Lol I love it when this happens- title actually fit this time (just my app being silly btw, nothing to worry about on your end)
i love looking at old pictures of people pointing at signs and imagining them making that wojack face
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In my story, he was not really fired. But a new hire in my company was handed his computer. Seeing it was on Windows, he asked to work on Linux instead. IT told him that Windows was mandatory so he resigned on the spot.
Based af, but he didn’t even enjoy the burrito he ordered for lunch :(
I wish I had the half the resolve of that man. I had the choice between two evils, windows and mac, which resulted in me getting a mac, mostly out of curiosity. I hate it
When I joined up at my current job, they asked whether I wanted a Linux or Mac laptop. I, of course, took the Linux laptop. The recruiter laughed and said “no one ever picks Mac.”
Now Macs are the only option because the IT department doesn’t want to run any tool other than JAMF.
What boggles my mind is one of the execs who was there long before I was. He selected a Mac, then used Parallels to run Windows on it.
I also use a mac at work after being offered a choice between that and Windows. I hate it. But the MacBook Pro they provide is objectively more powerful than the HP windows laptops they provide, so here I am.
There’s a famous story at my job about this.
The hiring team kept saying they had trouble finding designers and developers because nobody wants to work on a Windows computer.
And the owner went. “So why are we forcing everyone to use windows?”
And then one department pointed fingers at another, to another, to another. Apparently a decade ago, some IT dude got Microsoft kickbacks and left the company. The next month, the whole “Microsoft” rule faded away and now my department is running Linux laptops, the designers and devs have their macs, and the accountants are using windows.
Yeah, the guy in my story was to be a developer as well. Clearly it’s way more confortable to work on Linux. The justification in my company is that the security protocols are already built for Windows so they don’t want to redo the job on Linux. Handling to OS’ would increase their work load.
Sounds like a man who has never been so disgusted in his life.
I mean seriously what an idiotic thing to resign over. Almost every single court environment is Windows only. Most of them very rarely have Linux exceptions. Some of them might have an Apple exception but usually that’s only for executives. I mean unless he was a dab or something like that in which case it’s a little bit more acceptable. But not by much.
on one hand it’s easy enough to just run Linux on a VM if that’s what you want to use. On the other, I think an element some might forget is that most new hires were also applying for other jobs at the same time and often have other offers live on the table.
Good point, and just as they can fire you at little to no notice during probation, you can leave quickly too.
Seems like something you ask at the interview stage if you’re that committed to Linux.
Lol in my 20 years working in IT and IT security every desktop/laptop was windows except sometimes the people who needed to do graphics things (marketing) who were on MACs. Sure we had plenty of servers on linux, but standard for end points was always Windows. And every IT was sad that that’s the state of affairs but accepted it. I’ve hated Windows since 95 and been on Linux since one of the first Slackware versions (it was at a time when to have floppy disk support you had to recompile the kernel), but you have to adapt to your environment or else you refuse maybe 99% of the jobs out there.
I used to work in a large fishing ship as an engineer, there I became an atheist. Once there was a huge storm and we had to balance the ship to make sure it wouldnt roll, the guy who had to do it was praying and didnt have time to balance it, we almost died because he had mandatory pray time. From than we had a rule that there is no religion on the ship, once we come back to land than you can believe.
From what I hear of Islam on e.g. fasting it tends to be quite a practical religion. I’d not be surprised if that guy could in fact have not been praying at that moment and still stuck to all the teachings of his religion.
Yeah this is not at all how praying works in Islam. Of course you don’t pray if you’re practically unable to do so safely.
It is also considered a sin if you choose to fast under circumstances that put your health in danger.
Apparently (I’m not a scholar but was curious) in dire situations that require immediate action they could’ve prayed while helping out, even shortening it out as long as the short (verbal?) prayer is done in honesty and the situation absolutely demands it. Apparently it’s even outright disallowed to not safe yourself or others during life-and-death situations even if it prevents you from the mandatory prayer because preserving people’s lifes and your own tops those rules, at least that’s what I read so far. If that boat story is actually true that person probably was a dipshit who happened to break his own religion’s rules.
Also looked up fasting: There seems to be even more leeway on that. Just do it later if you can’t do it right now due to illness or similar, or pay “fidyah” (give poor people money for food). Though I’m kinda curious how it’s handled when someone is too old to fast but also poor as fuck, not a situation where you’d want to also feel guilty about this.
There are different disciplines in that religion
Sure. I’m skeptical that any of those disciplines except perhaps extremely minor, strict ones teach that you have to continue praying, in your knees, in an emergency.
There’s a literal exception for when travelling
i’ll be damned, prayer does work
Worked in a lab where this lady sat down to read some SOPs and within an hour said “I’m not feeling it” and quit in that moment.
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I used to work nights at a factory and I remember one time we watched the expected new employee walk in the door, clock in, then immediately walk back out. Never saw them again.
Nobody gets a jackoff closet. But no one ever asks for that.
Why need a closet when you could wank at work?
No way am I clicking that link. 😣
It’s YT, so it’s mostly safe!
It’s also an old British sketch show clip.
It’s YT, so it’s mostly safe!
This hasn’t been a valid default assumption for quite a while, unfortunately. You can absolutely link some vile things on YouTube.
Idk the cook at my old work just used the changeroom as his jackoff closet. He did ask to borrow people’s smartphones.
Earn your own office and close the door. Ez.
I guess some prayers get answered.
This is truly a pathetic country.
We don’t know this was in America, there are so many pathetic countries to choose from!
How do you know the person you responded to was referring to America? there are so many pathetic countries to choose from!
Because they assumed it was a specific country based on nothing, that’s something I’ve only seen Americans do. I mean the spirit is there, don’t get me wrong.
You assumed him assuming? :D
We don’t know this was in America,
Where else can you both fire someone on the spot and sue for religious discrimination?
Australia, you can fire pretty easily depending on contracts, and definitely get sued for religious discrimination.
I know someone who got his dream job in Brazil. His plane landed and he asked his local host where he can get some halal lunch. He was told that there didn’t seem to be any halal food options in the city that’s the host knew of. Guy got on a same day flight and flew back home. This was 20 years ago.
Left the dream job? Bro, just cook at home. Damn.
If they’re eating halal for reasons they dont seek to change (religious or otherwise) it can be extremely difficult to “cook at home” because you need to secure halal food sources, which if there aren’t even any restaurants with halal food, it may be extremely difficult to secure halal ingredients
Fish, seafood, fruits, vegetables, grains, nuts, legumes like rice, wheat, beans, and lentils … all default halal, no?
I have no idea. Wikipedia says
Made, produced, manufactured, processed, and stored using machinery, equipment, and/or utensils that have been cleaned according to Islamic law (shariah).
i don’t know enough about Islamic law to say whether or not are default halal. They could be. I dunno!
I think that seafood is basically the same as with Kosher… so you can only eat things from the sea that have both fins and scales. Or is it gills and scales?
I worked with a Muslim in Amsterdam who ordered vegetarian because he was pretty sure it would be Halal. That was 20 years ago, so maybe he’d have an easier time eating non-vegetarian now? I see lots of Halal signs in restaurant windows, but who knows?
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Its not just cooking style, it starts with how the animal is butchered IIRC
If I got my dream job and it required me to be a pescatarian, vegetarian, or vegan: my diet would change immediately.
I get liking meat but damn.
If your job asked you to eat dog would you do it?
Because thas what your asking.
Halal isn’t a preference, its a standard for how meat is killed and prepared all the way to your food to your plate.
That’s a very poor strawman analogy.
A better analogy is, if your dream job said you could no longer eat steak or chicken, would you do it? If your dream job required you to eat a vegan or vegetarian diet, would you?
OP wasn’t suggesting that the person eat non-halal meat, they were suggesting they just don’t eat meat.
Yeah i missed that, but that’s still a huge ask of people, and they have the privilege of being able to do that…
The privilege of being vegetarian or vegan would probably increase the health of our society quite a bit, as well as our environment if everyone adopted that standard.
Either way: if I’m getting my dream job out of it I’ll go full vegan gluten free hard mode yo.
There’s a simple way to sidestep that issue
Give up your morals?
Eat a vegan diet, it’s halal
What city would that be? In São Paulo there’s plenty of halal restaurants, in Rio there’s a couple. In other parts of the country could be more difficult.
dream job in Brazil
he asked his local host where he can get some halal lunch
20 years ago
Was his dream job destroying a Democratic Nation?
No later than 2 weeks ago a new marketing guy thought the best thing once he got his laptop was to start a thread of memes on Teams with everybody. People were already leaving left and right when I started paying attention to it. Unfortunately for him, when he sent an animation of a cartoon character doing a nazi salute I called him out on it saying that’s not ok, the HR manager was still in the thread. Dude lasted half a day on this job.
Reminds me of that cop guy who got suspended because he shared that anime girl “Aww shit N” meme.
I was training a new hire. She was good, better than me in some respects.
But one day she came in and did no work, just sat there shaking… insisting she was fine.
Turns out she was tweaking, she came in high.
She was given a final warning but then she came high again and was fired.
A newly onboarded guy told everyone over lunch that the next day was going to be a bank holiday where he is from, so he won’t come in to work. We told him that it’s not a bank holiday around here. He became quite upset about this. Then the line manager got wind of that.
He didn’t turn up the next day… or on any day after that.Anybody who saw that happen and didn’t stop the firing absolutely deserved it.
I worked in phones a decade ago and a new hire that I thought was cool lasted a week. I got a callback from a foreign client that was just hung up on after being slurred and insulted for not speaking fluent English by the new guy. We had call recording. It was very awkward to have to tell my boss about it and unfuck the client relationship.
Allah doesn’t mess about.
