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Ooh, a sailboat!

I meant it to be private to HR, so I skimmed and hit submit while fuming.

It’s an unfortunately common misconception that HR is on the employee’s side and can be trusted, largely due to corporate propaganda and branding of the role as ‘human’ resources.

HR is only ever there to protect the company’s interests, full stop.

Yes, there is a chance that the company’s interests in a given situation may align with you’re, but that is more often than not a side effect and not their intended purpose. They’re looking to mitigate company liability for failing to agree to state/federal labor laws and regulations first and foremost. Even then they’ll often ‘misinterpret’ official language and policies if they can get away with it. Wage theft via clock in/out rounding times being a classic example.

Don’t ever make the mistake of thinking that a rant or complaint to HR is anonymous or will be kept private from managers or company leadership as it very rarely will. Same goes for ‘anonymous’ feedback and surveys of any type.

Also, in case you were unaware, if they’ve put you on a PIP, start job hunting now as they’ve openly stated their intent to build a case for termination.

This is one of the big issues with ‘drug dogs’; they’re conditioned to give false positives for rewards.

Those same false positives the serve as grounds for an otherwise illegal search and regardless of findings are often later presented as evidence in any resulting charges as a statement of fact that the ‘dog alerted’ on the victim to bypass an individuals 4th amendment rights.

My children attended this school until recently, it was initially a very good environment for a less factory-learning structure, especially for less conformist children; we moved them before the protests and responses were an alleged driving factor for relocating. There was already an exodus in progress once the protests were in full swing due to alarming turnover rates among the teaching staff throughout the year as well as multiple issues with the now-removed principal and much of the board (spoiler: lots of turnover there too).

The board (old and new) has consistently tried to operate behind closed doors, stifle parental/community input at meetings, and actively ignores their bylaws/rules/policies as it suits their interests. The meetings leading up to their announcing the move barely pretended to hold to posted agendas or consider the limited input they allowed.

General consensus among most parents that attended/participated board meetings recently was that they (board) were actively trying to spin an excuse to lease from Lundquist (guy that owns the ICE building) with many questioning if one or more members had personal/financial ties to him. Other facilities not mentioned in the article were aggressively dismissed by the board during meetings leading up to the announcement for arbitrary reasons without exploring remedies or workarounds to their declared obstacles, seemingly to create their “we only have two options” narrative they pushed in the article.

When they changed the CPI from a cost of goods index (COGI) To a cost of living index (COLI) it opened the doors to gaming the system and severely underreport the actual inflation rates.

Allowing/claiming ‘substitutions’ where buyers would allegedly just buy cheaper/off-brand good as prices rise lets reporting steadily claim discounts that aren’t actually there for many applications, especially when the reality is many consumers are already buying those same discounted versions of goods which are also rising in prices.

A COGI system on a specific fixed basket of goods shows the true increase in prices over time for those items, which is often a more accurate representation.

Another driver for them to use a COLI system is that the reported inflation rate also drives changes to social security payments, which translates to less funds for their crony capitalism.

Once again Oregon refuses to tax businesses or meaningfully shift the burden onto the heavy trucking industries which are demonstrated to cause considerably more damage to roads per mile than passenger cars.

Blue state indeed…

If only. At least Camacho listened to people on some level other than bribes and sycophants.

Can confirm

*Don’t rank…

I’ve got several Hue bulbs running through Zigbee2MQTT on HA.

No issues, easy setup, and annoyingly expensive but they have the temperature range my wife prefers.

Ikea’s smart bulbs are compatible without much effort (Home Assistant running Zigbee2MQTT). Much cheaper and widely available year round, only downside I’ve seen is the temperature range isn’t nearly as impressive as the white ambiance Hue bulbs.

Game recognizes game…

If you owe the bank a million dollars, you have a problem.

If you owe the bank a billion dollars, the bank has a problem.

If you owe the banks tens to hundreds of billions of dollars based upon hocus-pocus stock valuations and branding hype, a big chunk of the system has a problem.

Speak to them through the closed/locked door, DO NOT open the door or exit your home unless they are serving a warrant, at which point you should be asking to see it.

Stepping outside can potentially impact your protection under different interpretations of constitutional rights and also opens the doors to a litany of manufactured charges/claims from the police to justify entering the home or seizing individuals.

• They got aggressive and threatening and/or assaulted an officer.
• I saw ______ inside the home when they opened the door.
• I detected the scent/signs of ______.

Getting back into your house once outside is infinitely more likely to trigger the cops to escalate the situation compared to never exposing yourself to that rush by not opening the door to begin with.

Not to mention the garbage where somehow an officer can place their foot/body into the open doorway of you open the door at which point if you attempt to close the door they claim assaulting an officer.

Don’t open the door. Don’t go outside to speak with them. If they’ve got a warrant they’re not going to be asking.