I always tell people that say they hate capitalism, and we should all be socialists, go to a socialist country you admire and live and work there for a year as the 'working class', not as a rich American on vacation and see how you like it.
Exactly. Also post Marxism there is a very long hangover as the Marxists never really go away on their own. I saw remnants of the disease during my twenty days in southern Russia.
It's give and take, like with everything else. Try to explain to this Cuban guy that more than 50% of EVERYTHING in that SafeWay is either mostly made from processed corn products or was raised on and primarily fed corn and antibiotics to keep it alive just long enough to slaughter. The majority of foods in our stores give you chronic health issues within a short amount of time.
In America, if a female coworker hits on you and you turn her down, she's perfectly within her rights to report you for sexual harassment and get you fired. This is something that does not happen in Cuba.
At my last job they hired a foreign female and put her next to me, so I could help her with English and proof read emails she sent to customers. She was smart enough, just had trouble with English grammar, instead of just literal translations from her language. She was married to an American and got her green card that way. After about a year she got really friendly, not overtly flirting, but close. After she suggested we meet after work a couple of times, and I declined, I had a long commute and my wife would have dinner ready when I got home. She was no longer so friendly, and a couple weeks later I got called a meeting with the Ops manager and HR. No specific accusations, she just reported that she was not 'comfortable' working next to me. I was moved to the other side of the building.
Sorry, that sounds infuriating and shitty. There isn't anything you can do that won't ultimately just make things worse. My feelings go out to her "husband" he's probably barely hitting that if at all and she regularly cheats on him. It's a fucking green card marriage, even when it's not, it still always is. She's got a lot invested in this con now, can't let a fuck up on her part set the wrong impression among coworkers. Women are all about PR and perception. She couldn't just drop it like you did when you turned her down. You were a loose end and she couldn't risk you getting drunk in X months and blabbing to someone else about her hitting on you. Needed to immediately make the first move to cover her tracks. You came on to her and made her uncomfortable and now if you EVER say otherwise to ANYONE your word will ALWAYS be doubted.
This is why men and women, in general, should not work together. If women can ever learn to recognize and admit their flaws as men already do then perhaps one day we will be equipped to navigate the dynamics of the two relationships in a balanced, fair, and equitable way. Until then, the result will always be the same.
Knowing women and where they place their values. In a situation as this one...in Minecraft... it would help to think like a woman when researching ways to retaliate. The male brain thinks HR, management, lawsuit,... but the woman brain thinks of reputation destruction. Women do this kind of shit all the time in subtle ways that can't or don't get punished in a work environment. If you can get the other women in the office to think poorly of her, in general, or because of something specific, either a rumor or just suspected... it would be far more annoying for her in the long run if she wanted to keep working there. Something she would have to face every day, just as you now have to.
But hey, it's 2021, you should always be looking for a new job anyway. Commitment is for suckers... Except in the rare cases where you find a unicorn company because they do exist.
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