Threads - dystop - Sprites kbin instance

[META] Creating a new community is easy, but to get people on board, you need to create some content.

If you create a community, please try and populate it with content. I see a lot of new communities with 0-1 posts from the mod. That’s not nearly enough to get people engaged - users are going to see that it’s a ghost town and leave....

[REPOST] Don’t Want A Woman Working On Your Car? Have Fun Waiting

[REPOST] Many years ago, I worked at a car dealership. The attached service garage was small and I was the only licensed mechanic....

[REPOST] Our head of IT needed a new password, and an explanation of due process

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Won't let me use someone else's (free) rewards card? No problem, i'll make you sign me up for another card!

(full disclosure - I posted this on reddit about 6 years ago, just saw it while I was deleting my reddit posts and thought I would port it over)...

[META] 2.8k subscribers - welcome! Updates, Rules and Navigating the Fediverse

WELCOME!...

Can't sell water? Ok, here's some free water with your peanut purchase (i.imgur.com)

How does subscriber count work across lemmy instances?

So I just ran into this problem and I was wondering if anyone knew the lemmy software well enough to answer this. I'm seeing different stats on communities depending on which instance I view it from, and I don't know what the true statistics are....

[REPOST] "I don’t care if he is dead, put him on the phone.”

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[REPOST] Take off my earphones while you're speaking to me? Sure, no problem officer.

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[REPOST] You can't continue working from home because you go idle in chat too often

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[REPOST] Get rid of my vacation? Have fun replacing me.

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[REPOST] Customer had a "reservation" for the 4th floor at a 3-storey hotel so I took her to the roof

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[REPOST] You might like to back up that decision...

[REPOST] Years ago, I was the CTO of a software company that was perhaps the worst run company I've ever seen. It was run by a "chairman" who used to be a flight engineer, and who had no experience at all in the software industry. One day, in his expansive wisdom, Mr. Chairman decided that we were going to give his friend (a...