I thought that was the point Americans allegedly wouldnât understand. Glad I wasnât the only one that noticed the error in a meme trying to make another culture looks like idiots.
I live in NSW and Iâve seen people wearing shorts in winter but nobody with a jacket if itâs 30. Long sleeved shirts for workers, yes sometimes. Umbrellas, yes, too. I didnât know jackets were a thing for hot QLD days.
The sun is hot and stings as you say though, granted
When Im working hard to get somewhere in the company I get shit from people:
âThE cOmPaNy dOeSnâT cArE aBoUt YoUâŠâ
Yeaah I fucking know the company doesnât care. But its not like Iâm getting a different and better role + a better salary if I just work the bare minimum and give zero shits about everything. In the end some people just work harder for selfish reasons, I doubt its for company loyalty or Love of flowers.
In a vast majority of cases, no one is to get a better role or salary for working harder or caring more. Youâre a fool if you think otherwise.
The âcompany doesnât care about youâ line youâre so quick to mock is specifically referring to how hard you work and contribute. Itâs weird that you donât understand that.
How is it weird? How is it weird to believe that getting somewhere takes hard work? Please tell me how can one get a better role and conditions without working harder or caring more because if there is one then Iâd be glad to walk that road instead. I just donât see it.
You should prioritize yourself. If youâre recognized for your hard work, then all the power to you. People are just skeptic because most of the time, no matter how hard you work, you never get any valuable recognition for it.
If you donât feel recognized, itâs still valid to do work that you believe will contribute to your professional growth - as a way to prepare yourself for the next step.
Itâs suffocating to be in a middle management position because you get squeezed by the higher-ups and your own team. If the higher-ups make a decision that your team dislikes or vice versa, youâre going to be in the shitter with whichever party suffered every time even if you had the best intentions.
This is the purpose of middle management. Youâre the one responsible to the C-levels for what happens on your team, and youâre the first line of defense for the C-levels to ignore the complaints of their lowers. Thus you get shafted from both sides.
The only way to be good at middle management is to basically throw everyone under the bus all the time. When your subordinates complain about policy, itâs all âthis isnât me, management made this decision.â And âIâll pass it along to managementâ⊠When management complains about the team, itâs all âtheyâre not being motivated, how about we give them pizzaâ or something. You know, useless one time âgiftsâ that should âimprove moraleâ but actually does nothing, and costs less than actually increasing wages.
A lot of truth in this thread, albeit too cynical for my taste. Yes, the company as soulless, emotionless entity doesnât care for you. However, your coworkers might, even your boss.
Also, my main take away:
make sure you know your worth
make sure the right people know your worth
make sure the right people know that you know your worth
If youâve worked for somewhere less than two years, they can pretty much fire you for whatever reason they want, as long as it doesnât discriminate against a protected characteristic (i.e. gender, disability, sexual orientation.)
Brits had their rights to take cases to an employment tribunal eroded by the Tories.
You still have rights. Everyone should have a contract by law. Joining a union will get you advice on those rights. Your negative attitude is a primary cause that the Tories have gotten away with so much.
I agree the Tories have eroded rights past the point of reason, and even those right we have are more difficult to defend. P and O being a case in point. The Tories even kept them (P and O) in line for a ÂŁ300m contract after this. That does not mean we should not defend those rights. Being complacent is a terrible route to just meander into.
Full fact shows the average wages dropped by ÂŁ20 per week in 2018 from 2008. We have had 3 more years since then and now it is very obvious that it is a lot worse. The young and the poorest feeling it the most. A union sub is ÂŁ10 per month on average. If everyone was in a union then the whole countryâs contracted labour force would be ÂŁ30 per month better off. Not being in a union is a false economy.
If nothing else please make sure you vote when we get the chance.
The last level sucked so much though, all those RPG guys everywhere. I had to cheese the level by running around the outskirts and finding all of the RPG wielders before the convoy got going.
Shorts in 10C is standard practice for me. Really not that cold for us in the NorthWest. Now if weâre talking Southern Californians 10C is heavy winter jacket weather.
Where I am in Aus weâd be lucky to see 0C once or twice a year at most in the middle of the night in the middle of winter for maybe an hour. I put on long pants or a sweater under 20C.
In the UK this summer weâve been lucky if it hits 20°C this year. Iâve been in shorts all summer. We had a nice June but since then itâs been cloudy and rainy. Regardless Iâve been in shorts since June. Winter is typically a single figure affair so summer is always very much welcomed. Feels like we havenât had one this year :(
The oceans on this side of the planet are about to see record temps, fingers crossed we donât see ecological collapse of the Great Barrier Reef and record fire seasons.
Farhenhiet and Celsius are equally made up. All measurement systems that we use on human scales are made up. And in this case, farhenhiet is actually just better. More granular and more useful on a day to day basis. Yeah, it doesnât have the freezing point of an arbitrary substance as the 0, nor the boiling point of an arbitrary substance at 100, but it has temperature you should immediately be concerned about coming into contact with outside of -20 and 120, temperatures you should be concerned about contacting outside of 10 and 90, and fairly normal weather between those two.
The only important property of a temperature scale is that it exists and is agreed upon for science. Farhenhiet and Celsius do that job equally as well.
I donât care too much about 100 being the boiling point of water, but 0 being the freezing point is really convenient. Most weather has something to do with water, negative temperatures mean snow and ice.
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