A myth propagated by employers to ensure that employees are self-enslaving.

Some of my favourite weasel-words are:

'Competitive' in the sense of fighting a losing battle against a stronger opponent.
'Exciting Opportunity' means really shitty rate/wage with mind-numbing conditions.
'Market rate' == intangible amount dictated by our opinion.

I'm impressed by the many strategies used to trick initiates into looking away from salary for intangible benefits that cannot be exchanged for food.

NEVER GO INTO PUBLIC SECTOR WORK

The word 'WORK' is misleading when applied to the public sector. Standing around the coffee machine wearing sandals / stroking your beard whilst openly counting the minutes until your three-hour shift ends doesn't count as work. Just saying; a never-ending supply of free money, no competition, standards, oversight, penalties for poor performance or indeed a a requirement to complete projects does little incentivize 'staff' to wake from their dream that often.

Anyone?

laws are for poor people

I can't understand why I'm sensing an element of sarcasm with respect to something that is clearly accurate.

How do we distinguish between what you are calling intent to cause homicide and intent to cause serious upset/inconvenience using SWAT ?

Please; are they still calling it the justice system? How is schmoozing around a coffee machine making deals with other people's lives justice?

So... SWAT have such momentum that they can't be stopped easily once in their flow?

Lol

Regardless of the extent to which everyone gets a six-figure bonus rather than jail, any company publicly associated with this is gonna lose market share. Let's hope there's some kind of mainstream reporting of the details along the lines of 'look what these corrupt fuckers are up to again, *sigh*'

Disclaimer: not that I've read the detail nor agree with whatever was/wasn't said.

to separate one's well-being and financial security from the whims and control of others.

The music industry shouldn't have been an industry in the first place.
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