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  • It’s staged in that every element is fake.

    When they take photos of Obama playing basketball, Trump golfing, etc. the subjects are still actually doing those things and actually do them off-camera as pastimes. The comms people are taking real interests and skills of their clients and casting them in the best possible light. The circumstances are staged, but the pastimes are not.

    Mussolini never harvested any wheat and Trump never worked at McDonald’s. The comms people are completely fabricating their client’s interests and skills.

    It’s not even Dirty Jobs levels of slumming it where they actually do the job but get paid thousands of times more and go to a fancy hotel at the end of the day. They’re just models.






  • I have left-hand threaded fittings on a few things and always say to myself aloud “This is reverse-threaded” before I attempt to turn them then still fuck up first turn. It doesn’t stop me from fucking it up the first time - it just helps me remember why.

    When I train new people on this equipment I tell them to say it aloud, show them, still fuck up the first turn, then they laugh.

    Then I have them do it in front of me including saying it aloud - and they fuck up the first turn…

    When you’ve been doing something unconsciously for decades it’s really hard to break.


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    The two things I can think of are the company may try to tag you for inappropriately handling what they consider confidential information – and if something goes to court and the email ends up in the discovery process, opposing council may be allowed access to your entire personal email account.

    It’s probably better to copy everything as an attachment to a dedicated portable drive so it’s less likely to be called out by the company, and if it ends up it court you only need to release the information on that drive.




  • Apparently it’s not just an American thing, but maybe other countries have more sense not to do it anymore.

    They’re usually in “high end” restaurants in big cities like Las Vegas. The ones I recall usually have the sinks somewhat separated from the stalls with a partition or turn, but they’re not wholly separate rooms. The motivations are probably more needing money, access to a fancy place, and being an extrovert than perversion - more windshield wiper gig than peeping Tom.

    I think it’s a combination of a holdover from another time that maybe was useful when they had an expanded role - they probably actually used to keep the bathroom clean, and some guys will shine shoes etc. - and tip-based service jobs they gave to poor people. I think they do get an hourly rate, but it’s probably below minimum wage for the same reasons waiting tables is.


  • Bathroom attendants - since people got all the high value stuff.

    I don’t mean people that clean the bathroom etc.

    I mean the guy that stands at the sink and makes awkward small talk before handing you a towel you could have got yourself and expects a tip.

    EDIT: Y’all I’m pretty sure no one’s having sex or shooting up in the bathroom at the fucking Eiffel Tower restaurant in Las Vegas … Coke - probably. I don’t know where anyone else has seen a bathroom attendant, but every place I’ve seen one at I’ve been wearing a suit…