Sorry, but I think that what causes stress is not pushing your brain for too long;-) .
If you're doing stupid manual work (i used to work in bread factory putting buns in plastic bags all day), your mind is free to wander and you can think The Things in Life through, thus maintaining a good mental healt.
What I've seen until know is, that if you do stupid meaningles work (like, say, most marketing is), that nevertheless require your full concentration, you never have time to "clean up" your mind and think things through.
Maybe one just needs time to think for one self.
Actually i quit and went to work for another company that essentially does the same thing but pays more, and doesn't screw the employees as much as the last one did. So basically I did nothing and moved nowhere, but things still improved a bit.
Another poster mentioned something about being in control of ones life and so on. Maybe the exercise of being in control (e.g. i quit for another company) is the thing that really matters.
So.
When you are at work, none of the society's normal rules, save tree, apply. You are not free to do what you want when you want, say what you want to whom you want, go where you want or in some places even dress how you want or have an opinion on something. The only three rights you have are the right to quit, right to get compensated and right not to suffer physical harm.
This has become somewhat accepted, because one has to eat and so on, but if you are exposed to this 12-13 hours a day week in, week out, year in year out, it might leave a scar.
I used to work in a web production company, doing mostly sites for brands (chewing gum, lousy crap pop bands and the like). I came to the conclusion that none of what I was doing really mattered. The world did not turn into a better place because of this clever site for a fsking chewing gum brand. It didn't turn into a worse place either. Nothing I did really changed anything. Not even the sales figures of the brands, since the competitors were making equally clever sites. The product of all my work and all the worries about deadlines and stuff was - essentially - zero. Money was just transfered from one person to another. Thats it
So apart from fighting the good fight against riaa and their hired thugs, what matters? Can you all honestly say that your job is meaningful? Besides letting out this cynical gas, I think my point is that IMHO nobody would be stressed if they were doing truly important work. At least something that was important to themselves?
For those of you who'd like to see free for all tld's (e.g..microsoft or.nicebacon)...
How many.com domain name registrants do you think will register their.com name as a tld? About all of them? Probably. And how many seconds will that take? Probably around 10.
So where would we stand after that? Right where we are now with the.com name space.
So what's the point? Every bloody marketing moron will register every tld he can think of and the remaining will be taken by people running dodgy xxx sites or cybersquatters. Hell, even upthearse.com is taken nowadays!
Well it's based on BSD (open source, I was told), so if they manage to implement a good gui that even mac users like on top of it, I'd call it somewhat an acomplishment.
There's actually some pretty clever stuff in there, but the marketing droids messed it all up by naming the BSD-kernel "MACH" and the brand new NEXT-ish stuff "COCOA". All of you "bah"-guys. Take a second look. It looks pretty good.
So if somone screws up my windows 98 machine with back orrifice or whatever because I was stupid enough to let it in, what would the insurance company say? Where do they draw the line (between gross stupidity/carelessnes and a hack/crack)? How lousy would my security have to be before the insurance company would refuse to pay? In the real world, insurance companies won't pay up, if you don't lock your door and so on, but whith that many systems and exploits out there, what would be considered a locked door?
Here in Denmark we had a county who put a poll on their website asking the community how they felt about building a new ice hockey stadium. The poll was taken down quite fast though, when some guy in the IT department found out that the majority of votes came from the mayors office. It turned out that the mayor had personally spent an entire evening clicking the "Yes"-button over and over again (I think it was around 150 times or so).
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Sorry, but I think that what causes stress is not pushing your brain for too long ;-) .
If you're doing stupid manual work (i used to work in bread factory putting buns in plastic bags all day), your mind is free to wander and you can think The Things in Life through, thus maintaining a good mental healt.
What I've seen until know is, that if you do stupid meaningles work (like, say, most marketing is), that nevertheless require your full concentration, you never have time to "clean up" your mind and think things through.
Maybe one just needs time to think for one self.
Actually i quit and went to work for another company that essentially does the same thing but pays more, and doesn't screw the employees as much as the last one did. So basically I did nothing and moved nowhere, but things still improved a bit.
Another poster mentioned something about being in control of ones life and so on. Maybe the exercise of being in control (e.g. i quit for another company) is the thing that really matters.
So.
When you are at work, none of the society's normal rules, save tree, apply. You are not free to do what you want when you want, say what you want to whom you want, go where you want or in some places even dress how you want or have an opinion on something. The only three rights you have are the right to quit, right to get compensated and right not to suffer physical harm.
This has become somewhat accepted, because one has to eat and so on, but if you are exposed to this 12-13 hours a day week in, week out, year in year out, it might leave a scar.
I used to work in a web production company, doing mostly sites for brands (chewing gum, lousy crap pop bands and the like). I came to the conclusion that none of what I was doing really mattered. The world did not turn into a better place because of this clever site for a fsking chewing gum brand. It didn't turn into a worse place either.
Nothing I did really changed anything. Not even the sales figures of the brands, since the competitors were making equally clever sites. The product of all my work and all the worries about deadlines and stuff was - essentially - zero. Money was just transfered from one person to another. Thats it
So apart from fighting the good fight against riaa and their hired thugs, what matters? Can you all honestly say that your job is meaningful?
Besides letting out this cynical gas, I think my point is that IMHO nobody would be stressed if they were doing truly important work. At least something that was important to themselves?
For those of you who'd like to see free for all tld's (e.g. .microsoft or .nicebacon)... .com domain name registrants do you think will register their .com name as a tld? About all of them? Probably. .com name space.
How many
And how many seconds will that take? Probably around 10.
So where would we stand after that? Right where we are now with the
So what's the point? Every bloody marketing moron will register every tld he can think of and the remaining will be taken by people running dodgy xxx sites or cybersquatters.
Hell, even upthearse.com is taken nowadays!
Well it's based on BSD (open source, I was told), so if they manage to implement a good gui that even mac users like on top of it, I'd call it somewhat an acomplishment.
There's actually some pretty clever stuff in there, but the marketing droids messed it all up by naming the BSD-kernel "MACH" and the brand new NEXT-ish stuff "COCOA". All of you "bah"-guys. Take a second look.
It looks pretty good.
So if somone screws up my windows 98 machine with back orrifice or whatever because I was stupid enough to let it in, what would the insurance company say? Where do they draw the line (between gross stupidity/carelessnes and a hack/crack)?
How lousy would my security have to be before the insurance company would refuse to pay?
In the real world, insurance companies won't pay up, if you don't lock your door and so on, but whith that many systems and exploits out there, what would be considered a locked door?
If I have a PC with one of these thingies installed, what should I call it? It wouldn't really be a "PC", would it?
Any suggestions?
Better call Bruce Willis!
Here in Denmark we had a county who put a poll on their website asking the community how they felt about building a new ice hockey stadium.
The poll was taken down quite fast though, when some guy in the IT department found out that the majority of votes came from the mayors office.
It turned out that the mayor had personally spent an entire evening clicking the "Yes"-button over and over again (I think it was around 150 times or so).
The morale?