https://www.chooseenergy.com/electricity-rates-by-state/

The best thing you can do is treat her respectfully. Say hello when you pass and be courteous when you talk, but putting up the professional barrier to any kind of personal relationship likely is your best strategy.

Your coworkers also see these traits. They will see you treating this person with respect, but also not participating in her drama. That’s the mentality you should have to forming a winning workplace presence. People will see you treat her kindly, but also do not participate in the drama.

Everyone respects that person

Exactly. Amazon is essentially running a huge chunk of a retail business for their customers, the people buying and selling products. The reason you pay these fees is so you don’t need to run a website, build and maintain warehouses, pay staff like HR, etc etc

Yeah. And that’s fine.

Cost is a concept in retail that gets manipulated a lot. In my previous example there is no way the actual “cost” of the USB cable was $2. When you factor in employees, rent, bills, logistics, customer service, etc etc the cable was likely more like $5. Best Buy made have paid $2 for that cable, but the actual cost to sell it, taken as a whole, was more like $5.

That other $3 is essentially what Amazon is making. If you sell on Amazon they build and maintain the website, logistics, warehousing, etc etc. You can create an online store and have exactly 0 employees or logistical infrastructure. Amazon has spent literally billions and billions of dollars building all of that.

I don’t get it

I worked in retail on and off for 7 years and every store charged markup. Some products were marked up 70-80%. One place I worked was Best Buy. I regularly sold USB cables where the store cost was $2 for $32.

Amazon fees are essentially their markup. It’s impossible to run a store without it

I’m even more confident it’s not CrossFit

It’s good.

There are people who are arguing it’s bad. They are either doing so in bad faith, or have the luxury of either never experiencing the racism that made affirmative action necessary, or never looked into the historical reasons for it.

A good place to start to understand why laws like this we’re enacted is Redlining

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining

The TL:DR here is maps would be drawn that we’re used to determine how risky it was to loan people money. These maps would be drawn based on the ethnicity of the neighborhood (this can be verified, there are poor white neighborhoods). If an applicants address was in a neighborhood that was Redlined, they could be denied a loan.

A modern example is the NFL. In 2021 they were ordered to pay a billion dollars to retired black players. The reason? The NFL were “race norning” cognitive tests designed to see if players had suffered mental decline over their career.

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/02/1002627309/nfl-says-it-will-halt-race-norming-and-review-brain-injury-claims

Essentially if a white player suffered mental decline and was reduced to the cognitive ability of a 15 year old (this example is made up, I don’t know the exact metrics) that player would be paid for their injuries.

If a black player suffered mental decline and was reduced to the cognitive ability of a 15 year old that player would not be paid for their injuries. Because the NFL was working under the assumption that black people are fundamentally less intelligent than white people, so for them to be “damaged” they needed a higher level of mental decline to qualify.

This was happening in 2020.

The US needs affirmative action. We’re a wonderful country that does many things well. We also still have a fuckton of racists at all levels of government and business. We’re simply not there yet.

I can’t tell. Do you use Arch or are you a vegan.

My guess is Arch. I’m confident it’s not CrossFit

Be real. You don’t have a copy of the Constitution

Don’t be stupid.

There are millions, if not billions of dollars in the human trafficking economy. Continuous reports of rich and powerful people all over the planet participating in it. Disgusting human beings willing to treat children like animals for their own gratification.

And you think these people won’t start hiring adults of the same ethnicity as the children they’re trafficking to move them?

It’s such a reductive argument. “Just question any group of people if the children are a different ethnicity than the adults they’re with! Let’s not look at the kids body language, or the way they interact. Race is clearly the indicator!”

Fucking stupid