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by drugme 8y ago
I think the circumstances warrant it. Absolutely, from what you've said. Supervisors "rage-fire" people on the spot all the time, often with little or no direct justification -- other than the manager having a momentary bre
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by drugme 8y ago
What if the doctor couldn't get back to the hospital in time and this was the only way to tell them? Maybe he or she can, umm... send someone else?
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CA family furious after hospital uses video call to tell grandfather he's dying(theguardian.com)
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by drugme 8y ago
They simply say the company was "ageist" and blame it on age discrimination. Except they don't "simply say that". It's a fact of the industry that is backed up by (a heck of a lot of) experience and observati
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by drugme 8y ago
Blenkhorn says that once she was back on the job market, the ageism she experienced was compounded by sexism. Despite her profound technical achievements, she was dismissed by recruiters as irrelevant and dull, as a “mom.” She recently com
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by drugme 8y ago
True or not -- the report says that "two in five" part then it's definitely buried somewhere -- and in any case is not present as one of the main themes of the report. Which as a whole is quite bland and difficult to pick ap
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Robert Crumb: 'I am no longer a slave to a raging libido'(theguardian.com)
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Microplastic pollution revealed ‘absolutely everywhere’ by new research(theguardian.com)
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by drugme 8y ago
... or an increase in the price of goods and services, per the Scandinavian model. Which seems to work well enough for those countries.
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by drugme 8y ago
How would that work when it is voluntary by the employer? It won't be. We've had a go at letting employers "voluntarily" provide a reasonable living wage to low-skilled workers -- but obviously that tactic has failed m
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by drugme 8y ago
Exactly - when minimum wages are introduced, they need to be met with rigorous protections against reductions in working hours.
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by drugme 8y ago
This might be an unpopular opinion, but I wouldn't want to work at a company that doesn't value whiteboarding or doesn't know how to conduct a whiteboard interview. Popular or not -- objectively speaking, this reflects a ra
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Hotels at centre of rape allegations promoted on TripAdvisor(theguardian.com)
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Why Napalm Is a Cautionary Tale for Tech Giants Pursuing Military Contracts(nytimes.com)
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America's love of luxury toilet paper is destroying Canadian forests(theguardian.com)
26 points by drugme 8y ago|24 comments
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by drugme 8y ago
Sorry, but this is just spin. Of course the city was giving them something - that's what the $3b in "tax relief" was about.
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by drugme 8y ago
The truth is that rents in Berlin are exceptionally cheap compared to other major cities. What the article is concerned about is not how current rents in Berlin compare to cities like London or Paris. But how they compare to rents in Ber
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by drugme 8y ago
Did anyone else notice that the article seems to be confused about "two fifths" versus "20 percent"?
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The neuroscientist shattering the myth of the gendered brain(theguardian.com)
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Journalist, 12, faces off with police officer who threatened to arrest her(theguardian.com)
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by drugme 8y ago
Pros: interesting(-ish) work, fun(-seeming) people, bragging rights Cons: amateur hour 24x7
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Confidential Emails Sent by Facebook Executives Leaked Online(theguardian.com)
26 points by drugme 8y ago|1 comments
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by drugme 8y ago
Which one is it? The fact that some people may have been misinformed about one aspect of the issue (the number of fulfillment jobs) does not -- in any way -- diminish the perfectly legitimate concerns that others had about rising rents an
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by drugme 8y ago
What corporate IT typically does, is certainly not a reference. The article was in no way specific to "corporate IT". But, literally by definition -- we're talking about the huge mass of applications that run most of the pl
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by drugme 8y ago
No feigning surprise No condescending well-actually’s Egads - I thought this was going to be about serious matters (like the climate of toxic sexual behavior that pervades our industry). But no - it's about thought control and enf
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Pollution Casts Shadow Over New Mexico's Booming Dairy Industry(theguardian.com)
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by drugme 8y ago
Strong agreement. There's really no need to make the process anywhere near as adversarial as it usually is (by default) these days. Equivalent (or actually much better, in my subjective view) insights can be gotten by purely collabor
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by drugme 8y ago
Let's put it this way: "Sure, I'll consider abandoning all priorities (i.e. social life) and/or putting off others (kids) -- and maybe even take minor risks on my health -- if you you're able to appropriate compen
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by drugme 8y ago
No, it's called having a life and a sense of proportion. The sooner tech companies learn to embrace and work with this very basic fact, the better.
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by drugme 8y ago
It happens and it happens a lot more than it used to. And at some point it becomes a significant deterrent to the prospect of starting a new job search.

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