It Should Be Apparent
That if you conduct a business using shady methods, and your staff are aware of just how thoroughly underhand and caddish you are as an owner, then you need to tread very carefully indeed.
Of course - obviously! - some people are such monumental bottomholes that they ignore this fact or consider the little people to be so unimportant that they don't matter.
Well, they do. Art!
This cautionary tale was related by Original Poster, who worked in a vape shop, having been hired by the original owner, who was a sweet old lady. Sadly, she had an utter douchecanoe for a son, who forced her out of the job and took over. His attitude was that he was always right, and if you contested his opinion then he'd either ignore you or fire you. One of those types.
It goes without saying that he was a cheapskate, too. He refused to pay to have the attached car-park swept clear of snow, instead telling the staff to do so. OP slipped on compacted snow and hurt himself, informing the manager that he'd need to stay seated in the shop due to the injury. Art!
OP gets told by the manager that he's going to be suspended for 5 days, which prompts OP to see the owner and challenges him to either fire OP or get him off suspension. Douchecanoe refuses. In fact he states that he's going to use OP as an example to the other employees.
This is a super stupid decision, because OP is well-acquainted with everything illegal going on, and they promptly call the OSHA ('Occupational Safety and Health Administration' - South Canada's Health & Safety Executive).
Then they call the Food & Drug Administration.
Then they call the Department of Labour.
Then they call the IRS.
You absolutely do NOT want these people on your case
The OSHA carry out an inspection on OP's day off. Owner lies and says he only got a small citation; OP then gets a letter explaining the owner was facing massive fines.
OP is at home on his day off when a colleague texts him, saying that the FDA and IRS both rolled up at the same time, and their manager quit on the spot. Just to egg the pudding, the Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms also showed up and confiscated all the illegal house-made vape products. It transpires that owner didn't have a manufacturing licence, which is essential if you want to make vape. Cue more huge fines and very probably jail time. Also - yes it can get worse for Douchecanoe - he was in the process of opening two more vape shops, which now cannot open. Money spent to no end!
As I said, it is monumentally unwise to annoy people who know where the bodies are buried. If your business is at all dodgy then the last thing you want is lots of attention from regulatory agencies.
Manglement at it's finest!
Today's Edna Photo
Inevitably, as it is Saturday, the world and his wife were out walking the woofers. Luckily for Edna and I it looked wetter than it proved to be, which again probably helped people make the decision to go walkies. O well. Art!
She will probably get a bit whiny around 16:00 because it's still 17:00 in her stomach, so I've been feeding her ten minutes later each day. I need to take her for walkies before it gets dark tonight, because - Bonfire Night. There are going to be lots of explosions. Given how wet it is now, there might not be too many.
There you go, your daily dose of domestic duty.
Here's A Daft Question From Quora
Ooops, I meant to only check it over quickly to see if there were any people posting after they'd gotten back home from the pub. Or bar, I suspect many of these people to be South Canadians. Here we go:
I fear this person is labouring under several misapprehensions. "The Berlin Airlift" was a massive air-transportation exercise intended to supply the French, British and American sectors of that city, when the Sinisters closed off all access by road and rail. Art!
Stalin thought he could choke the city off and then move in under cover of 'humanitatian' aid. He didn't dare to invoke real war, because the South Canadians had nuclear weapons and he didn't. Art!
It didn't work. The Little Sod With The Moustache completely underestimated Allied logistical capability and capacity, since they flew in over two and a quarter million tons of supplies. Ruffians do seem to have a problem with logistics, don't they?
"The Sea Of Sand"
The Doctor has just produced a long metal rod from his sleeve, which he had smuggled back into the prison cell.
"Proof your companions are dead. And our means of escape,"he wrote. Using the pencil, which left a faint trace on the cell roof, he sketched a cross in the middle of the featureless glassy expanse, then mimed to Sorbusa. The big alien picked up the metal prosthetic, which he recognised as an upper arm-bone replacement, and swiftly snapped it in two. Using the now-sharp ends, he scored at the pencilled cross and rapidly scraped narrow grooves into the glass, drawing a horrid screeching noise from the ceiling whilst doing so. The Doctor handed him a handkerchief, which Sorbusa wrapped around one mighty fist before punching at the cell roof.
It took three blows before the glass panel cracked and split, great jagged gaps suddenly shearing across the roof, hot gritty air abruptly spilling over them. The Doctor dragged Sorbusa back, away from the sudden cascade of shattered glass falling into the cell as the ceiling fell in, creating a storm of splinters, rapidly stilled by an avalanche of hot sands. Bright natural illumination blinded them for the space of several seconds.
The prisoners looked up into the dry blue skies of Homeworld, from a vantage point below ground level, in a quadrangle of buildings. Sorbusa boosted the Doctor clear of the cell's ruins, throwing him clear into the sand outside, to follow with a tremendous leap that only just cleared dangerously sharp edges of their former prison. The heretic could manage this feat; his current brethren would not have been able to manage, with their smaller stature.
Free! Now for a little constructive mayhem.
Thank You Auntie Beeb
For taking up a bit of creative heavy lifting. This item is about a guidebook to Scottish locations used for filming. Art!
It might surprise you that they list 150 films and 100 locations. Yes, Scotland has been used as a dramatic backdrop, both because of the countryside and the architecture of Glasgow and Edinburgh. The first film the BBC mentions is "Braveheart" but - Yes! - one of the more surprising ones was the opening scenes in "World War Z", filmed in Glasgow. Art!
Glasgow tricked out as Philadelphia
It probably made financial sense to film here, rather than the real thing. One wonders if it's possible to pick out items on-screen that give the identity away. Possibly not, if the continuity people were up to speed.
And with that we are done!
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