From a high level, this is about supply chain disruption and market confidence. This 20% impacts the entire world, and there is no clear time frame to any resolution.

Oil is used in almost everything, so the gas at your pump is competing against everything from medical plastics, to jet fuel, lubricants, fertilizer, you name it.

Gasoline for vehicles is a very easy place to squeeze out profits in a very uncertain environment.

Cars, and while we’re at it, ditch the touch screens as well.

Well, my mom died two weeks ago and my girlfriend of eight years left me this week, I suspect once the shock wears off the flood gates will open.

Came to post Bojack, it’s the only one I sit through every time.

Well he shot the picture, checkmate

Your mental problems are yours, not your bosses. The simple question of “Are you taking the time off or not?” would maybe have been a more professional way of handling it however.

That said, what makes you chose to stay at a job or move on is entirely up to you. If you want an environment more attuned to a “sensitive ass man like me”, go find one.

As to what has made me walk out, a far from complete list includes:

Suffering multiple hospital requiring injuries and not being allowed to leave my station.

New management changing the scheduling policy so that I’d be required to work nights and weekend.

Not receiving a promised raise after a significant project.

Being assigned an impossible task to be used as the scape goat for a failing project.

Being assigned a management role after explicitly stating I could not manage a team in the field when I don’t speak the language.

Not wanting to transfer to the new location.

Realizing I was too old and broken to enjoy working in such a confined, loud, dirty, and crowded environment.

It was my birthday and I wanted to quit as a present to myself.

I was raised catholic, and the steps you need to complete, the sacraments, would be baptism, which I would think is a freebee as they do it to babies, first communion which we did around 1st grade. I went once a week to a school in the evening until the third sacrament, confirmation, which is your “I’m an adult and chose to be a Catholic” . That was around 15 or so, similar to a bar mitzvah.

There are a total of seven sacraments, last rites at death and a Catholic wedding are two others I believe.

There really weren’t tests and such, I could name a few more saints than the average person I suppose.

I’m sure a local church will have adult classes, I can’t imagine it being a difficult process, though how long it would take I have no idea.

Much rather see him with a few purple hearts

When I was born, there were 4 billion people in the world.

There are now over 8 billion.

That means in just my lifetime, there are twice as many humans on Earth.

I 100% feel the planet is over populated, and that it is a major factor in issues we face today.

I absolutely think people should be encouraged not to have children.

Absolutely second the don’t have kids. Best decision I made in life.