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My workplace is situated behind a local music store. I just saw one of the employees bring out a blue ESP LTD and smash it before putting it in the dumpster. Does anyone know why this would be done?

Dave N. wrote: Tue Sep 20, 2022 9:03 am My workplace is situated behind a local music store. I just saw one of the employees bring out a blue ESP LTD and smash it before putting it in the dumpster. Does anyone know why this would be done?

He won a bet?

Dave N. wrote: Tue Sep 20, 2022 9:03 am My workplace is situated behind a local music store. I just saw one of the employees bring out a blue ESP LTD and smash it before putting it in the dumpster. Does anyone know why this would be done?

Probably some minor defect or warranty replacement and the company didn't want to fix it, so they ordered it destroyed because insurance will cover it. It's actually kind of sickening how much modern capitalism encourages and embraces waste - all of the old arguments about capitalism promoting "efficiency" have long become fallacious.

Dave N. wrote: Tue Sep 20, 2022 9:03 am My workplace is situated behind a local music store. I just saw one of the employees bring out a blue ESP LTD and smash it before putting it in the dumpster. Does anyone know why this would be done?

Can you access the dumpster? The pickups and hardware gotta be worth something.

I spent the past few days in Lagos in the Algarve. It's a surf/party town full of NZers, Australians, partying students and god knows who else. Bizarrely, both the hostel I stayed at and the surf shop I rented a board from only took cash or, wait for it, PayPal "Friends and Family"...

Have landed a swanky academic job. “Senior lecturer in epistemics”. Similar to associate professor in American English. Was on a one year contract for the same job but now permanent. In computer science and engineering. The interview and selection process was hard going. Five months in total.

I left my cushy academic life of ten years in Europe to come back to Sydney in late 2013 to look after my mother as she died very slowly of cancer over a period of three years. I was washing dishes in cafes and sleeping in my friend’s office for a year there. I had to start my career again from close-to-scratch after a big gap. Finally, this last Monday, after nine years of semester by semester contracts and fixed term contracts,, I am at a new university and back on the grid.

I could not be fucking happier.

So many people have helped that I don’t know where to start. Most immediately, from the bottom of my heart, I want to thank everyone here. All of you. This place has been one of the most wonderful, constant, funny, supportive, and down right great parts of my life since early 2014. This place has kept me going.

All my hugs are belong to you

Very cool, seby. Congratulations and thank you for the kind words.

Good work Seb. Well earned.

That's great, seby! Congrats! Epistemics sounds amazing.