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No the original was a batch of bad memory caused by some tainted chemicals. It was believed but never proven to be a case of industrial sabotage. It only affected Taiwanese supply and happened just as China was ramping up a campaign of “our facilities are just as good, cheaper, and more reliable” advertisements to various industries.
China has issues but hate is a strong word, industrial sabotage is not as uncommon as you might think, it's not exactly a thing only China does.
not just pet food. did you hear about there being dangerous amounts of heavy metals in 30-40% of spices that were tested?
I don't think it's as strong a word as what a lot of countries and people around the world feel towards them. Industrial sabotage probably isn't uncommon today, but a lot of this started in the third world and china has led the way on how to 'make it work for you', laws be damned.
God dammit, why the mf does it have to be orgeno! I love adding that to my pizza.
Why can't these mf just be honest? This is why everything just needs to come back to being produced domestic again where there is at least a semblance of law and order. it's not much better in the states.. all you have to do is look at the ridiculous amount of food being recalled for salmonella because companies can't be bothered to clean their equipment.. while i'm sure china is guilty of some stuff it's ultimately a world wide problem, but it's not big news for the western media unless they can put the china badge on it.God dammit, why the mf does it have to be orgeno! I love adding that to my pizza.
Not worldwide, some areas have not let large corporations buy their way out of basic safety (esp. meat / rail / pharm here in the US).
Well in the states they have at least passed all those right-to-work bills so they can legally put those 14-year-olds back in charge of cleaning the processing plants because they are very well suited for cleaning jobs it seems.
That is not what right to work does. Unless someone is twisting it to weasel around something else.
Yeah, Iowa, Alabama, and many others are all working on getting their kids back to work because they can't find enough people so meat-packing plants, industrial cleaning, demolition, logging, etc. With immigration at historic lows and unemployment hovering around 3.5% (for now) rather than raise wages and fight for employees with working conditions and such they are looking for kids who don't know better or don't have better options going as low as 14 years old.
Yeah, but there's regulations here that are supposed to prevent that, so people can get in trouble. I've seen it in the third world--if you saw where some of the 'food' and other things came from you'd see that eating off a paved road in the US is 100x more sanitary.
A good friend of mine from Alabama who's now a Naval officer as well as a mechanical engineer was working at BK at age 14 nearly 20+ years ago. There have always been rules to allow 'kids' to work, but with limits on the number of hours, etc. But that's for an employer-employee situation. If you're working independently like my brother and I were for most of our early teens (and even before for my brother), we simply had 1099s from each of the companies and paid taxes on our tax returns each year. We did the work and we got paid. Today, you'd want to set up a legal entity and would probably need to be 18 to do that, but there's nothing to stop a kid from earning and filing tax returns.
oh you're gonna hate the one that came out this week then. you thought it was bad in the spices? listen to what they're finding in chocolate:God dammit, why the mf does it have to be orgeno! I love adding that to my pizza.
Yes and he does great work but he’s booked solid for the next 18 months. He’s doing my neighbours house, one of my trees topped and put a small hole in it
. I managed to get him to bump it up the list in exchange for fixing his kids gaming rigs that were completely fucked up from all the stuff you would expect to find on some teenager PC’s.Google certified arborist plus your zip code and they should be able to point you in the right direction.Yes and he does great work but he’s booked solid for the next 18 months. He’s doing my neighbours house, one of my trees topped and put a small hole in it
The harder job is finding licensed and insured tree fallers… these things are 80+ ft and to keep the peace all 6 of them need to come down.
I got one who has me on his list and he is highly recommended, but before he can take them down the insurance people want the trees inspected by a 3'rd party arborist who isn't on the payroll of either insurance company because they are disputing whos policy needs to cover the damage because the guy who owns the house my neighbor is renting claimed to be a licensed tree faller who thinks the trees looked dangerous and I should have recognized they were a problem. But the inspector who my provider sent out said that the trees looked healthy with no visible signs that they would be a danger and now I get caught in the middle of 2 companies who will spend $20,000 to figure out who takes the $5,000 bill. All I know is I am going to get the most expensive firewood I have ever paid for.
Lol, I was working at 14 in a little place similar to DQ. Why is working at 14 a bad thing? I mean they limit your hours because of school, but it was money I didn't have before.
DQ sure, but using industrial cleaners for sanitizing meat packing plants? Cleaning the insides of tanker containers?, Working the fields harvesting Tobacco? The bills are mostly allowing minors in jobs that are constantly getting caught employing large amounts of undocumented workers or have been heavily dependent on temporary foreign workers.
If the 3.5% unemployment figure are true, is it not more other than employing undocumented worker ?
If I could have gotten started early in industrial/ municipal cleaning I would have.
Well, employing undocumented workers is illegal no matter how you swing it, and doing so hundreds of people at a time is blatantly so, they have processes you can do to bring in workers legally, and with the proper pay, people will apply. But if the only way you can remain in business is by actively violating the law or finding new ways to rip off or exploit your employees, you deserve not to be in business.
Yep, and that's par for the course now for legit stuff which is riduculous (hint hint, this is what it is like in the third world too for legit stuff/services). Pretty cool trade you were able to do with him.Yes and he does great work but he’s booked solid for the next 18 months. He’s doing my neighbours house, one of my trees topped and put a small hole in it
The harder job is finding licensed and insured tree fallers… these things are 80+ ft and to keep the peace all 6 of them need to come down.
And don't forget how they'll jack up your premiums for this experience, lol.
I loved working as a kid--you learned so much that adults wouldn't even know how to do. Have you ever operated an original at&t switchboard that looks like this? Well I have!!
Cut the ability for a business to hire anyone illegally (which already comes with $25k fines for anyone interested in starting a grass roots effort to bust them all), and then the businesses will have to reassess if their business model can even work. It may kill the business too, but then everyone is out of work and someone will think of a better way as that's capitalism in a nut shell.
I just have to say--I totally agree. And I'm a business owner.
Dear god.The first picture on a search for 'WonderBrace' was this:
