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A Black man got a job interview after he changed the name on his resume. Now, he’s suing for discrimination | CNN in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] -1 points 3 days ago

We are doing fine, I wasn’t crying about anything. Read my original post which you and everyone else has failed to engage with.

Completely unrelated, most other small businesses are struggling because mega corps engage in collusion and price fixing, and also their volume allows them to take smaller margins and gives them better costs, which makes it hard for small businesses to compete.

A small business putting a sign in the window is not awful behavior, you are attacking a straw man.

Sounds like you have no idea what it’s like working retail in 2024.

A Black man got a job interview after he changed the name on his resume. Now, he’s suing for discrimination | CNN in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

Not meticulously including every minute detail is not lying. Call it a lie by omission if you want to, but you and everyone else here so far has completely missed the point.

If I knew my original point was going to be ignored and everyone was going to swoop down on this one detail which was not even relevant to the point I was making, I would have used a completely different example altogether.

I may not have been specific enough for you on my companies hiring practices, but you have completely ignored my point and everyone here picking apart the sign on the door has strawmaned my point so hard that I haven’t once yet engaged with someone on the original point.

A Black man got a job interview after he changed the name on his resume. Now, he’s suing for discrimination | CNN in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

As I said in a previous comment, I used the phrase ‘now hiring’ for brevity because the point I was making was not particularly about this method of managing the constant inflow of applicants.

After that inaccuracy proved to cause a half dozen of you to freak out, I specified the full verbiage ‘always accepting resumes, see staff for details’

I understand the difference but I didn’t foresee that being a catalyst for this detraction from the original point I was trying to make.

My intention, believe it or not, was not to stir shit. I had a point originally that had nothing to do with our now hiring, excuse me, accepting resumes sign. People here just latched on to that one detail and picked it a part without addressing my original point and the conversation went pear shaped.

A Black man got a job interview after he changed the name on his resume. Now, he’s suing for discrimination | CNN in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] -1 points 3 days ago

It’s more so that the constant supply of people who want to work for us have a system they can follow to have a chance to get hired. We hire about 1 out of every few hundred applicants. We hired two people in the last three years and accepted hundreds of emailed resumes.

The resumes come in regardless of the sign on the door because of the high demand, hanging the sign on the door directs people to email it rather than submit a paper copy.

It also directs people to talk directly with the staff so that they can understand that it’s very unlikely we will be calling them anytime soon.

When someone has to quit, it is usually because of extenuating circumstances, someone dying or some other major life event, so we want to be prepared to not ask the employee to have to work out the two weeks notice that they always want to offer. It’s nice to say, “thanks for your hours over the years, take your last two weeks as paid vacation, we have someone ready to replace you”

This happens maybe once per year and we haven’t fired someone in maybe 5 years.

You and the rest of the people I am talking with here have no idea how a good business operates and only want to assume the worst. I agree that capitalism = bad, but there is some nuance that should be understood before shouting your uninformed opinions from the rooftops.

A Black man got a job interview after he changed the name on his resume. Now, he’s suing for discrimination | CNN in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] -1 points 3 days ago

What lie? We tell all applicants that we aren’t actively hiring but we will reach out to the most recent resumes if/when we need someone.

There is high demand to work for us, so we have a system for all the people who keep asking for a job.

We have tried it without a sign on the door as well and we still get a ton of applicants. We just would rather people email the resumes instead of leaving a physical copy.

A Black man got a job interview after he changed the name on his resume. Now, he’s suing for discrimination | CNN in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

The people that are emailing us their resume each month know that it might be 6 months or a year before we call them, we are super transparent about that.

A lot of people want to work for us and we only have a limited number of positions which do not turn over very often.

We generally only accept emailed resumes, not paper resumes.

A Black man got a job interview after he changed the name on his resume. Now, he’s suing for discrimination | CNN in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

If they really want to work there, basically they have to get in line. It may be 6 months or a year before we call because we don’t have very much turnover.

A Black man got a job interview after he changed the name on his resume. Now, he’s suing for discrimination | CNN in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

That’s not what we do

A Black man got a job interview after he changed the name on his resume. Now, he’s suing for discrimination | CNN in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] -4 points 4 days ago

We have super low turnover. We accept resumes, how is that shenanigans? Y’all are a bunch of raging idiots

A Black man got a job interview after he changed the name on his resume. Now, he’s suing for discrimination | CNN in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] -5 points 4 days ago

Yea I know, and when we hire them we take good care of them. What’s the problem?

A Black man got a job interview after he changed the name on his resume. Now, he’s suing for discrimination | CNN in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] -5 points 4 days ago

When the job becomes available, you won’t get the call because your resume will be put in the ‘do not call’ pile.

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Here's another one not as hard as the other one I posted (lemmy.world)

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You have six buckets all lined up in a row.

The first three are filled with rocks and the second three are empty, so the starting pattern is ‘full full full empty empty empty’.

You are only allowed to touch/move one bucket and for the one bucket you touch, you are only allowed to touch it one time.

How do you make it so that the order of the buckets becomes ‘full empty full empty full empty’?

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Here is one of the few good and hard riddles I know (lemmy.world)

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The year is 1985. You are on the ground floor of a four-story building. On the top floor there is a lightbulb. On the ground floor with you there are three light switches. All three switches are connected to electricity but only one of the switches controls the lightbulb on the top floor - the other two switches are not connected to anything.

You cannot go outside, there is no one helping you, and most importantly, you can only go up to the top floor one time to check.

How do you determine with absolute certainty which of the three switches controls the lightbulb?

If this post gets any traction I’ll post the answer.

The answer involves no wordplay, is not cheesy or impossible to figure out… just use logic and you should be able to come up with the correct answer.

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4 week follow up (lemmy.world)

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Following up on my ‘Day 4’ post, today is four full weeks. The 14mg nicotine patch is the answer that works for me. Some days I put it on first thing in the morning, other days I wait until noon. A few days I have waited until 4pm. I take it off right before I fall asleep because if I forget to take it off, I have super intense dreams. I have taken precisely zero puffs off a vape pen. My heart and lungs feel significantly better. I have started exercising and I really feel like I will be off the patches soon.

I am switching to 7mg patches tomorrow. I have read that it is a mistake to stop using patches too soon so I am going to do the 7mg for at least a month. If I start thinking about vaping too much, I’ll switch back to 14mg patches.

I’ll give another update in a few weeks to report on the transition from 14mg patches to 7mg patches.

If anyone reading this is considering quitting vaping or smoking, get the patches and throw everything else away. The patches eliminate strong cravings, and the occasional craving you do get is totally manageable. At least this is the case for me, and I was consuming around 1-2 packs of smokes per day worth of nicotine since I was a teenager.

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Day 4 (lemmy.world)

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I’m 36 and started smoking at age 12. I was over a pack a day for most of those years. I switched to vaping about 7 years ago. I have been going through about 1.5 - 2 pods a day (1.9ml 2.4%)… I believe this is equal to about 70+ mg of nicotine per day though my math could be off.

My lungs hurt, my heart palpitates, I can’t climb a flight of stairs without being out of breath. Sometimes I think I am about to have a heart attack yet for some reason I can’t stop puffing that vape, even in the midst of a panic attack caused by heart palpitations.

Switching from combustibles to vape was a big step for me. I was proud/happy to not smell like smoke but I didn’t realize just how much more nicotine I would end up consuming. Switching to vape was not too difficult and after a few years I could honestly say I didn’t want a regular cigarette anymore. I did however become horribly addicted to the vape.

The past few years I have given a lot of thought to quitting but I keep putting it off. It’s a sad and depressing cycle of hating myself for how much damage I am doing to my health, while constantly puffing away on the vape.

It doesn’t help that I have unlimited access to free vapes.

4 days ago I made the decision to quit and I am feeling really motivated. I took a sleeping pill to get me through the first 24 hours, which I think was a good strategy. On day 2 I bought some ‘step 2’ nicotine patches. These patches are 14mg slow release over 24 hours. Instructions say to keep the patch on overnight but I have been taking them off, and waiting as long as I can in the morning to put a new one on.

The patch reduces the severity of the cravings. The cravings still occur, but they are manageable. I have noticed that the cravings come in clusters. I’ll get a real strong craving, that lasts for about two minutes. That initial wave of fear and anxiety tapers off but then comes back 5 minutes later. This happens 4 or 5 times over the course of a half hour or so, then a few hours go by without any craving at all. Day 3 was easier than day 2, day 4 has been easier than day 3.

I am determined to see this through to the end. I see the light at the end of the tunnel. I plan to go another 3 weeks or so, then switch to the 7mg patch.

It’s amazing how significant the impact has been on my lungs. I feel like I have twice the lung capacity compared with how I felt yesterday. My heartbeat is normal, my breathing is normal. It’s weird how quick and significant the changes have been. I really like how it feels to not have a constant nicotine poisoning. This feeling is very much worth the short bursts of crippling withdrawal, and I know it will get easier.

Not sure if anyone will read this, but I’ll try to update in a week or two. I’m also happy to answer any questions.