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  • Archangel@lemm.eetoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    20 hours ago

    There’s a big difference between someone putting in a good word for you…and having them “pull strings” to get you the job. If all he did was get you an interview and you took care of the rest, it’s fine. But if he has actual “pull” with the company…meaning, they have to do what he tells them to…then there might be some resentment among your coworkers.


  • First time I saw one, I was a kid riding shotgun in my uncle’s pickup truck. We were driving pretty fast down this old logging road, on our way out to cut some firewood at an old clearcut site.

    All of a sudden there was this big brown wall of fur right outside my window. I couldn’t even tell what it was until my uncle gently slowed down to let it pass us. The thing’s shoulder was just higher than the top of the truck, and it was running just as fast as us, when it came out of the bush and started running along beside us. Its antlers were almost as wide as the truck was.

    We just kept slowing down to give him some space, and it just kept going at full speed until he disappeared around a bend. I didn’t even have time to be scared…just in shock at how massive it was. It nearly broke my brain.

    My uncle just said something like, “Holy shit, that was close! That would have destroyed my truck if we hit him.”












  • I work in a Canadian manufacturing company that is owned by a large American conglomerate. When Trump started all these shenanigans, there were rumors floating around that head office was going to move the shop to the US to save money.

    Apparently they did a cost/benefit analysis and determined that it would cost them far more than they stood to lose, by moving the operation South, and the returns wouldn’t even begin to come in for at least a decade. They decided that raising their prices to absorb the tariffs, was by far the better option. Even the projected losses were manageable compared to the cost of disrupting their supply chains.

    All these tariffs are going to do, is make everything.ore expensive. Nothing else is likely to change.