Am I the only one who thinks protesting against your employer and causing a disruption in your workplace is a FAFO scenario?

There was that woman a few years back (in the olde tymes, before the pandemic) who decided she wasn't going to do her job when LGBT couples applied for marriage licenses. Everyone with an IQ over 80 rightly called her out for her bullshit.

This isn't really any different. You can't support employees who exercise their individual freedoms to protest against an employer only when the cause is something you agree with.

Well, they really don't like it when you call them a cunt here.

Is it?

I feel for the guy, between cyclists and vegans it's a race to the bottom.

Yes but to be fair, I don't care about my employer either. I think I'd prefer a simple e-mail rather than listen to someone face-to-face or over the phone blow smoke up my ass about how much they regret having to do this.

They definitely are, though I don't know how even 4.5 billion dollars would help the issue any.

Read that again. “Paying employees is the top risk to the economy.”

That shouldn't really be surprising to anyone though. Employees are a huge expense.

If my rent goes up, or the cost of groceries keeps going up, that's a huge risk to my financials as well. Yet no one expects me to just roll over and take it, I'll look for a new place with lower rent, even it if means downsizing, and I'll look for lower priced food items or even cut specific foods from my shopping list. And this is while I keep on spending my disposable income/entertainment budget, and putting money into my RRSP/TFSA, and keeping money in a savings account in case of an emergency. Just because I have reserves doesn't mean I want to pay more for rent or food.

Companies are no different. Can you explain to me how it makes good financial sense when I do it, but when a company does it people freak out (even though they have no valid alternatives)?

Seems like another attempt to ban something using the "think of the children!" excuse.

What's next? Coffee? Energy drinks?

Yay, yay, and fuck that.

I don't know about you, but I eat when I'm hungry.

I've said that for years now, bring back Swatch .beats!

It's a shame it never caught on, especially in the internet age.

Which seems like a really good thing. So he lied to NIMBY's? I'm... ok with that?

There's a digital billboard six blocks away that lights up the wall on my 38th floor bedroom at night whenever it cycles through a white ad at 3am. Seriously? What the fuck.

Remember that brief moment where they were the Conservative Reform Alliance Party?

until it’s night time and they is no… wind

Spot the person who's never been to Alberta. It's ALWAYS FUCKING WINDY HERE.

To shreds you say?

I just take taxi, go to hotels (using the owner site, never a 3rd party), and do groceries and cook at home.

You might be distancing yourself from the exploitation, but I guarantee you could still find it if you looked.

Not sure why comments like this get so many upvotes. What kind of fantasy world are you living in where rich people pay taxes? There are entire industries formed around helping people to avoid paying as much tax as possible.

I'm sure they do, they may not understand the technical details, but I'm not sure why you think people who make rules or pass laws would think the rules or laws won't be broken or circumvented. It's a law, not some magical contract. If your parents say "no Xbox until you've finished your homework", they're not amazed when they find you on the Xbox 20 minutes later, homework unfinished.

It's been illegal to sell alcohol and porn to minors for decades now, do you think before the internet and VHS it was impossible for kids to find? Do you think the lawmakers back then were somehow baffled that the law they put in place, didn't 100% prevent children from drinking and stiffening their socks?