• GluWu@lemm.ee
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      10 days ago

      Sometimes I throw the chuck just to feel something.

      I’ve had several thousand deducted from my pay to fix the ceiling.

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        8 days ago

        Employee breaks something: loses money equal to the damage

        Employee makes something: gains money far below profits

        It’s amazing how easily capitalists understand the value you bring to the company… only when it’s negative.

    • Troy@lemmy.ca
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      10 days ago

      Oh definitely. However the warning joke appears to imply that even attempting to use it will alter you in some comic supervillain sense or something.

    • grue@lemmy.world
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      10 days ago

      I doubt the part of the statement before the “but,” not the part after it.