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Cake day: June 11th, 2023
  • The_Mike_Drop@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.ml•Iron shooting
    932·
    1 year ago

    This is absolutely true. My former employer (a big box retail company) reduced my pay while I was on holiday. I had been there for years and accrued a bunch of pay rises - but the company got bought out and the new owners thought they could strip me of these because they felt they were temporary and non-contractual.

    I got some legal advice that basically said they can’t do that sort of thing and had a meeting scheduled with HR. I went in with my notepad, I stayed calm - pleasent even - no angry shouting or slamming tables with fists, I just politely asked them questions and wrote down everything they said, then read their answers back to them to confirm thats what they said. I had about 6 questions prepared and by the 4th they were visibly uncomfortable, it was an amazing feeling making them squirm like that. After I got done asking my questions, I dropped the legal advice I had been given on them and it was obvious the answers they gave supported my case very heavily. They panicked and reversed all there decesion plus I got back-pay.

    But if the first thing I had done is charge in making accusations and quoting the law I know nothing constructive would have happened.

    See the goal is to bury them in their own words.

    Edit: predictably the company went bust the next year. So long Office Outlet!

  • The_Mike_Drop@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.ml•You’re stuck in here with me
    18·
    1 year ago

    Hello Metal Detectors perhaps you can help me: I’m into all sorts of music and I’ve listened to modern day metal.

    What confuses me is that Led Zeppelin has also been described as Metal and Heavy Metal. I listened to Led Zeppelin 4 and it has accoustic folk songs on it.

    So I guess my question is when did todays metal start to sound like metal? Is there any connective tissue with Metal in the late '60s / early '70s and now?

  • The_Mike_Drop@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.ml•Everyone wants to lurk but nobody wants to post
    3·
    1 year ago

    Well let me put it another way. Lets say your favourite meal is Steak. I don’t know what it really is, it should automatically be Pizza, but for the purposes of this metaphor, its Steak.

    Imagine the only meal you will have for the rest of your life is steak. It will not be possible the enjoy that. We need variety, even if we crave for specifics. And what Lemmy currently lacks is variety. Not variety in memes its currently aceing that. But… sometimes I want Pizza not a can if beans.

    *written while hungry.

  • The_Mike_Drop@lemmy.worldOPtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•If intelligent life is found in the universe will it change religion(s)?
    2·
    1 year ago

    Hi! I was listening to a podcast awhile ago that stuck with me and they discussed a book I am struggling to remember the name of. In it, a religious man travels to a planet of intelligent alien life to make first contact.

    All the aliens live peacefully, in harmony with the enviroment. There is no crime, poverty or muder. Everyone is kind to each other. But not a single being on the planet has ever heard of God, or made contact with any divine being. This troubles the protaganists conscious as they found an perfect balance of life without any guide. When he returns to Earth, he is told that the Devil must have invented the aliens to test his faith.

    Thats all the details I can remember but it was a fair and unbiased story and it came to mind with all the recent news nentioned above. Thats all.