Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@social.cleverlibre.org

@JonKramer @Pat There's a difference between being fired and choosing to quit/strike. In either of those examples, if the uber or truck driver decided to quit and just dumped their cargo/passenger where they were mid-route, yes, they should absolutely be liable for the harm that causes.

@JonKramer @Pat So a construction company employee going on strike should just leave the bulldozer running with the keys in? The frozen food truck driver can just turn off the truck and leave it somewhere to spoil the contents? The schoolteachers should quit and leave their classes unsupervised?

Concrete sets and does damage if not properly stored. Choosing to put it where they know it will cause damage before walking off without securing it is absolutely beyond simple striking.

Quitting/striking is legitimate. Kicking a hole in the wall on your way out steps over the line.

@JonKramer @Pat Okay, that article doesn't say what your OP says. It says they're liable for the damaged work product because they took affirmative steps to damage it (by loading their trucks and leaving it there) instead of safeguarding it.

That makes sense. If nuclear power plant workers walk off, they should be expected to shut it down first.

@geeksam Mages use visual graph languages while wizards use COBOL.
Blacksmiths use C# and innkeepers use Java.

The only thing government bureaucracy is efficient at is fucking up your day.

@breadandcircuses We basically already do. Plastics are just polymerized hydrocarbons. Both jet fuel and plastic come from the exact same source.

@breadandcircuses It's not just the "capitalists" that don't care. It's the general populace. We don't care where our bacon comes from as long as it's cheap and delicious and safe.

Fucking government, man. Won't even take the currency they themselves print. No, instead they force me to go to a private business to get a money order to pay them. Crazy.

Hey writers: If someone is a protagonist of your show/movie, don't make them a flagrant adulterer.

It doesn't give them depth or gray morality; it just makes them a terrible person that the audience can no longer root for.

@slightlyoff And that's before you get to the fact that most companies prefer to use it as an excuse to hire less-experienced talent for less money instead of as a tool to improve the end product's quality.

Now that's what I call a compromise.