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No, his boss isn't stupid, he's exercising the "duty of care" part of being a decent boss. If you're sick, you should stay home and recover, whether you think you can be as product…

Same here - in fact, I've had to say this to members of my own team recently. It's strictly forbidden by HR - if you're sick, you take days off until you're better, so you are not …

As someone who has to give the news about the review outcome, I can confirm this from my own experience as well. Pretty much only those who come out of it as "top-tier" get any ben…

We possibly work for the same company, as our system - flaws and all - are identical to what you describe. As someone who has to carry out both sides of the process (reviewing staf…

While I appreciate the work you've put into this, why should I use this over messenger.com? edit to add: by which I mean "what's your main selling point?"

It's not forced. You can very easily not pay the license fee. I don't, and haven't for ~18 months, with the full knowledge of the TV License authority. You just have to follow a si…

I met mine on Tinder, 7 months ago. We moved in together last month. Before that I'd done the "normal" chatting up someone in a bar (that's how I met my ex-wife), or meeting throug…

Me and a friend tried it with a (UK) bank note while we were at school, way back in the 90's, and received a warning about not being allowed to print scanned currency on screen whe…

As someone who's travelled 10,000 mile round-trips for final interviews, only to lose out on "culture fit," I find it the most frustrating excuse for not getting a job I have other…

> Being able to share data plans with phones at nominal cost would be one interesting upgrade driver but that's really in the hands of the carriers and is unlikely Vodafone in the …

You're not alone. I've been in my current job ~3.5 years - every day I've read through (and sometimes speculatively applied for) many job postings. I like my job, but that doesn't …

Location: Aberdeen, Scotland Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Not likely in the short-term Technologies: ASP.NET (MVC mainly), PHP, HTML/CSS, some JS, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, Wi…

This is similar to my experience (iPhone 5S, 8.0.2), though often I don't even need to reboot. Open the Health app; no data; close it; do something else for 1-2 minutes; reopen - d…

I'd say it's the opposite. Selling radical change is harder than selling the status quo. The Yes campaign has to prove Scotland "has what it takes" and dispel all the fears and unc…

We have an old Scots phrase: "common weal," meaning both wealth shared in common and for the well-being of all. Sounds fairly close to some definitions of Socialism. On renationali…

It's worth pointing out that the only variance it can make under the existing powers is to _raise_ income taxes - this is why it's never been used. Doing so would be political suic…

I've found an increasing number of sites use validation preventing the use of '+' in email addresses (which I used extensively when on Gmail). To get around this, I use a feature o…

Moveable Type was the first blog system I used, over 12 years ago. Oh the memories... my first exposure to Perl and setting up sites on a shared host. Slacking off in university la…

Have you tried installing the Infiniality bundle? It's a replacement set of libraries that definitely improved the font rendering in Arch, to my eyes at least. https://wiki.archlin…

My heating system's got a proprietary wireless thermostat/control box (I guess what Nest refer to as a "programmer"), but it's a newer combi-boiler, less than 5 years old. The prev…

Good point. I've done this in the past (i.e. back when I was at university) - speed up cooking ramen noodles (or "super noodles") by pouring a boiled kettle into the hot pan. But t…

I don't even drink tea, and I have an electric kettle. In case any guests want tea. It's the "done thing", as they say.