The first drop of 100 pre-sale tickets for Fyre Festival II went on sale Monday for $499 a pop and sold out within a day, according to the festival's website.
If I had to guess, plenty of them are “influencers” the more of a disaster this is the better for their views on how horrible it was. It’s a no lose situation for them.
Are we even sure those are real sales? They only made 100 tickets available. It’s far more reasonable to assume that they “released 100 tickets” and then had a grifter friend purchase them all immediately. You’d be able to say that you sold out. Then you ride the wave of free publicity that you get from news article like this. Seems like grifting 101.
I’d bet you’re right. Why else would they only release 100 tickets? It’s a laughably small number for a music festival. Most bars hold more people than that.
If I knew then what I know now about the first fire fest, I would have considered trying to get tickets.
I have fairly low standards for a vacation, usually I like to go camping so spartan accomodations, meh food, etc. are pretty much par for the course. I usually do a good bit better for myself than the fyre fest provided, but I could make do just fine with what was available.
But man, I would have loved to watch all the entitled rich assholes melting down in-prson in real-time.
CFATS is important and should be renewed, but the wheels haven’t fallen off… Yet. Most companies/ facilities expect it to be renewed and so are continuing their programs. The real issues will pop up in 12+ months if it’s still not renewed then.
My team at work recently instituted a “flex time” Friday policy. Basically, as long as we’re maintaining productivity we aren’t expected to work on Fridays. A lot of us still work half days to keep up but it’s nice to know that if I work a little more earlier in the week I can just take a three day weekend.
FWIW every study on the subject shows that, for typical office work, four 10hour work days is not more productive than four 8hour work days, and both are at least 90% as productive as five 8hour workdays. People tend to fill the time with the production they need to get done.
Unless you’re working on a production line in manufacturing.
My boss doesn’t work on Fridays and I’m starting to push for this flex setup. I’ll check my emails and do the hour or two of work that might come in those days, but I want to do it from home while getting my household chores done before the weekend.
This is the way to go. What’s crazy is your productivity and efficiency is probably the same or better since you can have a softer reset with the weekend.
What is stopping your employer from giving you so much work that you are forced to work on Fridays so your employer only has to pretend the policy works?
We use a bottom-up work planning system (scrum). We have a backlog of work items that we (the people doing the work) assign point values to based on how complex we think the work is. Management knows about how many points of work we can complete in a 2 week period, and they decide what items they want done this work period based on their priorities. If we don’t get something done, it slips to the next 2 week sprint. If we get everything done and still have time, we pull additional items from the backlog. So long as the number of points we complete every 2 weeks stays relatively steady they are happy.
I know it’s hard to believe, because I’ve worked other places where it wasn’t like this. But some employers really do respect their employees and try to treat them with dignity and respect.
I will say that occasionally we have looming deadlines and more work to get done than we can normally do. When that happens we will be asked to dig in and work extra hours to get things done. It sucks but it’s also pretty rare. I’ve been with the company for going on 9 years and I think it has happened 3 times, for limited periods, and afterwards management will make it up by giving us time off as compensation. Most of us like working here enough that we don’t mind the occasional brief crunch.
I did absolutely call it. I still don't understand why he surrendered, any more than I understood it then. Even a normal leader isn't going to take kindly to that shit, let alone Putin? You win or no one ever finds what's left of you, and there is no other option. He was far too smart not to see that was the bet he was making, but he just...turned around and went home anyway? It was bizarre.
Yeah, absolutely bizarre that he made it out to Belarus with a sympathetic Lushenko, reportedly to Africa with Wagner having overthrown governments there, then returned to Russia ?!?
I do wonder if Putin guaranteed something - then Shoigu and Gerasimov finished him off, with or without Putin turning a blind eye. Surovikin did get removed relatively recently too.
What kind of self-moderation are we speaking? And what do your coworkers think. Do they consider talking about a 4 day work week with their employer, too?
My coworkers, particularly middle managers in the US expressed some envy, but applauded my negotiation and support me. I let my partner in engineering know before I said yes because I didn’t want them being surprised.
Self-moderation:
I have to be incredibly intentional about limiting my working hours. No one’s going to tell me to go home and I’ll feel the pressure to stay so I just have to commit.
No checking email or work slack after working hours. No. Matter. What.
Having four days has honed my ability to both prioritize and say no. But it also means those stupid meetings that are easier to say yes to and just kind of be there, I’m much more actively turning down. It’s hard to have defend the boundaries. But it’s worth it.
Yes, self-moderation and saying no are tough. But, if you relent once, you relent always. Never is better.
But it also means those stupid meetings that are easier to say yes to and just kind of be there, I’m much more actively turning down. It’s hard to have defend the boundaries. But it’s worth it.
It truly is. Hopefully, 4 day work will start to become the norm sooner rather than later. Thanks for sharing your experience.
I think it’s fair to say that I got lucky - you’re not wrong, they needed someone and I happened to have a very specific experience that matched with their need.
I met the team, I knew they liked me, and I really liked them. I also knew it was likely they couldn’t afford the comp I was getting at $lastjob.
My plan going in was to use that (scary to them, but very real) number to negotiate a four day work week at a full time salary. It worked out.
He wouldn’t have gone to Donnie begging for money and Donnie wouldn’t have held the shit fundraiser if things weren’t bad. Walls are closing in, people they could once count on aren’t answering the phones. the day is swiftly approaching where it’s going to be clear he cannot and will not be president, when that happens the right will send out new marching orders, they’ll pretend like they all opposed him from the start. Right leaning voters will all fall behind the new guy and trumps cult will go the way of Isis. Maybe with a few less airstrikes and a few more jail sentences.
As I’ve always said, the day is coming when the right will quietly stash their maga hats in their drawers and pretend like nothing happened. Unfortunately I’ll be there, and I’ll never stop reminding people that I haven’t forgotten what they did. I’ll ensure that everyone knows, and I’m not alone.
Devastatingly accurate. I think when the marching orders come from fox news it will be “trump cant win”. Thats all it will take because thats all fascists care about. Just like that they will collectively be like “trump, never heard of the guy, im just a bread and butter family man who believes in lower taxes” while sliding the swastika back into the sock drawer. Meanwhile cleaning their guns waiting for the next hitler clone to come along with new marching orders. They went full mask off in a multi year fascist manic episode and soon theyll be trying to slide the mask back on. Im with you, never forget.
I live in Virginia. Our shithead governor is one to watch out for. He’s absolutely trying to set himself up for a presidential run. He’s smart, he’s avoided the spotlight and hasn’t really tried all the stupid shit like desantis. He’s going to get revealed eventually as a front runner, if not this election than the next. He’s calm, coherent, and will appeal to independent voters that want ‘a normal republican president’. But make no mistake, he’s trying to do all the same bullshit here. He shutdown our path to recreational marijuana, he wants to pass a ban on abortions, he got himself elected by promising to go after all the school teachers teaching critical race theory (he even setup a tip line for people to report all these crt teachers, hasnt even been one instance, it was all bullshit).
Yogurt mcsweater vest is the kind of guy we need to be worried about. He’s just as much of a racist piece of shit as trump and co but he’s smart. It will take a strong democratic candidate to go up against a guy like that.
Thats terrifying. Trump lacked the finesse and intelligence to be fully effective. A man with a 5th grader IQ damn near pulled it off. A bunch of more polished authoritarians watched closely because trump laid out a playbook. The next one wont make the same mistakes. I know nothing of your governor and appreciate being warned
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