• AeronMelon@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    “The fight attendant just told me that the Pilot doesn’t see that as an adequate reason to return to the airport.”

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    I have 100% called in sick from another state just as my friends and I were about to get on a gondola to go up to the top of a mountain.

    I was on the phone saying I felt terrible when “NEXT CAR ARRIVING” or something similar blared over a loudspeaker.

    “What was that?” they asked. “Oh, just the tv. fake cough

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      I’ve done similar prior to the days of company-issued phones and company messaging platforms. These days, calling in sick is just a teams/slack/whatever message to my lead; no need to sound sick anymore!

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      Sorry, as an executive of a major company I may have misheard you but did you say “replace half the team with an LLM and then make those remaining pick up the slack”?

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      It’s tough to say definitively because there are a bunch of dialects, but in mine (west coast USA), “on another continent” is correct and “in another continent” sounds a little off.

    • 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
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      that’s some bullshit English has, come on, for fucks sake, it’s the same thing!!!

      I’m standing on a continent, but also in it’s boundaries. English as a language has a lot of BS, and this shit is hard for people’s who learned English as a second language.