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1. SKiZM :confederate: (sk1zm@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Apr-2023 02:15:14 JST SKiZM :confederate:

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   >who radicalized you?
   After having a degree in game design and working several years at Xbox on titles like Halo: Reach, I was hired at Nintendo specifically to become a team lead. The catch was that I would have to work in the trenches on a few projects to familiarize myself with their protocols, before getting promoted.
   After the shitshow at Microsoft, my lifelong dream of developing innovative quality games and joining the ranks of Sid Meir and Will Wright would finally come true.
   I trudged through broken titles such as Smash Bros and Luigi's Mansion 2 so they could launch on time. My last project was from a new French indie developer on a game called Stretch. I was in the zone, where none of the dozen or so other testers were finding any bugs daily on average; I was consistently getting 5-10 published bugs a day for months. That means I had duplicated them, others could duplicate them, captured video, and I documented explanations or possible fixes for them.
   Every morning, a new patch would roll out that I was personally responsible for. The team lead gave me a smaller team and group chat to focus on my work, because I was shredding their code to pieces. My greatest accomplishment (they wrestled with for months) was a game breaking bug right in the beginning of the game.
   The player is supposed to enter their vehicle and drive across the map to begin the tutorial in a tutorial area, but the entire first map is already opened up to the player. So, if they don't drive directly to it, none of their basic abilities are unlocked yet. They cannot exit the vehicle, reset a stuck vehicle, or flip a rolled over vehicle. You can probably guess what a bad idea this was.
   Anyway, besides the physics glitches and cinematic glitches where the player can still control their character during the cinematics, my daily routine was to break the game as fast as possible by rolling the vehicle over at the closest hill or curve. My average time was 45 seconds. The game became unplayable within a minute of starting it. They tried so many patches, until they finally unlocked the reset vehicle ability at the beginning.
   I was a legend on the team. Other testers would find bugs they discovered on accident and didn't understand how to duplicate; and I was the go to guy to figure it out and document. This was going to make me. It was finally happening.
   As that project was winding down, I received my performance review. All of my categories were average or below average. I was stunned. When word got out to my team, the other testers panicked because if I was below average then wtf were they? I quit the next day, I wasn't going to endlessly chase the goalposts for years like I did at Xbox again. It's over. Later, I learned from a coworker about a memo going around showing how White men had to meet impossible standards, while everyone else was given retard level standards to pass.
   TLDR; this is why modern games are terrible and broken. Literal faggots half my age that hate games, gamers, and gamer culture are running the show now.
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   • 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸 (phenomx6@fedi.pawlicker.com)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Apr-2023 02:18:46 JST 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸

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     The scary part is that sounds exactly like my workplace, you're punished for finding issues with stuff or are given at least one "know your place wagie" talk even when they end up implementing what you showed them anyway.
   • SKiZM :confederate: (sk1zm@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Apr-2023 02:21:19 JST SKiZM :confederate:

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     It's so over.
     People keep freaking out about these industrial explosions and train derailments like it's planned out, but no one seems to understand who's supervising and maintaining all that equipment FOR YEARS.
   • 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸 (phenomx6@fedi.pawlicker.com)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Apr-2023 02:22:39 JST 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸

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     The same boomers posting those theories are also utterly checked out to how godawful the job market is or working if you're my age is. They still think things are the way they were in the 60s and not today with effort boomers keeping things afloat.
     
     I've got so many stories about my workplace, including some I'd be more comfortable talking about when I end up quitting soon.
   • Tyler (tyler@1611.social)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Apr-2023 02:24:31 JST Tyler

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     I keep telling people that it's just a consequence of diversity and they're just schizos
   • 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸 (phenomx6@fedi.pawlicker.com)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Apr-2023 02:24:31 JST 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸

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     • Tyler
     Which lines up 100% with my experiences.
     
     When you import a group that decides they have to take a month to not eat or drink all day long and needs foot washing breaks every 30 minutes, what do you think will happen?
   • Sanae Respecter (frogmaiden@shrine.moe)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Apr-2023 03:33:09 JST Sanae Respecter

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     • Tyler
     @PhenomX6 @tyler @SK1ZM they buy out SNK?
   • EdBoatConnoisseur (edboatconnoisseur@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Apr-2023 03:33:54 JST EdBoatConnoisseur

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     • Giga Vril Breaker

     @Giga_Vril_Breaker @SK1ZM The combo of “know your place, wagie” plus the wages of $3/hr don’t help at all to encourage good or even decebt work.

   • 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸 (phenomx6@fedi.pawlicker.com)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Apr-2023 03:33:54 JST 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸

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     • EdBoatConnoisseur
     @EdBoatConnoisseur @SK1ZM @Giga_Vril_Breaker also contract employees too, the American version of outsourcing
   • Giga Vril Breaker (giga_vril_breaker@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Apr-2023 03:33:55 JST Giga Vril Breaker

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     @SK1ZM A good game tester is worth his weight in gold but big corpos don't appreciate that because they can just throw one hundred pajeets off the streets at the product that maybe get some work done but just don't have the imagination to really break a game.
   • SKiZM :confederate: (sk1zm@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Apr-2023 03:33:55 JST SKiZM :confederate:

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     • Giga Vril Breaker
     And for me personally, I'm a natural ludologist. In college, the other students didn't know there are certain skills they can't teach you in school. I can bugtest in my sleep.
   • Giga Vril Breaker (giga_vril_breaker@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Apr-2023 03:33:55 JST Giga Vril Breaker

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     @SK1ZM I used to work in game testing for a year thereabouts once, literally a kid off the streets. I was pretty good but I can tell you that the outsourcing of game testing to third or 2nd world countries like mine has been a disaster for gaming. The pay is horrible. There are skilled people who do it but they get quickly burnt out by gatekeeping of higher positions and the pay and the shitty attitude of devs who prefer to sweep shit under the rug than fix it.
   • BobsonDugnuttHB (bobsondugnutthb@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Apr-2023 04:45:16 JST BobsonDugnuttHB

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     • 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸
     @PhenomX6 @SK1ZM If there is a woman anywhere in the chain of command above you, you will be punished for finding an error in literally anything they do, even if it is specifically your job to find said error.
   • 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸 (phenomx6@fedi.pawlicker.com)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Apr-2023 04:45:16 JST 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸

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     • BobsonDugnuttHB
     Worse; egotistical boomers and people who do not know anything about what we're doing here.
   • 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸 (phenomx6@fedi.pawlicker.com)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Apr-2023 04:50:29 JST 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸

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     • touch fluffy tail
     The wagies they keep fucking over of course.
     https://yewtu.be/watch?v=BhuiPtwyoY8
   • touch fluffy tail (fluffy@social.handholding.io)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Apr-2023 04:50:36 JST touch fluffy tail

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     who
   • 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸 (phenomx6@fedi.pawlicker.com)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Apr-2023 04:54:44 JST 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸

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     • EdBoatConnoisseur
     Many tech workers pre-COVID were imported and Google/etc. whined about Trump for this.
     https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/23/google-amazon-tesla-trump-immigration.html
   • EdBoatConnoisseur (edboatconnoisseur@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Apr-2023 04:54:45 JST EdBoatConnoisseur

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     • Giga Vril Breaker

     @Giga_Vril_Breaker @SK1ZM The pajeets work for pennies tho.

   • VidMasterEon (vidmastereon@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Apr-2023 04:54:45 JST VidMasterEon

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     • EdBoatConnoisseur
     @EdBoatConnoisseur @Giga_Vril_Breaker @SK1ZM H1Bs are the new company towns
     They import them, pay them shit and hold their visa over their head like a sword of damocles because they would rather live as a serf than go back to their shithole
   • EdBoatConnoisseur (edboatconnoisseur@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Apr-2023 04:54:45 JST EdBoatConnoisseur

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     • VidMasterEon

     @VidMasterEon @Giga_Vril_Breaker @SK1ZM What do you mean import? They just have them work in their shithole, just throw a VoIP line in the middle and you can save on the export money, also you don’t have to deal with paying USA minimal wages just pay them the minimal wage of their country plus “bonifications” enough to reach 800 USD a month, that way if for whatever reason they don’t meet the quota the kikes don’t pay the bonuses.

   • 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸 (phenomx6@fedi.pawlicker.com)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Apr-2023 05:03:40 JST 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸

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     • touch fluffy tail
     They're fucking over the people who maintain them and firing others, and making sure they move to different industries. Also Biden and leaders are in bed with them.
     
     https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/02/us/politics/rail-strike-biden.html
   • touch fluffy tail (fluffy@social.handholding.io)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Apr-2023 05:03:51 JST touch fluffy tail

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     • 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸
     wait so why are the trains getting derailed
   • 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸 (phenomx6@fedi.pawlicker.com)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Apr-2023 05:14:05 JST 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸

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     • touch fluffy tail
     https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-joint-resolution/100 Here it is from the us government then.
   • touch fluffy tail (fluffy@social.handholding.io)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Apr-2023 05:14:17 JST touch fluffy tail

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     • 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸
     >citing the new york times
   • Spergo1875 (spergo1875@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Apr-2023 05:35:49 JST Spergo1875

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     • BobsonDugnuttHB
     @BobsonDugnuttHB @PhenomX6 @SK1ZM It's one thing to have a shit job you hate and don't care about the service/product. Then you just go full malicious compliance and let them trip over themselves.
     
     But to have what you thought would be your dream job, only to have what OP had happen is a whole other level of demoralization.
     
     I don't care what job you have, to be the one guy who bust his ass to keep the ship afloat and on time, only to have everyone else feel like they can slack off more because you'll take care of it while making the same pay as everyone else...that's pure hell.
     
     Know your own worth, and make sure everyone else knows your worth too. As fucked up as everything is, the worker...the ACTUAL WORKER has more and more leverage as we descend into collapse.
     🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸 repeated this.
   • 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸 (phenomx6@fedi.pawlicker.com)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Apr-2023 05:35:49 JST 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸

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     • Spergo1875
     @Spergo1875 @SK1ZM @BobsonDugnuttHB this is what happened a few years ago with treyarch. Before the whole "treyarch is shit to work at" article by the Kotaku "journalist", there was some reddit leaker who went by CallOfNobodyCares. Aside from leaking the zombies stuff, he talked about how buck broken he was living in a car for a chance to work at Treyarch.
     
     https://archive.fo/2sufw
     
     "I was on the second shift and we were scheduled from 2p-2a today with a lunch break at 5p. Due to a third shift coming in at 3p, we were retroactively told at 5:15p that we could go on break at 6p. So, I went on break at 6p and when I returned I was instantly fired with no opportunity to defend or explain myself. The reason was because after I had left at 6p, they had again retroactively pushed back our lunch break from 6p to 7p without informing us.
     They just tossed me away like a piece of trash, the QA employee with the most issues reported and the only employee who plays the game outside of work, all because they wanted to keep retroactivetly pushing our lunch break back. Yes, they fired me because I clocked out for my lunch break at the time they told me to go but then changed their mind after I had already went on my break. It's completely ludicrous. They even called security on me because I refused to leave without my personal belongings, they actually refused to give me my personal belongings at first. They finally gave me my belongings and said to each other, 'What's the loss to us?" Wow, just wow.
     This was a dream job for me, I've played since I was a kid. I hosted and joined countless EE sessions on trueacheivements. I drove myself across the country and have slept in my car for two years to be able to work here. I actually had the #1 most bugs reported and am admittedly the only employee on the Zombies EE team who plays Call of Duty outside of work. They just crushed my heart by firing me over their miscommunication of when to take my lunch break after retroactively pushing it back twice. Sadly, they are not strangers to extremely poor time and break management and then turning around and blaming QA for any miscommunication."
   • SKiZM :confederate: (sk1zm@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Apr-2023 07:04:39 JST SKiZM :confederate:

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     • BobsonDugnuttHB
     • Spergo1875
     The thing about working at Xbox is there's only about 150 actual Microsoft employees total, and they're mostly executives. Everyone else is contractors. I myself was a subcontractor, but I had a Microsoft badge, using Microsoft equipment, inside a Microsoft facility.
     Besides the bulk of autists slaving away, the leadership was all H1B pajeets who gave zero fucks about QA or the insane work schedules.
     When you're on a development project, you're working 70-80 hours a week. But you're forced to wait like 90 days between projects, so you're hours go to 0. Then, you can only be on call for game testing in between projects, where you have to call in every morning at 6am to see if they even need you each day. And when you and the other 200 people arrive, they only have slots for 150. Every fucking morning for 3 months until another crunchtime hell project becomes available.
   • touch fluffy tail (fluffy@social.handholding.io)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Apr-2023 07:04:57 JST touch fluffy tail

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     thanks
     
     these journalists like to decide what you should think about things, it's better to cut those middle men out. nyt especially has been implicated in propaganda efforts for zog, i don't want to see anything they write ever again
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   • 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸 (phenomx6@fedi.pawlicker.com)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Apr-2023 09:05:29 JST 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸

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     • Spergo1875
     Yeah that sounds about right, I heard a rumor from 4chan that Microsoft also cut QA staff for Windows 10 which is why it sucks so much cock.
   • 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸 (phenomx6@fedi.pawlicker.com)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Apr-2023 09:06:43 JST 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸

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     • Johnny Peligro :cirno:
     Which half the time doesn't work because they're oblivious other than "the gosh darn PC don't work again", and half the time ends up with them shooting their PC in an alley.
   • Johnny Peligro :cirno: (mischievousutomatosu@boks.moe)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Apr-2023 09:06:44 JST Johnny Peligro :cirno:

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     • BobsonDugnuttHB
     • Spergo1875
     @PhenomX6 @SK1ZM @BobsonDugnuttHB @Spergo1875 users became the qa
   • Johnny Peligro :cirno: (mischievousutomatosu@boks.moe)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Apr-2023 09:12:06 JST Johnny Peligro :cirno:

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     • Tyler
     @PhenomX6 @tyler @SK1ZM what the fuck?
     foot washing every 30.min?
   • 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸 (phenomx6@fedi.pawlicker.com)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Apr-2023 09:12:06 JST 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸

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     • Johnny Peligro :cirno:
     It's something you only see in diverse, vibrant communities. Mostly in Europe though.
     https://southmountaincc.libanswers.com/faq/254691
     https://daily49er.com/news/2019/04/29/usu-to-install-foot-washing-stations-to-aid-in-religious-observance/
     https://campus-climate.umn.edu/content/three-multi-use-facilities-now-available-foot-washing
     https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/07/world/americas/07iht-muslims.4.7022566.html
     
     They are also picky about it, and tons end up using the sink/toilet instead (usually with a cup they dump):
     https://mndaily.com/218313/news/adfootwashing/
     
     >Vice President of University Services Mike Berthelsen said the University noticed students were using sinks in public restrooms to wash. “It’s not easy to do and it makes the floor slippery and dangerous,” he said. In addition, he said extra cleaning work is necessary.
   • 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸 (phenomx6@fedi.pawlicker.com)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Apr-2023 09:15:09 JST 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸

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     • Johnny Peligro :cirno:
     Every time I go into the bathroom at work someone wrote with a sharpie "fuck muslim people" or "muslims smelly", all the time.
     
     There might be far fewer terror attacks after the USA pulled out of the middle east (really makes you think), but there are an assload of people there who hate the weird behavior that Islamic people have that they're forced into.
     
     Also if you're stuck in an Islamic country and want to leave said group you're born into (either because you're westernized and hate religion or because the strict shit they push made you hate religion/Islam), you're stuck in it for life for obvious reasons. You think JW is bad, try Islam in an Islam majority country.
   • Giga Vril Breaker (giga_vril_breaker@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Apr-2023 09:15:10 JST Giga Vril Breaker

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     • EdBoatConnoisseur
     @EdBoatConnoisseur @PhenomX6 @SK1ZM @VidMasterEon Pajeets are literally being imported to ZOG vassals like Ukraine and Poland so they can work for British/American companies from there by remote desktop/vpn/voip.
   • Johnny Peligro :cirno: (mischievousutomatosu@boks.moe)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Apr-2023 09:15:10 JST Johnny Peligro :cirno:

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     • EdBoatConnoisseur
     @Giga_Vril_Breaker @PhenomX6 @SK1ZM @EdBoatConnoisseur @VidMasterEon being quite honest, i think i despise indians more than I'd despise a random gangbanger nig
   • EdBoatConnoisseur (edboatconnoisseur@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Apr-2023 09:15:11 JST EdBoatConnoisseur

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     • VidMasterEon

     @PhenomX6 @SK1ZM @Giga_Vril_Breaker @VidMasterEon They are just hiring offshore now

   • Giga Vril Breaker (giga_vril_breaker@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Apr-2023 09:16:22 JST Giga Vril Breaker

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     • VidMasterEon
     • EdBoatConnoisseur
     @EdBoatConnoisseur @VidMasterEon @SK1ZM Yeah the constant lying you're expected to do as a cs agent is insane these days.
   • EdBoatConnoisseur (edboatconnoisseur@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Apr-2023 09:16:22 JST EdBoatConnoisseur

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     @Giga_Vril_Breaker @VidMasterEon @SK1ZM I don’t really care much about lying to save the company’s ass, but i quit for 2 reasons, 1 too many welfare niggers calling every single day destroying the quota in different ways, 2 due to not having a perfect quota the fags changed my shift to the night shift, i only did like 4 days of night shift because for like 3 weeks i was showing up for work on the morning shift, one day my supervisor tells me that i will go to a different supervisor and that i will have to DO show on the night shift, only told him “okay, alright” as i already was thinking of quitting as soon as i got my pay.

     I do absolutely hate the night shift.

   • 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸 (phenomx6@fedi.pawlicker.com)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Apr-2023 09:16:22 JST 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸

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     I'm stuck in that shift and it's ruined my sleep schedule. Holy fucking shit it's insane.
   • Giga Vril Breaker (giga_vril_breaker@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Apr-2023 09:16:23 JST Giga Vril Breaker

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     • EdBoatConnoisseur
     @EdBoatConnoisseur @VidMasterEon @SK1ZM And so you don't get any help at the call center you're calling that is supposedly in the us but behind the redirected line it's somewhere in India. Because even if the Hindu was above his petty arrogance and disdain for his racial betters, he doesn't actually know anything about the company or the process you're asking about, nor is he going to make the number of calls received quota for his cheap bonus listening to your ass for 30 minutes.
   • EdBoatConnoisseur (edboatconnoisseur@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Apr-2023 09:16:23 JST EdBoatConnoisseur

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     • VidMasterEon

     @Giga_Vril_Breaker @VidMasterEon @SK1ZM I quit my job at a call center for tracfone back in march.

     Not only the quota was stupid but i had to deal with fixing the fuck ups of the other retards, had to take calls from welfare niggers complaining their obamaphones weren’t working, the verizon network is a steaming pile of shit that craps itself every 2 months so i had to deal with retards complaining their safelink phones werent working and by the end of it i just didn’t give a fuck.

     A real call went like this: broke retard: “i’ve been calling you for hours, my safelink phobe doesn’t work” Me: “i’m sorry but that is a network issue, the department working on it says it will take 24 hrs to fix” (lie, there was no department fixing anything) broke retard: “I know other people with safelink phones and theirs work perfectly” Me: “don’t worry, their’s will stop working too~” broke retard: “i wanna talk with someone who can help me!” Me: “there isn’t anyone who can right now but if you wanna complain i will transfer you to the safelink administration~” *transfer call before retard can answer*

     Another day i had an almost 2 hours call where i had to listen to a puerto rican idiot explain me his problem, then it took me a solid 40 minutes to explain to him what the mother fuckers at the technical, corporative and management department failed to explain to him for months…

     Puerto rican: “hey ed you know a lot aboutthis and managed to clear all my doubts, are you a manager?” Me: “tsk, nahh i’m just a customer service agent, i’m surprised those above my pay range couldn’t explain a process that’s become common on the last 6 months”

   • 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸 (phenomx6@fedi.pawlicker.com)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Apr-2023 09:18:51 JST 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸

     in reply to

     • Giga Vril Breaker
     • VidMasterEon
     • EdBoatConnoisseur
     • Johnny Peligro :cirno:
     It's more in his country if you're born irreligious you can be. If you're born Islam, everyone fucking knows.
   • Johnny Peligro :cirno: (mischievousutomatosu@boks.moe)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Apr-2023 09:18:52 JST Johnny Peligro :cirno:

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     • 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸
     • Giga Vril Breaker
     • VidMasterEon
     • EdBoatConnoisseur
     @PhenomX6 @SK1ZM @EdBoatConnoisseur @Giga_Vril_Breaker @VidMasterEon ewgh. im glad i can be irreligious easily. granted, im in a catholic countru, but still
   • 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸 (phenomx6@fedi.pawlicker.com)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Apr-2023 09:21:39 JST 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸

     in reply to

     • 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸
     • Giga Vril Breaker
     • VidMasterEon
     • EdBoatConnoisseur
     • Johnny Peligro :cirno:
     Also 🇲🇾 has this cool thing where get this, there literally is a two tiered justice system. If you're not Muslim you follow one set of laws. If you are Muslim you follow those laws, and Sharia law on top of that. That's not a joke. It's only that way because like 63% of people are Muslim and the rest are some other religion big in Asia or Christianity.
     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syariah_Court
   • 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸 (phenomx6@fedi.pawlicker.com)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Apr-2023 09:26:32 JST 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸

     in reply to

     • Giga Vril Breaker
     • VidMasterEon
     • EdBoatConnoisseur
     • Johnny Peligro :cirno:
     Only if you can make enough to buy a plane ticket (which is hard with rock bottom wages).
   • Johnny Peligro :cirno: (mischievousutomatosu@boks.moe)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Apr-2023 09:26:33 JST Johnny Peligro :cirno:

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     • 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸
     • Giga Vril Breaker
     • VidMasterEon
     • EdBoatConnoisseur
     @PhenomX6 @SK1ZM @EdBoatConnoisseur @Giga_Vril_Breaker @VidMasterEon and you can't get away from it. jesus
   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Apr-2023 09:46:38 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @SK1ZM Argh, I really hate how we’re always the ‘good’ guys and just quit in situations like this. If they make it shitty for you, then just ride it out and line things up elsewhere. We need to take a page from the ‘winning’ side and subvert these shithole companies.

     I say that as someone who’s always done the same, too. Looking back, I’d rather have sat there to the point of being fired rather than quietly get out of their hair.

   • 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸 (phenomx6@fedi.pawlicker.com)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2023 05:35:16 JST 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸

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     • Leaf Lord
     • Parker Banks
     Or spending money on other bullshit toys. Before he burnt out hard and got canceled by the alphabet mafia, Notch was giving off serious Ion Storm era John Romero vibes:
     https://photo.rukes.com/notch/notch.html
     
     Imagine what could have happened if he was smart and invested it all or done something else like fund parallel structures to AAA instead of throwing money at shit like the Ouya to have his name on the early consoles.
   • Parker Banks (parker@pl.psion.co)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2023 05:35:17 JST Parker Banks

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     • Leaf Lord
     @Leaflord @SK1ZM Alas, all the people with fuck you money are too busy commissioning weird porn.
   • Leaf Lord (leaflord@leafposter.club)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2023 05:35:18 JST Leaf Lord

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     The way to break this would be for someone with fuck you money to start funding heretical projects.
   • 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸 (phenomx6@fedi.pawlicker.com)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2023 05:36:23 JST 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸

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     • 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸
     • Leaf Lord
     • Parker Banks
     I remember a good schizopost saying that the reason "luxury goods" exist and all is to keep middle class people who just got money from ever advancing into real power, showing off their flashy $40k car and McMansion and expensive dinners to show off instead of putting it into something that could make them truly have power.
   • 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸 (phenomx6@fedi.pawlicker.com)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2023 06:03:21 JST 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸

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     • スカイラー🎄🇷🇺 :z:
     • Leaf Lord
     • Parker Banks
     @skylar @Leaflord @SK1ZM @parker a base model bmw is that much
   • スカイラー🎄🇷🇺 :z: (skylar@misskey.yandere.love)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2023 06:03:22 JST スカイラー🎄🇷🇺 :z:

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     • 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸
     • Leaf Lord
     • Parker Banks
     @PhenomX6 @Leaflord @SK1ZM @parker
     >flashy
     >$40k car
     this is an average crossover or a base model pickup
   • Parker Banks (parker@pl.psion.co)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2023 06:04:20 JST Parker Banks

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     • 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸
     • Leaf Lord
     @PhenomX6 @Leaflord @SK1ZM Well if middle class people keep buying them and creating demand for them, then they don't deserve to advance into real power anyways, having failed a basic test.
     🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸 likes this.
   • 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸 (phenomx6@fedi.pawlicker.com)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2023 06:04:59 JST 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸

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     • スカイラー🎄🇷🇺 :z:
     • Leaf Lord
     • Parker Banks
     @skylar @Leaflord @SK1ZM @parker worse they're fwd platform now 💀
   • スカイラー🎄🇷🇺 :z: (skylar@misskey.yandere.love)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2023 06:05:00 JST スカイラー🎄🇷🇺 :z:

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     • 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸
     • Leaf Lord
     • Parker Banks
     @PhenomX6 @Leaflord @SK1ZM @parker too bad it doesn't come with turn signals
   • Parker Banks (parker@pl.psion.co)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2023 08:13:44 JST Parker Banks

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     • 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸
     • スカイラー🎄🇷🇺 :z:
     • Leaf Lord
     @PhenomX6 @Leaflord @SK1ZM @skylar I got good quality BMW for 12k USD, older model, but it was well taken care of.
   • 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸 (phenomx6@fedi.pawlicker.com)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2023 08:13:44 JST 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸

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     • スカイラー🎄🇷🇺 :z:
     • Leaf Lord
     • Parker Banks
     @parker @Leaflord @SK1ZM @skylar which gen/model
   • 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸 (phenomx6@fedi.pawlicker.com)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2023 08:14:31 JST 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸

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     • スカイラー🎄🇷🇺 :z:
     • Leaf Lord
     • Parker Banks
     @skylar @Leaflord @SK1ZM @parker transverse i4 iirc with an AWD system. It's German they don't do v6, it's either i4, i6, or something autistic like the vr6 engine.
   • スカイラー🎄🇷🇺 :z: (skylar@misskey.yandere.love)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2023 08:14:32 JST スカイラー🎄🇷🇺 :z:

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     • 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸
     • Leaf Lord
     • Parker Banks
     @PhenomX6 @Leaflord @SK1ZM @parker sad!
     probably with a transverse V6 where you have to take apart the entire car to change the back spark plugs, because German autism
   • Peter (1967gto@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2023 08:15:49 JST Peter

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     • 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸
     • スカイラー🎄🇷🇺 :z:
     • Leaf Lord
     • Parker Banks
     @parker @skylar @PhenomX6 @Leaflord @SK1ZM >why is there no transmission dipstick?
     It uses a communal dipstick, and those are safely stored at the dealerships. For your safety, only certified technicians should handle it.
   • 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸 (phenomx6@fedi.pawlicker.com)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2023 08:15:49 JST 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸

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     • スカイラー🎄🇷🇺 :z:
     • Leaf Lord
     • Peter
     • Parker Banks
     @1967GTO @Leaflord @SK1ZM @parker @skylar nah the idea is you do a flush at x miles. Literally that's how they're engineered.
     
     Oh and the dodge ram has the same transmission as a bmw and rolls Royce and Audi.
   • Parker Banks (parker@pl.psion.co)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2023 08:15:50 JST Parker Banks

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     • 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸
     • スカイラー🎄🇷🇺 :z:
     • Leaf Lord
     @skylar @PhenomX6 @Leaflord @SK1ZM German engineers need to die, or go back to making rockets. Why can't I reach the battery, how many bolts does an air-filter require, why is there no transmission dipstick? These and more insane questions.
   • Rayfield (rayfield@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2023 08:16:21 JST Rayfield

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     • 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸
     • スカイラー🎄🇷🇺 :z:
     • Leaf Lord
     • Parker Banks
     @parker @PhenomX6 @Leaflord @SK1ZM @skylar It could be worse, you could have bought the model without an engine oil dipstick.
   • 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸 (phenomx6@fedi.pawlicker.com)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2023 08:16:21 JST 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸

     in reply to

     • スカイラー🎄🇷🇺 :z:
     • Leaf Lord
     • Rayfield
     • Parker Banks
     @Rayfield @Leaflord @SK1ZM @parker @skylar that's not the bad part on those bmws.
     
     The bad part is the steering bearings are the fluid filled crap that leaks after only 40k miles 💀
   • Peter (1967gto@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2023 09:13:39 JST Peter

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     • 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸
     • スカイラー🎄🇷🇺 :z:
     • Leaf Lord
     • Parker Banks
     @PhenomX6 @Leaflord @SK1ZM @parker @skylar >nah the idea is you do a flush at x miles. Literally that's how they're engineered.
     No argument here, especially with synthetic fluids and whatnot. But it started off as "we can save $ by not equipping cars with dipsticks". Friend's hemi still has a dipstick tube, consumers got a plastic plug. Dealers were still topping up transmissions before their scheduled service intervals.
     
     >Oh and the dodge ram has the same transmission as a bmw and rolls Royce and Audi.
     Nice. GM's TH400 found it's way into Jeeps, Jaguars, Roll Royces, Ferraris, and even Humvees. Glad to see Mopar landed that role. Government Motors died when Obama worked his magic.
   • 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸 (phenomx6@fedi.pawlicker.com)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2023 09:13:39 JST 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸

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     • スカイラー🎄🇷🇺 :z:
     • Leaf Lord
     • Peter
     • Parker Banks
     Actually it's ZF but their ZF8HP is actually widely seen as one of the best transmissions on the market, they're on the 4th gen of it now. Chrysler just builds a licensed version of it at their plant.
     
     Some guy on a Dodge forum hit 500k+ miles on one, outlasting the original Ecodiesel engine (which blew a gasket and overheated at 370k miles from a coolant leak). He also did fluid changes at the regular intervals. Normally the transmission pan has the filter built in but if you obtain a 68408606AB pan you can replace them separately.
   • 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸 (phenomx6@fedi.pawlicker.com)'s status on Thursday, 06-Apr-2023 02:33:16 JST 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸

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     • スカイラー🎄🇷🇺 :z:
     • Leaf Lord
     • Parker Banks
     • sapphire
     @parker @Leaflord @sapphire @SK1ZM @skylar once in a while they're capable of something stupidly simple to work on like the VW Beetle and the famous engine used in it. It was so good GM ripped it off for the Corvair as well as a h6 engine. In fact the Corvair in itself was a beetle ripoff. It's only mistake was GM made it instead of some foreign company so of course it's engine was abandoned and it was under more scrutiny. Nowadays it'd be the opposite of course.
     
     Both engines are also popular with some kit aircraft builders being air cooled 4 strokes.
   • Parker Banks (parker@pl.psion.co)'s status on Thursday, 06-Apr-2023 02:33:17 JST Parker Banks

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     • 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸
     • スカイラー🎄🇷🇺 :z:
     • Leaf Lord
     • sapphire
     @sapphire @PhenomX6 @Leaflord @SK1ZM @skylar On one hand, I admire them for it, they make works of art. But on the other, their need to over-engineer everything, even during wartime, has been the death of them.
   • sapphire (sapphire@needs.vodka)'s status on Thursday, 06-Apr-2023 02:33:18 JST sapphire

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     • 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸
     • スカイラー🎄🇷🇺 :z:
     • Leaf Lord
     • Parker Banks
     @skylar @PhenomX6 @Leaflord @SK1ZM @parker did someone say German autism because I would like to remind you Volkswagen made a V5