• cashmaggot@piefed.social
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    2 months ago

    I feel like there’s undercover mob stuff happening here. But I also cannot prove it in any way, shape or form.

    • Jesus@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      UPS is the worst in my neck of the woods. Their delivery estimates are always way off and I often get seriously damaged goods from them.

    • slumlordthanatos@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Someone has never had to deal with DHL.

      You’d think the Germans would be fantastic at logistics, but in this case, you’d be very wrong.

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        2 months ago

        Someone has never had to deal with Evri Hermes in the UK. Or TNT. Christ theyre terrible.

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      I never hold anything against FedEx employees because I talk with the drivers often as they deliver to my workplace and they run their drivers so fucking hard, not a single driver has said they like the job. It pays them well, but the trucks are always bad quality and breaking down, and the drivers barely have time to take breaks and eat while getting done at a good time most days.

      I always feel bad for them.

  • N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    Remember kids, with a little hard work and a lot of luck gambling, you too can be a successful capitalist.

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    2 months ago

    This kind of mismanagement and just operating off sheer luck kind of explains why I have never gotten a package from them that WASN’T damaged.

    • TrippyFocus@lemmy.ml
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      2 months ago

      I’ve heard this story a few times and supposedly it happened over a weekend but yeah either the guy was a very good card counter and played a ton or recklessly bet it on roulette and got insanely lucky if this is true.

        • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip
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          2 months ago

          Seems so absurd to me that there is an officially sanctioned game in the gambling scene that can be gamed by a skilled player to win, and they just blatantly ban doing that, and yet people still play it. Not the game is banned mind you, the winning through logic part. Cant have anyone make bank but, well, the bank.

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      2 months ago

      No, but he went with a thousand other shipping company CEOs and only him and the UPS guy came out with money.

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          2 months ago

          To illustrate, let’s play a game. We each put in a dollar, and whoever wins a coin flip gets the two dollars. Completely fair, even odds, right? We’ll play until one of us decides to stop or someone runs out of money.

          I’ll start with $1000 and you start with $10. Let’s see how it turns out.

          If it helps, picture a graph where the bottom axis is number of coin flips and the Y axis is the amount each player is up or down in total. Each flip can move the graph by $1, up or down randomly. So it’s going to bounce a little, because it’s random. Some bounces will be bigger than others.

          The house can offer you completely fair odds and still take your money just fine.

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            2 months ago

            Are you guys seriously lecturing me about blackjack based on an unfounded and incorrect assumption I don’t understand how it works?

            This is like some Internet variation of mansplaining. Do just assume someone doesn’t know something because hand waves and then start lecturing them about the subject?

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          2 months ago

          Yes the house has a seat at the table. It was a boiled down one liner about the follies of gambling and thinking you will win. I don’t need someone to explain blackjack to me or how a casino works. I’m 40 and not that boring.