Looks like a steamy winter
Itās the groves of academe: Bennington College, the wildest and wickedest school in America. In the last great decade: the 1980s. Bennington class of ā86, class of Bret Easton Ellis, future writer of American Psycho and co-leader of the literary Brat Pack; Jonathan Lethem, future writer of Motherless Brooklyn and MacArthur Fellow; and Donna Tartt, future writer of The Secret History and Pulitzer Prize winner. All three are, at various times, infatuated and disappointed with one another, their friendships stimulated and fueled by rivalry as much as affection. And all three will mythologize Bennington in their fictionāfiction that, as weāll discover, isnāt always fiction, is often factāand thereby become myths themselves. From the Peabody-nominated C13Originals studios and Vanity Fairās Lili Anolik, comes the latest installment in the āOnce Upon a Timeā¦ā franchise, Once Upon a Timeā¦ at Bennington College. This is a tale of money, murder, madness, andāof courseāgenius. This is, too, a multi-dimensional expose: the secret history of The Secret History revealed; the secret history of three of the greatest writers of Generation X revealed; and the secret history of Generation X itself revealed.
how is this a thing we didnāt know about already
And the adjunct professors and TAs werenāt paid a living wage! The End?
They suck for a lot of reasons. Except the one i most hate them for.
Which isā¦?
Oh sorry. That they put workers out of jobs.
They claim that the number of employees hasnāt significantly changed, but if thatās true, why are there so many closed cashier checkout lanes everywhere? Same goes for the rise of the ATM in banking, and the shrinking pool of bank tellers.
This is the flat-out reason I donāt use the things in our local supermarket.
(I wouldnāt use the feckin supermarket if there was another choice).
But I know most of the staff by name, we always have a smile and a laugh with each other, and if Iām supposed to do my own checkout, I want to be paid a wage. Iām not doing your job for you.
The machines are always failing anyway, and they have no sense of humour.
Thatās more than enough to hate themā¦ but honestly, they are not great for the consumer, eitherā¦ They often fuck up, and are not great if you have some specialty item that needs to be manually entered by a cashier, meaning you got to wait for someone to come over and help you and since there are FEWER workers being employedā¦ The ONLY time I use self-checkouts is if Iām going in for a couple of things, just running in and outā¦ Otherwise, I go for a line with a human!
Also, Publix has no self-check out (at least not the one I go to semi-regularly).
Yeah. The claim in that article that they havenāt cost workers jobs probably is a lie.
Ummm, no. Your doctor is telling you not to tatoo your eyeballs please. (But, i mean, if you wonāt listen to your 7 yo, i probably donāt stand a chance.)
