline model

? Are you talking about, like, baggage prices?

Iirc, airline margins are super thin, and their customers are extremely price sensitive. In order to stay competitive, airlines need to be able to sell their customers on the lowest possible flight price, while still not losing money on every single flight. The solution is to charge the customer more directly for the scarce resources they use on a flight. Extra weight on the plane means more fuel used to reach the destination. Charging for each checked bag rewards people for travelling light, while giving everyone a free bag punishes the light traveller with higher fares. Sure, the byzantine fee structure in the booking process is annoying - but at the end of the day, flights are now extremely cheap historically speaking, and a pay-for-what-you-use model makes sense.

Of course, the actual solution is to have a better system of busses and trains. And the airline industry is always lobbying against that. But I’m not sure what the comparable action in the grocery industry would be.

A hill I’m willing to die on: every time I end up in Walmart, something has gone horribly wrong with my life, and I want to leave as quickly as possible while interacting with as few people as possible. I love self checkout.

So you’re the slow motherfucker in front of me in self checkout…

Still confused. These look like normal people with some nice makeup on.

Is the joke that americans are fat?

Naming your kid Taylor is cringe