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by gerbilly 8y ago
For sure, there is a lot of overlap between overtaining syndrome and job burnout.
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Sure but presumably, unless all employees start out only at your company, then the effect would also sometimes happen in your company's favour. As I said in point #1, as long as the rate of defections/arrivals is about even, then
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Screw non competes, they aren't even enforceable most of the time anyway. My answer to why companies should train people if they can just leave for another company is twofold: 1: It evens out. Sometimes people will leave company A, wh
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Totally, one wish list item from my post was that education be cheap. Back when I went to university I paid for it by working farm labour. Not so feasible now. If we prioritized that as a society, we could have practically free higher educ
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> But you should consider not trying so hard. Just doing your hours, dont volunteer to do extra, and figure out what you enjoy that makes you happy. For me, my EGO sometimes gets in the way of what is best for me. For example, mostly whe
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by gerbilly 8y ago
I think it's fine to address senior female authority figures as 'Sir.' Some people say, 'Mam' or 'Madam' which is fine, but to me it seems like they may come across as diminutive. For instance it would see
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by gerbilly 8y ago
I disagree, let the companies do the training. If it's so valued in the market, then surely they will be happy to provide that training. Why we let the companies push that externality on higher education is beyond me. And I think degr
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by gerbilly 8y ago
See this site: https://www.mind-body-health.net/ I have suffered many burnouts, because of my background which I won't go into here, and because of too many life stressors. I have found that site to be spot on, both in
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Depends on the type of burnout, but I would caution about doubling down on exercise. For two reasons: 1: It can be an attempt to avoid working through the issues that led to the burnout. Sometimes it can be like replacing one addiction wit
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Yes the DVD does have the alternate ending. What happens is that the construction foreman comes up to Peter and Lawerence and says something like: "Can you guys do more shovelling and less talking please? That would be great."
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by gerbilly 8y ago
At my wife's job a manager uses the word "efforting", for example: "We are are efforting a change to last night's ..."
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Not to mention that a lot of introverts self select for jobs like programming, engineering etc... Meanwhile the majority of people, and certainly the majority of the executives and sales guys, are extraverts and simply can't understand
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Yes, I have worked in both and I would prefer the cubicles from office space to open plan.
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> The transition to open plans and standing desks has been a boon for social interaction in teams, more role-crossover, and just more physical movement in general. Two thirds of these qualities (social interaction/role crossover) ar
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by gerbilly 8y ago
What a stupid neologism. I know language doesn't have to make sense, but to me 'ghosting' seems to mean the exact opposite of what it's supposed to mean. Think of it, a ghost is a dead person that hangs around and bother
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by gerbilly 8y ago
For an example of this, see this article about how OPP interrogator Jim Smyth used a non confrontational approach to extract a confession from a Canadian serial killer. https://www.ctvnews.ca/a-deeper-look-into-the-interroga
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by gerbilly 8y ago
The name of the famous band, UB40 stands for "Unemployment Benefit, Form 40"
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> Honestly, Instagram is pretty spot on with their ads for me. Instagram is all ads. It's a platform where they get users to advertise to each other.
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Don't forget to also avoid row 12 just to be sure! They could have counted the seats from zero, but labelled them from 1.
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Yeah, like food and water are, so why add to the burden and make it worse?
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> Just charge for road use instead. Now this would have unintended consequences. Basically this would make transportation proportionally more expensive for poor people.
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Word!
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by gerbilly 8y ago
>The state of the web in 2019 is frankly shameful. Those are tactics that you should expect from shady websites, not some of the biggest players in the field. Because of ad networks, every site is now a shady website.
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by gerbilly 8y ago
I read an article a while back, that argued[1] that openness to tracking and surveillance may be linked to helicopter parenting. The argument goes that because millenials have been raised to be under continuous adult supervision, that predi
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> In an ideal world, I would just pay the person $100 and not take their phone—but, c'mon, this isn't the world we're living in. In this case you could make it that kind of world, for that person, just for $100. To be pl
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> This is getting into some dangerous territory because it because implies so some sort of contract literacy. We already have laws forbidding certain types of deceptive contracts. The average user can't be expected to understand the
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by gerbilly 8y ago
It's interesting you mention rolling resistance because in mountain biking, cross country anyway, where there will be climbing on loose surfaces, you have to trade off rolling resistance of the rear tire against traction. If you over-i
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> To be fair, the said app clearly told people what exact data would be collected and how it will be used. Did it explain the consequences of installing a root certificate through?
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Why are there always so many people willing to defend the oppressor? This story is full of people making apologias for facebook's shady behaviour. I just don't get the urge in some people to defend the rich and powerful. They don&
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by gerbilly 8y ago
>If I buy a used iPhone for $100 from someone who would die if they didn't get the $100, have I acted unethically? Yes, it would be unethical to both parties. In the first case, it is unethical because you are taking advantage of so

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