kyden

kyden, 29 days ago

Thank you for letting me know!

kyden, 1 month ago

Everyone loves a good toilet mushroom

kyden, 1 month ago

The mismatched optical drive is truly icing on the cake here.

kyden, 2 months ago

You can hear them run on tile.

I wish I didn’t learn this information first hand while trying to be nice and catch one to put it outside.

kyden, 5 months ago

That face.

kyden, 5 months ago

It’s amusing when you can say “human for scale” instead of banana.

kyden, 6 months ago

I upvoted this because I respect spiders and it’s a good picture. I am commenting because I hate spiders and they are scary.

kyden, 6 months ago

Heinz ketchup, Hellman’s Mayonnaise, Coca Cola, Western Digital hard drives back when platters were a thing.

kyden, 6 months ago

I will have to give them a shot!

kyden, 6 months ago

I had the opposite experience. Though 15 years ago was around the time I worked at a computer shop and I recall quality between the two comps flip flopping. On a side note, that was also the era of Asus capacitors failing at a surprisingly high rate.

kyden, 6 months ago

This was the nicest thing I’ve seen all day! Thank you for sharing. :D

kyden, 6 months ago

Thank you! I was able to briefly live vicariously through your eyes! I’ve recently grown a great appreciation for the serenity of being outdoors—especially in mountainous wooded areas in my case.

kyden, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

Please forgive my ignorance here. I absolutely support folks fighting for better pay and benefits, but why on earth did they refuse this?

The company’s Oct. 3 offer featured:

• Product commitments for every UAW plant in America
• No job losses due to electric vehicle battery plants
• Profit sharing among all employees
• A full ratification bonus
• 26% pay increase for all temporary employees
• Conversion of all temporary employees with at least three months of service to permanent status
• More than 20% pay increase for permanent employees
• Inflation protection in cost-of-living allowances
• End to tiered pay so all employees can reach the top wage rate
• A reduction (in half) of the time it takes to earn the top wage
• Income protection for permanent employees
• Increased 401(k) contributions for permanent employees
• Up to five weeks paid vacation, an average of 17 paid holidays per year and two family days.

Every single one of those bullet points sounds like a pretty massive win, even individually, then you combine them all together and it’s the best benefit plan I’ve ever even heard of in the US. Granted, I am not a benefits manager and never have been, so I suppose I don’t know what is generally available in the US. But many of those individual benefits are leagues above anything I’ve ever seen.

EDIT: I read the article rather than the post. So I assume the above points are not being given to plants planning to be built?

kyden, 7 months ago

Here is a different tune as an escape from Kirby. Relevant. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FrNDTqwxxQ