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The Batlord · 03-20-2017, 05:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

Today was my summons for jury duty and I got picked for jury slecteion but was not selected. I wasn't even in the group that got questioned. I wanted to pretend I was racist

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I don't need jury duty for that.

Pet_Sounds · 03-21-2017, 01:27 PM

I'm picking up coding in my spare time. Here's my JavaScript masterpiece:

innerspaceboy · 03-21-2017, 09:07 PM

I accepted the job offer today! Very excited about my new career in IT. There will be much to learn, like proprietary software and troubleshooting techniques, but more importantly, it will challenge me to be more social, with both clients and working in a team of 8-10 professional peers.

That, and the added bonus of not working for an a**hat bible thumper.

I'm really looking forward to it!

rostasi · 03-21-2017, 09:21 PM

"Have you tried turning it off and on again?"

Justthefacts · 03-21-2017, 10:38 PM

Went to work for the first time in 11 days today. I didn't remember shit. Not to mention I was late for hours before showing up because i'm a jackass. Thank baby Jesus this song got me through this

Lucem Ferre · 03-22-2017, 12:18 AM

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Originally Posted by rostasi

"Have you tried turning it off and on again?"

I used to work in Geek Squad. That used to work a lot.

Chula Vista · 03-22-2017, 12:47 PM

Just got a settlement offer from Megacorp (MC) that the Chinese Factory (CF) pre-approved.

What a freaking insult and slap in the face to my company (DB). Brief recap:

Over the course of 16 years DB designed and developed a hugely successful line of commercial speakers for MC. 18 unique models. The original 6 models that went into production back in 1998 have become the industry standards and still sell in huge numbers today.

We put all of this business into CF and estimate that it's resulted in DB placing orders of over $50 million in sales to CF through the years. MC has probably had sales of upwards of a quarter of a billion dollars over the same time period.

Back in the spring of 2014 MC met with CF and told them they wanted to cut DB out so they could save a little money. CF would also be able to make more money off of the deal. In september 2014 CF simply stopped shipping product that we had ordered and started selling it direct to MC.

- Our sales dropped 85% overnight since CF also stopped shipping our products for other customers too.
- Annual sales went from about $8 million down to $1.2 million.
- In about 8 months DB went from 35 employees down to 3.
- We had to break out lease on our office building and liquidate all of our assets at huge losses.
- I had to take a 30% pay cut. Linda lost an awesome job so it's really hurt us personally.
- CF and MC are using our designs and trade secrets. MC broke California laws by interfering with a business relationship.
- We can only afford 2 lawyers.
- Both CF and MC have been using a couple of worldwide firms that employ dozens of lawyers all over the world.

This is what MC offered for totally destroying a 40 year old family owned business.

Half a million up front of which 50% has to be paid out to CF. Then 2.5% of their purchases of the systems we designed for the next 5 years. And we have to turn over all of our trade secrets and intellectural property to them.

We figure that the 2.5% would equal about $1.5 million total over 5 years. At least it's an easy decision to tell them to **** off.

TL;DR

Just got butt ****ed.

The Batlord · 03-23-2017, 02:32 PM

I generally get along with my fellow BK employees, but sometimes I'm viscerally reminded of how far apart our respective worlds really are. Today's example was the girl working drive-thru asking our manager, in all seriousness, "Is Germany a country?"

Why are people this ignorant allowed to vote? Surely no one is better off for it.

WWWP · 03-23-2017, 02:42 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

Why are people this ignorant allowed to vote? Surely no one is better off for it.

The powers at be certainly benefit from keeping America uneducated. Easier to control and all that.

Chula Vista · 03-23-2017, 03:13 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

Why are people this ignorant allowed to vote?

**** that, why are they allowed to touch my food?

03-21-2017, 01:27 PM	#43562 (permalink)
Pet_Sounds Remember the underscore Join Date: Feb 2014 Location: The other side Posts: 2,488	I'm picking up coding in my spare time. Here's my JavaScript masterpiece: __________________ Everybody's dying just to get the disease Last edited by Pet_Sounds; 02-24-2018 at 03:18 PM.

03-22-2017, 12:47 PM	#43567 (permalink)
Chula Vista Toasted Poster Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: SoCal by way of Boston Posts: 11,332	Just got a settlement offer from Megacorp (MC) that the Chinese Factory (CF) pre-approved. What a freaking insult and slap in the face to my company (DB). Brief recap: Over the course of 16 years DB designed and developed a hugely successful line of commercial speakers for MC. 18 unique models. The original 6 models that went into production back in 1998 have become the industry standards and still sell in huge numbers today. We put all of this business into CF and estimate that it's resulted in DB placing orders of over $50 million in sales to CF through the years. MC has probably had sales of upwards of a quarter of a billion dollars over the same time period. Back in the spring of 2014 MC met with CF and told them they wanted to cut DB out so they could save a little money. CF would also be able to make more money off of the deal. In september 2014 CF simply stopped shipping product that we had ordered and started selling it direct to MC. - Our sales dropped 85% overnight since CF also stopped shipping our products for other customers too. - Annual sales went from about $8 million down to $1.2 million. - In about 8 months DB went from 35 employees down to 3. - We had to break out lease on our office building and liquidate all of our assets at huge losses. - I had to take a 30% pay cut. Linda lost an awesome job so it's really hurt us personally. - CF and MC are using our designs and trade secrets. MC broke California laws by interfering with a business relationship. - We can only afford 2 lawyers. - Both CF and MC have been using a couple of worldwide firms that employ dozens of lawyers all over the world. This is what MC offered for totally destroying a 40 year old family owned business. Half a million up front of which 50% has to be paid out to CF. Then 2.5% of their purchases of the systems we designed for the next 5 years. And we have to turn over all of our trade secrets and intellectural property to them. We figure that the 2.5% would equal about $1.5 million total over 5 years. At least it's an easy decision to tell them to ** off. TL;DR Just got butt *ed. __________________ “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.” Last edited by Chula Vista; 03-22-2017 at 01:03 PM.*

03-21-2017, 09:21 PM	#43564 (permalink)
rostasi . Join Date: Aug 2012 Posts: 4,007	"Have you tried turning it off and on again?"