Comment on The ability to be spontaneous in life is directly proportion to the size of your bank account

• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  My bank account is still empty either way.

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• Mr_Blott@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  If you don’t know the difference between “your” and “you’re”, you’re probably getting fired at some point anyway

  It’s not difficult

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  • li10@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s annoying when people get pedantic about spelling on the internet, but at least you weren’t a massive, insufferable arsehole about it.

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    • Mr_Blott@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      True, but is it pedantic? The same people that complain they can’t find a job are the ones that make huge grammar mistakes in their applications or résumés.

      I wouldn’t hire someone who was too lazy to proofread over someone who wasn’t; would you? And then why should that rule not apply to your fellows on the internet?

      Sometimes if you don’t point out people’s mistakes, you’re actually hurting their future selves

      I think everyone nowadays is a bit too accepting of other people’s faults to try to seem a bit more morally superior themselves, without realising that they’re actually being abusive in the long term

      Anyway, I’m not actually serious here, I just wondered who would actually read this far

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      • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I’ve found it’s more effective to be a little funny instead of being an enormous cunt.

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      • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Nah, you’re just coming off as a giant asshole. Correcting your vs you’re on the internet is pedantic as fuck. Could have easily been an autocorrect or typo on their phone.

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      • Hjalamanger@feddit.nu ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Please remember that everyone here isn’t a native English speaker and neither does everyone use English in professional writing.

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      • acchariya@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I wouldn’t hire someone who was too lazy to proofread over someone who wasn’t; would you?

        Since “would you?” is incomplete, a comma would be correct here rather than a semicolon.

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• qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I mean…it depends on the job? I go on walks during working hours all the time to clear my head and think about a problem I’m working on. I don’t try to hide this from my manager.

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  • stupidcasey@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I bet you get paid more than minimum wage to…

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• ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Most financially secure people still work full time. I suppose that in theory, they’re able to quit their jobs without suffering immediate, catastrophic consequences but if they actually did that sort of thing, they wouldn’t be financially secure for long.

  (In my experience, many financially secure people actually work much more than full time. I think they would be better off if they didn’t because at some point time becomes more valuable than money, but they have the sort of personality that compels them to. This is often related to starting out without financial security.)

  The very rich can do crazy stuff without consequences but they’re such a small part of the population that I don’t think comparing oneself to them is useful.

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• jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You’re

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