You can almost always make money with evil. The good news is, 95% of us aren’t psychopathic enough to do it, because we actually have ethics
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Ill make money the ethical way…by working
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No offense but whenever something happens the news says mental health nutjob…or blames some external thing like flamingo shit clogging the sewers…
They never mention that the cause of certain incidents and happenings could potentially be the result of bullying and people just being careless apathetic dicks.
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Politics moral high ground penis measurement competition.
Adults that still care about high school social standing…havent evolved much after high school.
On January 5, I posted an image on Instagram.
I posted it in anger because I got tired of people just assuming they can simply place any order, at anytime and it’s fine.
I disagree. Why? For a couple of reasons.
The kitchen I work in is pretty small, so an order this large typically stalls production. When you add in a time constraint, a decision has to be made: do I focus on this one order to get it in and out? Doing this means I need to pause any order that came in before or after this specific order, which means that actual customers that have come into the restaurant have to wait longer for their food. Or I can focus on the actual customers we have first, and hope more orders don’t come in, so I can then hurriedly work on this one order so that the take out customer isn’t waiting too long. It’s not an easy decision to make. SOMEONE is always going to be disappointed. Even on slower evenings. But in the middle of dinner service? In a routinely busy restaurant? It’s maddening. It’s frustrating. And it never ends.
Sometimes I have to fight the urge to include a passive aggressive note in with the order. THIS day, I literally had to fight the urge to go out with the order and make a comment to the customer.
Instead, I simply took a picture of the order, posted it on my private Instagram, with the caption:
This is not a take-out order.
This is a catering order for a shitty dinner party.
Don’t be a cunt.
Order pizza next time.
It’s not the first time I’ve posted things like this. I’ve worked in the service industry for a long time. Customers never change. So I let put my frustrations however I can, and I move on.
Which I did.
Fast forward to the 22nd and I get an email from management stating they were made aware of the post, felt it would affect the reputation of the business and insisted that I remove the post or I could expect some disciplinary actions, as per my employment agreement.
I was a little confused. At no point did I refer to my place of employment, nor was there any mention of it in the photo. No name, no address, no phone number, no tags. Nothing. The only way anyone could make the connection to my place of employment is if they took the time to Google the name of one of the sandwiches. But honestly…who would do that? Why would they? I dunno. Especially for some random post on Instagram?
So I disagreed. And refused. It seems silly and petty, but I felt I had done nothing wrong, as I wasn’t actively speaking against my place of employment. I was just a frustrated cook bitching about shitty customers. Also, I felt they were over-estimating my reach and influence. My own kitchen manager, who has been a friend and follower on Instagram for a long time, didn’t even see the post until this week, and it had to be pointed out to him.
So I stubbornly dug in my heels. The only compromise I was willing to do was to edit the text on the post, removing the “inflammatory” language.
Again, silly and petty. But, for fuck’s sake, it is my own private account. I use it to document my own life and experiences for my own benefit. I am not a good will ambassador. Nor am I a representative for the company outside of the hours I work for them. I will not allow them to dictate what I can or cannot post on social media. Especially when my own job satisfaction is already in the shitter. I was honestly just one more bad experience away from simply just quitting on the spot.
So, they sent me an email last night, stating that my employment has been terminated. And I am fine with that. In fact, I had been taking steps to prepare for that. My rent for this month has already been paid. I have enough cash on hand to pay for next month, should I need to. I’ve stocked up on food for myself, and my cats, so I should be okay in that respect. My other bills…? Well, we will see how that plays out. I’ve also been applying for new jobs before this happened, so I’m not too worried. My experience and references are pretty good, despite my being fired. And my stress and anxiety levels leveled off as soon as I got the termination notice. I am oddly at peace with my decision and how it played out.
But I will be damned if I ever let any employer try to dictate how I conduct myself in my free time.
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fuck em!
Urban dictionary i wish i did not know somethings.
My main instagram profile (@SUBQUiRE) was hacked last night and I spent 2 hours on the phone with META support… just waiting to see what will happen 
had to change every password to everything. I already have two step verification on everything and most things a login passkey but it’s still makes me feel so exposed.
Aw man, that’s really shit. I hate people who decide they’re gonna use their IT skills to do stuff like that. So you didn’t end up sorting it out yet?
Still in the middle of it. META seems super disorganized. I have had to reiterate information 3 times now. The person I spoke to on the phone and was walking through all of it with me seemed to not have very high tier admin powers and frankly didn’t seem to know wtf they were doing so they passed me on to the next level, and then that team asked me “hey just received this ticket, so what’s going on?”
This is a bad one it looks like.
I’ve been wanting to pull back from the metaverse a bit anyway, so my spiritual mentality is that this is a sign.
I’m not upset about the account being gone. If it’s gone it’s gone. I have all the content. I want to see how much of my data was breached. My computer and network seems to be fine. Have scanned several times, no malware, no bots.
That instagram account is a few years of information, possibly almost a decade. I did clear my backlog of messages up to about 6 months ago. I don’t think any other account is accessible via my instagram, but I just don’t know for sure. I am mostly just trying to confirm that META’s security is getting to the bottom of wtf just happened, and atm they seem very topsy-turvy. There’s also language barrier too, so it’s limited conversation, at least over chat. The person I spoke to on the phone was based in asia though and they spoke excellent english. The 2nd tier, kinda tough. I really wish I could just speak their native tongue immediately. Where’s the matrixing tool when you need it
UPDATE: Got it fixed after several chat and video call sessions with META. I am all the more convinced I need to downsize my personal information being on their databases. I am weary of social media in general. Deleted my twitter accounts. Over it.
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I was gonna say sorry for your loss, but it sounds like you got it back. I agree with the sentiment that it probably wouldn’t be a great loss anyway. Meta’s just so incredibly gross these days.
Stuff like social media is so transactional with the company, you really need to be sure it’s a transaction of value to you and what you’re giving up in return.
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You sound hella pissed, but like
good fucking on you mate
That’s honestly all I need to say. Respect +
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Its 2025 im gonna start an anti politics movement.
Basically the goal is to stop making everything political…and it involves everyone getting their life together and having a life, by having friends, having a job and getting paid for doing that job or running their own business. And people conducting themselves ethically whilst having enough emotional resilience to withstand lifes various trials and tribulations.
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I could say a lot shit…
But its just shit about shit…
The shit is nonsense…i can provide screenshots of all the shit.
All this shit needs to be called out for what it is…
Because its all just shit…
End rant.
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this is basically how i conduct myself. I’m part of this movement already, but quietly. i just choose not to really engage anymore unless i sense that a balanced conversation is possible, and that i won’t feel burnt out the end.
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Literally everybody who doesn’t think before acting.
I mean, I get that it can be hard, but if you’re going to say something at least consider other people around you.
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well i guess this is growing up
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Holy shit, I love Blink-182!!!
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shut up don’t lie to me