AgentGoldfish

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[–] AgentGoldfish@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

The guy's global entry was cancelled in retaliation of what he posted. He's still able to go through the regular immigration line. There's absolutely nothing in the video about not being able to enter the country.

Is it wrong that CPB retaliated against this guy and cancelled his global entry? Yes. If the title of your post and commentary completely inaccurate? Also yes.

[–] AgentGoldfish@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Newsweek is famous for sensationalized headlines. The actual article is correct, but the headlines barely match the article. This website is built for being posted to reddit, where hardly anyone will click the link let alone actually read the article.

During the election, they'd post articles like "Trump DEVASTATED by new poll results", and it would be something like Trump being down 1.5%.

The travel advice from the European countries that have issued a "warning" is that "an ESTA doesn't guarantee entry to the US" and "the decision regarding your entry is made by the customs and border protection officer". That's not a travel warning. None of these countries have said not to go to the US, just that if you choose to go to the US, you are not guaranteed entry.

The Netherlands has issued the closest thing to a travel warning specifically for LGBT people.. They warn that only the gender markers M/F are currently accepted by the US government and link to the human rights watch website regarding safety for LGBT people in the US. That page also has the same "warning" that CBP makes the determination of entry and ESTA doesn't guarantee entry. But literally right at the top of the page, the US is in green, which means that the Dutch government currently considers the US a safe country to visit.

To be clear, I think there should be actual travel warnings against travel to the US. I definitely think the US should be yellow for the Netherlands. But I would not call clarifying border entry proceedures "a travel warning".

[–] AgentGoldfish@lemmy.world 112 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Not me but my partner.

She was working as a research assistant in a lab for several years. She asked her boss if she could be promoted to a research associate, which was one level above her. She already been doing the job of a researcher (3 levels above her). Her boss said that they were in a hiring freeze and that it wouldn't be possible, but maybe in 2-3 YEARS she might be up for a promotion. Her boss wanted everyone to get the most they possibly could out of their current position before promotion. What my partner heard was that even if she eventually got the promotion to the next level, it might be 5-7 years after that promotion until the next promotion.

I've never seen her so angry when she came home. She immediately started applying to new jobs in a different field. She also stopped doing work above her pay grade, to which her boss actually tried to retaliate against her. Within 2 months, she moved onto a new job that is 75% WFM, pays more, has a better culture and is in a field where she can much more easily move upward.

Her former company has started layoffs.

[–] AgentGoldfish@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Where I live it's only legal to use the horn to prevent serious situations, so someone doing this could (and would) be fined by police/eventually lose their license.

Even in places where this isn't directly illegal, is it illegal to make loud noises after certain hours? If so, that could be a reason to call the police or make some kind of official complaint against the driver.

Also, have you tried talking to this person? Maybe they don't realize that its disrupting literally everyone (a lot of people forget that other people are not just NPCs).

[–] AgentGoldfish@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They can’t get to see content that they used to, and despite not creating it themselves, or doing ANYTHING other than consuming it, they feel entitled to access it, as if it were “theirs”.

I completely agree with you.

I was a mod on an advice sub (that I recreated over here), and people would message modmail after posting and say "why is no one commenting on my post". Like, you aren't entitled to free advice, you're asking for it. But people would get legitimately angry whenever they wouldn't get any advice, or if the advice they got wasn't what they were looking for.

The thing that made me the most angry were the people who would delete their post after getting advice. Like people wrote comments for everyone to read, not just for you, and then you go and defacto make those comments private?

I fully believe that audience of people does not understand that they aren't the center of the universe and that there are actual people on the other end of comments...

[–] AgentGoldfish@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I was also a mod over there (recreated the same community here, but it'll take time to fill in if it ever does). In that sub, despite well over a million subscribers, less than 200 people wrote the valuable comments. If a sizable chunk of those 200 leave, then the sub dies. And several wrote to modmail about the fact that the sub did not participate in the blackout and that they were done with the sub (and frankly, I don't blame them, I'm also out).

A million members doesn't matter if the couple hundred experts pack up and leave.

 

The old IWantOut community was great for getting advice. Let's put together a new community to help us all get to where we want to go. Until more people join, I'll do my best to answer questions based on my own experience.