Not to bitch about free food -- free food is good food -- but I've noticed the workforce uses food as a bandaid to cover more glaring absences like pay and benefits.

I've worked in a small handful of different industries prior to settling in healthcare, and it was (and still is) a recurring pattern: the jobs that had the best fringe benefits had the worst actual benefits. I'm positive there are exceptions to this on both ends of the spectrum, but it does prompt the question: are you not getting shit because your corp compensates you well enough that they don't need to bother with fringe shit? Or are you not getting shit because they fall on that worst-of-both-worlds end of the spectrum?

If it's the latter, start updating that resume.

As the a restaurant manager who has looked at the date of an event, looked at the actual date, then looked at the date of the event again, looked at the sheet he gave the kitchen, looked at the extra servers on the schedule who were about to come in, looked back at the date, looked back at the email, realized that its the 25th and not the 18th, then had to go into the kitchen where several people are prepping for that event and have to lie to everyone "hey, they had to cancel and move it to next week. Don't worry we can just do whatever with the food, they understand and are basically paying twice"

Yea, but I did set the fire, so...

I restrained myself from burning down neighbor's house, so technically yes?

Most fire fighters haven't either 😀

Fun story: A car was on fire and both surrounding stations rocketed over since it was the first real fire in forever. A passing water truck had already put it out. The firefighters were furious, as most of them only get to do anything in training.

It's about the mindset and intent of wanting to save, not just the act itself.

Hey! Guys! It’s our turn for treats!

our fd mandated no speed bumps on a street that was becoming really popular with shitbags racing up and down saying they would destroy firetruck suspension.

we're 4 blocks deep in a neighborhood why they want to race around here is beyond me in the first place. and the city didn't have a problem with the same street having a speed bump on the other side of the green-belt... it's so fucking arbitrary

I'm just randomly reading along and I don't think YOU would make this up, but I could totally see the city staff making shit up to cover their laziness and incompetence. Even if the fire department is seeing safety access problems with, for instance, safer bike lanes, it seems to me that's an inadequate design proposal by the city planning office. It's even possible it was designed to fail, in order to avoid spending money on it. Getting some cyclists and firefighters to work together would probably produce a better solution. No need to include a specific motor vehicle representative, we all have a certain degree of car-brain. But you should include someone who knows about disability access.