u/SammaJones

I've had this happen a few times in my career. Probably more than I know. This is about a business dealing that does not involve pay or a bonus, but is very applicable to both of those.

I am in more-or-less than same boat as 3 other people in a business deal. We all have an equal stake. I have been offered an additional financial benefit, well-earned. We have all been offered the same benefit. I am in the process of negotiating a better deal than the one offered (because I've earned it) and I'm making my case in a number of ways citing very real examples. The other 3 people will not negotiate at all. (They haven't earned it.) Ultimately, I will get a better deal, probably a lot better, (because I've earned it.)

So - my crystal ball tells me that I'll get twice as much and, in order to keep us all equal and not create waves they will give the other 3 guys the same thing that they're giving me.

They haven't earned it. I did. They didn't fight for it. I did.

This isn't "a job". I don't have "coworkers". I'm not trying to be "the boss". I don't want credit or a promotion or some kind of recognition. It isn't that kind of arrangement. I only want the extra money. Because I've earned it. I hope nobody else knows that I got more. I have no reason to care about these other 3 guys, good, bad or indifferent.

In the past I've just shrugged this off. Just worry about yourself, Sam. What other people get or don't get isn't your problem. But this has happened too many times and it's really bothering me this time.

I think that ethically this additional money is mine all mine and nobody else should be allowed to piggy-back on it.

Thoughts?

So, I'm not driving downtown, but I want to watch tennis. I could go to Olive Garden and then go to bed or maybe there's something more fun and interesting in that general area. I don't mind driving but I have no interest in going downtown. Where do the tennis people go for fun?

From another thread.

Is it ethically ok for a person who opposes Israeli actions in Gaza to attend a protest where innocent and otherwise uninvolved Jewish people are likely to be hurt or harassed?

Assuming, of course, that the person in question will not be doing any of the hurting or harassing.

Is it ethical to give employees a hard time because you are unhappy with their company? Is "Mr., I just work here" a valid ethical excuse?

If our anger at a company is based on the effect of the employee's aggregate actions shouldn't their experience be a composite of the aggregate anger of their customers or the world they effect?

I'm not advocating for harassing flight attendants or anything like that. I'm just asking the question.

If they work for the company responsible for the actions that create the anger then shouldn't the anger be directed at them?

I can't keep it straight. Is Pisces behind us now?

Like - in school, as a literary thing. Do they consider it to be a classic that perfectly embodies a seminal moment in their country's history or do have they mostly never heard of it?

When they're talking about American Independence Day?

I posted on this a few months ago. I thought I'd share my experience in case it helps anybody.

Dad was set to move to Memory Care on March 15th but about 10 days before he contracted RSV and had to be hospitalized/Rehab'ed for 5 weeks. It looked pretty bad for awhile. I thought he would die. When he moved back to the ALF he moved into Memory Care.

Yeah - people down here are crazy. Some are non-verbal. Some have to be reminded to not touch others. Sometimes there are emotional outbursts. Still - the environment is a MUCH better for Dad. In AL he was just laying in bed staring at the ceiling all day long every day. Every care giver was unable to help him. They weren't trained and arguably weren't empowered. They would ask him what he wanted to do and he would say he was tired and wanted to lay in bed and stare at the ceiling. This was getting progressively worse - but the problem went on for 2.5 years. You could take him to the activities, but they were designed for cognitively capable people who didn't really want the demented guy to be there and he couldn't keep up anyway.

In Memory Care they walk him out of his room in the morning and lock the door. He can't go back in. He has to sit with people. They won't actually force him to do the activities, but they don't really take "no" for an answer so he ends up doing him.

His life quality and mental health is 100 times better here.

Oddly enough, I'm now dealing with my own mini-crisis of dealing with my additional time and the weird feeling of adjusting to not being desperately needed all the time. No need to worry. I'll work it out.

TLDR: It worked out. Dad is much better off in Memory Care.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dementia/comments/1r6l3ee/move_from_assisted_living_to_memory_care/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

The movie Pulp Fiction claimed to quote Ezekiel 25:17, but didn't. Pete Hegseth recently quoted Ezekiel 25:17 but read from the Pulp Fiction monolog which was not Ezekiel 25:17.

And so it starts:

"The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish"  

Simple enough - except that the quote was entirely fabricated. The word "selfish" and the word "inequity" didn't appear at all in the KJV. The concepts of "fair treatment for all" and "selfishness" aren't really biblical. It is not a sin to be "inequitable".

I suspect that the word Tarantino wrote or thought he was writing was "iniquity". Different word. That word is used hundreds of times in the Bible.