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I have a friend that worked in a insulation manufacturing company, the oven would never be shut-off because of the time it takes to start it up again, it's cheaper to let people run it 24/7.
Just because something is time critical doesn't mean it's important.
This post feels like a real feel-good self-motivator post to keep you from jumping ship.
I'm not working today but what this brings to mind is a recently hired coworker who apparently is. My small team has had a nice culture of keeping our work chat mostly confined to our normal working hours, except when some issue comes up that needs attention. This new coworker has lately been shattering that. This person not only posts in the evenings, weekends, and sometimes into the graveyard shift, but does so in…
In my experience usually the people who do that are loners. They crave the interaction and use work related channels ro do that, with the plus of getting positive feedback from being a hard worker. Hard thing to defuse.
At the hospital today. Let me tell you, if you're in the hospital on Christmas, you've either got serious socio-economic problems, or are sick as shit. Most years, it's a little slower than usual, but not this year
Sometimes just terrible timing. My son decided to climb on a chair and fall head first on a ceramic floor last year lol. Didn't expect to spend a handful of hours at the ER on Christmas night in the middle of a pandemic, but there I was.
we were already over-capacity from people who delayed/avoided primary care over the past two years, and then the lack of outpatient prevention has caught up, and now starting another covid wave
Used to be New Year's was worse than Christmas, because people would try to struggle along at home through Christmas, then come in New Year's sicker than they would have been if they came in earlier, but now that's everyday and compounded by two years of avoided care
A job being done during holidays is not necessarily vital or truly important . Working at the hospital is a vital job, keeping an important server running is a vital job and driving a mass transit bus is a vital job as well. On the other hand keeping McDonald's open is not vital, it is just economically sensible.
Traveling families and busy 'essential workers' need food, gas, and basic necessities. Access to quick food (McDonalds in this case), gas stations, and convenience stores are just as vital as anything!
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Traveling families and busy 'essential workers' need food, gas, and basic necessities. Access to quick food (McDonalds in this case), gas stations, and convenience stores are just as vital as anything!
Here in Japan, people I’ve talked to will say that decades ago around New Years, everything was closed for days. No super markets. No restaurants. Not even ATMs. The downside is it requires a lot of prep work pre-holiday (i.e. packing sandwiches instead of fast food). I think we can do without a lot more than what we think, but the burden is shifted to the consumer instead of the worker, so without a strong culture o…
It can take some real planning to figure out how to deal with that first week.
I'm not working today but what this brings to mind is a recently hired coworker who apparently is. My small team has had a nice culture of keeping our work chat mostly confined to our normal working hours, except when some issue comes up that needs attention. This new coworker has lately been shattering that. This person not only posts in the evenings, weekends, and sometimes into the graveyard shift, but does so in…
What is stopping you from having a level headed, heart to heart conversation with your new colleague about your growing concern? Part of any job is to pass on the culture to new comers. I'm sure they'll understand.
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What is stopping you from having a level headed, heart to heart conversation with your new colleague about your growing concern? Part of any job is to pass on the culture to new comers. I'm sure they'll understand.
Some us _like_ working. If mu team doesn’t want to check-in thats fine but I dont mind getting shit done at 4am or on weekends. Heck I am on a three week vacation right now and I have been working on a prototype I plan to show off when I get back in the New Year. My team is under no obligation to keep up with me, but Im not going to lower my performance for them.
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Some us _like_ working. If mu team doesn’t want to check-in thats fine but I dont mind getting shit done at 4am or on weekends. Heck I am on a three week vacation right now and I have been working on a prototype I plan to show off when I get back in the New Year. My team is under no obligation to keep up with me, but Im not going to lower my performance for them.
My guess is that @grappler is more bothered by the performative visibility than that the new guy works as much as he does. It's a clear move toward politicking and away from real productivity.