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[–] [email protected] 16 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Hey when I was a kid I loved any chance to escape kid jail.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago

Well, we have an adult version for you to try escaping.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (2 children)

I find the inclusion of the word "ass" here extraneous.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Monday Thursday Wednesday Assday Friday Saturday Sunday

[–] [email protected] 7 points 21 hours ago (9 children)

Am I missing something? Why is Thursday after Monday?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 21 hours ago

What calendar do you use where Thursday occurs before Monday in the week?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 20 hours ago

Extraneous ass word.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 19 hours ago

I guess I never thought about it, but my job technically does this once/month as we have an off-site day and it usually involves doing things that normally aren't open to the public.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (4 children)

My first day at my new job a month ago, we all loaded onto a bus and took a guided tour of campus. Had lunch at the cafeteria, stopped for ice cream. It really felt like a field trip.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

One great thing about working at a big tech company is that they would give us field trips. Like, legit, we’re all gonna go play at the Imaginarium kind of field trips.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

All of our proposed work field trips sucked so hard, everyone revolted.

Idea one: There was a bizarre "corporate leadership conference" which was a bunch of weird conservative motivational speakers that were on tour across middle America. No one aside from the two asshats who proposed it wanted to go after learning the details.

Idea two: Our two department managers decided that a canoe trip would be a great way to bond as a group. It sounded fun until anyone put an ounce of thought into it. Since the managers didn't want to do any planning, we were all given vague tasks. Like, "lunch." And "portage at the roller dam." I was one of the two in charge of lunch. WTF? Do we figure out a place to stop mid-way and eat at a restaurant? Am I bringing a cooler of hotdogs? Does Steve bring a grill? Can there be beer? (NO)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago

I don’t think they understood the purpose. xD

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Same for great literature.

I wonder if the fact we push these amazing stories on high school kids, before they have any capacity to resonate with them, is resulting in less appreciation for the literature than would exist if we didn’t push it at all.

Like, I read The Grapes of Wrath as a teenager and quite simply didn’t feel it. I mean I felt it a little, but not the way I would now after just grinding through poverty for decades.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (9 children)

It does the opposite. It makes kids resent reading if all they have to read is stuff they are not interested in. My worst experience to this day is still reading Madame Bovary.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

try calling the chief of facilities at any nearby industrial place and ask for a walk through. they'd be proud and happy to, unless its a national security type place. if you ask good questions dont be surprised if they offer you a job. often union.

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