say what you want about elon musk but you gotta admit it’s extremely funny that the rescue team got those boys out before elon could even finish masturbating all over his shitty little escape pod
like he was hemming and hawing over what kind of music to load it with and the thai rescue teams just. got the job done normally. without him. he contributed jack shit and his shitty little submarine was rendered useless by completely standard scuba gear and a few determined workers.
dude tried playing the white savior just got blown the fuck out by people who actually cared about what was going on
hey wanna hear something even funnier, imo?
one of the key pieces of tech in the rescue was the heyphone, a 20-year-old caving radio used by the British diving team who made first contact with the boys.
If you look into the heyphone, you’ll find out that it’s 1. ancient by tech standards, 2. initially designed/assembled by a team of dedicated volunteers from the British Cave Rescue Council and 3. easy to make and fix on your own because the creators (who really wanted better and safer caving equipment) made the specs freely available online.
so in other words:
elon musk’s e-vape spaceship submarine got beat out by a fuckin tech dinosaur, which was still viable SPECIFICALLY because of the altruism of volunteers working not for personal profit and glory but for public safety. that’s symbolism babey!!!!!
Related to this: one of the world-leading companies in the portable communications space (i.e. radios used by rescue services and in a whole lot of other industries) is a NZ company whose founder left it fully-owned by a charitable trust, with all profits re-invested in R&D or donated to charitable and educational causes. They also, at least in the mid-2000s, paid summer interns *very* well (which is how I know about them; a friend did one there years ago.)
The exploitative/extractive nature of high-tech companies, and Elon Musk’s personal wealth-building from his own companies, is entirely a choice.
Most places in the US that handle food don’t have sick leave. I work in a deli in a grocery store and I was sick for a week. I worked anyway because if I call out, I wouldn’t get paid and therefore not make rent and then I’d also get written up. Hope nobody got sick getting their lunchmeat lol.
It seems that the places that work with food punishes workers the hardest when they call out sick, which discourages sick people from abstaining from work and encourages the further spreading of disease.
So what happens if you start coughing blood or be a complete mess
You likely just get sent home for the day.
The only time I was ever sent home before the end of my shift was when I literally collapsed because my breathing was failing.
It’s honestly not unusual for management to just tell you to keep moving, drink extra cough syrup and “tough it out.”
I work for an organization that is within the same building as a hospital.
It’s not just about having the leave. It’s also about the culture of being allowed to use it. I know, for instance, if nurses in certain departments use more than two days of sick time within a set time they have to do a formal meeting and explanation to their bosses. Not like two in a row but two in a month. So if you do get sick you need to worry about whether or not it’s legitimate.
I get this all the time.
I live in constant anxiety. In 2004 I seroconverted and got my HIV diagnosis. I had good enough numbers it was decided to hold off as on meds. About two years later my CD4s cut in half and my viral load tripled. I started to get sick all the time. My doc took forEVER to convince to get me on meds. And in that time I had 48 sick days.
My employers, unsurprisingly, noted this and “not to threaten you but if you’re not well enough to do this job we’ll need to find someone who is”. Which is … passive aggressive but fun.
EVER SINCE. Any time I take time off sick?
There jokes and comments that indicate people don’t think I’m actually getting sick. That I’m just lazing around at home. I have to, once in a while, show up to work sick – visibly sick – to prove that I’m not trying to just get time off.
We do healthcare research.
Inside a hospital.
GETTING the days is definitely a huge thing which is shitty beyond words. But then getting to use them is the next hurdle.
Jesus fuck.
I am not surprised by this, but I am absolutely infuriated on your behalf, friend.
fellow food service person here, the other shitty side of trying to call out sick? finding someone who can cover for you. i work in the kitchen of a small, family-owned restaurant and if i ever called out sick, that means someone has to cover for me. there’s a grand total of 2 people who are trained to do my side of the line, and both of them work the front of the house. pulling one of them off the floor to cover for me means finding another person to cover for them on a moment’s notice and that might not be possible. it’s just easier for everyone to suck it up and go into work sick than it is to find a substitute
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