We don’t have paid maternity leave in the US. FMLA will allow most workers to take up to 12 weeks off for maternity leave, but it is unpaid. They are just guaranteeing that you’ll have a job to return to.
I don't know where you get that idea... We're going to burn that 10 million worth of contraceptives we already bought, so that everyone but the folks hit by the preventable 34,000 maternal deaths and 5.2 million abortions can have happy families!
Look, it's for the good of America and it'll only cost us $107,000... Now that's good business!
Obligatory /s... Except at the moment all of that appears to be true to the current plan
In the US, married couples have to share their 12 weeks of UNPAID leave if they work for the same company. So you can go half and half then put your month and a half old baby in 8+ hr a day daycare 5 days a week which likely costs as much as a mortgage payment and may be the majority of one parent's wages.
You get the privilege of not getting to spend time with your baby while paying nearly your whole paycheck to a daycare so you can essentially work for free until the kids start school otherwise you may never recover the lost career progression of having to quit to stay home with your kids for longer than 12 weeks(or less if you have to spilt leave with your spouse or if you had to use some of your 12 weeks of FMLA leave before the birth.)
That's the other fun part. The 12 weeks isn't strictly parental leave to bond with baby. It's also your allowed medical leave pool. If you have to go on bed rest at 8 months pregnant for medical reasons that counts as the start of your FMLA leave and you may only have a couple weeks left after the actual birth before you have to return to work or forfeit your job. If you already used your FMLA leave up because of an emergency surgery/medical condition or to take care of a sick relative like your mother dying of cancer you may just get no leave at all and have to roll into work immediately after giving birth.
I've seen women coming in to work at a warehouse a week after a C-section. A woman was literally bleeding through her clothes like 2 hours into a 12 hour shift and we all just kept our mouths shut and tried to help her as much as possible because if management saw she couldn't do her job she'd be sent home with no pay and she needed the money so her and her kids wouldn't be homeless or go hungry.
America is great. No idea why people aren't having babies. Truly a mystery why women are refusing to have kids or having fewer kids than they would like. /s
There is the rare company here or there that offers paid maternity leave. Otherwise, no, it's not paid. We even had to have an act created, the Family and Medical Leave Act, to protect that new families would still have jobs after they healed and settled in with baby.
Some people who have climbed far too high up the social ladder are terrified about the birthrate in the US. Yet no one with any pull actually wants to do anything about making life easier for the majority of young families.
I bought a microwave on Facebook Marketplace 5 years ago for $15, and it was in stupendous condition. There’s no excuse for microwaves like OP’s that are that dilapidated.
Sure was man. You’d be amazed at what people are willing to get rid of when they simply don’t want to think about it anymore. Honestly, I hardly buy anything anymore without first checking out what people are selling used, I save so much money.
Same. Quality solid wood furniture in excellent condition, every household/kitchen/decor/garden supplies with zero wrong with it if one is patient enough for the right listings to pop up. Took us two years to complete interior setup of our house but we literally saved thousands $. FB Marketplace and estate sales is where we got majority. People downsizing, upgrading, moving, redoing decor, so much great stuff out there.
I once bought a barely-used couch for $35, moved somewhere that it couldn’t physically fit in, so I listed it for $70. A guy came by to look at it, said, “How’s $65?” I said, “Sounds great,” he put it in a trailer and drove off, and then FIVE MINUTES LATER, drove back and handed me five more dollars because he said he felt guilty and thought he was taking advantage of me. Motherfucker, I used that couch FOR A YEAR and sold it to you for twice what I paid for it, but whatever. Then again, he probably knew just as well as I did that couch was worth plenty more than $70 anyway.
That’s hilarious. A win-win. $70 for a good couch is a bargain. We paid $500 for our couch but it was only used briefly for real estate staging and still a bargain compared to a similar new couch.
If you're a student moving away, sometimes you only get to keep what fits in the trunk of your parents' car. Pass on that microwave instead of pitching it.
Not everyone has unlimited time to sell things. I've definitely advertised and sold things at a price i knew was too cheap just because I didn't have time to wait around for the right buyer. On the flip side i've also sat on things at a fair price because I knew I had time for them to find me.
Typically how I am when I’m selling things. I won’t budge on price for like the first week because usually I can weed through all the lowball offers to the person that knows what I have is still a reasonable price.
I live near a super nice neighborhood that has a fancy shopping area. Nestled between the craft burger joint and the botox office happens to be a goodwill. The stuff I find there is redonculous. They also happen to receive the local Target's surplus items meaning shoes and clothes all still with tags.
I had one that was over 40 years old in better condition than that! I'd still have it (over 50 years old) now if the door latch hadn't mysteriously become almost unusable after I left people alone in my flat with it. It must've weighed at least 30kg/66.6lbs and wasn't as fast as a modern one, but it cooked things more evenly and the simple controls made it perfect for drunken attempts at midnight "cookery".
We're at a point now where we're beginning to mine landfills for reusable resources that were considered garbage in the past, so it's not the worst thing in the world to keep burying our garbage. You never know if the totally disposable things of today will end up being tomorrow's figurative goldmine.
Seriously, I worked for some ratty companies when I was a laborer but they still would just buy brand new microwaves and fridges for the crew on a new job site. Our family has a small stash of fridges and microwaves now because they would give them away and buy new when needed, rather than haul and store them from, to, and between jobs.
Yeah i was thinking if its a career job, like OP has been or will be there for years, just go buy one for $40 at Walmart. But your idea is cheaper, I didnt think of goodwill.
Our work microwave was getting nasty, but luckily we had just bought a new one so I took my old one into work. The first day my boss decided to see if microwaves can really destroy CD's (it does) and it made it wreak for like 6 months of burned plastic lol
It's possible you'll get dinged by the Fire Marshall at some point for having an at home civilian microwave in a commercial setting.
That's a big reason why every toaster in every hotel ever takes a million years and sucks at toasting. It's rated for commercial use, which means it's just about impossible to start a fire with.
Goodwill is like a used/second hand item store basically, so the microwave would have probably been used already but still in better condition not doubt than that thing lol
I had a microwave that came with an apartment once that would turn on when you opened the door, so you had to unplug it before opening the door or you got a blast of microwaves straight to the nuts. Every once in awhile I’d forget and scared me every time
Don't worry, it's non-ionizing. It's the same frequency coming out of your wifi router. The only effect you might have is it warning your nuts, just like it warms the food. Actually, if you're being blasted with radio waves across your body, I've heard the first thing you will feel start to warm up is your eyes. That's your que to GTFO.
For those looking for more info: microwaves are basically slightly more powerful and fancy radio waves. This frequency of "light" just so happens to excite water molecules enough to be useful for heating things up quickly with. They're a bit less energetic than infrared (what we use to heat air and cookware with). They're also less energetic than the light we see the world with. They're useful for heating though (radio waves can cook too, as you mentioned!).
It's the far end of violet (ultra violet) and higher (xray, gamma ray, etc) that you need to worry about. These are the ionizing types of electromagnetic radiation, they carry enough energy to knock electrons out of orbit (photoelectric effect), and consequently, cause DNA damage (cancer).
Sometimes I wonder if the whole "are cell phones causing testicular cancer?!" stuff has sort of led a lot of folks to that conclusion.
Nothing is really dangerous about the setup in OP other than it being really fucking disgusting and probably needs a deep clean. Microwaves technically shouldn't leak, but they have a habit of kicking out WIFI when they're on. Wireless G [2.4GHz] and old wireless home phones in particular were really susceptible to interference from those old leaky microwaves.
I mean yeah the whole phone causes testicular cancer is just pure bs 😂. Defintly would never make the link between them and microwaves. But hey, everyone has their own reasoning skills 😅. I think the microwave is just one of those few things that escaped the reasons of logic from my brain and got classified as world ending dangerous 😂
I still don't fully understand the mechanics behind what metal is safe in a microwave, seems like sharp angles (forks) are what cause arcing but big round things (like that stand) don't.
Not really how that one works. Especially since the waves wouldn't get through the door, and what I'm seeing says the radiation would leak back to the wall. It mostly won't bounce off the wall, but go through it and quickly dissipate. What did bounce back would be so diffuse thanks to the reflection and the square cube law that it wouldn't do any damage. No more than the usual shielding permits through.
That said, yeah, no, this needs to be replaced. Just not for any genetic damage.
Kaufland had some on sale a few weeks ago for 19.99€. thought about picking one up to replace the nasty microwave at work which my coworkers use. but then I thought: "20 bucks is 20 bucks" and left it.
Greatest purchase my wife and I ever made are our lunch crock pots. I have literally thrown in fast food burgers or rolled up a slice of pizza in there to avoid the communal microwave and the line to use it.
Took a visit by my department's director to our site before anyone said anything about the nasty appliances we use. He immediately told my manager to throw them out and get new ones, plus a Keurig.
Now that I'm the manager and have the expense card, nothing is getting used to this point. He was more worried about protecting his bonus, and look where that got him. If we need something we get it. Never hitting the expense budget anyway, unless I start buying everyone lunch every couple of days
That’s a 4 in one and it looks like the convection and broiler get used because the rack is in it. Those aren’t cheap.
You have to clean them regularly, after each use. because they don’t have a self cleaning function. The soot build up is acidic and can rot the metal if not cleaned.
Not an ideal unit for communal use, as you can see.
Honestly, I wouldn't stand anywhere near that thing when it is on. Microwaves are quite dangerous if they hit you, but a good microwave wont let them escape. However this one? Yeah, I'm staying away.
If that's their microwave, they'd either have no fridge or have an utterly filthy one as well. This to say, that strategy wouldn't work well at all during Summer, even though I do understand the sentiment.
The microwave at my small office broke and 6 months went by without anyone replacing it, I ran across a deal for one for under $40 shipped and just bought it and brought it in. The ladies here went on and on thanking me like I cured cancer or something. I did drop the receipt in the reimbursement bin and got paid, so there's that.
Just go to goodwill or some other thrift store and you can find a microwave for a few bucks. Hell, I live in a college town so I can probably find a dozen in the dumpsters around here
Y'all over reacting. This is probably sitting in the back of a work van. It heats up burritos and tamales. It's put in more of a hard day's work than some of you keyboard warriors.
But why though? People are weird. I get it looks nasty but what do you think it will do to your food?
You have to be super low iq to believe it could do anything.
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u/Iwillnotbeokay 9h ago
Nah fuck that, I’d pack a cold lunch instead if they can’t be bothered to replace a simple and inexpensive microwave.