ragingrobot

When I go back to work after a weekend of working on the cars, my hands are cut up, black gunk in the creases from the grease that NO soap could wash off, burns from hot manifolds and getting too close to spinning pulleys and belts. Someone always says to me "you need to wear gloves." My response is usually to hold up my hands, and say "this is my FAVORITE part."

Have you seen the sacrifices made to afford those homes? Just because someone owns a home doesn't show the whole picture.

There are plenty of Americans that own homes and are struggling to make ends meet elsewhere.

Home ownership is set up to consume a person. Miss a payment and there are serious repercussions to one's financial well being, so it becomes a priority.

Up to a point, miss a credit card payment and it's extra fees. Miss a utility bill a month, and it's the same. Buy less food and you'll survive, albeit less comfortably.

I got an Atari XE when I was a kid. In addition to Byte for news, I always had to pick up a copy of Antic, an Atari specific magazine with listings (mnany simple games) in each issue to type in. Mostly in BASIC and some assembly.

Often times it comes up in conversation how it seems the elite would rather not even have the 'inexpensive labor' living in New York City.

"The train, to its credit, since it was near the terminus, was on time."

Had a good chuckle on this one, because with that particular line that statement is dead-on.

"By a little after six I was standing in Port Authority (there are no seats in Port Authority, which is another story) waiting for my bus home."

As someone who uses the terminal everyday, that's just not true. There may not be any where the author was waiting, or may have liked, but there are seats. I don't know if the intent was to paint a glum picture, or just wasn't specific about the fact.

Just like the train the author mentioned, the Terminal is a hotel for the homeless, some levels worse than others.

The place is falling apart. Pieces of walls and ceilings missing.

As far as actual transportation, nearly all buses from the Terminal use that tunnel. There is no dedicated bus lanes through and past the Lincoln Tunnel except during the rush hours. They are all caught in the same logjam on both sides of the tunnel. Like everything else public transportation in NYC, it's not given enough priority. Perhaps because not enough of the upper classes use it.

"with a wealthy downtown professional class that relies on inexpensive labor with long commutes (without the resources to drive) who work early/late shifts."

Much of the labor except for those fortunate enough to afford closer neighborhoods have to endure the long commutes.

I lived in the mentioned Howard Beach until my 30s, and just getting to the first station of Manhattan by subway was an hour.

Belle Harbor at one time had a large number of police and firemen. That's an additional half hour (at the least, depending on train connections).

An entire section of North East Queens is a "transportation desert" that has poor bus service at best. Those buses are often stuck in traffic with those who are able to drive. There are parts of Southern Brooklyn and Queens as well. Forget about Staten Island. If relying on public transportation, it can take longer to get from one end of NYC to another than a flight from JFK to Florida.

My best guess would be familiarity, a connection to the real world.

When you go into a physical location, say visiting a hospital or business, you "sign in" and "sign out" of that place.

When you participate in an activity, for example a class or sports club, you "sign up" to join.

It's not that they cannot. It's more that they will not - until it backfires.

It makes more sense, in terms of money, to have fewer people. It spans many sectors, not just public, not just the FAA.

IIRC at one point it did. I just can't remember which version - 95 or 98 perhaps.

> the software is incorrectly displaying it as a low pressure warning

The post doesn't specify if the display actually says low pressure, or if the TPMS warning light comes on, which we usually interpret as low pressure (most common case). If it is the TPMS light, I'm sure that's more of an "out of range" warning than "low pressure."

About using mental illness as a way of gaining sympathy/popularity?

Unfortunately I have to agree with the parent, it does seem to be true.

In my own experience: my niece never mentioned depression until she saw videos about it on TikTok. Then she was always moody, and constantly stating "I'm depressed, but therapy is expensive. Can you give me money? Don't you feel bad for me?"

I see people walking around with T-shirts advertising they suffer from depression.

I don't know if social media and exposure has brought the correct view of mental illness to light.

I agree with you, naturally, but most of the time the employee is not setting the terms of what is considered acceptable.

I don't care when I call out sick, you don't care when you do, obviously. But there's someone out there to whom your unexpected absence is going to make a difference in their day.

Well, that's up the employer who will come up with that definition.

I just used it as an example because it was in the article. What did he tell his employer? My job requires one to state the illness, although I understand that's not common, so this may be irrelevant.

If the guy does it every few months, no harm, no foul.

If he's taking every other weekend off and posting pics on his facebook page with a big smile, then maybe his employer may not be so happy.

I think the takeaway would be don't give your employer proof that could be interpreted as you were not straightforward.

What do most jobs give for vacation time? It took me 15 years at my current job to get four weeks. Before that, two.

Assuming that two weeks a year is the norm going on other posts here, you feel it's appropriate to go say six months (evenly spacing those vacations) to work every day and the employee be at their best? What if said employee rarely gets physically ill, they should not have access to a day off here and there?