I once saw a guy get fired at a pizza place I worked at for giving a customer 8 breadsticks instead of 6, and it actually fucked up his life pretty badly. And yet these guys can just light enormous piles of money on fire and they’re still the most powerful and influential people on the planet 🥴 - ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

birdrespecter.bsky.social • 1 day ago

I once saw a guy get fired at a pizza place I worked at for giving a customer 8 breadsticks instead of 6, and it actually fucked up his life pretty badly. And yet these guys can just light enormous piles of money on fire and they’re still the most powerful and influential people on the planet 🥴

Reposted from Ed Zitron

Happy to help. Nothing happened. Everyone pretended like it didn't happen. It's almost entirely gone. Horizon World somehow exists. $45bn basically disappeared into a black hole owed to "lack of a clear vision and mismanagement." Who knows what happened!

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elindbloom.bsky.social•1 day ago

adamboyle.bsky.social•1 day ago

To be fair who hasn’t squandered 45 bil on Java applet level graphics

vought.bsky.social•1 day ago

Can Mark blame this one on Sheryl? Oooops.

eyeharthomonyms.bsky.social•1 day ago

Why blame anyone when there are never any repercussions anyway? Might as well stare down the shareholders and light a cigar with a stock certificate.

timbermunki.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Is it tumbrel o’clock yet?

cspansnark.bsky.social•1 day ago

Oligarchy has its privileges. #breakUpBigTech

cv-danes.com•1 day ago

It is quite possible that Zuckerberg is not all that smart.

mykidsmombb8.bsky.social•1 day ago

This⬆️

maxguymax.bsky.social•1 day ago

Don’t worry he’ll soon have the job in the coal mine he desperately wants. We all want to be in the mines. I can’t wait.

samvega.bsky.social•1 day ago

When the ultrarich squander money then it's definitely not going to be used to feed poor children. Allowing money to be distributed to the neediest is the true crime, is it not?

birdrespecter.bsky.social•1 day ago

His logic was pretty sound too, not all breadsticks were the same size so he just filled the bag to the top each time. That’s a reasonable thing to do especially when you’re like 19!!!

smarmyeod.bsky.social•1 day ago

OTOH, his job was to put six breadsticks into the bag & theirs was to gamble 45B.

🤷🏻‍♂️

Not saying that it’s fair or rational.

einfachanders.bsky.social•1 day ago

Those breadsticks add up. He probably cost the restaurant upwards of tens of dollars.

acidhydra.bsky.social•1 day ago

liked this on reaction, then unliked it as i read, then reliked it as i finished the sentence. rollercoaster type reply

buckrawheat.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's the kind of shit that will also get you a loyal customer base if you're not a weird asshole owner/manager about every little penny

whitgouhlam.bsky.social•1 day ago

I've worked places where well off people have actively gone out of their way to try and get service workers fired for the most minor mistake.

Rules for them and different rules for us.

ohmyyy.bsky.social•1 day ago

scott galloway comes to mind.
markets himself as caring about the younger generations....at the same time is anti-union because they are "inefficient"....and in the next breath is bragging about the wealth he gains and loses through his fingers...most of that being other ppl's money

eyeharthomonyms.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's absolutely mind boggling to me but I've still heard people say "CEOs deserve such high pay because they're taking risks" and it makes me want to put that person at immediate risk.

Those people have never risked anything substantial in their lives.

vaylonkenadell.bsky.social•1 day ago

Luigi Mangione has made CEOs rethink their concept of risk.

Not in the military. Not on anyone's radar. Just calm, practiced, targeted execution of an evil piece of shit.

(Not that I wish to lionize Mangione, who is apparently a right-winger, but I must admit he's gotten results.)

bigcheddarss.bsky.social•1 day ago

Luigi doesn’t seem to have actually been right wing. He was just a college dude reading widely and seriously considering a broad range of topics. I think his actions speak to at the very least broadly left wing beliefs, at least when it comes to healthcare.

vaylonkenadell.bsky.social•1 day ago

Is that so? I didn't know that; from what I initially read, I gathered he was a right-wing dudebro.

I'll have to re-evaluate my opinion on him.

p4wst.bsky.social•1 day ago

People kinda have to understand that the vast majority of Americans just have incomprehensible political views only mapped to their personal experiences.

shinikage221.bsky.social•1 day ago

Meanwhile if I lost the company $45,000,000,000 they'd find a way to skin me alive

giddygirlie.bsky.social•1 day ago

I know someone who got fired for being 3 minutes late AND the boss gave him negative references (it’s only libel if you can prove it) which made it super hard to find a new job. And that’s like a white collar corporate job where nothing was “lost” by 3 minutes of tardiness but wrecked that guys life

ketracelblack.bsky.social•1 day ago

Once got fired for telling a senior baker she was slowing down production by underbaking every recipe by 15 degrees. She was so mad she told the boss it was my fault 🙃

benjaminharnett.com•1 day ago

Once you hit a certain level you cannot fail, only be failed.

whisperingpines.bsky.social•1 day ago

I wish I was bad enough at making video games to get some of that $46 billion dollars

largefailson.bsky.social•1 day ago

no war but class war

ams1701.bsky.social•1 day ago

It was prolly the lap dances. Those add up really quick...and then boom 45 billion dollar bill.

ams1701.bsky.social•1 day ago

Seriously who hasn't lost 45 billion. It can happen, you go check your balance at your ATM it seems fine, then you go on a vacation, and then I don't know... it's just gone.

berfield.com•1 day ago

Reality Labs had some brilliant engineers and some of the dumbest management I've ever seen.

merlyngabriel.bsky.social•1 day ago

I understand the French Revolution more and more.

wolfp10.bsky.social•1 day ago

Feels like years since FB/Meta did anything new and exciting.

jachra.bsky.social•1 day ago

Have they ever?

littledramaboy.bsky.social•1 day ago

I wonder what the markup % on those breadsticks is

bluemancoop.bsky.social•1 day ago

If that was in Tacoma can you drop the place so I can never go there again?

blobrights.bsky.social•1 day ago

I get job trauma, Enol gets a 14th kid

hazyrecollection.bsky.social•1 day ago

I worked at a grocery store that had a deli employee arrested at work for taking home leftover cut lunch meat at the end of the day instead of throwing it in the garbage. She had 5 kids and earned minimum wage.

6 lives upended over 3/4 of a pound of ham.

6sidedgames.bsky.social•1 day ago

I got fired for telling a client we wouldn't do an illegal thing that would cost them 100k every call we made.

Let me repeat.
*I got fired for not doing something illegal and saving them literally millions of dollars in fines.*

alexander001a.bsky.social•1 day ago

Easy: These people have their interest representation in the government: lobbyists... the pizza worker does not: unions. This is why unions are important for the working class, which are over 97% of us in the U.S. .

shake1n1bake.bsky.social•1 day ago

Explaining Privilege as "who is allowed to make mistakes" doesn't fully encompass it, but covers a lot.

smithbrainz.bsky.social•1 day ago

Damn. This right here.

smithbrainz.bsky.social•1 day ago

Who gets to make the biggest, most expensive & egregious mistakes repeatedly & have everyone twist themselves like Gumby to excuse them…vs who pays the highest penalties for the smallest blips regardless of what or why.

janetheghost.bsky.social•1 day ago

One of my first jobs was working in a deli, and we threw away a really outrageous amount of food every day. But management was insistent that we *had to* throw it away, so much so that one of my coworkers was fired for taking a rotisserie chicken off the trash cart. Mandatory waste.

metraeccentric.bsky.social•1 day ago

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janetheghost.bsky.social•1 day ago

It was wild, though. We had to keep the rotisserie chicken station visibly full at all times, because people are weirdos and will assume that, if there's only a couple chickens on the stand, then those must be the bad ones, all the good ones were taken already. So we made them in huge batches/

janetheghost.bsky.social•1 day ago

Regardless of whether or not they were selling, and once they'd been out for a certain amount of time, they had to be pulled and thrown away. I get that they couldn't be sold anymore, that was probably a health code thing, but they were still perfectly edible. No one would have been harmed if/

janetheghost.bsky.social•1 day ago

My coworker had taken one home with him, instead of throwing it in the trash compactor. But they fired him on the spot.

janetheghost.bsky.social•1 day ago

Oh and the exact same logic applied to the fried foods. Enormous, constant waste.

maliwaka.bsky.social•1 day ago

some food charities in larger cities collect and redistribute product like that to shelters, etc, but of course that likely hasnt been scaled in general.

in a way, its like how excess crops were sold into usaid. alas, usaid.

chel-c-cam.bsky.social•1 day ago

A relative of mine was fired for “stealing” too much change from the Give a Penny cup at the grocery store to help customers make change.