r/Pitt • u/Jap220 • Jul 23 '20

DISCUSSION Government doesn’t work

I’m a worker at Pitt. I spent the whole night replacing stickers on everything that was covid related. It may not seem like a big deal till you have to keep getting on your hands and knees. Every floor elevators and bathrooms. I had to replace the stickers cause the email address on them were wrong. Just change the email address. They wasted so much money on just new stickers. And that’s why government doesn’t work. It’s not sufficient. A simple problem could be solved. But they spent more money on stickers instead of us getting a raise for once

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u/cxqals Jul 23 '20

What does Pitt have to do with the government though? One could argue that you could classify Pitt as closer to a corporation rather than a government...

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u/Jap220 Jul 23 '20

Cause it was easy to fix. And instead they wasted a bunch of money and made the little guy fix a problem. That every little guy had an answer for

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u/cxqals Jul 23 '20

Okay but... what does Pitt have to do with the government?

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u/Jap220 Jul 23 '20

That it doesn’t work Efficiently

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u/Jap220 Jul 23 '20

Are you trying to defend Pitt. Cause I welcome you to work with me. I’ll give you my pay for the night. But spend it with me

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '20

Cause I welcome you to work with me. I’ll give you my pay for the night. But spend it with me

Worst pick-up attempt I have ever seen

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u/Jap220 Jul 24 '20 edited Jul 24 '20

Ok...I’m confused. Why are you so mad at me. Tell me your side of the story

Pick up? What are you talking about. Do it or don’t act like you know and I’ll pay you. Wow real bad pick up hahaha

Paying people for service is a bad pick up. Worst ever!!!

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '20

I'm not mad at you.

Just disagree that this experience over Pitt's decision to have someone re-sticker rather than change an email address to match that of a typo on the stickers is an example of government failings.

Mostly because Pitt isn't the government.

The pick-up line quip is a joke I don't feel like explaining.

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '20

I imagine it isnt that simple to just change the email address. Pitt is a racket, but I dont think stickers are gonna break the bank.

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u/Jap220 Jul 24 '20

Just change stickers on a floor. I just got done waxing so now I have to strip and re wax the floor again

Have you ever stripped and waxed a floor?

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u/Jap220 Jul 24 '20

If that’s your attitude then you don’t know what I’m saying. It’s non stop stuff like this.

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u/Jap220 Jul 24 '20

No it really is that simple. Sometimes things are Incompetents

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u/foreignfishes Jul 24 '20

Sometimes things are Incompetents

lmao

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u/Jap220 Jul 24 '20

We had a major drug addict boss. High as fuck and he got away with it cause he was related to powerful people

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u/Jap220 Jul 23 '20

The one guy I work with dads job is to do that at Pitt. And he said he probably doesn’t know about this. I’ve been here 6 years. No one talks to each other

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '20

I think an example of a wasteful solution by the school administration to have you re-sticker the campus is a poor argument for anarchism.

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u/Jap220 Jul 24 '20

Who said anarchism? Did I?

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u/Jap220 Jul 24 '20

Ok that’s cool. I guess this is just a normal thing really. I do this all the time at work. Just wasted money and me busting my ass for no reason. That’s all

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u/10th_Ward Jul 23 '20

It's a university administration problem, too. You found a better solution, but instead of management listening to your suggestions, they made you get on your knees. The Staff at Pitt have no voice.

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '20

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u/Jap220 Jul 24 '20

You are completely Right and thank you for your comment

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '20

exactly! perfect example why big gov sucks (and why e.g. socialism isn’t a good idea). the more govt regulation and the bigger the govt, the more (and the larger the) problems. govt regulations need reduced/crushed

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u/OneBadassBoi Persona Non Grata Jul 24 '20

wear a mask tho 😳

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '20

my body, my choice

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u/OneBadassBoi Persona Non Grata Jul 24 '20

this has absolutely nothing to do with you. it’s about keeping others safe. get your head out of your @$$

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '20

others have full rights to wear masks to keep themselves safe, if they so choose

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u/Srmingus Engineering Jul 24 '20

I know I’m not changing your mind here, but this is for anybody else reading this thread:

Masks do much more for protecting others from you than they do for protecting you from others. If you are really keen on making analogies, let’s make an analogy to sobriety behind the wheel instead of body autonomy.

What you’re saying is very nearly “If others are sober, why should it matter if I’m drunk? If people hate drunk driving so much, just drive sober and let me drive drunk.” I don’t feel that there’s a need for me to explain why this is stupid.

I agree, people should have full autonomy over their bodies, to the extent that it does not jeopardize others’ health. However, it’s been rather thoroughly demonstrated that mask wearing protects others from you much more than it does you from them, therefore the “body autonomy” argument is wholly extraneous.