I work in machine maintenance and have been wearing pretty much the same work boots for the last 15 yrs. I love them, they’re comfortable, and they last me a couple years.

This summer I got a pair of trail running Hokas. Omg they are so comfortable. I wear them probably about 50-75% of the time I’m not working.

Lately, I’ve noticed abnormal pain in my feet towards the end of my work week - wearing my not very old work boots with pretty new insoles. Boots are in good shape, nothing broken down. After a weekend of wearing the Hokas, my feet feel better by Monday.

Are my feet getting lazy or something?? Is this an evil Hoka plot??? Lol

Crews were expected to finish the repairs Wednesday evening, “and then we will move those 20,000 customers back to their original source. This could cause another momentary outage, possibly around 8-10 p.m.,” McFarland said.

When a piece of equipment has been maintained for so long and finally gives up the ghost, due to parts no longer existing or too expensive, or just sheer exhaustion of keeping them going for decades, and they’re at the point that nobody is going to give you any money for them - despite the fact that some dipshit in accounting found that people are still buying these… how do people get rid of it all?

I’ve called scrapyards and filled out their online portal forms for pickup quotes. Zero interest. Don’t even get to the point of negotiating paying to have someone take it away. I could call a rigger and pay a fortune to have them haul it away.. so they can cash in on whatever scrap value it has, but fuck that! is that where we’re at these days?

In US - west coast