RooPappy

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[–] RooPappy@kbin.social 10 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I'm not sure if lawyers think their words are magic sometimes, or if they'd just really like them to be magic.

I live in a state that prohibits most non-competes from employers, and any effort to try to get employees to sign overly restrictive agreements can actually result in a fine and penalty. My company sent me a legal agreement saying that by signing the doc and continuing to be employed, I agree to waive my state's protections against non-competes. As if... that would hold up in any court, ever.

It's a blatantly illegal clause and I could have fought it at the time... but in the end I knew it was totally unenforceable at worst. I'll go after them for the penalty if they ever try to enforce it, or if I leave under bad circumstances. It was more valuable to me to have this document than it is for them to have it.

[–] RooPappy@kbin.social 14 points 11 months ago

You calling me crazy? Just 'cause I got a hotel in my foot doesn't make me a boogalymoogalymoogaly!

[–] RooPappy@kbin.social 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not a domain, but I did register a yahoo email address of roopappyatgmaildotcom@yahoo.com just to confuse people who asked for my email address.

[–] RooPappy@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It would be cool if we could ID which exploding star it came from.

[–] RooPappy@kbin.social 43 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Almost every teenage goes through a phase where they think that criticizing things makes you sound smart. I did it. I have a teenager going through it right now.

Some people never grow out of it.

[–] RooPappy@kbin.social 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

People need to be willing to suffer small conveniences to send a message to companies, but they aren't. And then they complain that the government should step in, while they constantly elect people who protect business interests and are anti-consumer in the name of "small government."

It's requires at least one or the other... a free market with consumers who drive the demand, or big government. With neither, you end up with constant corporate abuses.

[–] RooPappy@kbin.social 41 points 11 months ago

This is actually a really good hospital. I imagine someone carlessly cut it for convenience, a stupid thing to do.

I think the protest is because then the hospital, instead of saying "Holy shit, I'm so sorry... this is terrible, what can we do to make up for it?"... they responded with "What hair?", "I think he probably cut it himself" and "No comment". That was compounding stupid mistakes.

[–] RooPappy@kbin.social 6 points 11 months ago

Ah yes, ain't that fresh. Everybody wants to be down like that.

[–] RooPappy@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I'll be whatever I wanna do!

[–] RooPappy@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago

They should bring back more of the original writers.

[–] RooPappy@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

But it does work. You're asking people who's job it is to get eyeballs on things to abandon the one thing that they know will be successful.

I agree it sucks, but the answer needs to be that a savvy public rejects it. Nobody is going to regulate this.

Practice what you preach. Talk about it at parties. Teach your kids.

[–] RooPappy@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Google search does it too. Hangouts used to. Not sure about Messages and other Google services.

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