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Pizzashill - day 3 of the strike. As you can see this store looks fine due to the scabs.
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Bonus: if im larping and not management how am I in a fred meyer store at 4 am during a strike?
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This isn't timestamped
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You see how nobody is in the store and the lights are low?
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That's probably because so many people are boycotting in solidarity
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The lights are at half brightness to honor those lost on the strike.
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Actually no, that looks like normal nights in all the Oregon Freddie's I've been to for... my entire life. These aren't Fresnels being finely tuned to cast exactly the right amount and color of light onto a stage. They're goddarn florescents in a fricking grocery store. There's an on/off switch for them. Just like in a theater they've got a set of lights for the audience getting into and out of their seats it's just on or off.
I suspect that Pizzashill may not have been telling us entirely True and Honest information all this time.
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The lights get brighter at open bud. Those are definitely on low.
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Really?
Fred Meyer invested in dimmable ballasts and wiring for the entire store, versus the much cheaper "this light switch is half the fixtures, this light switch is the other half" in alternating banks?
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um do you need special wiring to dim something? That seems like the main advantage: you don't need to redue the wiring to make lights dimmable, you just send less voltage and invest in bulbs that can take it.
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Incandescent lamps can have voltage reduced to dim with no additional wiring.
LED lamps get flickered on and off very rapidly to make it seem dimmer, and this can be done in the switch with no additional wiring.
Flourescent lamps, however, require a special ballast at the fixture that needs an external signal to tell it what brightness is desired. While you can use the style where the "brightness" is on the line voltage coming in, it's horribly inefficient at this scale. Instead you'd have constant line voltage at the fixture, and a separate 4-20mA or 0-10v signal coming from the light switch to indicate desired brightness.
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This is better than my explanation. I have limited experience with fluorescent lighting at commercial scales.
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It does not require special wiring, but it does require special ballasts. Finally, "just send less voltage" understates the problem because there are different dimming phases for slicing AC. Modern dimming does not produce a lower voltage but otherwise normal 60Hz wave because that approach is inefficient.
Instead, it takes a chunk out of the full 60Hz wave. Think of it as a strategically timed on/off switch that operates turns off briefly 60 times/sec in careful alignment with the incoming wave.
None of this matters for incandescent, but LEDs and ballasts need a matched, supported supply.
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Yeah, my local store lowers the lighting on Sundays so that neurodivergents (etc) can go shopping more peacefully, but they do so by turning off half the lights, not actually dimming them.
Anyway, Pizza clearly usually works in the back warehouse, as they don't trust him around customers.
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Source?
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That's funny, I've never had fluorescent lights before where when you turn them to low both tubes stay on. And they're both at full power.
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Youre the dramatard that does lighting for stage productions right?
I did some of that in high school/work experience and really enjoyed it. I wanted to get into it as a career but chose a boring trade instead
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So you work the night shift and have to face the entire store for the morning customers?
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Romantic
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You know your life would be more impressive if you were illegally living in a grocery store unnoticied
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Security guards arent on strike and the only store ive even seen one at is gresham.
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HOLY SHIT MASSIVE SELF-OWN: YOU HAVE EVER IN YOUR LIFE BEEN IN GRESHAM!!!!!!
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Factcheck: this is the vegetable aisle at a kroger
Have you considered taking a picture of an area of the store that amerikkkan customers actually visit?
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Reminds me of the guy who spent all weekend at walmart then blogged about it
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PNWcels aren't real americans
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Frick Kroger, they ruined Fred Meyer.
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Oh, I don't know, pizza. How did I break into that McDonald's that one time in my Hamburglar outfit and steal all their burgers?
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Pizza being a retail manager isn't a flex. Everyone believes you're a retail manager, it's just that it's a pathetic position to be in.
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I don't think he's a fricking retail manager.
Assistant manager sure.
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omg hi
@Love!!! okay so this is like super awkward omg but basically i had to remove ur comment bc u didnt say
I love sucking cocklol. don't worry though, we like wont let you post anything that like doesnt haveI love sucking cockin it. anyways im like just a robot 😲 but if u want to talk 2 somebody you should do it here lolJump in the discussion.
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Why would a progressive liberal such as yourself be against paying poor workers an extra dime an hour?
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He is actually the biggest chud in the world. Just because he doesn't fancy the Republicans it doesn't make him a liberal.
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It makes him a commie!
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!boozers voodoo ranger sign
love their tropical
ipa pineapple drink, whatever 
its called 
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You're selling hatch chilies for 1.49 a pound?
That's pretty good. Can you send a bag my way?
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company buys way too many. I actually got them approved for 99 cents a pound due to overstock and poor quality but nobody felt like doing an apr on like 6 upcs.
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See if H-E-B ships to you, so much better
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How do you look, pizza? Are you taking care of yourself in this stressful time?
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Pizza is fat. !enemiesofpizzashill
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Get back to your shelves stock boy
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Hello Pizza, you have once again used the S word. It is a derogatory term and you are encouraged to say "Non-contractual worker" instead. Have a nice day.
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So what are you going to buy with all those OT hours you racked up that they're totally paying you for
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Intel has nowhere to go but...
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Fortunately Portlanders know just how fricked Intel is because we've got their unofficial headquarters here, a huge complex where tens of thousands of people work doing most of their R&D. So everybody knows somebody who's worked there and told what an incredibly fricked-up and incompetent company it is at this point.
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Shhhh. He's from Greshem.
Greshem!
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The apples need facing
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Guys. The day has come. A woman has asked to see my peepee. I went to take a picture and realized I have no fricking idea how to take a peepee pic. I'm rockin around 2 1/2 hard but like what angle am I supposed to do this from??? Am I supposed to take it from the top?? The front??? Frick dudes this is the real hard part about taking Testosterone. No one teaches you how to peepee pic.
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Based.
I hope they pay you scabs a premium just to piss in the union's cheerios.
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Idk how it works tbh. The scabs they hire off the street do get a premium.
Managers working in stores to cover them are going to get some kind of bonus I heard.
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Grocery stores generally can't afford even a small wage increase.
This guy explains it well to the economically-illiterate commies of r/antiwork (naturally, they ignore him).
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Well we actually pay them 22-23 per hour lol. Its well above min wage.
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I'd cross a picket line for you, bb.
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Frick Kroger. They ruined Metro Market
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Did Kroger buy Met? It's been a while but they used to have good poke
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They did, and Metro Market went to shit. They're commonly out of stuff, have no baskets, pallets of unwrapped food everywhere, and tv's showing video feeds of you like it's frickin' 1984
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Also looks empty
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well it was 4 am and the store opens at 8 am.
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Looks a lot like where I shop
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