!goyslopenjoyers

Creamy Coconut Dr Pepper

Doesn't really taste like Dr Pepper at all, just coconut. Kinda good as its own thing, but was a bit of a disappointment. Mixed the rest of the bottle with pineapple rum, and was also disappointed it didn't make a good mixer.

Cheetos Pretzels

These are just normal pretzels with a healthy coating of cheetos dust. The unnaturally uniform orange on the bag made me think it was Cheetos in pretzel shape. The dust is good of course, but then you're left with a hard pretzel. Doesn't really give the essential cheetos experience of dissolving in your mouth.

Doritos Baja Fiery Mango

I have no idea why the Mtn Dew Baja Blast logo is associated with this. I think Mtn Dew had a different mango flavor years ago, but that's it.

This was pretty good, the sweet mango taste was interesting alongside the spicyness. Better than the default doritos flavors, but I'm not a huge fan of default doritos anyway.

January 2024

Brittany Pietsch was several months into her role as an AE (Account Executive) at Cloudflare, when she got the dreaded 15-minute meeting calendar invite with two strangers from HR.

She wasn't the only one receiving those invites that day. Her "work bff" had received a similar invite 30 mins and was laid off, and she let Brittany know what was going on.

Brittany then proceeded to do what any white woman with a pulse and a TikTok account would do - turned on her camera and took the call on speaker.

She put up a good fight, but ultimately, was unsuccessful in the face of unwavering corpo-speak and acknowledgment of feelings. For her, it would be the biggest moment of her life. For the two corporate HR executioners, it was Friday.

She then posted the video to TikTok where she got at least 2.6 million views (TikTok is scary and confusing, it looks like she posted it twice, one with 1.something million views and another with 2.6). Warning - it's like 8mins long

In addition to this, she ended up on Reddit:

• ThereWasAmAttempt - 26.4k upvotes, 3.5k comments

• HumanResources - 663 upvotes, 269 comments

• CloudFlare - 115 upvotes, 182 comments

The comments are mostly as you'd expect. A majority of "stick it to the man" / "you go girl" with a (controversial) minority of "hmmm this may not be the best strategy".

The CloudFlare co-founder came out and posted some corpo-speak on X in response:

We fired ~40 sales people out of over 1,500 in our go to market org. That's a normal quarter. When we're doing performance management right, we can often tell within 3 months or less of a sales hire, even during the holidays, whether they're going to be successful or not. Sadly, we don't hire perfectly. We try to fire perfectly. In this case, clearly we were far from perfect. The video is painful for me to watch. Managers should always be involved. HR should be involved, but it shouldn't be outsourced to them, No employee should ever actually be surprised they weren't performing. We don't always get it right. And sometimes under performing employees don't actually listen to the feedback they've gotten before we let them go. Importantly, just because we fire someone doesn't mean they're a bad employee. It doesn't mean won't be really, really great somewhere else. Chris Paul was a bad fit for the Suns, but he's undoubtedly a great basketball player. And, in fact, we think the right thing to do is get people we know are unlikely to succeed off the team as quickly as possible so they can find the right place for them. We definitely weren't anywhere close to perfect in this case. But any healthy org needs to get the people who aren't performing off. That wasn't the mistake here. The mistake was not being more kind and humane as we did. And that's something @zatlyn and I are focused on improving going forward.

Of course, with the sentiment of the internet behind her, on TikTok, LinkedIn and Reddit, the world was Brittany's oyster. No doubt she'd be fielding offers left and right for rest of her life.

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Present Day - June 2024

Apparently, things did not go as planned for Brittany, with her making this post on LinkedIn yesterday:

I feel embarrassed to be posting this, but desperate times as they say.

It's been almost 6 months since I was laid off, and I am at my wit's end. The amount of conversations, interviews, presentations, and research I've done for companies I will never work for is beyond what I could have imagined.

4+ rounds of interviews for no job offer, and no feedback except "we loved you, but there was another candidate who just had a bit more experience". Or "you interviewed great, but you're just missing one small piece in your background". And then I will see the same hiring managers or recruiters continue to post the job postings on their LinkedIn page. I don't understand! You have an awesome candidate right here, with natural relationship building and sales aptitude, begging to work for your company and willing to put in the time and effort to understand and sell your product.

Discouraging, disheartening, exhausting, scary, frustrating. All words to describe this process and what I've felt every single day. I feel like giving up.

When the video went viral, I received literally thousands of "I would hire you in a heartbeat" or "any company would be lucky to have you" messages. Yet when it comes down to it, it has been the opposite.

6 months of no income has now begun to put me in a scary financial situation, and I am asking my network for help.

I may have gaps in my resume, and I may have short stints at my previous companies, but that does not deter my ability to be a kickass sales rep. As an account executive on your team, I will be beyond driven, tenacious, organized, curious, a sponge, resilient, and will become a top performer on your team. All I need is a chance to prove it. #opentowork #sales #accountexecutive

The sales bros over at /r/Sales take some time out of their busy days of telling their SDRs to do their outbound cadences and snorting lines of cocaine to discuss:

Honestly, looking at her resume, she didn't seem qualified for that role in the first place.

Honestly the biggest issue is, you already know she will post something negative on LinkedIn if she is unhappy, and people will stand up and take notice.

It's not fair, but it's a bit like hiring someone who has a gun to your head... And HR departments likely wouldn't allow it if they do even a little research.

It sucks a lot for her.

I wonder if the "you're doing so well" boss was just another scrote trying to close in a different sort of way?

Definitely somewhat main character vibes as someone else alluded to. Voicing your opinions/feelings on LinkedIn about not landing a job in what is most probably one of the toughest job markets today is fair. But considering that you have also previously posted a layoff video ranting on the employer on another social media platform, this being Tiktok, it doesn't take a hiring manager long to connect the dots as to what this person could be as an employee. Having employees or colleagues who dare to voice their opinions is great and every workplace needs that to some degree but it's so easy to fall into the trap of being opinionated and that for sure doesn't look good if you go about displaying that type of behaviour on LinkedIn. At the end of the day it's a balancing act and I hope she gets the job she's applying to.

I had some friends get fired on the same hiring call as her. They all felt the same way, but most of them were smart enough to keep their heads down and go get other jobs.

Have they landed somewhere?

Most of them, yeah. A lot took a step back career-wise.

Still, not a step back to LinkedIn rants. I've reset careers so many times, but it's better than sitting at home (most days).

Wow, there's a need for qualified sales people. I have no idea where she worked or what she posted. Was it so bad to blackball her?

She recorded herself being laid off, and then blasted her employer on LinkedIn. That's a dumb move.

Plus she says herself she has gaps and multiple short stints on her resume. Her actions + her resume paint a story that she's the problem, and an employee you don't want.

Also in her video she says she worked full time for 4 months without closing a single deal and still talks about how amazing her "performance" was. She doesn't appear to be a competent sales person if the only information you have about her is what was said there.

So I went and looked at her profile, and honestly I think she just needs a reality check. From a post 1 month ago-

"After taking a few months off of my job search to mentally process how suddenly different and overwhelming my life became following the viral video of me getting laid off, I'm now back on my search and quickly remembering how tough and discouraging it is."

Granted I'm sure having your video go viral is a little crazy at first, but I guarantee she thought that was her golden ticket to millions. No way you take a "few months" off to process a video going viral, unless you were trying to cash in on everything you could during that time. Took her a few months to learn she's not actually special, still broke, and still unemployed lol

Absolutely dingus move on her part to post that video for her 15 minutes of fame, I called it from the start.

I don't know her personally but what she did is an hr nightmare and the fact she takes no accountability for that is just pouring gasoline on the fire. It's way too big of a risk for a hiring manager to stick their neck out for the "girl who posted her layoff on TikTok with a really shitty attitude."

It's the lack of introspection for me.

"Driving revenue at Cloudflare" on your LinkedIn headline despite never having closed a deal. How am I supposed to trust what you say in an interview if you're already dramatizing verifiable details.

And that's just the head of several other major issues.

Least dishonest LinkedIn headline

Shoutout to @ResneedingSyndrome for the request.

Reading Rdrama, it's become pretty clear that this dump is a rightoid circlejerk that's blind to what's actually happening in America, and I want to just spread the knowledge .

The first thing to handle: Am I biased? No - I'm a European () that's neurodivergentally into American Presidential Politics, especially the Cold War era (Franklin Roosevelt to H.W Bush), and I'd wager I know more about every era then most Americans here. Not saying that to brag, it's just autism.

So the next thing to handle - the state of the race. Which Dementia Daddy is winning? It started of with Trump fricking destroying Slumbering Joseph, who has been facing declining approval ratings ever since the fall of Kabul ( America hates to see an anti-war president). This is despite the fact that America does not like Trump. This is simply a fact, Americans have never liked Trump. He didn't win the popular vote against Hillary Clinton, herself massively unpopular, or Joe Biden.

Let's compare starting approvals. Gallup gives W. Bush 57% approval at the start of his term, which skyrockets to 91% by 9/11 and ends at 28% when he leaves office. Obama starts with 68%, getting a lowest approval rating of 42%. Even Sleepy Joe started with 55%. Donald Trump ? He started with 45% approval. That would peak at 49%, and would average at 41%. Please, I implore you to forget that you're a rightoid and accept a basic fact - Trump is not personally liked by Americans. They think he's a loudmouth butthole who's attitude is unfit for office, and during his term 59% of the public didn't like him. So, a Sleepy Joe sweep, right?

Biden started popular enough. He was basically an Obama third term, and Obama was massively popular. He was very old, the pic above is a newspaper reporting Nixon being re-elected while Biden unseats an incumbent, which was a concern, but people generally liked him.

That would change fairly swiftly. Inflation from the Covid spending , under Trump lmao, caught up with America and inflation became rampant. Joe Biden had been elected on a promise of being a boring cracker who could let people forget about politics for a while, an elder statesman who would handle everything. He was already being blamed for the economy, but then there was the pull-out. Despite it being awesome, America finally stops wasting money on that shithole, Americans were horrified by the images it produced. His approval ratings sank like a rock and disapproval ratings soared.

The "Joe Biden is too old to lead" stuff went from a Republican talking point to basically accepted fact. The public was promised a boring statesman they could forget about it, and they're seeing global chaos and inflation - which has gotten back to decent rates, but since the only way prices will go down is through a recession, no one thinks it has. I mean yeah you have dipshit shooters like Will Stancil, but that's about it. So, Drumpf sweep right?

Yes and no. Despite Biden's massive unpopularity, the Red Wave promised for 2022 was barely a red drizzle - the Trump Republicans were so massively unpopular, the Democrats managed to narrowly expand a Senate majority, unseated 3 incumbent governors and Republicans only got 9 seats from the 435 seats up for election in 2022. The public hated Joe Biden, but the Democrats weren't unpopular. However, that doesn't change the fact that Joe Biden is unpopular.

Turns out deplatforming works, hooray! With Trump, he became less of a man and more of an idea. Yeah, Trump was an butthole - but prices were low and the world was at peace. (Incidentally, ask anyone who thinks this how exactly Trump will do this again and watch them not answer you.) America has always loved it's Dirty Harrys and Dr. Houses - take no shit buttholes who get results. Trump, away from the spotlight and with Biden viewed with contempt, was poised to crush Biden. That was until;

Some rightoids have tried to spin this, arguing the public doesn't care that Trump paid hush money to his mistress. They're on the right line of thinking, but they're overestimating the public's knowledge. They don't know what Trump did, and they don't care. Trump went from butthole they don't like to Convicted Criminal(tm) - a massive step up. They have faith in the institutions, they think whatever the verdict is, it's fair, and while they could hold their nose to vote for the butthole that made prices low, they can't do it for a Convicted Criminal(tm).

Biden's popularity hasn't change. They still think he's a senile idiot that shouldn't be in office - but he's not a Convicted Criminal(tm). For contrast, NeoCon-Nikki Haley has pulled anything from 4% to 13% over Joe Biden. While the highest results were obvious bullshit, the pattern is there. If Biden didn't have to run against Trump, he would get his butt paddled.

So, two massively unpopular old men are running against each other. One is a criminal nobody has ever liked, the other is a senile r-slur. Who wins?

Frick knows mate. Trump leads in some key swing states, like Arizona and Michigan, but his sheer unpopularity following the conviction has led to these being narrow leads. Worse still, the Biden Campaign has about $100 million more then the Trump Campaign, so some targeted ads could ruin Trump. If I had to goomble, and I do , I would put money on Biden winning. The warchest advantage will be the difference maker, but I wouldn't be surprised if Trump won.

Personally, I'm rooting for Biden winning while losing the popular vote . I think the Rightoid outrage after 2016 would be funny.

Thanks for reading my longpost I promise there's no agenda

Lotta egged centrist takes too

To be fair, it could also just be that both candidates look like they just saw a cloak and scythe.

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would be very funny if one of them gave the other covid and they both kicked the bucket before the election

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I've been thinking that too but for both of them.

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The only good news here is that the rot at the center of US misleadership has now been revealed for all the world to see.

There is also, of course, a lot of exactly what you'd expect from ZCC:

My guess is we'll never hear if he actually tests positive. Someone helping with the campaign views discussing Covid as an economic and therefore political liability, so they feed him lots of Paxlovid prophylactically behind the scenes and pretend everything is fine to the public. When Biden was sick he received more than twice (10 days worth of) the amount of Paxlovid that we did despite the potential side effects for liver of taking it that long. We also know that when Trump got it, he had access to non-standard treatment at the time as well(I believe it was monoclonal antibody-bodies but I can't remember). And I think when Biden's wife got Covid there's no way he wasn't exposed, my guess is they have Paxlovid readily available at all times. If he actually gets sick he will magically disappear from news coverage for a few weeks until he's feeling 100%.

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They're both terrible, but at least one of them isn't a convicted felon.

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I think they're about to make it illegal to think about consequences.

It might lead to demanding action to avoid consequences

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It's just a regular summer cold. /s

Shame on him for continuing to ignore and downplay covid. At this point I highly doubt he is the one governing the country.

She's not wrong. You're never going to fix a culture like that in a couple years. That's going to take many generations to fix. Firefighters (and cops) really aren't normal people. The shit so many of them say and believe is so far removed from reality, it's like what the frick are you talking about? Also, in an unrelated note, I think giving free, cushy jobs to people who were in the military where the military job is nothing like the civil position is a very weird policy and needs to be reevaluated.

Apparently being a firefighter is a cushy job

At this point we're gonna need a required civics competency exam for both voters and candidates if this unapologetic stupidity doesn't stop.

That's racist

Propaganda works, and we're drowning in it. Unfortunately the good guys don't use it, because they tend to find mass social manipulation with crude psychosocial engineering techniques kinda immoral. So the most effective propaganda is largely produced by our enemies, foreign and domestic.

What we do is not propaganda chud! We're just teaching you how to be a decent human being

more than that, I feel like the sportification of politics has caused some people to just blindly select the "trump good biden bad" option in these polls, no matter what the prompt is.

He says this with zero hints of irony

Not sure where you're from, partner, but in the USA, some people pronounce Fascism kinda funny like…That may help explain the headline a bit.

The party of the working class

The irony is the one who said he'd be a dictator "only on day one" is none other than Trump, not Biden, facts. The mainstream media doesn't realize Trump will shut down the "lugenpresse" if he gets re-elected within a year of his second term, watch.

Burger dramatards you must go and vote for Trump now

Some people believe that the government is ran by a deep state cabal and the only way to fix things and to restore democracy is to let Trump rule as a dictator so he can clean house and purge all of the rogue elements.

Once again, no hints of irony

“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” -- George Carlin

Words of wisdom, weirdly… but this seems to be ignorance of a new order. Can so many really not know any better?

So close and yet so far

Nate Silver the Fivethirtyeight dude has Trump most likely to win the election at the moment based on all the poll data. He's not trying to make it a close race to increase revenue. People need to realise that Trump has a better or equal chance of winning than Biden right now.

Fivethirtyeight is an aggregate site, and they haven't gotten an election right since 2012.

Not true they gave trump a much much higher chance of winning than anyone else, they also predicted the Biden win.

What was that question about choosing to live in ignorance again?

😈Satan could show up to America and claim he's the real victim and he's the one trying to save democracy and people will vote for him over Jesus.

Odd, I don't remember chuds claiming that Satan is the real hero of the Bible

The 2012 election was the last election with decent candidates. The fact that you have to choose between a corrupt fascist billionaire and an 81 year old war monger tells you everything you need to know about the state of American democracy. Please travel a lot more. It doesn't have to be like that. Mobilize, educate yourselves. A better system is possible. Look beyond American politics and understand that you've been living in a nationalist regime with neoliberal policies disguised as a democracy.

>please travel a lot more

This is such a bougie 'advice', just take time off work and spend all your savings to travel the world until you agree with me

In 1950, 5 years after the end of World War II, there was a nationwide survey in Germany that asked if Adolf Hitler was good for Germany. Remember that almost every German town got blasted to smithereens, and at the end of the war, 70 year old men and 10-year-old boys were guarding most cities. An astonishing 25% of the German people said that Adolf was good for Germany. Those same people are the ones that you are referring to in these "surveys" that think that drumpf would be good for the US.

This has nothing to do with Trump but it allows me to mention him and Hitler in the same paragraph so get worried already and vote for my side

Quadruple thumbs-up Marsey commissioned by @WayOut for a burlap sack full of nearly expired pork (street value: 136 dollars).

Coming soon to a :marseythumbsup4: near you

That's right folks, tonight, for the first time this election cycle, Former President and Current Felon DONALD J TRUMP will face off in a battle of wits against Current President and Dementia Patient JOESPH BIDEN. There will be GAFFS . There will be LAUGHS . There will be ZINGERS . There will be DINGERS . And, Lord Willing, by the end of the debate we'll all know who we're voting for.

I will try my ABSOLUTE HARDEST to get a STREAM rolling, but I might be late. !jannies, if I am not able to, could one of you start it?

It starts tonight at 9:00PM Eastern Time. Eurocucks are, as always, NOT INVITED.

be there......... OR DIE!!!

The problem was that he was over prepared. He should've had three days of prep and only had notes with the bullet points.

He did not need to be talking about the stats. Nobody cares about those. Hammer the broader points. And he looked pretty good at the debate watch party, if that Biden had shown up he would've won it

It shouldn't be possible for a presidential candidate to be over prepared my guy. You should be able to fire hose him information and he should be able to catalogue all of it and determine exactly when best to use it.

You're talking about him like he's a special needs kid.

Doesn't... that apply both ways?

I legitimately saw a guy with a soft voice and occasionally weak responses.

The entire internet's telling me I saw someone else.

Bro. I'm a huge Biden Stan. My guy lost track of what he was saying so many times. The bar was so low and he didn't come close to it. He genuinely was unable to name the pieces of policy he passed as a response to questions. Yeah he had a few good retorts and lines here and there, but overall it was so disappointing. Still voting Joe of course but I mean cmon.

I've reiterated what I literally saw with my eyes. If you think you can convince me I saw something else, I refer you to the OP.

Dude this isn't healthy. Like you've got to take break from whatever circles you are in because it's frankly a bit embarrassing to think he was coherent.

You're getting swept up in a cult like defense of a politician.

You're currently trying to convince someone that what he literally saw isn't what he saw. I'm glad you think I'm not healthy, but I think you've got bigger problems to worry about.

You're going to frick over this country. Enjoy Trump part 2 because you can't open your eyes and think objectively.

I guess our education system has let you down. I'm sorry. We need media literacy education.

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— flesh simulator (@fleshsimulator) June 30, 2024

lol, 9/11