Isn't that a parody account?
I genuinely find it hard to tell on LinkedIn sometimes. But satire is fine here. If/when we have the ability to add post flairs I’ll make them so people can filter out satire if they don’t want to see it.
I barely notice any difference between LinkedIn and shlinkedIn 😄
I don't think satire fits this community
Thank you for the input, but I created the community, wrote the rules and made this post. As mentioned, all satire posts require a tag so you can filter them out if you wish. In about a months time I’ll make a stickied post asking if anyone would like to mod with me, and for feedback about the rules and how this community is managed in general. I have no desire to be an overly authoritarian mod so I look forward to refining the rules so that the majority of subscribers are in agreement, but we’ve still very new so I think we need to give it a few weeks to let the community build up and for people beside me to make posts. Until then I hope you’re able to enjoy the 90% of post that aren’t satire. Thanks again for your input.
that's fair
Yeah he’s hilarious
It is :)
Dude sitting on the floor of his unfurnished studio apartment eating the plan white rice.
Nah, white rice is too expensive now that India has capped exports.
My buddy wanted to use a 25% off coupon from fandango when we were buying tickets, so they used fandango and I used the theater’s website to purchase tickets. They had a service fee while I did not and in the end they saved a whopping ¢25 over me.
I mean they still came out on top.
I thought you were gonna say it cost them more in the end
Those fucking "service fees" should be regulated. It's all just part of the cost so include it in the price instead of adding it on last second and acting like they have no control over it. I think final price should be what is advertised when possible, with a breakdown offered in addition to that if that's helpful. Obviously certain things like taxes and shipping can depend on the buyer's location, but a good faith effort to show the final cost should be made, including allowing users to anonymously put that information in to see what the final cost works out to.
IMO it's all manipulative salesmanship to not advertise the final price, but especially so when it's just that site or service adding in their own fees or other fees that should have been considered their cost of doing business.
And especially fuck fees when they are used to manipulate numbers life "profit" to avoid taxes or fuck over people who think a product will be profitable when the other side is negotiating based on whether a company will be profitable (and deliberately structure it so that it won't).
You’re preaching to the choir! While they fiddled trying to get the promo code applied they ended up losing their selected seats, it was a huge waste of time for them. Modern day capitalism is tricking the consumer into buying their product. “You’ve already made it this far, what’s a few more fees before you check out?” is a terrible business model.
Habitual inclusion of sales tax but not other fees
At 15 per ticket it's more like $42
it baffles me that tax isn't included in the price. Here, what is on the sticker is how much you pay.
Every state and every city can have different tax rates, that's why
Every time this is brought up Americans give this excuse.
The tesco express down the road has different prices for almost everything compared to the big tesco 200 metres away from it and yet somehow through the magic of modern technology can print different price labels to each other and have different prices in their database systems. It's wild.
It’s not like we don’t have “deals” to make goods look cheaper than they are here either. You can still trick consumers while posting the true price.
That’s not why. It could still be required that taxes are included in the price. Franchises jn different locations already have different prices anyway (you think the price for a Big Mac is the same in NYC as it is in a suburb in Ohio?)
It’s literally just so that businesses can advertise costs that are lower than what they are. Same reason Ticketmaster has 14 different convenience fees and tipping is a cultural norm rather than paying servers a living wage to begin with.
Are you American? If so, would you prefer to have the price include all taxes up front, or is there some benefit of having prices listed like this?
Imagine getting downvoted for a question
When people are way too smug about their wrong answer.
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There is currently no rule about how recent a post needs to be because the community is about the comeback part, not the topic.
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