I’ve worked at a lot of different places and in my experience it varies a lot.

Some bosses cut everybody slack. Some bosses are jerks and cut nobody any slack. I would say most of them play favorites with their employees (some are blatant about it, some are more subtle). Some bosses cut the workers with kids more slack. Some bosses cut the workers with kids less slack.

Anecdotal evidence is like that. It’s emotionally compelling, but doesn’t really tell us what’s going on in the bigger picture.

Yes, the pressure is immense and I suspect most would not miss it if they could just let it go and could experience life without it.

Reduce, reuse, recycle in that order of priority.

The economics of Christmas spending is mind boggling. It’s not a harmless once a year indulgence.

Thank you, I’m grateful for anyone who gets where I’m coming from with this.

That’s awesome, but let’s not ignore the billions in profits, and questionable spending, and plastic waste production that goes on every year because people feel cultural pressure to buy things for other adults. For every one thoughtful person like you, there’s a thousand buying junk nobody wants or needs.

Thank you for the adult perspective.

So, nobody should ever nudge others towards new behaviors or ideas? And how do you know who I do and don’t buy gifts for? Lot of assumptions here.

I don’t see it as that black and white. Kids get special treatment in many different contexts.

Thank you, well said.

I don’t think it’s unreasonable to hope (even if naively so) for a cultural shift away from the “Black Friday” mentality that taints the holidays.

I’m sorry you can’t distinguish materialism as distinctly different from celebrating with family and friends. Enjoy being brainwashed by ads.

I specified gifts. You can still enjoy the holiday without excessive unnecessary consumption.

cool, Spez has a Lemmy account

“Find a job doing what you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life.”

I used to love software. Then all the Lumberghs took over.

How many optional organs does this poor guy have?

Back when I still enjoyed reddit, I loved /random. How very reddit of them to continue down the road of making it a worse user experience. Because it hasn’t been about the users for a long, long time. They do it gradually enough that the average reddit schmuck barely even notices.

I find going on and off DST to be kind of a nuisance, but I don’t have strong feelings about it one way or the other. It seems like the experience varies from place to place, and your region’s distance to the equator is an important factor. The closer you are to the equator, the less necessary DST is.

Historically, some of the regions that went off of DST much prefer it that way, and never looked back. But others regretted opting out of it, and went back to doing it again after everyone complained about it.

I’m sure 47 will make it all about him, whatever he does. And it will probably be a chaotic mess of software patches when they try to implement it. There will be far worse problems to deal with during the Stupid Ages, but throw this one on the pile I guess.

I know that, like a lot of my fellow 'Muricans, I will try to avoid seeing a health care provider until I absolutely have to. Random inexplicable pain? Hopefully it gets better on its own in a few days.

Which I know is not at all smart, but 1. there are not enough doctors to go around and 2. the ones we do have are understandably burned out AF and 3. the insurance bullshit is brutal.

The insurance carriers make it very clear that you have done something wrong if you go see a health care provider.

“Insurance is for collecting premiums only”. They are the “no take, only throw” dog meme in real life.

I have no idea, but I really hope some genius on Lemmy creates a simulation of this fight so we can all have a great time watching it.