people in the 23rd century reading it:
Except in America they'd just fire you for no reason if they didn't want as many workers.
Getting fired for fucking the hologram may make the employee ineligible for unemployment benefits, which the employer would otherwise have to reimburse the state for.
This is why there's often point systems and other arbitrary shit that can be used against low level employees to fire them "with cause" very easily should it be time to downsize. Many people in that situation have found that, all the sudden, their managers are starting to care a lot about things they usually let slide (because they're ultimately meaningless). You're getting warnings, write ups, points, etc, when you're doing nothing different than you have been since you were hired.
Amazon basically works this way by default. They think their employees as so disposable, their discipline and point system effectively creates a countdown to firing for virtually every low level employee, and it's all but guaranteed they will never be able to get any sort of unemployment. Even the ones that can manage to meet the outrageous expectations will not be able to maintain it forever.
I live in a "right to work" state, there are no required unemployment benefits. I got one paycheck as severance and everyone I told within the state said, " well at least it's not nothing"
Reason for termination: he's a bitch lol
Unemployment. It's what keeps most companies from actually firing people indiscriminately. I've had employees that needed to be fired, but since "Don't be a toxic asshole that drives good people to quit" isn't in the employee handbook and they showed up on time in compliance with dress code I couldn't fire them.
Sadly life in 2039 probably won’t be this good
Honestly surprised that people will have to be caught in fireable offenses during downsizing.
you can say fuck on the internet
I just googled "words you can't say on the Internet," and one of the top results was a reddit post about words banned on TokTok. I wasn't allowed to view it because Reddit hadn't reviewed the community, so... You can say 'fuck' for now.
Not in 2039. The Facio-republican party banned that in 2033.
You fucking can't just say that.
Fuckable holograms? Count me the fuck in!
Fuckable Holograms!
Now with more blue balls & less consistent employment!
That's the trap though. You don't realize until you have it out that there's nowhere to put it, but by then it's too late.
Dang!
Weird that people have such a positive view of the future....
Edit: I would watch this a show, just saying it sounds like a great romp.
....Sadly that tracks
This kind of corporate fuckery is why I’m happy living out in the wasteland with my cannibal tribe. It’s really not that bad once you get used to it.
Yeah you really only have to get very good at parsing through the subtleties of dinner invitations.
bro wtf did I just read 😂😂😂😂
🤔 idk. I think 2039 is the start of the Water Wars.
What and you think the self-driving trucks will be able to drive themselves just because some humans are fighting over water again? Some will go and die so that billionaires can keep their fountains going, others will drive self-driving trucks to keep the rest of the machine going.
I think the only part of that which I'd change is that it'd be 0% alcohol. On the plus side, it may make some of them taste better. I tried Captain Morgan's 0% Spiced Rum and it tastes fucking awful.
On the other hand, I'd say Brewdog's Alcohol Free Punk IPA tastes nice, and Guinness have done a fair job with their 0% cans.
Agree, there're some decent < 0.5% beers around, made with just a different strain of yeast.
I'm assuming people downvoted me to oblivion because LoL nOn AlCoHoLiC bEeR sUcKs.
But assuming we actually have a future in which clean drinking water is completely unviable and beer becomes the only option, I don't see employers suddenly being okay with people being drunk at work. So it's either alcohol free beers, or some other way of staying hydrated. Again, this is assuming we have no way of purifying our water.
Listen, I'm an alcoholic and even I don't go that low...I just don't drink
wtf do people like this imagine is in beer?
Are you asking why beer instead of water?
I believe the gist is that back in ye olden times when everybody was just throwing their sewage into the river, that beer was less likely to kill you because it's boiled before it's fermented. I don't think they made the connection to boiling, but rather knew beer was a safer drink.
I'm spouting this off from memory without looking it up, so no guarantee I'm correct.
It's not just the boiling process. The alcohol in beer is anti-bacterial which allows the water to remain safer to drink for longer.
It wasn't beer in many cases. Grog is basically rum, water, and limes/citrus which help sailors prevent scurvy whilst also protecting them from bacterial infections. I don't believe they boiled the water at all in that case. I believe it was just mixed all together.
To be fair, that beer was also generally much milder than modern beer, between 1-2% alc per volume (in Europe) , at least per historians and research papers I've read.
Edit: also most of those historians whose books I refer in this context are mostly Finnish, Swedish or German, so that should give some idea about my biases/sources. Its different in the Pacifics and Western Africa, I know.
My understanding is people drank beer because it was tasty and not because it was cleaner.
Edit: here's a reference. https://slate.com/human-interest/2013/05/medieval-europe-why-was-water-the-most-popular-drink.html
This medievalist says it was an important part of the caloric intake.
It depends on why the water is impotable, really.
And unfortunately beer won't save us from the things most likely to make modern / near future water impotable. Except to the extent it makes us not care.
