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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (5 children)

YMMV:

  • Dollar General: nobody watches the cameras unless someone reports something
  • USPS: exploitative. Has the ability to manipulate politics (political ads are not guaranteed to be delivered)
  • Amazon Warehouse: exploitative
  • Amazon DSP: exploitative. DSPs were created to bypass labor laws
  • Restaurants: most fried foods, and many not fried, are frozen. This is not just fast food, think steaks.
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Some of the cameras are fake.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 days ago

Shell has caused a lot more oil spills, both big and small, than they'd ever admit. I didn't work there, but I've been on ships around their oil rigs.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not sure how much of a secret or how unique this is to this industry but in sign writing, they'll charge customers bloated prices that includes the cost of all materials, then use offcut and leftover materials from previous jobs anyway.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

We used to routinely disable safety interlocks on production machines. A guy almost got decapitated once while performing maintenance.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

What? Why? It only takes one guy to refuse.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago

They paid for the CEO to have an expensive townhouse downtown even though they only visited the area like 2 weeks total per year and lived on the opposite coast.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I've worked for the government. However chaotic, beaurocratic and badly managed it is, it's 1000 times worse. Laziness is endemic and so many people just won't work

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 2 days ago (3 children)

The physical infrastructure of the internet (fibre and copper cables) is held together with string and 'temporary' fixes. Not a metaphor in any way.

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[–] [email protected] 83 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They patent ways to generate green energy so nobody else can use them and they can continue to make obscene profits selling oil and gas.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 days ago

I'm not surprised but lord that's bad

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