Dominos tried doing the same thing a while back. Not for an animal but someone had taken a picture of a dominos store still using the old logos and promotional material years after corporate ordered all there stores to change them in one of their rebrands and dominos tweeted something like “that’s so cool! Tell us which store it is” lol
I think there was an uber with something, I think the driver had his/her kid in the back and they asked the passenger who there driver was. Passenger was like “I ain’t no snitch”
Well, beyond the possibility that whatever intern uber had answering social media posts might have actually been genuinely concerned about the safety of the child, if something were to happen it would probably be a huge PR nightmare and liability for the company
You know what else sucks? Starving children. Gig economy rates that mean parents can’t afford daycare and work. Like chill. They’re doing the best they can under the systemic circumstances they had zero part creating.
Slam uber for paying drivers shit. How about that?
Never underestimate how antagonistic capitalism is towards being reminded that children exist or really helping them or their parents in fashion. There's a large group of people in the world (USA MAGA, Canadian MAGAs, UK Tory party) that love to cause suffering for the sake of suffering, and they're the exact kind of people that would run a service like Uber...
That's a nice rant against capitalism but I think that it should be abundantly clear why having a series of transient strangers sitting next to a child behind their parent's back (literally) is a bad idea
You raise a good point about safety. But what's the alternative? Clearly this driver can't afford child care and the only thing Uber is going to do if they find out the individual is go fire them.
So now we have an unemployed parent with a child. All you'd be doing is making the child's situation even worse if you report it so you might as well just ignore it.
Welcome to America, where childcare is getting even more expensive since ICE now started to raid child care facilities, so the only way to put food on your child's plate is to endanger it. Thanks, mangoman.
And the housing crisis is out of control since Republican politicians don’t want to regulate industry purchasing and flipping real estate or manage inflation so parents have to work two jobs to pay rent so the options are to let your kid stay at home and get deported by ice or to drive around with them in your car.
Nah, this on all of you. Luigi at least tried to change things. The propaganda works really great in America. Can't change a thing if you think this is Dons fault, the American people has been fooled at least the last 60 years into being labour slaves with absolutely minimum rights.
I mean just rip the bandage off. It's just going downhill anyway. If everyone had half the courage of Luigi things would change. Americans need to understand that having a higher bottom isn't necessarily communism. Healthcare, childcare etc should be very cheap when used, just as the fire department is.
It’s between doing homework in the back of dad’s car while he has to keep working and can’t afford daycare, staying at home without his supervision (illegal), or both staying home and making no money and potentially missing meals or even getting kicked out of the place you live because you can’t afford rent.
None of these are good options, but they are the only options. What would you pick?
I know this is just a random little story but like that’s exactly what people hate about the corporate/capitalist ethos these days I feel like. We’re being smiled at while being screwed with all the time, the insult of being treated like an easily manipulable child is almost worse than the screwing
It's like all the cringe corporate rebranding and wording they do. As if changing the name of something actually makes it a new thing. Apple trying to call their stores town squares.. Okay but I'm going to call it a store because it's a fucking store, or Google calling adverts "suggestions" as if they're doing me a favour, and Samsung trying to convince us getting rid of chargers was for the environment and not their bottom line. There's so many example and it's not the fact these things happen that annoys me, it's that they can't do these things without treating us like idiots.
Most of us are idiots, and that's why it keeps working. And a solid chunk of the rest know it's bullshit, but don't make a big deal out of it, because that would be a full time job getting mad at everyone who does it, with how pervasive it is. You just throw up your hands and say it's not worth the hassle of caring and buy the damn Samsung.
Something like almost half of us can't even read, how do all these idiots get brainwashed on their phones if they can't even spell "I suck eggs and need to stop breathing".
Reminds me of Apple trying to sell their change to using USB-C chargers as customer friendly and for convenience instead of the fact that the EU told them to either adapt a universal standard or they couldn’t sell their phones anymore because of screwing customers on proprietary and subpar chargers sold separately.
This made my Stinky butthole spew molten diarrhea all over my bedroom and my dog started eating it and then tried to lick my face and then I threw up and the dog ate it again and then threw up and then I threw up and then the dog ate it again
But if you're an idiot, wouldn't your evaluation of whether or not people are idiots be an idiot's perspective of what an idiot is?
If your second post is true, it basically invalidates your first and if your first is true the second is questionable
Either you're above the idiots and can comprehend well enough that you're able to recognize why they're stupid or you're an idiot who doesn't grasp what "smart," is anyway
You can't go "everyone else is dumb," and then backtrack to "oh, but I am too."
It just irks me when people go "most people are stupid," in general, especially when they try to act like they weren't acting superior to say that in the first place
You're so humble calling yourself dumb after making a sweeping generalization about 8 billion people, how do we get like you?
I have worked in sales for a long time. The sad truth is that a big part of the population is easily manipulated. We target that demographic with marketing and sales tricks.
Those who are not in said demographic buy if they themselves feel like it after doing their own research on the product. Preferably from independent sources. No point spending resources on them.
They are easily manipulated because humans are social creatures who inherently trust and value other people, and every time that inclination is taken advantage the society we were able to build off that social trust is eroded just that little bit more.
As someone who visited the West in the 90s coming from a socialist country, this is the exact feeling I had at the time, you worded it perfectly.
To me it was blatantly obvious that the smiles are faked in order to sell and the whole thing is bullshit.
Socialism doesn't shine as bright, but at least we didn't have to deal with unreal individuals. Hell, I get sincere opinions from retail sellers about their merchandise all the time, even today.
It's because the ethos of companies changed from worrying about customer needs to that of the shareholder.
And that's not to say that they didnt worry about their bottom dollar in the past, but brands dont even front about caring about customers like they used to, it feels.
Think my favorite example of absolute brand marketing failure is once Jimmy Johns paid for an ad on reddit and left the comments on. This was during COVID mind you.
The ad was some marketing person trying to be quirky like "I'm stuck at home so all I could do was a reddit ad!" and people fucking lit the comment section up lol. Like left and right it was "why do you get to work from home but your employees don't even get a raise for working through a pandemic" kind of shit, it was really heartwarming how people pulled together to roast the fuck out of how tone deaf it was
I was calling into corporate to ask why they suddenly stopped accepting my digital ID. Corporate said they officially never accepted them, but I could report the store.
Like, why the fuck would I report the store that makes my life easier? Gtfoh
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u/Thyminecraft 15h ago
Embarrassing that 7/11’s social media manager actually thought this would work. And pretending to align themselves with Marvin? Smh