The No. 1 Office Perk? Natural Light, According To Hundreds of Employees
In what country are they interviewing? Who the hell are they interviewing? The #1 thing American workers want as a perk/benefit is a permanent, full-time job with a decent health care plan.
A bathroom is a fucking luxury. I mean, who has time to take a bath at work?
Your work experience is rather limited. If you work at a place with a bathroom, you can take a job at lunch, then a quick shower to recharge your energy, or simply a cold shower before taking a long commute back home. Some places have them, and it is a blessing.
Hell, some places have built-in gyms and daycare facilities. Those are the places you want to work.
Or did you mean toilets? In which case they aren't a perk, they are a necessity.
Indeed, it is limited (in this second case, you are lucky, for there are some fubar places where toilets are barely functioning.)
I worked at a place that had legitimate bathrooms with tubs/showers. That boss was pervee creepy asshole though. So it's not that surprising.
I've worked at engineering places with legit bathrooms with tubs/showers and even built-in gyms. It's one of the great perks of working with a large firm (so long it stays blue chip.)
I haven't perceived a creepy peeping tom boss, though.
This is a good point. There are still dialup internet providers so someone who wants to keep using TIVO without broadband could subscribe to a dialup ISP and then set up a Linux box with the modem and configure a NAT router between the modem/PPP and their ethernet network.
I sincerely doubt the average dial-up/TIVO user has the technical wherewithal to implement that solution. It is a nice solution, though (and I'd totally go for it if I were in that kind of a pickle.)
Chinese smartphone makers now rule the world's largest and the second largest smartphone markets? That is incredible to say the least.
I hate to say it, but it is a sad statement wrt to India (considering the enormous amount of talent in that country) that it could/would not develop a hardware manufacturing base capable of competing with their Chinese counterparts.
YMMV I still find it better then the old system and waterfall. My biggest problem you would get stuck in a 2-3 year death march when you know the project is going terrible due to the sunken cost fallacy. Now at least with agile the most you waste is 2 months.
"For over a year, the Chinese government has withheld lab samples of an influenza virus from a rapidly evolving threat, the United States."
This could be interpreted as saying that the US *is* the rapidly evolving threat, and that the Chinese are withholding lab samples from it (the US, the rapidly evolving thread.)
No matter what, that line is FUBAR. It needs to be nuked from orbit ("it's the only way to be sure") and start from scratch.
"For over a year, the Chinese government has withheld from the United States lab samples of an influenza virus that might constitute a rapidly evolving threat."
The PRC has never "played well with others" when it comes to infectious diseases, their first instinct is to claim nothing is happening, see SARS, they exclude the ROC (Taiwan) from as much of the international health network as they can, it's what you expect from a government were politics trumps (heh) everything else, especially including human lives. They don't much care if they kill their own Han Chinese by the tens of millions, why would even they care about foreign devils?
If, as you claim, they're doing this to spite Trump, that just further proves that they always put politics ahead of human lives.
Although it is true that the PRC has never really played nice with others (I do remember the SARS kerfuffle), it does not refute the fact that this ridiculous trade war is making a bad situation worse.
Yes, that organization. No to those specific (and quite deplorable and catastrophic) deployments in Africa.
I've personally known what the Blue Helmets stand for. My godfather died as a blue helmet when trying to mediate peace in the 1969 Honduras/El Salvador war. I've known blue helmets who have done good work in Kashmir and the Balkans.
The ones you mention are a tragedy, a failure of the organization (and a function of the local troops used in Africa.) There are also stories of abuse in, say, Haiti. Those are tragedies that require analysis and remedy.
But to pretend that it represents the totality of the organization while negating all else, that's a bit like saying let's nuke police forces (rather than restructure them) and deny their obvious positive contributions because of police brutality.
Results in exposure to polluted air from factories and vehicles. It also increases exposure to socialism that results in public elementary to highschool education that is three years behind what was tough several decades ago.
Who knew?
This is the kind of stupid, self-defeating things people do to themselves that J.D Vance documented in his autobiography "Hillbilly Effigy".
Keep thinking like that buddy, I see a bright future for ya.
I was thinking the same thing from your summary. Another theory: pollution tends to be in industrial centers. Generalizing but factory work generally doesn't need the brightest bulbs nor attract very many of them. Even more so in China where from what I understand the rural uneducated people's best way out of poverty is to work for a big factory so they get permission to live in the city, kind of the same as it has always been just happened in the west 180 years ago or so. Concentration of capital increases productivity and rewards for everyone. Who knew?
This is a severe misconception (for it is the brightest in rural China who tend to try their luck at the factories in China's industrial belts.) I guess it is inevitable that we still see China through a 25-year old looking glass.
I suggest reading "Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China" by Leslie T. Chang. It was an eye opener on this subject.
This only makes sense if you provide objective evidence that ) there's a number of non-liberal (mean conservative) news sources that cover trump comparable to those liberal news outlets you refer to, and/or B) conservative news outlets produce media and news at rates and quantities comparable of those produced by the liberal news outlets.
The problem is that some fields are perhaps 95% BS (I'm looking at you psychology and economics) . Can we, as a society justify paying for 95% BS? Couldn't people just do these things in their spare time?
Let's start by doing some actual science and shit and prove with evidence the % of stuff in "social sciences" that are BS. You hand wave 95%, I ask you to prove it. Lead by example so that the number you suggest (and the suggestion thereof) is not BS itself.
Additionally, you need to provide an objective measure of what's good and what's BS in social sciences. One's opinions or beliefs on what is BS are inherently subjective, not the type of thing one should rely to dictate fiscal policy.
UNESCO, UNICEF, the blue helmets, etc. I get that these things probably do not touch your life. But your life does not define human existence in this world, nor the functions of these things are limited to "political agendas" (whatever the hell that means.)
Sorry to pop your pompous little bubble there, but the fact of the matter is that shit happens, and when it does, it's better to be prepared than unprepared. Attempting to disarm the public means discarding the natural advantage of good people outnumbering bad people. It also means that you disarm law-abiding citizens, while criminals can go right ahead and arm themselves (Anders Brevik, for example).
I sincerely hope that if your life is ever in danger, that there is someone equipped and prepared to defend you, but kindly stop pretending that abject helplessness is a virtue.
-jcr
This is the type of mentality that pisses me of (and I'm a gun owner and collector with a CC license.)
The one reason I carry is because there's a lot of fucked up people in this country, many of whom are 2nd amendment circle jerkers who prep for when Obama declares martial laws and the black choppers come knocking.
But when I travel to, say, Japan, shit man, it's hard to describe how refreshing it is to live in a civilized country where I don't have the primal feeling that I need to carry a piece.
Shit man, it's awesome, try it out sometimes. What you call "abject helplessness" is indeed a virtue when we are willing to build a society that is civilized and not taken over by gun-ho assholes.
Yes, there's always a what-if, what if an Anders Brevik comes along, or a dude with a knife, or a group like the Aum Shinrikyo decides to carry out a chemical attack on a subway.
Well guess what? Shit happens. Life is a fucking lottery. I'd still trade living in "abject helplessness" among civilized people than having to carry (as I do today) because I'm surrounded by savages prepping themselves for that what-if scenario.
A short answer that might actually be sufficient on its own would be "education."
Is the number comparable to other countries? In absolute terms or relative to development levels? Is the number getting worse or getting better?
The remaining questions you asked as a follow-up are not necessarily related to the former (as they can stand on their own.) As for comparison, I can bet you that other developed countries (and many developing ones) do not have that type of problem.
The problem is insane. It is one thing to find a country *other than our own* in a map. It is quite another when it comes to *one own's* - this is the type of insane shit that you see only among illiterate people living up in the Khyber Pass or something.
And that we think this is a *tricky* question? That's insane. This is an insanity that stands on its own, and you can rest assure we stand unique among developed and (many developing) nations. No need to compare to analyze it.
Those aren't random teenage girls on a time limit. These are girls, typically from a well-to-do background that have opted to compete into a beauty pageant contest that is known to use time-limited random questions of current as a prerequisite to qualify and win.
"Random teenage girl" would be like jumping in front of one coming out of a "Justice" store with her face glued on her iphone, to startle her to attention by asking her "Yo! With the Turkish Lira taking a beating, what are the consequences to the average stripper? You have 30 seconds, go!"
...when faced with inappropriate trick questions in highly stressful situations.
Dude, a high-level beauty pageant competition is expected to throw trick questions or hard balls at contestants. And what's so tricky about the original question?
"Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can't locate the U.S. on a world map. Why do you think this is?"
Truly, I want to know what's so tricky about this question? Is it the subject matter? The structure of the sentence?
I don't think many people would be able to yield a usably better one in that girl's place.
Maybe in this country, which is the richest in the world, quite capable of creating, funding and sustaining the most educated work force -slash- population the world has ever seen.
By the time they'd have an effect, severe permanent damage would have already been done.
This (quite possible) scenario doesn't preclude us from planting more trees, does it?
I mean, we should be planting more trees as a matter of course in conjunction with other measures to reduce CO emissions (at best) - or regardless of how much we fuck up on that front (at worst.)
Planting a damned tree actually cost little, specially if one were to pick moderate fast growing hardy species (like Moringa or Gumbo Limbo, depending on the climate.).
Doesn't even need to be trees, but hedges that can provide either wind barriers or foliage to cattle.
We don't even need to guarantee that a tree reaches adulthood, we just need green bodies to consume CO2. We could implement a "minnow spawn" approach and throw fast growing tree seeds already prepped to germinate by the millions on rows. Large numbers of disposable seeds would guarantee trees would grow.
Yeah - the florida governor is able to control oceanic currents. These algae blooms happen. Ever hear of the Red Sea? Yeah - it's been called that since 2500BC for the same reasons as this algae bloom, well before any Republicans got your panties in a twist. Take off your hippie hat for a few seconds and try to think rationally.
Especially elementary teachers shouldn't be that far fetched. If you argue that having both male and female board members is good to provide a "broader perspective" to the company, how is it not good to have both male and female teachers and role models at every level of school (from kindergarden to university) to provide a "broader perspective" to kids?
There are no social constructs, network connections or social capital barriers that prevent qualified men from entering the teaching profession.
We cannot say the same with regard to the C-suite.
The former case can be helped by providing incentives
The later case is a problem for which there is an attempt to fix it via a legal mandate or imposition. I am not sure this can work (it might or might not.)
But we can both agree that diversity of thought and equal opportunity are desirable traits. How we get there, that's an open question.
And I will state unequivocally that we *do not* live in a meritocracy when it comes to reaching coveted spheres of power. We truly aren't (read Chris Hayes's "Twilight of the Elites.")
Nearly every non-white person identifies as a hyphenated American.
Have you uh... been to America? Near enough everyone there who's white identifies as Irish or at a push Irish-American.
Suure thing son, all my great great gramps and grandmas on my fathers's side came from Germany and most of them on my mother's side came from England, but my mother's father's mother was half Irish so I'm an Irish American.
Seriously you guys have a weird national Ireland obsession. Still, having been to Ireland, it seems that tourism is doing a booming trade.
What happens is that the acceptability of hyphenation is a function of complexion. No exaggeration, just look at the discussion here, right in this story. And quite pathetically, people don't even notice.
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The No. 1 Office Perk? Natural Light, According To Hundreds of Employees
In what country are they interviewing? Who the hell are they interviewing? The #1 thing American workers want as a perk/benefit is a permanent, full-time job with a decent health care plan.
A bathroom is a fucking luxury. I mean, who has time to take a bath at work?
Your work experience is rather limited. If you work at a place with a bathroom, you can take a job at lunch, then a quick shower to recharge your energy, or simply a cold shower before taking a long commute back home. Some places have them, and it is a blessing.
Hell, some places have built-in gyms and daycare facilities. Those are the places you want to work.
Or did you mean toilets? In which case they aren't a perk, they are a necessity.
Indeed, it is limited (in this second case, you are lucky, for there are some fubar places where toilets are barely functioning.)
I worked at a place that had legitimate bathrooms with tubs/showers. That boss was pervee creepy asshole though. So it's not that surprising.
I've worked at engineering places with legit bathrooms with tubs/showers and even built-in gyms. It's one of the great perks of working with a large firm (so long it stays blue chip.)
I haven't perceived a creepy peeping tom boss, though.
This is a good point. There are still dialup internet providers so someone who wants to keep using TIVO without broadband could subscribe to a dialup ISP and then set up a Linux box with the modem and configure a NAT router between the modem/PPP and their ethernet network.
I sincerely doubt the average dial-up/TIVO user has the technical wherewithal to implement that solution. It is a nice solution, though (and I'd totally go for it if I were in that kind of a pickle.)
Chinese smartphone makers now rule the world's largest and the second largest smartphone markets? That is incredible to say the least.
I hate to say it, but it is a sad statement wrt to India (considering the enormous amount of talent in that country) that it could/would not develop a hardware manufacturing base capable of competing with their Chinese counterparts.
YMMV I still find it better then the old system and waterfall. My biggest problem you would get stuck in a 2-3 year death march when you know the project is going terrible due to the sunken cost fallacy. Now at least with agile the most you waste is 2 months.
Bingo.
"For over a year, the Chinese government has withheld lab samples of an influenza virus from a rapidly evolving threat, the United States."
This could be interpreted as saying that the US *is* the rapidly evolving threat, and that the Chinese are withholding lab samples from it (the US, the rapidly evolving thread.)
No matter what, that line is FUBAR. It needs to be nuked from orbit ("it's the only way to be sure") and start from scratch.
"For over a year, the Chinese government has withheld from the United States lab samples of an influenza virus that might constitute a rapidly evolving threat."
The PRC has never "played well with others" when it comes to infectious diseases, their first instinct is to claim nothing is happening, see SARS, they exclude the ROC (Taiwan) from as much of the international health network as they can, it's what you expect from a government were politics trumps (heh) everything else, especially including human lives. They don't much care if they kill their own Han Chinese by the tens of millions, why would even they care about foreign devils?
If, as you claim, they're doing this to spite Trump, that just further proves that they always put politics ahead of human lives.
Although it is true that the PRC has never really played nice with others (I do remember the SARS kerfuffle), it does not refute the fact that this ridiculous trade war is making a bad situation worse.
...the blue helmets, ...
These ones?
Yes, that organization. No to those specific (and quite deplorable and catastrophic) deployments in Africa.
I've personally known what the Blue Helmets stand for. My godfather died as a blue helmet when trying to mediate peace in the 1969 Honduras/El Salvador war. I've known blue helmets who have done good work in Kashmir and the Balkans.
The ones you mention are a tragedy, a failure of the organization (and a function of the local troops used in Africa.) There are also stories of abuse in, say, Haiti. Those are tragedies that require analysis and remedy.
But to pretend that it represents the totality of the organization while negating all else, that's a bit like saying let's nuke police forces (rather than restructure them) and deny their obvious positive contributions because of police brutality.
Results in exposure to polluted air from factories and vehicles. It also increases exposure to socialism that results in public elementary to highschool education that is three years behind what was tough several decades ago.
Who knew?
This is the kind of stupid, self-defeating things people do to themselves that J.D Vance documented in his autobiography "Hillbilly Effigy".
Keep thinking like that buddy, I see a bright future for ya.
I was thinking the same thing from your summary. Another theory: pollution tends to be in industrial centers. Generalizing but factory work generally doesn't need the brightest bulbs nor attract very many of them. Even more so in China where from what I understand the rural uneducated people's best way out of poverty is to work for a big factory so they get permission to live in the city, kind of the same as it has always been just happened in the west 180 years ago or so. Concentration of capital increases productivity and rewards for everyone. Who knew?
This is a severe misconception (for it is the brightest in rural China who tend to try their luck at the factories in China's industrial belts.) I guess it is inevitable that we still see China through a 25-year old looking glass.
I suggest reading "Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China" by Leslie T. Chang. It was an eye opener on this subject.
Outsiders migrate to Califirnia to participate in the tech industries.
Because there are no native Californians taking part in it #rollseyes
Seeing as 96 percent of google search results about Trump come from liberal media outlets
https://pjmedia.com/trending/g...
You may wish to rethink you naive view of this.
This only makes sense if you provide objective evidence that ) there's a number of non-liberal (mean conservative) news sources that cover trump comparable to those liberal news outlets you refer to, and/or B) conservative news outlets produce media and news at rates and quantities comparable of those produced by the liberal news outlets.
Until then, the simpler explanation should stand.
Strong Wind Topples a Wind Turbine in Japan
That's it, wrap it up boys and let's make whale oil great again!
The problem is that some fields are perhaps 95% BS (I'm looking at you psychology and economics) . Can we, as a society justify paying for 95% BS? Couldn't people just do these things in their spare time?
Let's start by doing some actual science and shit and prove with evidence the % of stuff in "social sciences" that are BS. You hand wave 95%, I ask you to prove it. Lead by example so that the number you suggest (and the suggestion thereof) is not BS itself.
Additionally, you need to provide an objective measure of what's good and what's BS in social sciences. One's opinions or beliefs on what is BS are inherently subjective, not the type of thing one should rely to dictate fiscal policy.
UNESCO, UNICEF, the blue helmets, etc. I get that these things probably do not touch your life. But your life does not define human existence in this world, nor the functions of these things are limited to "political agendas" (whatever the hell that means.)
Ahhhh the no true scientist fallacy /s
Well, what kind of scientist says shit like this?
increasingly unsustainable exploitation of the planet's environmental resources
Sorry to pop your pompous little bubble there, but the fact of the matter is that shit happens, and when it does, it's better to be prepared than unprepared. Attempting to disarm the public means discarding the natural advantage of good people outnumbering bad people. It also means that you disarm law-abiding citizens, while criminals can go right ahead and arm themselves (Anders Brevik, for example).
I sincerely hope that if your life is ever in danger, that there is someone equipped and prepared to defend you, but kindly stop pretending that abject helplessness is a virtue.
-jcr
This is the type of mentality that pisses me of (and I'm a gun owner and collector with a CC license.)
The one reason I carry is because there's a lot of fucked up people in this country, many of whom are 2nd amendment circle jerkers who prep for when Obama declares martial laws and the black choppers come knocking.
But when I travel to, say, Japan, shit man, it's hard to describe how refreshing it is to live in a civilized country where I don't have the primal feeling that I need to carry a piece.
Shit man, it's awesome, try it out sometimes. What you call "abject helplessness" is indeed a virtue when we are willing to build a society that is civilized and not taken over by gun-ho assholes.
Yes, there's always a what-if, what if an Anders Brevik comes along, or a dude with a knife, or a group like the Aum Shinrikyo decides to carry out a chemical attack on a subway.
Well guess what? Shit happens. Life is a fucking lottery. I'd still trade living in "abject helplessness" among civilized people than having to carry (as I do today) because I'm surrounded by savages prepping themselves for that what-if scenario.
This shit is comically psychotic.
You mean, off the top of my hat? I have no idea.
A short answer that might actually be sufficient on its own would be "education."
Is the number comparable to other countries? In absolute terms or relative to development levels? Is the number getting worse or getting better?
The remaining questions you asked as a follow-up are not necessarily related to the former (as they can stand on their own.) As for comparison, I can bet you that other developed countries (and many developing ones) do not have that type of problem.
The problem is insane. It is one thing to find a country *other than our own* in a map. It is quite another when it comes to *one own's* - this is the type of insane shit that you see only among illiterate people living up in the Khyber Pass or something.
And that we think this is a *tricky* question? That's insane. This is an insanity that stands on its own, and you can rest assure we stand unique among developed and (many developing) nations. No need to compare to analyze it.
random teenage girls on a time limit,
Those aren't random teenage girls on a time limit. These are girls, typically from a well-to-do background that have opted to compete into a beauty pageant contest that is known to use time-limited random questions of current as a prerequisite to qualify and win.
"Random teenage girl" would be like jumping in front of one coming out of a "Justice" store with her face glued on her iphone, to startle her to attention by asking her "Yo! With the Turkish Lira taking a beating, what are the consequences to the average stripper? You have 30 seconds, go!"
showcasing how stupid Americans can be
...when faced with inappropriate trick questions in highly stressful situations.
Dude, a high-level beauty pageant competition is expected to throw trick questions or hard balls at contestants. And what's so tricky about the original question?
"Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can't locate the U.S. on a world map. Why do you think this is?"
Truly, I want to know what's so tricky about this question? Is it the subject matter? The structure of the sentence?
I don't think many people would be able to yield a usably better one in that girl's place.
Maybe in this country, which is the richest in the world, quite capable of creating, funding and sustaining the most educated work force -slash- population the world has ever seen.
And that's a tragedy.
By the time they'd have an effect, severe permanent damage would have already been done.
This (quite possible) scenario doesn't preclude us from planting more trees, does it?
I mean, we should be planting more trees as a matter of course in conjunction with other measures to reduce CO emissions (at best) - or regardless of how much we fuck up on that front (at worst.)
Planting a damned tree actually cost little, specially if one were to pick moderate fast growing hardy species (like Moringa or Gumbo Limbo, depending on the climate.).
Doesn't even need to be trees, but hedges that can provide either wind barriers or foliage to cattle.
We don't even need to guarantee that a tree reaches adulthood, we just need green bodies to consume CO2. We could implement a "minnow spawn" approach and throw fast growing tree seeds already prepped to germinate by the millions on rows. Large numbers of disposable seeds would guarantee trees would grow.
Yeah - the florida governor is able to control oceanic currents. These algae blooms happen. Ever hear of the Red Sea? Yeah - it's been called that since 2500BC for the same reasons as this algae bloom, well before any Republicans got your panties in a twist. Take off your hippie hat for a few seconds and try to think rationally.
That's not what he said. Quit the hyperbole.
Especially elementary teachers shouldn't be that far fetched. If you argue that having both male and female board members is good to provide a "broader perspective" to the company, how is it not good to have both male and female teachers and role models at every level of school (from kindergarden to university) to provide a "broader perspective" to kids?
There are no social constructs, network connections or social capital barriers that prevent qualified men from entering the teaching profession.
We cannot say the same with regard to the C-suite.
The former case can be helped by providing incentives
The later case is a problem for which there is an attempt to fix it via a legal mandate or imposition. I am not sure this can work (it might or might not.)
But we can both agree that diversity of thought and equal opportunity are desirable traits. How we get there, that's an open question.
And I will state unequivocally that we *do not* live in a meritocracy when it comes to reaching coveted spheres of power. We truly aren't (read Chris Hayes's "Twilight of the Elites.")
Nearly every non-white person identifies as a hyphenated American.
Have you uh... been to America? Near enough everyone there who's white identifies as Irish or at a push Irish-American.
Suure thing son, all my great great gramps and grandmas on my fathers's side came from Germany and most of them on my mother's side came from England, but my mother's father's mother was half Irish so I'm an Irish American.
Seriously you guys have a weird national Ireland obsession. Still, having been to Ireland, it seems that tourism is doing a booming trade.
What happens is that the acceptability of hyphenation is a function of complexion. No exaggeration, just look at the discussion here, right in this story. And quite pathetically, people don't even notice.