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@boomzilla I love the top response:
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
E_NO_CAMERA_PRESENT
To access this website, please give us access to your camera.
Please blink your left eye to prove you are a human.
Your other left eye.
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@PleegWat And only now I'm considering The Algorithm accusing people suffering from various deformities and neurological disabilities of not being human.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
I hate those people.
It's not their problem you can't muster the patience to put up with wordplay.
I just hate the ketchup part.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat And only now I'm considering The Algorithm accusing people suffering from various deformities and neurological disabilities of not being human.
The lawyers are already warming up.
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Don't build your pool on the roof. Build a roof over your pool.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
Don't build your pool on the roof. Build a roof over your pool.
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@GOG said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
I can't believe I just upvoted a Techdirt post.
How do you think I feel about posting one?
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@GOG said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
I can't believe I just upvoted a Techdirt post.
How do you think I feel about posting one?
Dirty?
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Let’s get on with the dirty then:
ParentPatent troll as a service.
Desperate times.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
Parent troll as a service.
Would that be parents trolling their children, or children trolling their parents?
Filed under: Yes
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@HardwareGeek fixed.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
Don't build your pool on the roof. Build a roof over your pool.
At first, the system confused solar panels for swimming pools with an error rate of 30 percent, but Le Fisc says that it has since increased the accuracy.
Or use a blue-black-chequered cover over it.
I also wonder if the Paris zoo has been automatically taxed for any pools for water-critters they may have.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
Or use a blue-black-chequered cover over it.
Make one from medical masks, yes.
You can never know when the sat takes a picture of you. Well, you probably can; it's likely at a constant time of the day. But slip just one time by a microsecond, and now they've got you for willful tax evasion.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
Or use a blue-black-chequered cover over it.
Make one from medical masks, yes.
You can never know when the sat takes a picture of you. Well, you probably can; it's likely at a constant time of the day. But slip just one time by a microsecond, and now they've got you for willful tax evasion.
Actually I can. They're going to take it when the sun is up. And I mean completely up. Not early morning. Not late evening. Because that's the only way they're going to get a usable photo.
A bit too late now though; they're probably using the imagery from Google Maps. Maybe even going back through history to back-tax from the first year they can catch your pool in.
Note that I'm not advocating tax evasion. I was just noting that you don't need to build a roof over one if you can masquerade it as a solar installation instead, in a purely hypothetical sense.
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In other news, Firefox logo still contains fox in spite of Reddit memes.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
In other news, Firefox logo still contains fox in spite of Reddit memes.
It seems like they've learned not to fox around with certain elements of the logo.
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To many employees are willingly exploited by their companies, while this is a stupid name, setting boundaries on your job is a good thing.
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limit her work to her contract hours
That should be, and always should have been, the standard.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
limit her work to her contract hours
That should be, and always should have been, the standard.
The younguns are finally learning. Or should we say, they're now earning their .
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
To many employees are willingly exploited by their companies, while this is a stupid name, setting boundaries on your job is a good thing.
Companies are now looking at productivity scales as a metric for excellence, with some going as far as moderating employees’ keyboard activity.
Oh, so the beatings will continue I see.
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@Carnage are they hiring typists only?
Her title, senior vice president, was impressive. The compensation was excellent: $200 an hour.
But her first paychecks seemed low. Her new employer, which used extensive monitoring software on its all-remote workers, paid them only for the minutes when the system detected active work.
That’s quite the salary for a secretary if she’s supposed to do nothing but typing.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
To many employees are willingly exploited by their companies, while this is a stupid name, setting boundaries on your job is a good thing.
"Companies are now looking at productivity scales as a metric for excellence, with some going as far as moderating employees’ keyboard activity."
Hmm...backdoor way reduce meetings?
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
In other news, Firefox logo still contains fox in spite of Reddit memes.
Posted February 26, 2021
Or did you mean there's a new set of memes?
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
To many employees are willingly exploited by their companies, while this is a stupid name, setting boundaries on your job is a good thing.
"Companies are now looking at productivity scales as a metric for excellence, with some going as far as moderating employees’ keyboard activity."
Hmm...backdoor way reduce meetings?
Or reduce salary, and just make more meetings
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
To many employees are willingly exploited by their companies, while this is a stupid name, setting boundaries on your job is a good thing.
"Companies are now looking at productivity scales as a metric for excellence, with some going as far as moderating employees’ keyboard activity."
Hmm...backdoor way reduce meetings?
No, backdoor way of scheduling more meetings and reducing payroll.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
Companies are now looking at productivity scales as a metric for excellence, with some going as far as moderating employees’ keyboard activity.
This proves a point I learned during an internship with a big company: appearances >> productivity. Outside of the immediate group that you work with, nobody is really going to notice actual productivity. However, HR is noticing if you're not at the desk when they are in. (Nevermind flexible working hours.)
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
Companies are now looking at productivity scales as a metric for excellence, with some going as far as moderating employees’ keyboard activity.
This proves a point I learned during an internship with a big company: appearances >> productivity. Outside of the immediate group that you work with, nobody is really going to notice actual productivity. However, HR is noticing if you're not at the desk when they are in. (Nevermind flexible working hours.)
Now thinking back to a job I started in October of 1983. Because I'd only been there a couple of months, I had accumulated pretty much zero vacation days, so when one of the honchos from New York showed up on Christmas Eve, he expressed how impressed he was that I hadn't taken the day off like all the longer-time people. Not that I knew how to do much of anything important, but I was there.
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@loopback0 error, name does not begin with 'Ever'.
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@Arantor 2022 disappoints yet again
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A ship that didn't run aground:
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@da-Doctah xmas produced a mini-meltdown with HR at the aforementioned company. Interns didn't accumulate ordinary holidays, rather some of the federal/national holidays were designated floating (i.e. you could take them whenever).
Xmas was such a holiday. Since most interns were from various places in the world, most didn't exactly have "normal" xmas plans. Instead, most preferred to take the holidays some other time (cheaper for travel, less people around in most llaces/less crowded etc.).
This was fine until the company managing the office space informed everybody that the offices would be closed and the building locked over xmas. Nobody would have access. Also company policy forbid interns from taking company property (including laptops) away from the office.
HR came up with a lot of shit workarounds and mandates to "solve" this, which everybody outside of HR totally ignored.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
Companies are now looking at productivity scales as a metric for excellence, with some going as far as moderating employees’ keyboard activity.
This proves a point I learned during an internship with a big company: appearances >> productivity. Outside of the immediate group that you work with, nobody is really going to notice actual productivity. However, HR is noticing if you're not at the desk when they are in. (Nevermind flexible working hours.)
Yup. I've been at exactly one place where the CEO said "I don't care where you work, or how many hours you work as long as you get things done." Decent place, and I've recommended that place for friends considering new jobs.
But other than that? Asses in seats 40 hours a every week, and flexible hours means "Be here between 9 and 14". Productivity? We'll have a meeting about it.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
Companies are now looking at productivity scales as a metric for excellence, with some going as far as moderating employees’ keyboard activity.
No prob; I can randomly hammer on my keyboard while reading TDWTF just fine.
Oh, I may not get much work done any more, too distracted with keeping the keyboard busy; but apparently I'm not being paid for actual work anyway so
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
"I don't care where you work, or how many hours you work as long as you get things done."
I think that's been true of most places I've worked, to varying degrees. However, I've spent most of the last decade+ as a contractor, and for that how many hours I work matters, because that determines how much the client gets billed and how much I get paid.
flexible hours means "Be here between 9 and 14".
I've worked at a couple of places that were like that, but worse. "Our business hours are 08:00 to 17:00. You have the flexibility to come in early or stay late, but you will be at your desk throughout business hours. Commute traffic triples your drive time to get here at 8? Get up earlier; come in at 7." One of those places even made salaried employees (even executives) punch a time clock on the way in and out, just like hourly wage slaves, and questioned employees about $2 worth of personal phone calls. I didn't stay at that job long. At the other place with that kind of policy, there was nominal compliance for a while after the CEO got a bee in his bonnet, then we'd go back to business as usual until the next memo from the CEO, at least at remote offices; there might have been more strict compliance at the HQ where the CEO could see empty chairs.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
"I don't care where you work, or how many hours you work as long as you get things done."
I think that's been true of most places I've worked, to varying degrees. However, I've spent most of the last decade+ as a contractor, and for that how many hours I work matters, because that determines how much the client gets billed and how much I get paid.
flexible hours means "Be here between 9 and 14".
I've worked at a couple of places that were like that, but worse. "Our business hours are 08:00 to 17:00. You have the flexibility to come in early or stay late, but you will be at your desk throughout business hours. Commute traffic triples your drive time to get here at 8? Get up earlier; come in at 7." One of those places even made salaried employees (even executives) punch a time clock on the way in and out, just like hourly wage slaves, and questioned employees about $2 worth of personal phone calls. I didn't stay at that job long. At the other place with that kind of policy, there was nominal compliance for a while after the CEO got a bee in his bonnet, then we'd go back to business as usual until the next memo from the CEO, at least at remote offices; there might have been more strict compliance at the HQ where the CEO could see empty chairs.
When my boss mandated that we were all in the office from 8a-5p regardless of if we had performed maintenance (scheduled or otherwise) the night before, I sent resumes out that same night. Would have straight quit if I had FU money then.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
"Be here between 9 and 14"
I worked one place where we called that "core hours" (ours were from 1000 to 1500) Most of us came in between 9 and 10. One came in at 6.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
To many employees are willingly exploited by their companies, while this is a stupid name, setting boundaries on your job is a good thing.
Heck, I rarely put in extra hours. If I had some degree of independence, I might. But if the reason I can't get do sufficient work in 40 hours is because I'm not considered smart enough to decide for myself if any given meeting is helpful to my work, then they're not getting free hours from me.
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Space! Still higher than Australia on the list of places hospitable towards human life.
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
"Be here between 9 and 14"
I worked one place where we called that "core hours" (ours were from 1000 to 1500) Most of us came in between 9 and 10. One came in at 6.
I worked in a place with those hours. A lot of parents worked 7 - 15. Most of the local schools and daycares left out at 3 - 4.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
A lot of parents worked 7 - 15. Most of the local schools and daycares left out at 3 - 4.
Why are the kids at daycare in the middle of the night?
You used 15 for afternoon, so I'm going to interpret 3 - 4 according to 24-hour clock, too.
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@HardwareGeek Right, they should be at nightcare instead.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
A lot of parents worked 7 - 15. Most of the local schools and daycares left out at 3 - 4.
Why are the kids at daycare in the middle of the night?
You used 15 for afternoon, so I'm going to interpret 3 - 4 according to 24-hour clock, too.
I'll downvote you the next time you explain your joke.
This is the correct way to deal with a Nicholas Cage incursion.