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Cake day: July 7th, 2023

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  • I talk to about 10 customers each day for no more than 30 minutes and 99% of the time it’s to fix something they messed up on. 30% of those people are jerks.

    Thankfully most of my job is NOT dealing with customers and I truly feel bad for people who have to deal with them in high volume each day.

    If I call them, I can fix it immediately, if they call in, enjoy the robot. So don’t be mean and the call won’t be disconnected (which I have permission to do fortunately)












  • Meijer is the only one that has their self checkout figured out. 2 different sections in my store with 10-12 checkout stations. So a minimum of 20 self check out stations open and they’re always open and working. They never give me the errors like Walmart and Kroger.

    Walmart might have 20 checkouts as well but half aren’t working or open plus there’s 3x the people at Walmart so there’s usually a 15 minute wait.

    Kroger is the worst with the errors. They might have 20 checkout stations but 5 might be open.

    Going to Walmart or Kroger is always a hassle. I avoid those 2 unless I need one or two items.

    Aldis and Meijer are my go to.




  • There’s a guy on one of my FB groups who peddles those one time fee cable boxes. His an absolute legend in the group. People are probably buying those things up in cities all around the world. I only use YouTube TV for about 3 months of the year and Hulu year around otherwise I’d probably buy one.

    Dude is probably going to get raided by the FBI at some point.

    I hope not because fuck the cable companies, Netflix, Amazon.

    Hulu’s a bro though.




  • It’s absolutely insane what they charge. Another example is an MRI

    I had an MRI done a few months back. I took probably max 30 minutes of the machine’s time. My bill was $5000. Fortunately insurance covered all but $200, but collectively it raises all of our insurance rates when a hospital charges $5000 for an hour test.

    I did some math. A new MRI is 1 million to 3 million dollars. We’ll go on the upper end of 3 million.

    Let’s say they do 8 MRIs a day.

    They make $40,000 a day per MRI A 5 day work week they bring in $200,000/week $800,00/ month

    That MRI is paid off in 4 months.

    I get there’s other expenses. Rent is a few thousand a month. The techs probably made $20 a piece while I was there. There’s definitely maintenance on the machines. But come on? $5,000 for an MRI?

    Let’s go a little deeper and see why the actual machines are so expensive. Are they actually that expensive or is GE, Siemens, Phillips making a huge markup?

    I don’t hate capitalism like a lot on here, but I believe our needs health, education, housing, electricity needs to be highly regulated and it should not be for profit.

    Also sorta unrelated but not really, but I love bringing up that Corporations should not own single family housing.