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Opportunities are not only measured in money and fame. Some people simply want a job to finance their private life, and no, that's not a millennial thing. Othe

Opportunities are not only measured in money and fame. Some people simply want a job to finance their private life, and no, that's not a millennial thing. Others, simply don't want to spend three to six hours commuting every day, or work in an open office environment. There's probably hundreds of other reasons for working from home as well. Spending a quarter of your life commuting, a third of your working hours being constantly interrupted by others in the office, up to a week per year sick because you catch some bug from various co-workers who don't dare call in sick for the fear of the repercussions, well, that's not how you get the job done either.

applepple 5y ago
In my day, nobody would sweat this trivial stuff. You need to travel for work, big deal! It's always been this way! Nowadays there are so many good easy jobs in the city, so many forms of public transport... It's never been easier. In my day, people would go to work every day no matter how sick they were. Nobody bat an eyelash over this. You just soldier on and get the job done! The work isn't going to do itself! Somebody has to get the food out of the ground, package it, keep the supply chains running smoothly, etc...
- tailspin2019 5y ago
  Just going to leave this Month Python sketch here… https://youtu.be/ue7wM0QC5LE https://youtu.be/ue7wM0QC5LE
- fogihujy 5y ago
  Last time I checked, the job market is free and people are allowed to quit jobs that don't suit them. Employees are also allowed to organize themselves and act in unison. Back in my day, if a job didn't suit our preferences, we quit and got new jobs that suited us better. If the old employers didn't like it, they'd have to come up with better offers. Why would you expect the aforementioned ex-Apple employees to do it differently?
tailspin2019 5y ago
Replying to your comment as I can no longer reply to the dead GP comment. Can someone explain to me why this would have been flagged to death? (As opposed to just being heavily downvoted) I downvoted both of this user's comments as they were obviously utter nonsense, but I didn't really see anything in there that should be cause for the comment to be flagged to death and hidden altogether? If a comment gets enough downvotes, is it automatically flagged? Or can it only be flagged to death via the actual Flag button? I kind of think we should be able to debate alternative points of view, even if they (in my view) might be very wrong. But in this case we've just stopped this conversation dead by virtue of the GP's comments being hidden completely. Curious what others think...
- fogihujy 5y ago
  Agreed. While i strongly disagree with the parent of my post, there was no reason for flagging it.
  - tailspin2019 5y ago
    For what its worth I've just worked out how to "vouch" for a dead post so I've done that for both comments and it seems to have brought them back (although heavily greyed-out as is appropriate) I still firmly disagree with the content but just think we can't debate these things if we simple delete opposing views...

applepple 5y ago

In my day, nobody would sweat this trivial stuff. You need to travel for work, big deal! It's always been this way! Nowadays there are so many good easy jobs in the city, so many forms of public transport... It's never been easier. In my day, people would go to work every day no matter how sick they were. Nobody bat an eyelash over this. You just soldier on and get the job done! The work isn't going to do itself! Somebody has to get the food out of the ground, package it, keep the supply chains running smoothly, etc...

tailspin2019 5y ago
Just going to leave this Month Python sketch here… https://youtu.be/ue7wM0QC5LE https://youtu.be/ue7wM0QC5LE
fogihujy 5y ago
Last time I checked, the job market is free and people are allowed to quit jobs that don't suit them. Employees are also allowed to organize themselves and act in unison. Back in my day, if a job didn't suit our preferences, we quit and got new jobs that suited us better. If the old employers didn't like it, they'd have to come up with better offers. Why would you expect the aforementioned ex-Apple employees to do it differently?

tailspin2019 5y ago

Replying to your comment as I can no longer reply to the dead GP comment. Can someone explain to me why this would have been flagged to death? (As opposed to just being heavily downvoted) I downvoted both of this user's comments as they were obviously utter nonsense, but I didn't really see anything in there that should be cause for the comment to be flagged to death and hidden altogether? If a comment gets enough downvotes, is it automatically flagged? Or can it only be flagged to death via the actual Flag button? I kind of think we should be able to debate alternative points of view, even if they (in my view) might be very wrong. But in this case we've just stopped this conversation dead by virtue of the GP's comments being hidden completely. Curious what others think...

fogihujy 5y ago
Agreed. While i strongly disagree with the parent of my post, there was no reason for flagging it.
- tailspin2019 5y ago
  For what its worth I've just worked out how to "vouch" for a dead post so I've done that for both comments and it seems to have brought them back (although heavily greyed-out as is appropriate) I still firmly disagree with the content but just think we can't debate these things if we simple delete opposing views...