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Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Absolutely no NSFL content.
  7. Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
  8. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] LePoisson@lemmy.world 52 points 4 days ago (3 children)

This is too rage-inducing to be real ... Right?

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 22 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This specific email from Brenda is most likely a fictional version of something that does actually happen fairly regularly. There are laws in many countries and even in some US states mandating breaks because of companies or leadership or HR encouraging them to never stop working.

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The issue isn't the 'never stop working' part, that sucks but isn't illegal. It's the 'stop paying but don't stop working' part that's a problem.

[–] Rothe@piefed.social 6 points 4 days ago

"Never stop working" definitely is illegal in many places.

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 4 points 4 days ago

Stop paying but don't stop working is literally what expecting someone to work through their break is.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 days ago

I've never seen one of these where the company actually got named.

[–] HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Correct.

If this is real, I'm bigger than Ron Jeremy.