Regna

Regna , 4 days ago to mildlyinfuriating in I fucking hate the job search

Well, the standard recommended work hours would be 08-17 (8 AM to 5 PM), with one hour unpaid lunch, so 8 hours paid. And you can take those paid breaks, or even combine them with lunch. Most places (that don’t have shifts, scheduled appointments or aren’t school or health care related) allow for this kind of flexibility.

My current work place has 39 hours a week during the half year during or close to winter and around 37 hours during the summer or the months adjoining summer. Then again, most people tend to flex actual hours worked, e.g. working 4 hours on Monday and Friday, and working more hours during the same week or compensating for it later. But you HAVE to take at least 30 minutes of lunch, and the workplace tries to enforce the paid breaks as well. So some, like me, take an hour off for lunch, but use our half hour unpaid lunch and add on breaks 2x15 with pay (which is billed to our clients, as we’re legally entitled to). So I can show up anywhere between 06:30 and 11:00 (as long as I don’t have deadlines or meetings) and decide how I want to dispose the hours of my time on schedule.

And I get 7 weeks off, paid, every year. And pad it out with overtime so that I work maybe a week of overtime and get two weeks extra off for holidays.

Regna , 4 days ago to mildlyinfuriating in I fucking hate the job search

Not all Nordic countries. The main standard work weeks in Sweden are 40 hours for office work employees. Our collective union agreements for most office work places I know of agree on at least half hour unpaid lunch and at least two 15 minute paid breaks each work day. Every place I worked for had flexible hours, which meant I could choose between turning up between 7 or 9, as long as I didn’t miss meetings and worked 40 hours a week at an average, based on monthly calculations. And any overtime was compensated with double time off and/or monetary overtime compensation.

This will of course be different for shift work or nurse/doctor positions. But I’ve never worked an 8-16 job.

Regna , 1 month ago to technology in Samsung’s smart fridges mistakenly warned users its free TV service was ending

Samsung who won’t even provide price estimates/quotes for reparation of utensils WITHIN WARRANTY without being paid $25 before hand. Their products suck that much.

Regna , 1 month ago to showerthoughts in Why do men call their father their "old man", but their "old lady" is their wife?

But not all moms/mums are created equal.

Regna , 1 month ago to news in Thomas says critics are pushing 'nastiness' and calls Washington a 'hideous place'

Thanks. Saw it, but so thankful that you took the time to reply.

Facebook kinda thingy: <3

Regna , 1 month ago to news in Thomas says critics are pushing 'nastiness' and calls Washington a 'hideous place'

Thank you. Great to hear. I’ll probably find the stuff, but if you have the time and inclination, I’d be glad if you put it in the comments so that others also could see it.

Regna , 1 month ago to news in Thomas says critics are pushing 'nastiness' and calls Washington a 'hideous place'

Welp, John Oliver had a time limit in that. Let’s hope that John (and HBO or whatever) is/are still feeling generous.

Regna , 1 month ago to news in Pregnant women in Missouri can't get divorced. Critics say it fuels domestic violence

Many, if not most, women (who are either voluntarily sexually active or involuntarily) will eventually need an abortion (due to miscarriage, foetal abnormalities or other crisises), plan B or birth control of some sort, but most will not admit it.

I stock up on plan B and misoprostol to help, or know where to guide people to seek help so that they’re safe medically. I’d quite confidently say that most women, at least that I know, have needed this kind of aid sooner or later in their lives.

Regna , 1 month ago to technology in Elon Musk is a pigeon CEO, 'he comes, sh*ts all over us, and goes', says former Tesla manager

Don’t conflate all pigeons/doves with rock pigeons. Or Turd/Musk.

Regna , 1 month ago to news in TikTok Ban Bill Becomes Law, Gives TikTok 9 Months To Sell

It’s simply photoshopped.

Regna , 2 months ago to technology in Apple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horse

Yeah, in my work I don’t even do a lot of 3D rendering, but 64 GB main RAM and at least 8 GB GPU RAM barely manage to cut it performance wise for the GIS and CAD systems we use.

Regna , 2 months ago to news in 2 visitors captured on video destroying ancient rock formations at Lake Mead

I feel similarly. My reactions were “Why?!?”, “Are you utter idiots?!” and “I hope that your hate and idiocy isn’t passed down through gene pools!”.

Edit: I agree with other posters that it’s demeaning to troglodytes for someone not a troglodyte to claim that these wastes of air and proteins are troglodytes.

Regna , 3 months ago to news in Chick-fil-A changing its chicken sparks backlash

I am not a proponent of routine antibiotic use in any animals (including us humans), unless it’s called for as in actually saving someone’s life.

I was caught at one of these moments where I wasn’t sure whether it was sincerely meant or humour, and tried to be mildly sarcastic about it.

Edit: Double checked. Thumbs up now.

Regna , 3 months ago to pics in [OC] Spider

Cute. Hope it isn’t deadly.

Regna , 3 months ago to news in Chick-fil-A changing its chicken sparks backlash

I’m afraid your sarcasm and irony were unclear despite the words used. But please correct that or me.