Wasn't a small explosive. He was trained at an Al-Qaeda camp, and both of his shoes were adapted to properly fit the bottom full of plastic explosives. Just lucky he was discovered trying to light them and was subdued.

I have heard of a few stories online of people thinking that the warning is stupid, doing just that, and getting a nice burn.

The last part makes everything completely reasonable. I take my break whenever at work, because I'm not front-of-house staff, so whatever mayhem is going down on the sales floor, I can't come out and deal with it anyway. As long as I take my allowed time and come back, no one cares. If the person running the registers did that, there would be a problem.

In many countries there are laws regarding how long a person is allowed to work without a break. Typically, employees must take a break after about 4 hours. It's not about employers trying to be mean, but rather abiding by the law.

This would not work in Germany as you would need to have worked after your break to get it count as a break.

I'd be interested to know which country this is? In the UK, this would be illegal as you're not allowed to take your break at the beginning or end of your shift. It must literally *break up * your working day.

I was an office manager when I was younger and I supervised all the admin assistants. And after listening to them argue about who was going to lunch at what time, then coming to me to complain I had to make a set schedule. I was in my 20's and these women were mostly old enough to be my mother! It was like running a daycare.

That sounds like a very smart employee! If you are paid to work 8 hours and don't want to be there for 9, they should allow you to come in later or leave earlier. No matter what time you take a lunch hour you are not available for customers and it's not rocket surgery for mgmt to adjust coverage accordingly. STOP being a slave to corporate BS.

I also take my lunch at 4pm and go home early 😁

My 8 hour workday ends after 8,5 hours because we have to take a half hour break minimum. If one doesn't take a break it's their own fault. International Company.

In the US there exist no federal laws governing break periods at work. The state I grew up in, however, had its own regulatory body to determine laws for occupational safety and health. An 8 hour shift would involve 2 10-15 minute paid breaks with a minimum half hour unpaid break for lunch. If one had to punch a time clock, the breaks were quite regulated. If you worked more than 4.5 hours the employer was required to give you a lunch break, as well as a short paid break.

It's a common rule that you can't start or your shift with a break or luch time. Breaks are for employee's health and safety, not for an automatic paid freetime.

Where I work you have to take your meal between the 4th and 5th hour of work. There is only one exception where you can skip your lunch and on the rare occasion you get paid time and a half for skipping your lunch but you better be certain its validated because you will get fired for time fraud if you are wrong.

The only "office" job I ever worked (transcribing workers comp hearings from recordings/stenographer notes) the entire office shut down from 12-12:30. If you were working through your lunch, you got written up.

My first job after the military my direct supervisor had set work hours very specific, 7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and lunch had to be taking daily for exactly one hour between 11:00 and 1:00. I hated that place for more reasons then this. But have been happy at my current flexible job for almost eight years now, hopefully contracts go good and all stays the same.

An exercise in idiocy.

I have a scar over my eye proving that I was once 100% certain that a cape would give me the ability to fly. I think I was four years old.

Either it was a joke, or they got a complaint from a very disappointed pa3d0ph1le.

This stock photo is killing me 🤣

Understandable. It's actually dangerous if you use charcoal grills in a closed room. You can die from lack of oxygen. People have actually died from it.

Where I live it's against the law to drink out on the street and nobody seems to pay attention to this

This made me cry about the terror the little puppy felt falling down after trusting it's owner and then dying T.T

Unfortunate, but I can understand why it was changed. A post-it note doesn't seem like a good way to convey something important anyway.

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That is a very wacky-minded way of reading it. It's about where to not hitch animals so they don't damage any posts by gnawing on the wood - hydrants would have had wooden posts supporting the line - or by pulling against its hitch. The law: "Do not: Fasten, hitch, or tie any horse or other animal to any fire hydrant, telegraph, telephone, electric light or other pole or to any fence, tree, shrub or other property. Drive, stop, tie or place any horse, or other animal where it may bite, eat or in any way damage any fire hydrant, telegraph, telephone, electric light or other pole or any fence, tree, shrub or other property."

"we" ;)

A short cut... to where?

Ossuary are such a weid concept. "Come in, we used to be what you are and you will be what we are"

Well there go my plans for the Saturday matinee.

So that's really reason Jack died...

They cannot mandate what you do on your lunch break, nor force you to stay on company premises without a good reason.

A very sensible policy. I was once presenting a training course and knocked a glass of coke all over my laptop. It didn't like it. I did eventually get it dried out and working again, but it had sticky keys permanently enabled!!

Abolished because Lawrence Russell Brewer requested a large and expensive last meal, but did not eat any of it, stating that he was not hungry. Concurrent but significant reason is that at the time the Governor of Texas was Republican Rick Perry, an all-around as**ole, religious nutjob and opponent to basic human rights. He actively fought battles against LGBT rights, freedom of religion, light dr*gs recreational and medical use, human treatment of prisoners, any basic regulations of firearms etc. He is the guy who greenlighted executions for mentally incapable inmates and refused to hold executions for prisoners whose guilt had became dubious from new evidence after the trial, at the same time favoring moving more money to private prisons while lowering living standards for inmates.

American workplace rules are insane, btw. 10 days PTO as a concession they can take away? No buddy, you deserve to have three times that, and PTO use should be mandatory to warrant employees' wellbeing.

Reminds me of the UK tory MP Christopher Chope who objected to, and delayed, legislation to make upskirting a criminal offence. He then did the same thing with legislation to tackle female genital mutilation. Didn't stop him from being re-elected though.

That is because alcoholic people would drink it or put it in other things for the alcohol content, due to cost.

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OP is confusing two separate cases. The lawnmower ones dates back to 1986 Mele vs. Turner, when 18 years old Charles Turner was injured while mowing a neighbor's lawn with a Sears Roebuck lawnmower. The mower did not evacuate grass properly and it kept accumulating, at which point Turner started cleaning the edge of the lawnmower with his hands without stopping it. After multiple times, he was injured. The plaintiff was definitely not the smartest tool in the shed (contrary to the mower's blade), but the mower design was effectively dangerous. The case was dismissed because the danger was evident to the plaintiff. Funnily enough, Sears&Roebuck already had a voluntary danger notice on not touching the blade while spinning, but this case made it a common occurrence on such products. .

Lots of shops and petrol stations here won't let you in if you keep your helmet on.

Even without that, I think they should be round anyway. Putting something with sharp edges inside your mouth is just asking for trouble, really. Accidents do happen.

Should be paying decent wages so workers didn't have to depend on overtime. Hire enough staff too.