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Sheep are rational agents when they are surrounded by wolves.
Having driven in country roads with lots of sheep around, their behaviour doesn't seem rational. Run in front of the car right as you are about to pass them.
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> I straight up just walked over to his cube, unplugged his keyboard and threw it in the trash and told him “Go tell IT you need a new keyboard.” I’m not sure whether you’re proud of this story, but that is an extreme overreaction. What grown adult throws away a keyboard (company property!) rather than having a conversation with someone? Did you also go around removing the doorknobs to all the rooms this person went…
Employees don't usually value hardware they didn't pay for. I've seen people intentionally banging their old laptops against the table to break the HDD and consequently get a new, faster computer. I'm also guilty. A certain easily-upset micromanager sourced a box of one dollar second hand HP keyboards that are pretty much unusable, so I've been shipping them out with other hardware, forgetting them at customer premis…
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The worst one for me was the guy who didn’t wash his hands after using the restroom. One day, one of my team members told me about this, and I didn’t believe him, ha ha, so a few days later I’m in the restroom and this guy comes out of a stall and just walks out the door. So about a week later my guy who’d complained about it had some problem with one of our other systems, and who do they send over to help him out? Y…
while the disgust is warranted, I can't help but feel that you've created a toxic culture there. for example, the Keyboard scene, being horrified because someone touched your keyboard is not logical behaviour. In fact, the keyboard is probably more disgusting than the toilet paper. The actions of your employee were not rational. But by validating them you create a mob. "begin sickned/disguested" becomes a behavior of…
This is acctually a prime example of where mocking might fix the issue so I kinda agree with you. He might think "what a bunch of wuzzies" and star cleaning his hands.
Quite ofent I get to work with my tshirt inside out ... before I get to know my colleagues they don't say a thing which is quite embarrassing when my wife notice back home.
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Having driven in country roads with lots of sheep around, their behaviour doesn't seem rational. Run in front of the car right as you are about to pass them.
Read about hares the other day on HN: they are trying to make the fast moving heavy predator loose momentum by crossing its path.
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That is a trait I've seen in a lot of my autistic patients. Are you on the spectrum/have you been tested?
I did not get the diagnosis, but I was very close. I hate talking and listening to people, but since it is important in workplace I do it and I view it as transactional because if I hate it and I would rather by nature not talk or listen why should I not try to use it as something as an attempt to benefit me. Of course I have also been diagnosed with depression and social anxiety. I think I excel in work interviews a…
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> But a core part of being polite, is not hruting others through your actions directly or undirectly. ( or at least trying) The problem is that in some cultures it's perfectly fine to talk about things that in other cultures it's not. The solution to that is to give people a benefit of a doubt and not assume they are trying to be hurtful, even if your first response is to be hurt. We don't seem to be great at that wh…
Not to mention the thousands of little subcultures that exist. I've seen people offended by others leaving notes that seemed polite to me - "please refill coffee pot if it's empty" as passive-aggressive, etc.
Boy did I miss that memo, but it makes sense!
What is a sensitive question? Not the examples provided. Here’s an alternative. Former Secretary of Defense for two presidents Donald Rumsfeld once framed (brilliantly actually) the possible things we know. ... there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones we d…
The bit about unknown knowns does not make sense to me, also it seems to change the point of reference. It is referencing things from third party perspectives whereas the original ones are referencing from first party. That is, you are talking other things other entities might not know about me that I know myself which makes them, from my point of reference, known knowns. And in the event that I don't know those thin…
"I apparently know how to parallel park - I didn't know I could do that". And other stuff like it. "Oh, I could manage this project, never thought I'd manage."
The stuff in our brains not immediately accessible to our conscious thoughts. But OP didn't go there which surprised me.
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Push for a better soap then, disinfectant, or use a cream. Well, even just scrubbing the hands under water is better than nothing, if that's an insoluble problem in your organization.
I wasn't talking about soap. I never use it or shampoo either. My theory is that by washing away all the oils from your skin, you just encourage your body to produce oil faster. That's why you soap users get all goopy at the end of the day and your clothes smell. I can wear my clothes for at least 48 hours before they start to smell. But anyway, even just water can dry out my hands, and I don't want to use any creams…
there is a reason humans harness sanitation: it saves and prolongs lives
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But, particularly in American culture it is the imbalance in "enforcement" of principles that is the problem. It is perfectly fine to be super-nice as often as possible. But, the culture is "do not offend" dominate and almost void of "do not take offense". This imbalance of cultural enforcement is likely a driving factor behind the younger generations view on enforcing standards of political correctness, social justi…
http://thebeje.blogspot.com/2006/01/take-no-offence-unscript... Take that with a grain of salt, there's plenty of stuff in the Bible that suggests overlooking offenses (things like Proverbs 19:11) and obviously forgiveness is part of it. But I'm not sure "take no offense" is quite the main component of that creed.
I wonder what would be a more personal (and interesting) question than: - Describe your relationship with your mother - Describe your relationship with your father Completely open-ended, yet, is universal to everyone. Being candid in that area can provide a lot of foundational underpinning to understand someone. But - would people find it awkward? Would they take offense? Feel pain thinking about the answer? As for s…
I got this question in a personality test as part of a job interview.
I lied.