159 points

Seeing things like this I find it weird there aren’t more Mario bros around in the US.

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He was an oddity in America. Most Americans don’t have the ability to go from keyboard to action.

They can barely muster enough oxygen to make the thought they need to write down in the first place. America is a bizarre place.

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38 points

They seem quite able to shoot up schools and run over pedestrians tho

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23 points

That’s no more than like 15% of us bro, don’t lump us all in

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6 points

Lol, harsh but true.

It’s those kids with all their potential and hope who do it.

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4 points

We’re currently trying to channel those folks towards more productive shootings.

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8 points

Or for a huge proportion, vote

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4 points

Sadly reminds me of Wall-E in some way.

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7 points

I found Wall-E more disturbing than most post-apocalyptic movies. Felt too real

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4 points

weird there aren’t more Mario bros around in the US.

Give it a little more time. When the militia folks realize that they have been had they won’t be happy.

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They’ll just be duped again into how it’s the liberal’s fault. I’ve lost my expectation that anyone may follow a course of logic once their mind is set.

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3 points

The ear shooter and cybertruck bomber figured it out.

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Their logic is like “Yeah, our bosses mistreated us! But they’re in a tight spot because the invisible economy forced their hand! The market is flooded with mythological job-stealing crime-doing immigrants we’ve never met, so we understand, boss-man. The democrats will pay for this. Yeah I know you’re short staffed we can work extra and not log overtime. One day we’ll get to wear the boot! :D”

Lol

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You’re surprised there aren’t more people capable of being unemployed for months who are also able to walk around with $10,000 cash after building an expensive gun and buying multiple bus tickets and staying in New York City for days?

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98 points

I still find it crazy its a “request for leave” which they can deny rather than “im not coming in today, I need to go to the hospital”

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55 points

Request for leave is for longer term absence.

Still shitty

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„I am not coming in until at least the xx.xx.xxxx as I am still sick.“

There you go. That’s how it works here. The employer can then collect the doctors confirmation online.

After six weeks it requires a bit more effort, as the employer no longer needs to pay wages and you need to apply for sick pay from the insurance, which is 70% for up to a year and a half.

The very thought of an employer not allowing you to be sick is just ridiculous.

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97 points

We’re burning the wrong Amazon

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According to Huffington Post:

An Amazon spokesperson told HuffPost on Friday that the denial was due to an error in Scott-Windham’s time off request and said she has the company’s “full support.”

What sort of reasonable “error” could possibly deny something like this?

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It’s the “we didn’t expect the news to pick this up and start reporting on it. We don’t want this kind of bad press” error.

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Really though it does sound like a retarded mistake I don’t think anyone was sipping on a whisky, smiling and hitting the deny button.

It’s clearly an automatic deny button.

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24 points

You understand how thats worse right?

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48 points

The sort of error that only occurs when it might become bad PR.

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30 points

The small error that when they decided to violate FMLA laws, they didn’t realize anyone was watching.

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“Bad, bad, BAD, naughty mega-corp!! That’ll be…$5000, megacorp, due immediately!..Or next business quarter whichever works for you!”

–The justice system, probably.

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I don’t know how Amazon works but I imagine it’s some sort of form submission and she chose the wrong option.

Don’t think that makes it okay, time off requests should be considered by a human who actually interacts with the employee, in my opinion, but I can see it happening. Dealt with that when I worked for Walmart. I definitely got a few days off that I submitted through the automated system online and have no idea if anyone ever approved.

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My entire impression of HR at amazon warehouses is HR is there to onboard new hires and occasionally act as an equivalent to t1 tech support. You go to the amazon worker subreddit and about half the posts talking about a problem have comments like ‘yeah just call corporate HR they’ll fix it’ because onsite HR fucked something up.

edit: Also worth noting, that same subreddit is pointing out that medical leave of absence is always approved by default with 30 days to provide proof so yeah she probably put in for the wrong type of leave.

Most people who have worked at an amazon warehouse will tell you the same story: yes amazon sucks, no not for that reason in the news. Amazon was the 2nd best warehouse I’ve worked at, but that’s more a condemnation of the industry than praise for amazon.

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3 points

It’s a PR lie to save face.

The same thing insurance companies say when people go to the media about them.

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2 points

She made the error of neglecting to go public.

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68 points

If only workers could band together and use their collective bargaining powers to improve their treatment.

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29 points

But this is how the socialists and commies win!!! Oh… Wait… Yeah

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5 points

The taft-hartley act already subdued them.

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3 points

If they can just ignore money regulations with cryptocurrency, then we should make a wildcat strike coordination app. Somehow.

They won’t protect unions at all anymore, so we have no incentive to cooperate with the state. It’s become purely a tool of the wealthy. (🌎👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀?)

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