Stadiums, for example, have already fought, lost, and retooled for this war. If you didn't investigate what stadiums did for the Super Bowl the last few years, then you're a failure as a planner for an event like this.
People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.
You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.
Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.
I've been here for a looooong time. After midnight in a quiet lab, somewhere around 1999. Hopped over to Yahoo, and I got a blaring Chevy Silverado ad. Auto-play flash, full volume. It was right then that I began figuring out how to disable flash and do click-to-play. That quickly lead into adblocking as well, and that's history. I do not suffer abusive relationships.
Since then, I've been immensely happy with my web experience. When I try to use other people's machines, it just hurts. The pop-ups, adware, browser hijacks....I don't know how they can actually live like that. It's the digital equivalent of a meth making trailer park run by carnies.
I think if you actually study the New Testament...
It's the New Testament where Jesus something along the lines of, "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them. For I tell you truly, until heaven and earth pass away, not a single jot, not a stroke of a pen, will disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished." That's Matthew 5:17-18, in case you're wondering.
If you hang your hat on the New Testament, within that very book Jesus tells you that you've still got the anchor of the Old Testament around your neck. That is absolutely a teaching of Christ.
Please refrain from whitewashing Christianity if you're not willing to actually follow the teachings of Christ. Have a good day.
Yes. That's why I called it turning that into an art form. Spicer was really inept at doing this. Other press secretaries have really shone while doing that. Obviously you can't say "No comment" to everything, but you can come up with dozens of other ways to say that. "The president is finalizing that decision. We'll let you know when he has made it." "The brevity of Twitter sometimes leads people to take linguistic shortcuts which can cause what they say to become misinterpreted. I believe you have misinterpreted the President's Tweet." "With how complex the Trump business is, it's not uncommon for members of the President's family to have dozens of meetings per day. I'm sure many thousands more are barely remembered."
Instead we got rants and shouting, and someone blatantly contradicting what the president said. You've got to do better than that!
As the AC here pointed out, time is money. I set my hourly time outside of work at $50. That's what it would take to make me want to do something other than what I want to do.
I don't want to spend my time price-matching new screen protectors for my phone. They are like $10 on Amazon. I'd need to be buying a lot of like 50 of them before it would be worth my time to price compare. Same with many, many other products. So for those, I just buy them. Now, a new stove for the kitchen? You can bet I put in an hour or three making sure I'm getting what I want at a good price.
$0.10 cheaper gas? I buy 10 gallons at a time, so that's $1 cheaper per fill. Unless it takes me under 2 minutes to drive to that, it's not worth my time. Most of the time what you're suggesting is laughably overkill. When you're creeping up into the hundreds of dollars, it starts to make sense.
I absolutely agree that he was fucked in his job. Press Secretaries are supposed to help drive the president's agenda, and when yours doesn't have one, that is really hard. Press Secretaries are supposed to work with the president to stay on message, and when the President can't do that, how can he? Super tough job, for sure. But Spicer wasn't anywhere near good enough to even make a half-assed attempt at it.
But just because you're between a rock and a hard place doesn't mean you have to stay stupid shit, or every press secretary ever would be getting the same level of treatment that Spicer got. Hell, he gets Baghdad Bob comparisons! If you're between a rock and a hard place, you don't have to say that Hitler didn't use chemical weapons.
Plenty of competent press secretaries have done this job, and have turned "no comment" into an art form. It's notable when one is unable to do that. Notable enough that their antics get into pop culture. The average joe couldn't name more than 1 other former press secretary. The average joe knows this one.
Press secretaries generally don't say stupid things all the time. They are chosen because they're eloquent, intelligent, well informed, and thoughtful. I.E. not the way Trump's are.
I think you intentionally wrote "other family members" rather than "others" because even you realize how much of a cluster fuck it would be to try re-issuing medicine...
Not to mention that doctors prescribe dosages sufficient to treat, but not excessive for a very large percentage of medicines. If you have some left over, you didn't use it the way it was intended, and it's probably not enough for someone else to use as directed. Thus useless for your family, and necessitating the clusterfuck of collecting, identifying, determining purity and lack of contamination, assessing potency, etc., etc., etc. I.E., an absolutely unworkable solution.
I'm not sure that madness is the right way to describe this. When you don't understand a complicated system, it looks crazy from the outside. When you understand it, it makes far more sense. Too much of the world is now twitterfied to jump to react at anything they've spent 15 seconds thinking about, regardless of how little they understand of it.
As Richard posted above, and Interfacer posted here, it's not just that the drug manufacturers need to ensure that it's effective over many years. It has to have the effectiveness, side effects, and interactions with other medicines potentially not yet released tested over that span of years. That means clinical trials, and it means hoarding and storing all your products in the way they'd be stored in warehouses, stores, and homes for years and years before running the trials. It's just not feasible to do.
From a user-safety standpoint, a three year expiration date means that three years from now, people will replace that bottle with a new one, and that new one will have updated information regarding new known side-effects and interactions with other medicines. It's not like you can functionally recall medicine with a decade life-span if new findings and regulations means you need to update the product warnings. I see encouraging people to routinely clear out old medicine as a logical and reasonable step. Is it wasteful? Sure. But it's also very safe. And how do you balance those two, when the entire point of medicine is to make people better, not worse?
I doubt you're going to retrain someone who's been routing reports around forever to be a big data scientist.
The old joke was, "Go away or I'll replace you with a small shell script." This is that taken to a level many orders of magnitude higher. I'm automating tons of parts of my job at the moment. Lots of things that used to be done by hand are now scripted. Why? Because this job traditionally was held by someone much more of a report router and general knowledge bank.
However, what I'm realizing is that I've fundamentally changed this job. The person they hire to replace me when I leave is not going to be the same type of person that used to get hired to do this job. It's going need to be a tech savvy person who can use automation to solve problems. Multiply this effect by the million other businesses in the world, and we're quickly changing jobs to require far fewer people, and the ones that are still required need to be automators themselves.
I agree, but there just isn't enough money in our current welfare system to pay for a functional UBI system. We will need to extract some of the wealth that the top 20% has stocked away to fund UBI. And that is never easy to do, as they are the ones who control politics.
The good news is that redistribution of wealth should really help the economy. Giving the poor and middle class more to spend is great, because they will spend it. Right now that money is not benefiting anyone. The 1% already have more than they can really spend, and they're just using their money to make more money. They're sitting on about 35% of the money in the US. The next 19% of the population controls another 50% of the money. When the top 20% hoards 85% of the wealth in the country, that's not an economically sustainable situation. Injecting half that back into the economy would likely fuel an amazing period of prosperity for the country.
So if it has anything to do about computers they ask the IT guy even though they are so many different levels you can specialize in.
Not just computers. Anything with electricity and/or a sensor.
My first job I had a VP who needed a large corner office with lots of windows at the far end of the building. And she needed to be able to walk into it through the emergency exit next to the office, because she couldn't be asked to walk through the whole building. So we were asked to make the security work out so she could have her own private doorway. And we were not allowed to spend any money doing it. End result? We just disabled the alarm and security on that door.
Her second issue was that her big corner office at the far end of the building with lots of windows was too hot in the summer and too cold in the winter. Compounding this, she needed to have her door closed all the time, and sat nearly touching the window. Since she had a thermostat, she constantly adjusted it. Not realizing that it didn't do anything, because it was just there to gather zone temp information. IT would get a request every week or two to fix her thermostat, because her office was uncomfortable. Finally got approval to get the HVAC guys in, and they immediately pointed out that when the building was built, they cheaped out on the HVAC system and it didn't have capacity to cool the square footage of that wing. Given this new information, the VP continued to ask IT to fix her thermostat every few weeks.
True. But I find once I get automatic with key combos that I parse them as one stroke. Four deletes is still four sequential keystrokes. The other option is an IDE which allows find and replace of spaces and tabs.
What I find worse is the "silent" pre-update work that happens. I travel for work, and we get either a laptop or a desktop. So I get a laptop. I'll be crunching some data, and suddenly shit slows to a crawl. Outlook fails to respond. My scripts fail. I restart Chrome to see if my 20 tabs are causing the issue, and it persists. 20 minutes later I get prompted to reboot. How we not do that, and just update on reboot? Please?
I bought a Dell Precision with Ubuntu because of Mac's stagnant hardware and fucking iCloud. I disabled everything remotely tied to iCloud, and I'd still get incessant pop-ups telling me to log into iCloud. No, fuck you. Not doing that.
Running Ubuntu now and I'm much happier. Is is perfect? No. My trackpad spazzes out when uptime gets too long, and scrolling starts switches apps. I get a weird flicker on some websites, and it seems to be a combo of uBlock and some aggressive ads causing the video card to struggle. But overall nothing nearly as irritating as the iCloud nagware was.
Only if you don't know about ctrl + shift + arrow or ctrl+shift+home or you use an IDE that doesn't have those useful tools. And who cares if code is "bigger" because you have more characters? It's not like the compiler keeps that information resulting in a larger binary.
I happily click "click this to proceed" buttons, commonly labeled "Accept" for exactly this reason. There is no legal repercussion for checking a box and clicking a button on the internet. Can they prove it was me that clicked it, or did someone else? If someone else used my computer and clicked "I agree", that doesn't make me liable for anything. Can you prove that you didn't change the text since I've clicked? When I modified the text and agreed to it, you obviously accepted those modifications, because you let me in. Did you not keep a copy?
A large part of the issue stems from STEM threatening religious beliefs, directly or indirectly. While climate change, evolution, and the origin of life and the universe are the common hot-button issues, where religion might directly contradict science, the entire process of questioning understanding, checking for facts, and drawing logical conclusions is antithetical to belief. With a sizable percentage of republicans relying on a base where religion is a very prominent core of their being, it's not surprising that they would be against something that threatens it.
As a whole, the education has the potential to give people the tools to question belief, but more critically, question authority. Given the extreme shift to authoritarian positions by the current crop of republicans, I can definitely see how education can be a threat.
At one job I was paired with a coworker, and as former college classmates, we got along smashingly well. His wife ended up getting shipped half-way across the country, so he went with her and worked remotely. Not only did it drive him insane, but it really was bad for me as well. To keep him sane I often ended up in a windowless conference room skyping with him. That meant I was missing out on our normal office socialization, and also being his emotional anchor as he dealt with a quiet, empty house.
He got 2x as much done as me and would get frustrated when he ran out of stuff to do. Often he'd push ahead on things that weren't decided yet, and end up going in a direction that we didn't ultimately take. I point-blank told him, "Dude, just work 9-3.", but he insisted on working 8 hrs per day. Company definitely got their money out of him.
When I left he ended up getting entirely disconnected from the company, as they assigned nobody to be his partner. He ended up doing less and less regular work, with nobody willing to pay attention to him. He'd try to set up meetings, and people would cancel because facetime meetings were more important. It got to the point where he was just doing work as requested a few days per week, while looking for other jobs and walking the dog. Once he found an office job, he was done. I'm not sure if I would have kept that up longer or not. They were willing to pay him for doing nothing half the time, and there's a definite benefit in that. I can think of a lot of things I'd like to explore if I had that sort of a gig.
What are you going on about? My credit card is a short-term loan from my credit union which costs me $0 to use in place of cash. Sure, you can go into debt and cost yourself a lot of money with a credit card. But you can do that with a lot of other things too. Some other favorites are cars, houses, and boats. Protip: Don't do that.
I never have to worry about not having enough cash for anything or having to stop by the ATM because everything is an electronic fund transfer. In the monthly spending account there are 2 months of spending money. If it looks like we're going to dent the second month, we hold off on some optional expenses. Credit card gets auto-paid from that so there are never any charges. Plus I get 1% cash back on it, so in any given year the credit union cuts me a check for a $100-$200.
Cash...is also what you use when you do not want to pay the credit card parasites any real money.
Or in my case, using cash would cost me a couple hundred bucks per year, plus the time and effort to hit the ATM on a regular basis and micro-manage the contents of my wallet to ensure I can go shopping, get gas, fix the car, etc. Why would I go through all that hassle to cost myself a couple hundred dollars per year? If this is slavery, count me as one happy slave. I have more money and my life is easier. I would suggest that if you believe that you're enslaved by credit cards that you might figure out what your personal problem is and fix it.
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Make an infographic of how to do it, and post it to 4chan. The company will find out they have an issue in no time if you do that!
Stadiums, for example, have already fought, lost, and retooled for this war. If you didn't investigate what stadiums did for the Super Bowl the last few years, then you're a failure as a planner for an event like this.
People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.
You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.
Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.
– Banksy
I've been here for a looooong time. After midnight in a quiet lab, somewhere around 1999. Hopped over to Yahoo, and I got a blaring Chevy Silverado ad. Auto-play flash, full volume. It was right then that I began figuring out how to disable flash and do click-to-play. That quickly lead into adblocking as well, and that's history. I do not suffer abusive relationships.
Since then, I've been immensely happy with my web experience. When I try to use other people's machines, it just hurts. The pop-ups, adware, browser hijacks....I don't know how they can actually live like that. It's the digital equivalent of a meth making trailer park run by carnies.
I think if you actually study the New Testament...
It's the New Testament where Jesus something along the lines of, "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them. For I tell you truly, until heaven and earth pass away, not a single jot, not a stroke of a pen, will disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished." That's Matthew 5:17-18, in case you're wondering.
If you hang your hat on the New Testament, within that very book Jesus tells you that you've still got the anchor of the Old Testament around your neck. That is absolutely a teaching of Christ.
Please refrain from whitewashing Christianity if you're not willing to actually follow the teachings of Christ. Have a good day.
The average joe couldn't name more than 1 other former press secretary.
You got one, which nicely demonstrates my point. Had more press secretaries been this bad, you'd have given me a much longer list.
Yes. That's why I called it turning that into an art form. Spicer was really inept at doing this. Other press secretaries have really shone while doing that. Obviously you can't say "No comment" to everything, but you can come up with dozens of other ways to say that. "The president is finalizing that decision. We'll let you know when he has made it." "The brevity of Twitter sometimes leads people to take linguistic shortcuts which can cause what they say to become misinterpreted. I believe you have misinterpreted the President's Tweet." "With how complex the Trump business is, it's not uncommon for members of the President's family to have dozens of meetings per day. I'm sure many thousands more are barely remembered."
Instead we got rants and shouting, and someone blatantly contradicting what the president said. You've got to do better than that!
As the AC here pointed out, time is money. I set my hourly time outside of work at $50. That's what it would take to make me want to do something other than what I want to do.
I don't want to spend my time price-matching new screen protectors for my phone. They are like $10 on Amazon. I'd need to be buying a lot of like 50 of them before it would be worth my time to price compare. Same with many, many other products. So for those, I just buy them. Now, a new stove for the kitchen? You can bet I put in an hour or three making sure I'm getting what I want at a good price.
$0.10 cheaper gas? I buy 10 gallons at a time, so that's $1 cheaper per fill. Unless it takes me under 2 minutes to drive to that, it's not worth my time. Most of the time what you're suggesting is laughably overkill. When you're creeping up into the hundreds of dollars, it starts to make sense.
I absolutely agree that he was fucked in his job. Press Secretaries are supposed to help drive the president's agenda, and when yours doesn't have one, that is really hard. Press Secretaries are supposed to work with the president to stay on message, and when the President can't do that, how can he? Super tough job, for sure. But Spicer wasn't anywhere near good enough to even make a half-assed attempt at it.
But just because you're between a rock and a hard place doesn't mean you have to stay stupid shit, or every press secretary ever would be getting the same level of treatment that Spicer got. Hell, he gets Baghdad Bob comparisons! If you're between a rock and a hard place, you don't have to say that Hitler didn't use chemical weapons.
Plenty of competent press secretaries have done this job, and have turned "no comment" into an art form. It's notable when one is unable to do that. Notable enough that their antics get into pop culture. The average joe couldn't name more than 1 other former press secretary. The average joe knows this one.
Press secretaries generally don't say stupid things all the time. They are chosen because they're eloquent, intelligent, well informed, and thoughtful. I.E. not the way Trump's are.
I think you intentionally wrote "other family members" rather than "others" because even you realize how much of a cluster fuck it would be to try re-issuing medicine...
Not to mention that doctors prescribe dosages sufficient to treat, but not excessive for a very large percentage of medicines. If you have some left over, you didn't use it the way it was intended, and it's probably not enough for someone else to use as directed. Thus useless for your family, and necessitating the clusterfuck of collecting, identifying, determining purity and lack of contamination, assessing potency, etc., etc., etc. I.E., an absolutely unworkable solution.
I'm not sure that madness is the right way to describe this. When you don't understand a complicated system, it looks crazy from the outside. When you understand it, it makes far more sense. Too much of the world is now twitterfied to jump to react at anything they've spent 15 seconds thinking about, regardless of how little they understand of it.
As Richard posted above, and Interfacer posted here, it's not just that the drug manufacturers need to ensure that it's effective over many years. It has to have the effectiveness, side effects, and interactions with other medicines potentially not yet released tested over that span of years. That means clinical trials, and it means hoarding and storing all your products in the way they'd be stored in warehouses, stores, and homes for years and years before running the trials. It's just not feasible to do.
From a user-safety standpoint, a three year expiration date means that three years from now, people will replace that bottle with a new one, and that new one will have updated information regarding new known side-effects and interactions with other medicines. It's not like you can functionally recall medicine with a decade life-span if new findings and regulations means you need to update the product warnings. I see encouraging people to routinely clear out old medicine as a logical and reasonable step. Is it wasteful? Sure. But it's also very safe. And how do you balance those two, when the entire point of medicine is to make people better, not worse?
Next Christmas Headline: Charley Brown trees suddenly becoming popular again!
But, Outlawing guns isn't the solution....
Then can you please explain why there's nearly no gun crime in England and Australia?
I doubt you're going to retrain someone who's been routing reports around forever to be a big data scientist.
The old joke was, "Go away or I'll replace you with a small shell script." This is that taken to a level many orders of magnitude higher. I'm automating tons of parts of my job at the moment. Lots of things that used to be done by hand are now scripted. Why? Because this job traditionally was held by someone much more of a report router and general knowledge bank.
However, what I'm realizing is that I've fundamentally changed this job. The person they hire to replace me when I leave is not going to be the same type of person that used to get hired to do this job. It's going need to be a tech savvy person who can use automation to solve problems. Multiply this effect by the million other businesses in the world, and we're quickly changing jobs to require far fewer people, and the ones that are still required need to be automators themselves.
I agree, but there just isn't enough money in our current welfare system to pay for a functional UBI system. We will need to extract some of the wealth that the top 20% has stocked away to fund UBI. And that is never easy to do, as they are the ones who control politics.
The good news is that redistribution of wealth should really help the economy. Giving the poor and middle class more to spend is great, because they will spend it. Right now that money is not benefiting anyone. The 1% already have more than they can really spend, and they're just using their money to make more money. They're sitting on about 35% of the money in the US. The next 19% of the population controls another 50% of the money. When the top 20% hoards 85% of the wealth in the country, that's not an economically sustainable situation. Injecting half that back into the economy would likely fuel an amazing period of prosperity for the country.
So if it has anything to do about computers they ask the IT guy even though they are so many different levels you can specialize in.
Not just computers. Anything with electricity and/or a sensor.
My first job I had a VP who needed a large corner office with lots of windows at the far end of the building. And she needed to be able to walk into it through the emergency exit next to the office, because she couldn't be asked to walk through the whole building. So we were asked to make the security work out so she could have her own private doorway. And we were not allowed to spend any money doing it. End result? We just disabled the alarm and security on that door.
Her second issue was that her big corner office at the far end of the building with lots of windows was too hot in the summer and too cold in the winter. Compounding this, she needed to have her door closed all the time, and sat nearly touching the window. Since she had a thermostat, she constantly adjusted it. Not realizing that it didn't do anything, because it was just there to gather zone temp information. IT would get a request every week or two to fix her thermostat, because her office was uncomfortable. Finally got approval to get the HVAC guys in, and they immediately pointed out that when the building was built, they cheaped out on the HVAC system and it didn't have capacity to cool the square footage of that wing. Given this new information, the VP continued to ask IT to fix her thermostat every few weeks.
True. But I find once I get automatic with key combos that I parse them as one stroke. Four deletes is still four sequential keystrokes. The other option is an IDE which allows find and replace of spaces and tabs.
What I find worse is the "silent" pre-update work that happens. I travel for work, and we get either a laptop or a desktop. So I get a laptop. I'll be crunching some data, and suddenly shit slows to a crawl. Outlook fails to respond. My scripts fail. I restart Chrome to see if my 20 tabs are causing the issue, and it persists. 20 minutes later I get prompted to reboot. How we not do that, and just update on reboot? Please?
I bought a Dell Precision with Ubuntu because of Mac's stagnant hardware and fucking iCloud. I disabled everything remotely tied to iCloud, and I'd still get incessant pop-ups telling me to log into iCloud. No, fuck you. Not doing that.
Running Ubuntu now and I'm much happier. Is is perfect? No. My trackpad spazzes out when uptime gets too long, and scrolling starts switches apps. I get a weird flicker on some websites, and it seems to be a combo of uBlock and some aggressive ads causing the video card to struggle. But overall nothing nearly as irritating as the iCloud nagware was.
Only if you don't know about ctrl + shift + arrow or ctrl+shift+home or you use an IDE that doesn't have those useful tools. And who cares if code is "bigger" because you have more characters? It's not like the compiler keeps that information resulting in a larger binary.
I happily click "click this to proceed" buttons, commonly labeled "Accept" for exactly this reason. There is no legal repercussion for checking a box and clicking a button on the internet. Can they prove it was me that clicked it, or did someone else? If someone else used my computer and clicked "I agree", that doesn't make me liable for anything. Can you prove that you didn't change the text since I've clicked? When I modified the text and agreed to it, you obviously accepted those modifications, because you let me in. Did you not keep a copy?
A large part of the issue stems from STEM threatening religious beliefs, directly or indirectly. While climate change, evolution, and the origin of life and the universe are the common hot-button issues, where religion might directly contradict science, the entire process of questioning understanding, checking for facts, and drawing logical conclusions is antithetical to belief. With a sizable percentage of republicans relying on a base where religion is a very prominent core of their being, it's not surprising that they would be against something that threatens it.
As a whole, the education has the potential to give people the tools to question belief, but more critically, question authority. Given the extreme shift to authoritarian positions by the current crop of republicans, I can definitely see how education can be a threat.
At one job I was paired with a coworker, and as former college classmates, we got along smashingly well. His wife ended up getting shipped half-way across the country, so he went with her and worked remotely. Not only did it drive him insane, but it really was bad for me as well. To keep him sane I often ended up in a windowless conference room skyping with him. That meant I was missing out on our normal office socialization, and also being his emotional anchor as he dealt with a quiet, empty house.
He got 2x as much done as me and would get frustrated when he ran out of stuff to do. Often he'd push ahead on things that weren't decided yet, and end up going in a direction that we didn't ultimately take. I point-blank told him, "Dude, just work 9-3.", but he insisted on working 8 hrs per day. Company definitely got their money out of him.
When I left he ended up getting entirely disconnected from the company, as they assigned nobody to be his partner. He ended up doing less and less regular work, with nobody willing to pay attention to him. He'd try to set up meetings, and people would cancel because facetime meetings were more important. It got to the point where he was just doing work as requested a few days per week, while looking for other jobs and walking the dog. Once he found an office job, he was done. I'm not sure if I would have kept that up longer or not. They were willing to pay him for doing nothing half the time, and there's a definite benefit in that. I can think of a lot of things I'd like to explore if I had that sort of a gig.
What are you going on about? My credit card is a short-term loan from my credit union which costs me $0 to use in place of cash. Sure, you can go into debt and cost yourself a lot of money with a credit card. But you can do that with a lot of other things too. Some other favorites are cars, houses, and boats. Protip: Don't do that.
I never have to worry about not having enough cash for anything or having to stop by the ATM because everything is an electronic fund transfer. In the monthly spending account there are 2 months of spending money. If it looks like we're going to dent the second month, we hold off on some optional expenses. Credit card gets auto-paid from that so there are never any charges. Plus I get 1% cash back on it, so in any given year the credit union cuts me a check for a $100-$200.
Cash...is also what you use when you do not want to pay the credit card parasites any real money.
Or in my case, using cash would cost me a couple hundred bucks per year, plus the time and effort to hit the ATM on a regular basis and micro-manage the contents of my wallet to ensure I can go shopping, get gas, fix the car, etc. Why would I go through all that hassle to cost myself a couple hundred dollars per year? If this is slavery, count me as one happy slave. I have more money and my life is easier. I would suggest that if you believe that you're enslaved by credit cards that you might figure out what your personal problem is and fix it.