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Humane society:

When you come in looking to adopt a dog or cat, we are absolutely judging the shit out of you. Your application may get lost or the animal may become inexplicably unavailable. Don't be weird.

When you need to surrender a pet, we are not nearly as judgemental as you'd think. We understand these things happen. However, if your surrender reason is something fucktarded like "dog grew up, want a puppy" or "had kid now don't want animal", congrats your name will now be getting passed around as someone to not adopt to.

Also we know the difference between turning in a found pet and ""turning in a found pet"". Just be honest.
 
Angel Dust said:
Humane society:

When you come in looking to adopt a dog or cat, we are absolutely judging the shit out of you. Your application may get lost or the animal may become inexplicably unavailable. Don't be weird.

When you need to surrender a pet, we are not nearly as judgemental as you'd think. We understand these things happen. However, if your surrender reason is something fucktarded like "dog grew up, want a puppy" or "had kid now don't want animal", congrats your name will now be getting passed around as someone to not adopt to.

Also we know the difference between turning in a found pet and ""turning in a found pet"". Just be honest.
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Finally, some optimism in this bleak thread.
 
This thread is for people to ask questions and for other users in related fields to answer them. Everyone wants to know industry secrets and the Farms has enough autism that some of us must have training and/or knowledge.

I'll start. Doctors/RNs/other clinical health professionals: how much of your day-to-day consists of doing things you actually know versus shit you have to look up? Is medical treatment equal parts knowing how to administer an IV and just knowing how to Google well, or did you actually retain and regularly utilize six years of secondary education?
 
Medical doctors study far longer than 6 years. And most of them start hard in the last 3 years of HS. And most of the time they don't need to look shit up. They already know it and have read and done it 1000 times. Usually they might check up on textbooks if there's not a clear cut diagnosis or symptoms are contradictory or if there's a weird mix of genetic disease and regular one. Then they gather specialists and they all check reference textbooks and protocols. And if they use google for work, it is mainly to find papers.
 
Construction workers/architects/civil engineers:

What is the dumbest construction regulation you know of? Is there a regulation you think should exist, but doesn't?
 
Bob Chipman's Podiatrist said:
Construction workers/architects/civil engineers:

What is the dumbest construction regulation you know of? Is there a regulation you think should exist, but doesn't?
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Where I am, there's a whole raft of safety regulations that are extremely onerous. Sleeves must be four inches minimum, nevermind if it's 40C and you're about to die of heat exhaustion. No music, even if it's reasonably quiet. Hard hats on any site where there's forklifts or similar, even if you're three floors above.

My current pet peeve as far as construction goes is the fact that they allow half-round untreated pine for retraining walls: that shit is going to twist, bend and rot very quickly and replacing it is a huge pain in the ass. Go with concrete, concrete block or treated landscape ties if you're building a retaining wall; costs more but it'll hold up nicely over the years.
 
Bob Chipman's Podiatrist said:
Construction workers/architects/civil engineers:

What is the dumbest construction regulation you know of? Is there a regulation you think should exist, but doesn't?
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Affirmative action. The growing popularity of requiring a certain percentage of minority races and females on any given workforce, rather than those best suited for the job.

Imagine you have a 10 person team for a job, but MUST have(under risk of fines, contract loss, and media backlash) 3/10 to 5/10 people be minority race and 1/10 to 3/10 be female(so far, sexuality hasn't been made an obligation). If you're smart, you'll at least try to get the best of those demographics, and even try getting cross demographics(minority + woman) to meet the legally enforced bigotry.

Now imagine that you are a black woman with little skills in the field and even less initiative, but you have the knowledge that these companies are legally required to employ someone like you. Not only that, but dismissing you, even justifiably, could result in media backlash and a lawsuit, but WILL result in fines and contract loss if said minority woman employee is not immediately replaced to maintain the ridiculous quota. And unsurprisingly, there aren't many women, nevermind minority women, who even have a desire to work in the various construction fields, much less be competent in them.

It results in random people being paid overly high wages to sweep floors because they are the only choice to meet the legal requirements. And getting away with not even doing that because they know firing them will be more detrimental to the company than paying them to do nothing.
 
There are several guitar companies that don't actually build guitars. They contract other companies to do it for them and slap their name on the head stock.
 
Molester Stallone said:
There are several guitar companies that don't actually build guitars. They contract other companies to do it for them and slap their name on the head stock.
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I'll do you one better....

Guitar companies that namedrop components on their label...
"Genuine Gotoh vintage tuners" "Genuine Bigsby bridge" "GraphTec nut"
these are partial lies...

Most of the time (esp on <$500 guitars) those parts COME from that supplier, but they are made to spec by a cheap Chinese clone factory. The only thing that is 'Genuine' is the authorized use of the trademark. Otherwise the guitar is 100% Chinese garbage, regardless of the name on the headstock.
 
Librarians are really sweet and nice, but they also do NOT trust you any further than they can throw you. The poor librarians are constantly having to call for help with things like cleanups from people doing gross shit in the bathrooms and more secluded areas of the library; assistance when being attacked by hobos; and concerns about their responsibility when people try to kidnap children or commit other crimes on the premises.
 
Guitar 'boutique pedals' are a ripoff and you should point-and-laugh at any faggot who buys them. There are exceptions - but most are made by Behringer in China.
Most boutique pedals are made by the same facility in China that make the $100 knock-off pedal.
The Behringer facility is a LITERAL city of manufacturing in Zhongshan China, all dedicated to the 100+ brands relabeled under the Music Tribe parent company.
Behringer has consistently over saturated their markets therefore @ 40% of their manufacturing is contracted jobs to boutique and common brands (Ibanez, Fender, Dunlop, and that Hipster brand you paid $2000 for)
Pay $80 or pay $1000 the only difference is a sticker and a diff coat of paint.

The exception is any classic pedal pre-2000. Behringer didn't start steamrolling from China until 2002.
 
Orange Rhymer said:
Guitar 'boutique pedals' are a ripoff and you should point-and-laugh at any faggot who buys them. There are exceptions - but most are made by Behringer in China.
Most boutique pedals are made by the same facility in China that make the $100 knock-off pedal.
The Behringer facility is a LITERAL city of manufacturing in Zhongshan China, all dedicated to the 100+ brands relabeled under the Music Tribe parent company.
Behringer has consistently over saturated their markets therefore @ 40% of their manufacturing is contracted jobs to boutique and common brands (Ibanez, Fender, Dunlop, and that Hipster brand you paid $2000 for)
Pay $80 or pay $1000 the only difference is a sticker and a diff coat of paint.

The exception is any classic pedal pre-2000. Behringer didn't start steamrolling from China until 2002.
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At the end of the day, the naked truth is this: if you can't make music on shitty Chinese knockoffs you just can't make music.
 
I was working organizing major cross-charity fundraising events and I saw for myself in plain financial reports what % was administrative overhead, advertising, and other bullshit. That % was 100%. Not a cent was going anywhere except people's paychecks, fueling the catering industry, and fueling the foldable gazebo industry. If you want to donate money donate it to a church, they are meticulous about reducing overhead and being efficient spenders with your money.
 
Exigent Circumcisions said:
At the end of the day, the naked truth is this: if you can't make music on shitty Chinese knockoffs you just can't make music.
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TBH - 'shitty' Chinese instruments are actually the mainstay now - and they aren't bad at all. The quality has improved 1000% from the early 2000s.
I would recommend looking into purchasing the 'illegal' Chinese knockoffs to save even more money
-Certain companies do not honor the copyrights and trademark designs of Fender and Gibson, and they make knockoffs without paying 'shape licensing' fees. Ironically, many true US Boutique luthiers also ignore these fees. Gibson/Fender only sue the brands they can win against.

If you aren't a pro, just buy the Chinese.
 
Erischan said:
I was working organizing major cross-charity fundraising events and I saw for myself in plain financial reports what % was administrative overhead, advertising, and other bullshit. That % was 100%. Not a cent was going anywhere except people's paychecks, fueling the catering industry, and fueling the foldable gazebo industry. If you want to donate money donate it to a church, they are meticulous about reducing overhead and being efficient spenders with your money.
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I was under the impression that the megacharity industry, at least within the US, was just another business model operating under a false not for profit premise. Not sure how it is in other countries.
 
Questionable Ceviche said:
I was under the impression that the megacharity industry, at least within the US, was just another business model operating under a false not for profit premise. Not sure how it is in other countries.
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If you just call it "raising awareness" you can use any issue as your marketing gimmick, never give a cent to the cause, pay yourself and anyone you want obscene salaries, and still call yourself a nonprofit.
 
Erischan said:
If you just call it "raising awareness" you can use any issue as your marketing gimmick, never give a cent to the cause, pay yourself and anyone you want obscene salaries, and still call yourself a nonprofit.
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Case in point that utterly worthless Susan G. Komen breast cancer charity that dresses up NFL players in pink shit, pays itself millions of dollars, and does absolutely fucking nothing of use to anyone. Just absolute bullshit "charities" like this. Some of the most famous and well regarded charities are absolute trash.
 
AnOminous said:
Case in point that utterly worthless Susan G. Komen breast cancer charity that dresses up NFL players in pink shit, pays itself millions of dollars, and does absolutely fucking nothing of use to anyone. Just absolute bullshit "charities" like this. Some of the most famous and well regarded charities are absolute trash.
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Susan G Komen and her ilk personally disillusioned me about charity and are essentially responsible for me being economically right-libertarian. All the people who pretend to care are bullshitting you for money. No one cares. Care for yourself. Expect others to care for themselves. Find a small community of people you personally know who will care for you too.
 
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