More Things Americans Think are Totally Normal... But Others Find Bizarre 

Here in Germany we use the fake silver icecubes for Things like Whiskey.

cite your sources

@@Darksh0t009 like im the move the last Diktator

I just made my first website for my father in law (he's a painter) and it was surprisingly simple. Thanks Simon!

Ice is the most important thing ever. If I have enough ice and a liquid I enjoy drinking, I am happy in almost any situation. I inherited this from my mother who has a similar ice addiction. My friends and family have learned to just buy a bag of ice when we visit because a normal family will never have enough for us. Or we just buy a bag ourselves. But considering how many other addictions are more expensive, unhealthy and inconvenient an addiction to ice isn't the worst thing. But if my mother or I have as much ice and water or tasty beverage we are happy people. That's just about all it takes. But no ice and beverage don't expect us to have a long visit. We can only handle an iceless existence for so long.

He needs to make one on how crazy Americans think the outside world is, he could go on for days😂

@@oliver6287 That would be a video about how little Americans know about the outside world.

I like the way America's system is for my industry, I repair roads and a 32 hr work week isn't really suitable for that type of work. Nothing would ever get done if we were limited to 4 8 hour days. But I can understand why office workers and customer service folks would want a more European style work environment. I couldn't sit at a desk 40 hours a week, that can't be healthy.

@@michinwaygook3684 you think we don’t already know how crazy it is? 🥹😂

@@michinwaygook3684 and plus Simon already has a few series on how crazy or bizarre other countries are soooo there’s that lol

It depends on the state, not the company. Time that's accrued as "vacation" MUST be paid out or carried over in California. Companies that opt into the carry over policy have it in your sign-on contract, but you can change that with HR during your employment - just like any of your options on your pay stub. If you quit or are fired though, regardless of what you opted into, any accrued vacation must be paid out. Doesn't matter what company you work for in California, unused vacation is always paid out.

@@Amarianee Pretty sure unused vacation is paid out everywhere, and is not a state by state issue. It's seen as part of your income, as you "earn" it by working. It would be just as illegal for a company not to pay you for unused vacation as it would for them to not pay you a salary.

@@wallyman292 I think you are correct, but I'm not 100% sure on the federal labor laws, so I only commented what I know for sure. So many things vary by state, and we've got such strict employment laws in CA, that I hesitate to make blanket statements about the whole country without doing more research.

@@Amarianee Actually it would be more correct to say that it varies by state AND company. WV has no laws about how vacation must be handled, as that is a private agreement between employer and employees. It only matters that the agreement is followed. I've worked for companies in this state that allow you to carry over indefinitely, pay you out for unused at the end of the fiscal year, or you lose unused at the end of the fiscal year. At one company "March Madness" had a completely different meaning because our fiscal year ended on March 31 and everyone was rushing to take their vacation in March because they'd lose any remaining time on April 1. My current company has nothing to do with fiscal year. You accumulate X number of hours per week depending upon seniority until you reach, I believe, 200 hours (might be 400, I'd have to check our policies and I'm way too lazy to do that on a holiday weekend) then you lose any additional accumulation until you're back under that threshold. There is also no federal law requiring that accumulated vacation be paid out. It's customary, but companies are not legally required to unless there's an employment agreement to the contrary or a state law requires it. I've signed employment contracts that require that I give a two-week notice before voluntarily leaving the company in order to have my vacation paid out. Not particularly unusual in any state in which I've worked. As you rightly point out, California has some of the most strict employment laws in the country, being one of the most liberal states.

Unless there’s free refills. Only caveat.

This is what I thought, I despise the excess ice in most drinks.

This is why all the disposable cups have that line halfway up the cup, where they are supposed to fill up to with ice before pouring in your drink.

I prefer a ton of ice, even if I’m not getting a refill. I recognize a lot of people feel otherwise, though.

I'd rather have a cup of barely cool soda with no ice and not need the "free refill" than have the cost of everyone else's drink built into the cost of my one.

I like to wave at them I hate going to Europe because I cannot see the randoms

Canada is the same way sadly.

Lol if you can make eye contact that definitely to much of a gap 😂

probably a way for the restroom supply companies to save money on materials

But then WHY

I’m English and honestly between this and the healthcare situation, you guys seem to get a bum deal.

@@patsysadowski1546and god forbid you get pregnant or terminally ill. They won’t give you more days off. Disability is used as maternity leave to have a baby and that’s at most 60% of the salary. If you’re terminally ill, get ready to beg your coworkers to donate their PTO to you so you can get life saving treatment.

@@TheSeptemberSapphire that’s awful. I’m disabled from a neuro disease and a mother but the rules here make it easier for me to work and still get support if I’m unwell. I can not imagine how stressful that must be. For small employers too.

@@TheSeptemberSapphireafter 20 years at one company and my other full time job was for fifteen. I got disabled, on the job. Filled out the wrong forms lost everything. Glad I paid those double insurance premiums so after I couldn’t work I didn’t get a penny.

Which wouldn’t be as bad if seemingly half the country flipped their shit when someone points this out. Seriously, half the country seem to take being fucked over by corporations as a point of pride. It’s insane.

The only peeper I welcome

😂😂

This is the funniest thing I've read all week, thank you for that!

🤣 I laughed so hard I was wheezing, partly because I can imagine saying that.

Today's McDonald's not only has free refills, but the xsmall, small, medium, and large all cost $1

Lol. I ask for easy/light ice.

Well were i live now (Ireland) has a sugar tax, Order a coke/pepsi/whocares? light. ll good. Regular ANYTHING with sugar? 30% extra. Cut down on sugar. Sugar is bad for you. Goverment: Not that wdgaf. Stores:profit Politicians, Hang on a sec Stores:kickback (Grabbing all profit) Politicians, ok, so lets go.

I worked at mcds for 2 years (not in America) I stopped getting ice in my drinks after seeing the hygiene practices regarding ice. Most of it was a really high standard. Full clean of the ice maker once a week, sanitisation of the ice buckets and scoops, full clean of the ice bins every night etc. The bit that got me was that immediately after taking payment people would go and make the drink. They would take the ice scoop, scoop the ice, then drop the scoop back into the bin instead of putting it in the holder. Cash is one of the germiest things in the world and immediately after handling it people would touch the scoop and then leave it in the ice someone would drink. Still makes me feel sick thinking of it 🤢 so i never get ice anywhere now.

lol! I do, too! Someone told me that I should ask for “light ice”, because it’s just plain annoying that we never really got more than a couple sips of soda out of a ridiculously huge cup. Turned out most places around here serve “light ice” requests by filling at least half the cup with ice-instead of as much as it could hold-before adding even a drop of whatever you actually bought. Still getting ripped off, and half a cup of ice actually melts faster than the whole cup, so the little bit of beverage you do get tastes more watered down and is just kinda gross. NO ice, please! (The markup rate is pretty mind-blowing, so I don’t have any guilt. lol) I paid for Coke, not tap water, because I wanted to drink Coke… not tap water.

Ice (and a lot of cocktails from the US prohibition era) were probably used so the drinker could choke down spirits that tasted like chemical degreasers. It's a sin to ice any spirit that has been carefully distilled and aged by someone that gives a damn about their job. To put ice in a dram of Oban or Macallan single malt should get you ejected from Scotland with prejudice!!!! That said, I lived with a guy in university that popped ice and sachet of artificial sweetener into a glass of nice Pinot Noir that our roommate picked to go with a full roast dinner.

Your neighbour sounds awesome!

Had the same experience once by a river bank with a fifth of the smoothest Jack Daniel's I've ever had (passed around about 8 people). Fishing has never been more fun!

I don’t think I would have liked a scotch when I was 14. Sophisticated palette there.

@@hbeachley I certainly liked Scotch by the time I was 14. Also liked wine which I had most Sundays with Sunday lunch.

Dubious post. No prosecutor or judge would ever allow the defendant's pretrial incarceration to be introduced to the jury at trial. (I'm in the US though. Different rules probably apply elsewhere. I assume you are outside the US since you used the term "prison" to refer to pretrial confinement; whereas, in the US, "prison" refers to post-conviction confinement in the case of felony convictions and any pretrial confinement (except in federal cases, which are rare) would take place in a county jail, and not a prison.)

@@skyhawk_4526 Even americans misuse the terms prison and jail. Anyhow, people are held in pretrial for extended periods all the time. "a recent CalMatters investigation found 8,600 prisoners who had been jailed for more than a year, and 1,300 jailed longer than three years without being tried or sentenced. More than a quarter of those 1,300 have actually been incarcerated for over five years."

@@skyhawk_4526 it’s not dubious that someone would be released for time served based on sentencing at the trial. The verdict and sentencing are separate and a judge would take time served into consideration when deciding the sentence. The OP never said the facts about the defendant’s pre trial incarceration were used to sway their verdict.

Wtf

@@skyhawk_4526 You're right about one thing... I misued the term prison vs jail. But you're wrong about it really happening. -- I found out his length of stay in jail after the fact because I wanted to know what happened during the entire process.

I can't believe people are getting paid time off. Even two days.

@@ticket2space621 I work in the US, and I get 8 weeks paid vacation every year. Plus, an additional 2 weeks of compensatory time, and 1 "floating holiday" that I can take whenever during the course of the year. Granted, I only got all that after 15 years on the job, but still. If my work dropped all that, everyone would quit, because, quite frankly, everyone hates their job where I work. Yes, it's law enforcement. Before you criticize the vacation and other benefits in my job, ask yourself; would you do it? My guess (especially since we can't seem to hire ANYONE even though we pay very well, offer good benefits, and are still constantly short staffed) is no. I can assure you, I would never continue to do this job if it wasn't for the vacation time and the retirement benefits. Neither would you. As mentioned above, we still can't hire anyone competent who is willing to take this job even though the benefits are fantastic.

Nah, at least IMO giving cops good benefits should be a part of police reform so you can actually be picky about who becomes a cop and so the people hired aren’t overworked and on the edge of a break down.

Laughs in European with 30+ days holiday annually

Imma guess it was at a warehouse of a major online retailer that offers great benefits to its customers, such as free 2-day shipping and a streaming platform? 🤔

I smell what you're stepping in, Brah. LoL in Tennessee.

Going through a temp agency was the first mistake

@@Fruitflyonyourwall Naw I go through em my whole life. Gets rid of the stupid interview process and I'm good enough Ive had an offer at each place I've ever placed at full time. Didn't take it half the time. Let's you shop employers well seeing what it's actually like. Just make sure you have a bit of savings.

To bad productivity is like 7th on the list of priorities

Productivity is just as important down in NZ and Aust. I agree it makes economic sense.

In Poland as an employee you are REQUIRED by law to take two weeks (at a time) of your vacations at least once a year

Unpaid leave shows up as a liability on a company's balance sheet. They want people to take it so it doesn't just accumulate and make the company's finances look bad.

Not too hard when you don't write your own scripts or edit your own videos.

@@ThisisCitrus Its harder than you think... Filming eats up a tonne of time. Just reading a 5 min script can take a couple of hours to get right. He does multiple 10-20 min scripts a week, not to mention all the behind the scenes stuff like arranging ad deals, managing staff etc. P. S shout out to all the people tied up in simons basement and a special shout out to to his wife for giving him time n space to be creative x

@@amanojin3338 Sure, but to the creators (most of them) who come up with the idea, write the script, edit the script, film the voice, edit the video entirely themselves, Simon has it good. Simon is working smart not hard, and that's not a bad thing. PS: The voice over is the easiest part.

The ice keeps him going

Uhm. . . You get your bail back once your trial is over, usually minus any penalties or fines, etc., so not sure where you're getting this "keep the money" story from but suspect you just make things up to fit your narrative.

The police don't set bail. A judge sets bail, or a jurisdiction has a set amount for a specific offense. Also some people, ie those with no criminal history, often get released on their own recognizance aka "ROR" if they have no flight risk and/or the charge is minor. It seems like people who argue for bail reform always have to make it sound worse than it is to make their point.

It’s not like cutting police funding would cause our taxes to go down or anything. They would just use it to hire more federal agents like I.R.S or FBI. Maybe even use it to fund more pointless research projects like when they spent $500,000 to see if birds were more promiscuous after using coke. Public safety is worth investing in imo

@@wallyman292 He's talking about bail that doesn't get returned.

@@l.s.aldridge5798 The presumption that bail is required in most cases, and that being held in custody should occur if bail cannot be posted, goes completely against the concept of innocent until proven guilty. ONLY dangerous people, or people who are likely to flee, should have to pay bail. Also, the likelihood of getting ROR varies from state to state, but in other developed countries the assumption is ROR should be given unless the prosecution can demonstrate risk.

Another American- I was answering work calls while being prepped for surgery back in 2021. An invasive surgery they knew about for over a month & I ended up getting calls the next day while I could barely move. $13 an hour and not a day off in the years I worked there.

In some parts of europe its actually illegal for a company to contact its employees when its outside of work hours

Yep, we were in Disney on a family vacation and my husband got told off because it took him like 2 hours to get back to a work phone call. They were super peeved with him.

He may have done a lot more coke than he admits to…

@@goawayihavecommentstomake1488 I know I have 😅

Flour?

Another thing Americans finds normal

That's insane

yeah they call it PTO (paid time off) instead of vacation and you don't have to schedule it. where i worked we got like 2 sick days, PTO and a couple weeks vacation. And if you were a minute late to clock in they counted it as an hour.

This can depend on whether yo are an "exempt" or "non-exempt" employee. If you are salary and do not use your vacation you can lose it. If you are hourly you should get paid for it. Most companies allow you to roll it over and accumulate for the next year though there are usually limits to that.

There are some states too that allow an employee of I be fired for no reason

@@jettanyx1 Montana is the only state that doesn't allow that at all. Every other state at least allows it for some jobs.

That's the Fact Bio we know! (& miss) Someone take the chair away and turn off his heat/AC ;)

@@billwheeler1213 I miss the script slapping and random screaming too.

Yaaasss the old format was better, bring back the script slapping and cocaine jokes!! "Am I right Peter!!"

He’s not wrong. 🤣🤣

...nor the tube in London apparently...but it's customary to stick to bumps not lines....or so I've been told 😅

Being understaffed is the company's problem, and it's their responsibility to solve it, not yours. You shouldn't feel guilty for a problem you neither caused, nor are responsible for solving.

@@Pushing_PixelsCompanies do this on purpose. It sucks. There is a district and regional manager, no? Because they could come and open the store. And, really, if the store didn't open... then... people go elsewhere for coffee one day? It's okay. There is zero reason why you shouldn't have a back up. If other employees aren't trusted to open, that says something and isn't your problem.

lmao. I wouldn't last a month working at Amazon. I have dignity of life and would take days off to suit me, not Amazon. (Jobs are dime a dozen, and easy to get)

Do they inform the employees prior to them signing their employment contract, that they can not take off between October and January?

@@sgtm7 No.

yeah it's a tad misleading to discuss a topic as tame as "forms of ice" & become impassioned to the point of yelling. Fact Boy caught me off guard with that one 👀😅

It is the British way.

Is it not more expensive to run an ice machine (especially with current energy prices) compared to the prices of post-mix syrup? Here they’re absurdly cheap, it wouldn’t surprise me if the ice had a similar cost.

@@itcat_x2605 Ice Machine Operational Costs < Liquor Prices.

@@Im-Not-a-Dog I wasn't talking about alcohol. I was specifically talking about soft drinks.

A 16 ounce soda has only 2 ounces of actual product with the rest being crushed ice.

Totally. I always have diet coke when ordering at bars. And I always say "no ice". The shock on bartenders' face is epic.

How do you use your vacation time too often?? You get the days! You use those days...

Sick days, not vacation days. You get fired for abusing sick days, you can't abuse a vacation day.

@@movingforward3030 I've seen guys get in trouble for taking a month off at a time and I've seen people get in trouble for taking all of their Fridays off for the year. A lot of companies put it in the rules that you can't take too much time at a time, take away roll-over time etc

@@fear.censorship sorry bud you've just not had a bad employer, I've seen it plenty.

No, really, how do you abuse your vacation days? Surely a manager or a scheduler has to approve or deny your vacation so why would you be the one in trouble?

Okay, there had to have been at least a few days off, right? Or does he work more than one job? Because it's 100% illegal to work someone 3 months straight in a row without any days off. Although, I can only imagine the overtime

If thats all one job that sounds hella illegal. In my work they are not allowed to schedule me more than 5 days in a row.

Nope no overtime he was on salary. Barely making enough to pay rent and we still couldn’t afford a car. And then they fired him out of the blue with little to no cause. Wonderful country, really 🙄

​@@IzzyMarrie not illegal 🤣🤣🤣 people work without time off for one job all the time. Especially when the companies keep refusing to hire more staff.

Just to clarify: he did not get weekends off and literally worked for 90 days straight?

And they have cash bail because prison is for poor people and their liberty doesn't matter in their eyes.

As a general rule, employees of private businesses in America can be fired fir any reason. Or even none at all. There are some exceptions, bit they only apply to a small number of workers.

If you work in the restaurant and hospitality industry and you are Not getting paid a salary And points, then you Do Not Matter! DON'T Work this industry unless you like it . Don't work it for money unless you are constantly looking for another job. Period!

Wtf America. If you are a casual worker here in Australia (as in not under a full time or part time contract so you get give shifts whenever they need you) you get paid slightly higher than the salary workers to cover yourself as you aren't entitled to sick or paid leave but still get superannuation from your employer like the other workers.

This is why they have unions. After that probation period its hard as fk to get rid of a union employee unless they just dont show up or they steal lol.

@@Sentient.A.I. Stealing usually won't get you fired depending on what you are stealing. "Borrowing the company vehicle" won't get your typical union employee fired, which really pisses off the rest of us.

I work in Germany and I have 35 days holiday annually and can rack up 100 extra hours to use whenever/however I want. Most years I take 50+ days off

Same thing, but Norwegian CEO and President. He was like, "We're not pulling that crap here." Then he retired, the new CEO tried to cut it back, the entire company HEMORRAGED employees until they reverted. These were not people easily replaced, and our pay wasn't comparable enough to make the cuts worth it. America REALLY sucks when it comes to that sort of stuff. Workers rights are a joke here.

When was this? I've had healthcare coverage and paid vacation at every job I ever worked since the 90s. My first job was at KB Toys.

Been there. Where I work now they sold part of the company and your vacation got reset. If you had x amount of weeks turned into one overnight.

@@nytenjin You have been very lucky.

How true it is I could have made way more money on unemployment and stimulus checks then work I worked through the entire pandemic and got no thank you and they figured they can work with a skeleton crew from then on so let him I'm retired

@@greendragon4058 that's entirely untrue, some families got a total of roughly $4,000 throughout the 2 year pandemic. So, you know, like 2 months worth of expenses TOPS. So unless you have extraordinarily low living expenses, you could not have just got stimulus checks instead of work during the pandemic. But yes, everything else you said was spot on.

@@jaybeemhardscrote7466 but thank you for correcting me I was working the entire time and my paycheck didn't reflect anything but thank you I really appreciate it

Yer, most employers in the UK want you to take them off, because it's cheaper than paying you for the day plus the holiday pay. You get bugged to take them before the tax year ticks.

That's tragic

Easy to see why it’s still your *current* employer! Well done- hold onto that one!

I agree! Although depending on your position there is some wisdom in mandatory PTO. Oftentimes people who are in sensitive positions within a company, (think finance, IT, HR etc.) Have mandatory time off to allow another to look over their work and ensure no abuse of power or fraud is occurring. One person with poorly allocated job duties could easily cause chaos if allowed to operate for years with no oversight.

This must have been some time ago. My neighbor got a job to cover for people who were nearing their retirement. They had accrued so much vacation time that the company was going to have no work from them over the last two years of their employment. That paid vacation time was part of their employment contract. It was money owed to them.

I guess I've just been lucky. I've been in the work force for 30 years and worked for 4 different companies, and in that time, I've never been fired. Certainly not for taking vacation time and I use ALL of my vacation time. I realize not everyone is that lucky, but there are plenty of companies out there that treat their employees right.

Oh wow, they're brutal working conditions. I hope the culture changes soon. In Australia we get an extra 6 weeks off when we reach 10 years at one place, "long-service leave". There's also legislation protecting workers from being fired or pushed out for taking leave entitlements.

Well if you were working for a law firm, you should have gone right to the competition and filed a suit for wrongful termination. Policy and how many days you took, managers approval, etc...is all recorded somewhere, and it was in your favor.

I don’t know a single person that doesn’t use their paid time off, I actually know a few people who have unlimited paid time off as long as they get their work done, if you get paid time off and you don’t use it, your an idiot

Got to drink the drink faster than the ice melts.

I make milk ice cubes, for a SUPER cold glass of milk.

I don’t like ice either. Even at home, when I have soda I drink from a can with a (reusable) straw.

@@sendthis9480 That’s a fantastic idea!!

If getting ice in your drink as an American in France is the worse thing to happen to you, then you should count yourself lucky! ;)

No, that's a you problem. When I'm off, so is my phone. NO employer gets my off time for free, fuck them.

😂

I woke up from a coma and my first instinct was to call my boss to tell them i wasn't quitting. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Seems you need a new boss/job. There are good bosses and companies out there. My boss never cares if I need a day off for whatever reason and even makes sure I get paid any available PTO if I want it. Also, I don't care what your boss says, you shouldn't ever feel bad about needing time off. It's not your business.

You’re not the only one, Melissa. We are conditioned this way from childhood. It’s a huge problem in this country. I have to BEG my husband to take an extra day off occasionally (he works 6 days a week, 7 if his main job is on overtime). Having our healthcare tied to our jobs is a hideous practice too.

Five times now in forty years of working, I've gone back to work in direct contradiction of the "recommended recovery time" after a surgery, simply because I'm afraid not to. I can't be out of work two weeks to recover! I'll have the surgery Thursday, recover over Friday and the weekend, and be back at work Monday or Tuesday - taking it easier than usual, sure, but right back at it, even taking conference calls two days after a 3.5 hour throat surgery. Hell, in 1991, I was back at work 24 hours after delivering my second child. I'm not proud of that - I'm appalled at my lack of concern for my health! But there I was, on my feet for my shift 24 hours later, praying my husband could manage the feedings while I was gone, because altho I was only making minimum wage at that job with zero benefits, I was easily replaceable and we needed my income. I want better for my kids, who are all now grown adults. The only one who HAS better is the one who's 12 years into his Navy enlistment.

@@daylittrell7490 God damn that's fucked up, here in Germany you're not even leaving the Hospital for 2-3 days after Delivery. In fact I have to go on maternity leave six weeks before the estimated Delivery date and 8 weeks after. During all that time I still get my usual salary, and after that, I can take up to 3 years of parental leave, my employers have to accept it and have to let me return to my usual position with my usual pay afterwards. And during my first year of parental leave I get about 60% of my pay from the state, along with about 200€/month of child allowance.

In the US, they are usually referred to as whiskey stones

Yeah, I have a few of those. They are about dice-sized little stones, and they do work. Otherwise, I use artisanal ice cubes when drinking scotch/whisky. Diluted scotch is a crime against humanity…

@@neen42 Yes I think that was their official name, I just no longer have the box.

@@joels5150 Yes, exactly.

Late 80s there was a bar in Athens GA that had a similar night. The cup was the size of a 7-11 Big Gulp (or Double Gulp)... you paid 5 bucks at the door for the cup, the colour was random to keep us from bringing ones from the previous nights) & a little chit for your first drink. Refills of any mixed drink were 25c & beer was 5c. I always got an Adios Mother Fxcker (Long Island Ice Tea... with blue curaçao instead of coke). So for less than 10 bucks you could stay open to close (5pm -3am) listen to the bands play and get pretty wasted. (I still tipped a dollar; I'm frugal, not cheap.) Kinda miss those days. Haven't heard of the concept anywhere else so it's cool to know some other bar in some other place used to have that kind of promotion. Although... now I think about it... might have been a money laundering outfit. )

We're going to be 36°C (96.8°F) in Canada tomorrow... I'm scared.

Word... I've lived in outback western Australia for a while and the very thought of going to that brutal, God forsaken, oven of a dust bowl before refrigeration was a thing is just insanity. I actually can't figure out how the original gold mining pioneers did it. It must have been literal hell

@@C.Fecteau-AU-MJ13 I live in the Memphis TN area and every summer there are at least a few days you can not remain out in the sun to long without major risk. My dad and I both were moving some book cases into the house this week and we had to take a break not cause the work was hard but because the heat was making us miserable The worse part of me is that I have migraines triggered by being to hot for to long

It's in the 80's where I live in Minnesota today. Our air-conditioner died a few weeks ago. It's in the high 70's in the house. Unfortunately, we knew it would only last this year since it quit earlier in the summer. Then it was 85 on the main level when the guy came. My room is over the garage and doesn't get below 77, it's awful. My mom suggested window air-ccondtioners, but our windows aren't compatible. I'm grateful it probably won't get over 85 the rest of the year.

Yeah, our tap water doesn’t come out cold. Something I never thought about until a Yankee family member was going on about it. “No, it’s not mixed with the hot, that’s just how it is.” Blew her mind that if you were really hot and sweaty in the middle of summer you didn’t even have to turn on the hot water tap in the shower.

I knew a girl (16yo) when I was younger who worked fast food. Went into labor on shift, worked til her waters broke Her boss told her if she couldn't be back in 3 days he'd replace her. She went back to work 6hours after being discharged from hospital. I felt so terrible for her, had to leave her newborn with a drunk deadbeat just to support her family.

Well that sucks I work for a company who said that I had to take a vacations During certain times of the year and they had to be split up like WTF

Good heavens! I’d love to work part time for whatever company that is!

It varies by state but overall the US only has 8.41% of prisoners in private jails. UK/Scotland are over 15% and even New Zealand is 10%. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_prison

@@MinMaxxx but percentage doesn't really matter if you consider the sheer difference in numbers

Only in America. Good on your hubby. With the exception of my military service, I've never had a job with vacation time.

@@gwick358 it is funny how a lot of america and my country crap on unions or any labour rules seen to help people instead of faceless corps. Yet that glaring difference(vacations are mandatory in the gov and heavily protected industries). Yet ppl still get tricked into voting against their interest to favour corps cuz "they might need that tax break when they make it big...". Just keeps getting worse too. There did used to be actual corporate responsibility and citizens would reject the snake oil salesmen. Very lacking nowadays.

If your husband is on salary, he was legally entitled to his week’s pay for even working one minute.

For the past 20 years, I’ve only worked jobs where I was responsible for my job function. If I took a day off, that meant I had 8+ hours of work to do on top of my regular work the following day. I also worked a bunch of evenings and at least 4 hours on the weekend in order to make my Monday more tolerable when unexpected stuff always popped up. Taking a week off meant bringing my laptop, doing work in the evenings, checking emails and taking meetings during the day while on vacation, and then getting back from vacation and needing to complete the work from that week. No one covered my job while I was out. My wife had the same setup with her work, and literally had to leave a museum to go sit in the car for an hour to take a meeting, while on vacation. And yes, we had to use vacation days but also do the work. My company gave all employees the last week of the year off, as a “gift”. Unfortunately, I had to close the books for month end and year end, and had to work that week anyways - but it was nice that the office was completely empty and no one interrupted my work.

If a colleague got sick and something needed urgent attention I would step in to help if I was able to. But that would be a workday and would not count towards my paid leave. But ofc, I would have full rights to just say no.

Yeah, of course you should be happy to let a suspect walk free, who may or may not be a risk for society depending on the crime the person is accused of, as long as the person can produce the cash for that freedom.

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Even on days that I was scheduled off as a manager of a tech support team, i was expected to be available to my team and i was responsible for their paperwork. So if 'Suzy' neede to make an emergency move and change of work locale over my 'weekend', I was expected to be available to her to confirm that her new work location met the standards of the department and file the appropriate paperwork, even though it was my weekend. And there was no recourse for either of us if the new location did not meet the standards required. I would have to file the paperwork knowing it would fail and the paperwork for her additional days away from work while she sourced another location, hoping that the advertised info she may be provided was correct. If she "took too long to find a suitable envirnment" she would be susceptible to termination.

You know I had to leave in August years ago for a funeral they wanted me back to work in 3 days I am flying for 4000 miles and then I'm flying in 4000 miles miles well needless to say after working for 9 years for this company I just walked out the door may keep texting me to work for somebody else and I went nope nope keep sending me texts where I was everyday, I had to get all the paperwork in order I had to figure out what to do with the house I had to figure out everything so I wasn't going to be back to work anytime soon

I didn't work tech jobs but I had the same experience. Taking a day or two off always meant figuring out work load what is coming and trying to get coverage while understanding I was coming back to a mess. I ended up for a time doing the procedures (written step by step instructions) for most of the departments I worked in with one company. I got the weirdest looks when I was like I want things to be set so if I walk out tomorrow the way to do the job is still known. I did have a different view point though as a sufferer of chronic migraines. Stress about my job while off with a migraine was a nasty self defeating thing since it would trigger/ maintain the migraine since many of the meds I was given worked so long as I didn't stress for like a day after it knocked out the current one.

Your comparing apples to oranges. the US has a multi-cultured society unlike any other in the world. That said, what would you suggest to improve our judicial system while reducing crime at the same time? Just curious.

@@wallyman292 don't make it money dependant. Btw USA is not the only multi cultural society in thd world. Other have the same situation as New York and handle it just fine (London?). And places like Ohio are not that multi cultural so that is just an escuse.

@@eliahabib5111 England is much more homogenous than we are here in the states. I'm not saying that is solely the cause, but lack of equity, be it perceived or real, between the cultures is a huge contributing factor in crime rates. And this is country wide. Not just in our big cities. And I still am not sure how getting rid of cash bail would improve things. Cities that have already done this are now all seeing a fairly large increase in crime rates. Is this acceptable for you?

@@wallyman292 ~ _"the US has a multi-cultured society unlike any other in the world."_ Incorrect. No matter how you categorize 'multi-cultured society' the U.S. is neither the most multi-cultural nor is it particularly exceptional in that regard. In point of fact it is ranked as #90 on the ethnic and cultural diversity level list from the widely used Fearon's analysis for determining ethnic, cultural, linguistic and religious diversity of countries worldwide, so not even remotely close to #1. And then to label something generically as 'unlike any other in the world' is purely subjective and immaterial to a serious discussion. _"That said, what would you suggest to improve our judicial system while reducing crime at the same time?"_ I'm not a politician or a lawmaker so this is an aimless question. I lack the foreknowledge and experience of law, judicial procedure, working with the opposition to get a bill in congress passed, etc. etc. , so anything I would suggest would lack an informed opinion. However, observation and the most basic forms of comparisons indicate that the U.S. has a pathetic record in regards to law enforcement and the for-profit judicial system where some of the most basic offenses ends up putting a person in jail, in debt, and stigmatized _before they are in a court of law._ For developed nations, this is exclusive to America. This is a single example, there are dozens more. So...we can keep doing the same stupidity that clearly does not work for crime rates OR citizens rights, or...we can get off our asses and adopt programs that have proven to work elsewhere.

@@d4mdcykey As you (kind of) point out, I didn't say we were the most culturally diverse country in the world. Only that we are unlike any other. And on that note, I beg to differ in us not being exceptional, in that most culturally diverse countries are content to let those cultures remain diverse and unique within their borders while in the US there's more of a push for all cultures to adapt to a single, unified culture of "Americans" (you know. . . the whole "great melting pot" thing).

So.. did I understand it right? you spent 153 days in jail waiting to be judged for being next to a 17 years old kid with a pack of cigarettes on his pocket?

@@ibanfernandez4705 No, I got a year of probation for that - As did both other 18 year olds who were with us. I later got myself into a little more trouble related to the probation caused by that, and left the area for several months when I wasn't supposed to. When I came back I got arrested and charged with a minor felony related to having left/missed court dates, which could have up to 1 year maximum. I sat 153 days awaiting trial for that charge, and it was reduced to a lesser charge(Misdemeanor) with a max sentence of 31 days - Which they said I had time served on, obviously, since I had already sat 5x what the max sentence was. Basically the point is just that I sat 153 days + Paid over 300 in court fees/booking fees while awaiting my trial for a minor charge, and in the end was only sentenced to 31 days and $200 fine - Both of which were less than I had already served/paid.

When referring to "room temperature" beer, the room in question is the unheated tap room.

My bail was set by an officer of the court that came to the police station. I was released on personal recognized it cost $40. wtf then the court found me not guilty because I didn't do it...

Yeah, except for when you're poor and the police are out to get you. One of my best friends was arrested on felony "conspiracy to commit larceny" along with the actual shoplifting charges. Her bail was set at $20,000 and she was facing a a combined 20 years in prison on the various charges. She was accused of conspiring to steal six apple watches from a Walmart with a woman she didn't know. She was in jail a month before she was allowed to meet with a public defender. The public defender was shockingly difficult to reach and set appointments with, and ultimately refused to do anything other than arrange a plea agreement. The judge assigned to the case refused to appoint another public defender or attorney in the community. Turns out the district attorney, Judge, and public defender were all close friends. The only "evidence" the police had was surveillance video showing she was in the store that day, but they lost the video. Ultimately they only had an affidavit from an officer who claimed to have seen the video. Given that she's 65 it would have been a life sentence if convicted, and her attorney wouldn't fight it anyway. She was forced to take six years of supervised probation and $10,000 fine. She has to drive an hour to the county she allegedly offended in because the judge refused to transfer her probation to the county she lives in. She shows up, gives her probation officer $40, and leaves. It literally takes her five minutes to take care of her "supervised" probation. Her only source of income is SSI which is currently about $830 a month. Because she has a felony she doesn't qualify for subsidized or senior housing. She's in poor health and unable to do the vast majority of work she's qualified for. Not that she has transportation anyway. She lived with me for a while, but ultimately my roommate (who pays the majority of the bills) asked that she find her own place. She found a tiny travel trailer for $600. It's currently parked on some shady guy's property out in the country. She doesn't have running water in the trailer and has an extension cord to run her air-conditioning. I helped her put a tarp over the trailer so the rain won't get in. And somehow we think we live in a country with fair systems and all you have to do is work hard and you'll be all right.

@@KrisRyanStallard Yep. . . And her situation is anybody and/or everybody's fault but her own, right? smfh. . .

@@KrisRyanStallard America - the best justice money can buy . . .

@@wallyman292 yeah, the implication being she didn't commit the crime, and couldn't afford to hire an attorney to take it to trial, and couldn't afford bail until that trial actually happened. That would literally make this someone else's fault. Unless you're saying it's her fault for being poor. Because, ya know, we would all be as rich as Jeff Bezos if we all just put in a little effort 🙄

Dude Thats mental! even having a term for it, jaywalking, its just crossing the dam street.

@@martynraveybracey7202 absolutely. Granted, the guy had a very toxic personality and I can see how things escalated to the point they did lol, but that doesn't mean he wasn't right in his initial assessment that it was a load of BS that the officer had even stopped him in the first place. He probably would have gotten it dropped fairly easily if he'd just taken the ticket, but his wasn't the personality type that "just takes" anything lol

@@Stormynormy42 When keeping it real goes wrong ..

"I met a guy while I was in prison who was ultimately there for jaywalking." Then proceeds to right a novel on all the other things he did that "ultimately" resulted in his being in prison! smfh. . .

@@wallyman292 the point was that if an officer had never decided to confront him over taking two steps outside of the crosswalk to cut a corner and get on the sidewalk quicker (which harmed/inconvenienced exactly zero people) then the entire situation would have had no opportunity to arise. Obviously dude could have handled it in a significantly smarter way and avoided all that happened afterwards, but the ridiculous law and even more ridiculous over-policing of said law is what created the situation to begin with

haha i worked somewhere that half the people just took all of January off and then would actually need days off and end up fired

Yeah. I have always got 30 days leave per year, plus the federal holidays(I think 12 of them?). I never took long vacations. I just don't really like taking long vacations. Instead, for the months that had no holidays, I would take around three days vacation during that month.

"Weird chemicals"? It's water. If you said you like to taste the full flavor of the drink, I would understand.

Sonic is especially famed for their pellet ice, not that it matters significantly from overfill.

Sodas are pretty much weird chemicals

@@neen42 but they’re tasty weird chemicals. Drinks with ice have always tasted like freezer burn is probably the best way I can explain it. I just put my drinks in the fridge so they’re cold and don’t have the weird ice freezer burnt taste.

I.C.E Agent over here

Word.

@Reno Figaro ice floats. Less ice means it’s not touching your straw

@@brandonpeters1618 bro thinks he's Jack Frost 💀

@Reno Figaro sir you are the meme I aim to be. Hats off