Author: annoyedfish

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WTF is this for real?

Yes – https://www.costco.com/benefits.html

See, what the race-to-the-bottom people forget is one simple fact:

The average cost to replace a minimum-wage retail employee, according to a study by the Center for American Progress, is $3,328. And that’s a lowball. Basically, any time somebody quits or is fired, it costs the company money. A lot of money. New employees are also less productive (because it takes people longer to do things they are less familiar with). Employee churn is very expensive.

The Wal-Mart (and Amazon) model is to consider employees as expendable robots. They completely dismiss the costs of hiring, onboarding, training, reduced productivity during the training period, etc, because “these people are cheap.”

Costco treats employees as “appreciating assets” – that is to say, employees become more valuable over time. Therefore, it is better and more productive to only replace employees who aren’t doing their jobs.

Let’s take a warehouse worker in a large facility. A new worker will waste time remembering which aisle it is, may take a longer route there, etc. Somebody who has been there a year has it down cold. They’ll pick the item far quicker than the new person. This improves productivity, which improves profits.

But for some reason a lot of companies don’t seem to grasp this.

All they see is the paycheck, when the actual figure they should be looking at is the profit a worker produces. That is to say, the difference between productivity and pay. Raising pay causes people to stick around and become more productive, which actually increases the profit in the long term.

We need to stop thinking so short term.

Oh my god. Costco employees get paid better than starting teachers in my school district.

(Which is not to say they should be paid less. We should be paid more.)

Hello. Good evening Dr. I don’t mean to bother you but may I asked? What do you do if a dog, more specifically a pup somewhere around two to three months old becomes very week and doesn’t eat the whole day? I think he might have got food poisoned or something. A friend of mine and I tried to make him stand up, but he just laid back down again. Again, I didn’t mean to bother you. I’m just really worried for the little guy…

drferox:

It’s really obvious that you don’t follow the blog, or you would have seen 4 posts ago about how some advice simply cannot be given online. You also didn’t read the FAQ, even though the link to ask a question says “please read the FAQ”, because if you had then you would see firstly that it can take weeks to get an answer, but secondly that I cannot give medical advice about a pet over the internet that I have not seen. It’s illegal and unethical, I can’t see it, treat it, or do anything but worry about it which is absolutely unfair.

So you say “I don’t mean to bother you” but you made no avoid bothering me and guess what, you have.

I hope the puppy does okay and I hope you actually pick up a phone to seek immediate, local veterinary advice.

A puppy not eating and being too weak to stand up sounds extremely serious. You need urgent advice from an actual local vet who can actually treat the puppy. 

CALL A VET. Preferably an emergency vet. 

Garlic powder? I thought garlic was bad for animals or is that just dogs?

tinysaurus-rex:

I mean you don’t want to give them a ton everyday. But mixing garlic in bird feed weekly or bi-weekly has way more benefits than cons. I give mine extra hot spice with garlic in it to keep out the rodents because birds can’t taste the flavor and it prevents parasites and boosts their immune system 😄

Garlic and onions are toxic to just about all mammals except humans, but not to birds. They didn’t need to be toxic to birds because birds don’t dig them up and try to eat them. 

Peppers don’t burn birds because they were designed not to. Evolution was aiming to make the peppers only edible by birds so mammals would leave them alone and birds would eat them to spread the seeds. 

I’m really interested in emus, and I’ve been looking up some videos of them on YouTube. One thing that stood out was how emus will dance, which involves them jumping up and down and throwing their heads back. A lot of these videos label it as their “happy dance”, but I’ve heard from a few sources that this is a threat display. Others say it’s to impress mates. Bottom line is, why do emus dance?

why-animals-do-the-thing:

Without a link to a specific video I cannot say for 100% sure that what you’re thinking of is the same thing I’m responding to, but it’s probably a courtship dance! Emus are just as extra in their own way as birds of paradise. 

 According to this paper, “during the courtship, both genders start
strutting and circling; ruffling out their feathers and
cocking their heads in a shy posture. The male starts
a mating dance with slow, snake-like back-and-forth
movements of his head while circling around the
female.“ Wikipedia also describes mating behavior (with citations to a paper on emu behavior that I can’t get free access to) as such: 

“When courting, females stride around, pulling their neck back while puffing out their feathers and emitting low, monosyllabic calls that have been compared to drum beats. This calling can occur when males are out of sight or more than 50 metres (160 ft) away. Once the male’s attention has been gained, the female circles her prospective mate at a distance of 10 to 40 metres (30 to 130 ft). As she does this, she looks at him by turning her neck, while at the same time keeping her rump facing towards him. If the male shows interest in the parading female, he will move closer; the female continues the courtship by shuffling further away but continuing to circle him.[40][41]If a male is interested, he will stretch his neck and erect his feathers, then bend over and peck at the ground. He will circle around and sidle up to the female, swaying his body and neck from side to side, and rubbing his breast against his partner’s rump. Often the female will reject his advances with aggression, but if amenable, she signals acceptance by squatting down and raising her rump”

However, the one thing I’m not seeing in these descriptions is the jumping up and down you described. I looked up some videos, and I’m guessing this is representative of what you’re talking about:

I wasn’t sure if this counted as courtship behavior because the vertical leaps also seemed to be coupled with lunges / kicks, but I ran the video past a couple of zookeepers who have worked with emu and they all think it’s probably still a sexy dance. 

bettsplendens:

I am STRONGLY considering making a diamond-shaped lap blanket and then covering the whole thing in an outer assembly to make it into a flounder. That seems not overly difficult, and I have a sewing machine. It was, like, my grandmother’s or something, it’s old, but it’s electrical and it works.

Actually, I think it was my great-grandmother’s. Came around no more than a decade after electric sewing machines were invented, if I remember right. I’ll have to check with my mom.

I am STRONGLY considering making a diamond-shaped lap blanket and then covering the whole thing in an outer assembly to make it into a flounder. That seems not overly difficult, and I have a sewing machine. It was, like, my grandmother’s or something, it’s old, but it’s electrical and it works.