That Bethesda Union looking even better now.

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Just yesterday, it was alleged that Bungie’s CEO Pete Parsons had purchased 24 cars cumulatively valued at $2.5m just before the layoffs. Parson’s Twitter account went private yesterday, too.

Pete Parsons thanks all the plebs who lost their job. If the plebs didn’t lose their jobs, Pete Parsons would not be able to buy 24 cars.

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Who wants to commit 24 counts of arson? 🔥

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✋ I’ll bring the Styrofoam and gasoline.

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I heard the secret sauce is kerosene but no idea why, so I just looked it up!

Didn’t find anything conclusive about the specific comparison between the two, aside from Kerosene being less volatile than gasoline

Maybe it’s because it’s safer to make/transport, or gels differently, or maybe they’re wrong and gas is just better.

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Don’t forget the petroleum jelly if you can’t get styrofoam.

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If you form explosives into the cone-shaped bottom of a wine bottle, it will make a shaped charge that can wreck an engine block.

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Beware the man that buys etch-a-sketch’s in bulk…

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Soo, put the plastic explosives on the outside of a bottle, and aim upwards?

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You can also just pour sand into the gas tank.

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Or sugar

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He also thinks if they find out they’ll kill him which is why his twitter is private so he can brag in person

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Pete Parsons thanks all the plebs who lost their job. If the plebs didn’t lose their jobs, Pete Parsons would not be able to buy 24 cars.

That’s as many as 2.4 tens. And that’s terrible.

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That employee needs to get over her simping mentality and sue for the gender discrimination Bungie is blatantly guilty of. I don’t give a shit if they happened to be doing a mass layoff at the same time; you don’t get rid of somebody right before their already-scheduled maternity leave!

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I’m not sure you have a case if the percentage of women on maternity leave in the fired group is roughly the same as in the non-fired group.

If it isn’t illegal to fire people taking maternity leave specifically, which I don’t think it is in the US, you’re out of luck. The only illegal thing is firing people because of maternity leave. Since there was a mass layoff, it can easily be argued that the maternity leave was not the reason.

The US needs better labor laws, and thus unions. An individual can’t do anything against it.

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There are two possibilities. Either:

  1. The decision to lay the person off was made before the maternity leave was scheduled, in which case I’d argue she has a case for detrimental reliance, or

  2. The decision to lay the person off was made after the maternity leave was scheduled, in which case a prima facie assumption is fair to make that the taking of leave obviously colored the supervisor’s evaluation and contributed to the layoff, and the burden is on the employer to prove otherwise.

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Or option 3: manager made sure not to discriminate against non-maternity-leave people by not overly firing them compared to people on maternity leave.

If they only fired people not on maternity leave, they could sue about being discriminated against.

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Speaking to a lawyer? That’ll be $400 an hour.

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In fact, there’s an argument to be made that they must terminate her, because Terminating everybody but those with scheduled maternity leave has a disparate impact on employees who are not pregnant.

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Seriously? It happened to someone I used to work with (last November). Except they laid her off while she was on maternity leave.

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My wife was at home for 3 months before the birth of our child and 2 years afterward. I always considered that not enough.

I can’t imagine living in a country where you could be laid off before or even worse during your maternity leave.

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honestly it is also hard for me to imagine living in the country i live in

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Your former coworker should sue, too.

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I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again (even though I’m not a big fan of bungie’s sketchy business practices and gameplay decisions). ALL GAME STUDIOS NEED TO FOLLOW BETHESDAS EXAMPLE AND UNIONIZE.

Pete is a piece of shit.

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America is a savage country that hates its women.

How come maternity or even better parental leave ever on the agenda?

What about making employers justify layoffs beyond daddy said it’s good?

Nothing that would matter to every working person is ever on the agenda, then we wonder how corpos can do this to us.

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America is a savage country that hates everyone that is not rich.

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That’s more like it. I got laid off last year after 5 years. I work in IT and trying to find a job in my field is a miserable process. They’ll string you along for weeks and then be like “no thanks”. The application process is a nightmare as well.

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10 points

Have you seen or politicians (on the right especially)? They’re decrepit, weird ghouls.

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Gereatric nepo babies do b like that.

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New law:

If you got pregnant with an employer’s promise of maternity leave they should be on the hook for all 9 months.

They can either keep you on and get work out of you or they can fire you 2 months in but they’re paying you all 9 months + 3 month maternity leave post partum.

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Here in France it is punishable by law to fire someone during a maternity leave. This should be the norm, and then some.

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All the old people think women shouldn’t be working so they are against pro-natal workplace policies and a disturbingly large amount of young people are doom-pilled enough they think pro-natal workplace policies are unfair to them because they don’t want to have kids.

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Yeas we should make policy around desires of gereatrics…

Nothing savage about it!

Also, I doubt anyone ever considered what 25 year old wany besides if it benefits the regime

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Land of the free home of the brave. Welcome to the american dream. it isn’t for you

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“They call it the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.”

  • St. George Carlin
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