|
AreWeDrunkYet posted:Not surprising for a ship used to train US officers. Operating a ship at sea is the best possible education for a career operating ships at sea; the fact that it's a sailing ship has the added benefit of requiring the midshipmen to learn and exercise exceptional levels of teamwork.
|
#
?
May 14, 2023 03:28
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 9, 2024 19:00 |
|
|
Scratch Monkey posted:I’d argue that calling a dashboard light an “emoji” misses the point. Emojis, as their name suggests, are supposed to be for expressing an emotion in text. My check engine light is not expressing emotion. Sorry, this bothered me enough that I have to point out that emoji comes from "Japanese, for e ‘picture’ + moji ‘letter, character" and is not derived from English.
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2023 03:39
|
|
|
Emojis certany are running high itt
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2023 04:29
|
|
|
In this forum we call them 'emotes' , and you'll drat well like it!
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2023 04:31
|
|
|
canyoneer posted:Sometimes beauty is its own reward. I've been on board and it really is very nice.
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2023 05:03
|
|
|
Fourier Series posted:But do they regret it, or do they stand by their prior beliefs that it was indeed worth it? They don’t regret all of it but they regret a lot of it. There’s a social component too where they were in this tight knit group of people and you kinda go with the flow for awhile. They still follow each other on socials but don’t really keep in touch and none of them showed up for my cousin’s wedding. My cousin had a leg up on a lot of them and had money set aside to go to law school, which she did go to. She definitely didn’t have the money to not work the whole time so she ended up working all sorts of odd jobs. So she would work 20 hours one week and then 80 hours the next week. And then she gets her law degree and has to start from the bottom and work 80 hour weeks. Her advice to me was “working 80 hours in your 20s sucks, but working 80 hours in your 30s sucks so much more, but it’s better than working 80 hours in your 40s” E: I kinda went on a tangent about being a ski bum. I really just wanted to show an example of someone in their 20s mortgaging some of their future because they think their values or friendships won’t change as they get older. Sinbad's Sex Tape fucked around with this message at 07:02 on May 14, 2023 |
|
#
?
May 14, 2023 06:33
|
|
|
Big Horse posted:Sorry, this bothered me enough that I have to point out that emoji comes from "Japanese, for e ‘picture’ + moji ‘letter, character" and is not derived from English. 
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2023 12:44
|
|
|
Heffer posted:In this forum we call them 'emotes' , and you'll drat well like it! This is smilie erasure.
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2023 12:54
|
|
|
Personally I think never working 80 hr weeks is GWL but maybe that's just me
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2023 13:34
|
|
|
I remember they were called emoticons for a brief period before emoji took over. Let's just call everything reactions now since that's what drives engagement.
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2023 13:37
|
|
|
My uncle did the ski bum lifestyle for a while, but it was also a lot of working on oil rigs and driving taxis in the off season.
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2023 14:41
|
|
|
The word emoji would have never caught on if it didn't sound a lot like emoticon. So even if the Japanese word (that most people don't know is Japanese) doesn't have anything to do with emotion, to most people it does
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2023 14:51
|
|
|
marchantia posted:Personally I think never working 80 hr weeks is GWL but maybe that's just me I’ve recently heard the idea espoused by a few people that work/life balance should be looked at over a career/life rather than over, say, a week or month. Basically that your youthful years should be about hustling, getting skills/experience, and establishing yourself, allowing you to kick back (relatively) and spend more time on your relationships, family, and interests as you get older. … what utter bullshit. Not only is it a narrative to get younger people more comfortable with working extremely antisocial and unhealthy schedules, it fails to mention that working that much means cultivating interests and building relationships in the first place is much less likely to happen. It also drowns out most other value-formation, so one’s identity is likely to just become “I work long and hard”, so they keep working the 80 hour weeks by choice in their 30s/40s.
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2023 16:13
|
|
|
Halisnacks posted:I’ve recently heard the idea espoused by a few people that work/life balance should be looked at over a career/life rather than over, say, a week or month. Basically that your youthful years should be about hustling, getting skills/experience, and establishing yourself, allowing you to kick back (relatively) and spend more time on your relationships, family, and interests as you get older. This 80 hour worker is pretty rare, though. The latest stat from the BLS is "The average workweek for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls was unchanged at 34.4 hours in April". It not clear the statistic accounts for people with multiple jobs, but thats only a few percent of workers anyways.
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2023 16:54
|
|
|
its kinda a bet that the hard work will get rewarded. which, to paraphrase my old ceo, is a great bet when you own 20% of the company, a mediocre one if you own 0.5%, and a poo poo one if you don't own anything
bob dobbs is dead fucked around with this message at 18:18 on May 14, 2023 |
|
#
?
May 14, 2023 16:57
|
|
|
these workers have a much healthier attitude on employment https://twitter.com/CatWorkers/status/1657664039751647233
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2023 17:10
|
|
|
drk posted:This 80 hour worker is pretty rare, though. The latest stat from the BLS is "The average workweek for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls was unchanged at 34.4 hours in April". It not clear the statistic accounts for people with multiple jobs, but thats only a few percent of workers anyways. Is the average a mean in this case? 34-35 hours a week sounds ideal, and in contrast to the general impression I have of working in the US (I am not American). I find it more plausible that the 35 hour average obscures a big contingents of (1) underemployed and (2) overworked people. Appreciate the 80 hour folks are not that common, but 50+ hours might be, and even that is too much work.
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2023 17:14
|
|
|
I’m sure that’s heavily skewed by part time workers. 50 is pretty common but n my department. I really wish employers were more flexible about 3/4 and 1/2 time positions. F both my wife and I could go down to 3/4 time we could still afford to live but also have some semblance of work/life balance.
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2023 17:39
|
|
|
Yes, the average is a mean. They dont report a median or any percentiles in this data. In terms of underemployed? There are going to be a lot of people who cant work full time but would like to, due to childcare needs or something else. Also, the average in retail is 30.0 hours, which is suspiciously close to the 30 hour/week cutoff where employers are required to offer healthcare benefits (most of these people are likely eligible for significant healthcare subsidies from the government but its still a crappy system). I'm assuming there are a lot of people getting 25-29 hours a week and a handful of supervisory/management people working closer to 40 bringing the average to 30. Overworked? If by that you mean the wage theft sense like "you need to clock out but stay and finish this work anyways", certainly that happens but I dont think its particularly common. Its a little hazier when its salaried employees who like, might answer an email outside of a normal 9-5 schedule. edit: link to table with hours worked by industry drk fucked around with this message at 17:51 on May 14, 2023 |
|
#
?
May 14, 2023 17:47
|
|
|
drk posted:Yes, the average is a mean. They dont report a median or any percentiles in this data. A few years earlier when I was in food service I knew a bunch id people working two part time jobs at 20-30 hours each, sometimes to pay for the health care they weren’t getting as a benefit. That’s pre-Obamacare, though, and for all it’s awful problems is still better than early 00s bullshjt.
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2023 17:50
|
|
|
drk posted:Overworked? If by that you mean the wage theft sense like "you need to clock out but stay and finish this work anyways", certainly that happens but I dont think its particularly common. Its a little hazier when its salaried employees who like, might answer an email outside of a normal 9-5 schedule. By overworked I meant the salaried employees who nominally have 9-5 jobs but in practice that’s a complete fiction and they regularly work 10-20 hours more a week than 9-5 would suggest. Although on reflection I would also use it to mean employees on hourly wages who, even if they are being compensated for every hour, need to put in 50+ hours of week out of economic necessity rather than compulsion from their manager or love of the work.
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2023 18:15
|
|
|
Halisnacks posted:By overworked I meant the salaried employees who nominally have 9-5 jobs but in practice that’s a complete fiction and they regularly work 10-20 hours more a week than 9-5 would suggest. How do the BLS stats account for salaried workers? If there is no time clock, do they just assume 40 hours? Because that's going to be grossly undercounting for a lot of professions. I honestly could not tell you how many hours a week I work these days, or whether it's over or under 40 hours. I'll check e-mail to make sure nothing is on fire after waking up, then gently caress around on personal stuff until the first meeting or if someone needs something. The rest of the day is the same deal - if it's a heavy meeting schedule or stuff requires engagement, it might be an 8-9 hour day. Other times if not as much is going on taking a 2-3 hour lunch and/or regular breaks through the day is just fine. And then maybe I sign off at the end of normal working hours, or maybe I'll casually catch up on e-mails or whatever while watching TV. How do you even begin to measure average working hours when a good chunk of the workforce is fully remote and not doing work demarcated in hourly increments? AreWeDrunkYet fucked around with this message at 18:29 on May 14, 2023 |
|
#
?
May 14, 2023 18:26
|
|
|
Sinbad's Sex Tape posted:They don’t regret all of it but they regret a lot of it. There’s a social component too where they were in this tight knit group of people and you kinda go with the flow for awhile. They still follow each other on socials but don’t really keep in touch and none of them showed up for my cousin’s wedding.
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2023 18:33
|
|
|
“This news release presents statistics from two monthly surveys. The household survey measures labor force status, including unemployment, by demographic characteristics. The establishment survey measures nonfarm employment, hours, and earnings by industry.”
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2023 18:33
|
|
|
therobit posted:I’m sure that’s heavily skewed by part time workers. 50 is pretty common but n my department. I really wish employers were more flexible about 3/4 and 1/2 time positions. F both my wife and I could go down to 3/4 time we could still afford to live but also have some semblance of work/life balance. This is very flexible at my employer (software development in Germany). It‘s even possible to reduce your weekly hours for the same wage instead of a raise.
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2023 18:35
|
|
|
Halisnacks posted:I’ve recently heard the idea espoused by a few people that work/life balance should be looked at over a career/life rather than over, say, a week or month. Basically that your youthful years should be about hustling, getting skills/experience, and establishing yourself, allowing you to kick back (relatively) and spend more time on your relationships, family, and interests as you get older. Oh hey, it's me. I qualified in my trade at 21, then proceeded to work evry hour I could until I turned 24. Then I started to pull back and by the time I was 27 I found a job that let me work 36hrs a week max for similar pay. I'm gonna say it's not always bullshit, but it has to be paying well enough, and you have to be capable of saving, for it to be worthwhile when balanced against how badly it fucks up your social life. Those three years bought me a house, which now 8 years later is why I'm paying $200 a week in mortgage payments instead of the 4-500 a week that it would cost to rent here. Which also allows my wife to work part time from home and bring up our daughter. Was it worth destroying my relationship of the time and losing contact with 90% of my friend group? Dunno.
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2023 19:13
|
|
|
So you can now buy stock in artwork? https://www.masterworks.com/about/how-it-works They buy the painting. They sell shares. And then resell the painting years later. This just seems like a way to lose all of your money when the company goes bankrupt and auctions off the paintings to pay creditors.
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2023 20:07
|
|
|
buffalo all day posted:I’d probably start with summers in Rangoon…luge lessons. In the spring we’d make meat helmets. If they’re insolent, I would place them in a burlap bag and beat them with reeds- pretty standard, really. At the age of twelve they’d receive their first scribe. Still two pages behind but so far this post didn't get enough love.
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2023 20:23
|
|
|
the genius of dr evil
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2023 20:30
|
|
|
Neco posted:This is very flexible at my employer (software development in Germany). It‘s even possible to reduce your weekly hours for the same wage instead of a raise. That’s awesome. My husband tried to negotiate that at his last performance review (US company) and they were completely bewildered. They came back and said no but gave him a raise, which is nice but we would have preferred the reduced hours.
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2023 20:49
|
|
|
Pipistrelle posted:That’s awesome. My husband tried to negotiate that at his last performance review (US company) and they were completely bewildered. They came back and said no but gave him a raise, which is nice but we would have preferred the reduced hours. "We'll pay you more to browse your phone instead of going home" Firms allocate capital as efficiently as possible.
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2023 20:56
|
|
|
No boss, I’m not quiet quitting. I’m just quiet 32’ing
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2023 21:01
|
|
|
Cerekk posted:If you go to sailing school in Connecticut instead, they'll pay you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USCGC_Eagle_(WIX-327) I had no idea that that ship was a captured Nazi vessel. That's awesome. Gaius Marius posted:Just to be clear. He was only in there for a few months before getting the boot. He got another video on his channel of where he rented after that, and how he promptly built a 45° Climbing wall in it to avoid paying for a gym This guy had poo poo pretty figured out: https://www.dailylocal.com/2021/06/06/how-a-delco-man-spent-years-living-secretly-inside-phillys-veterans-stadium/
|
|
#
?
May 15, 2023 18:15
|
|
|
Sinbad's Sex Tape posted:They don’t regret all of it but they regret a lot of it. There’s a social component too where they were in this tight knit group of people and you kinda go with the flow for awhile. They still follow each other on socials but don’t really keep in touch and none of them showed up for my cousin’s wedding. This is the saddest part. These people you spend countless hours around, through the joy and misery of being broke and young and eager for adventure over luxury, in this unique once-in-a-lifetime circumstance… and they just fade. People you were closer with than your own family. People you experienced real struggle with, who at one point you couldn’t imagine life without them, just ease out of your life until one day they cancel their Facebook and then you can’t get in touch with them anymore. Maybe you find them on LinkedIn one day and you exchange a message about “oh hey! I’ve missed you!” and that’s the last communication you have for another 6 years. Does that make those experiences less worthwhile? I don’t know. There’s a struggle you can handle when you’re young that becomes unacceptable when you’re older. Putting the time into poo poo working conditions makes for profound gratitude and resilience in regular office work. My worst coworkers never worked a poo poo job in their youth and it left them naive and idealistic. I guess my point is yes go be a ski bum/rafting guide/rock climbing person, but temper expectations about how much satisfaction it will actually bring you long-term, and also only do it for like a year or two.
|
|
#
?
May 16, 2023 14:06
|
|
|
Sometimes I wish I did peace corps after school. I don’t think that’s necessarily BWM because every friend I have who did PC ended up with pretty good careers. You just have to be ok living in some very undeveloped areas for a couple of years.
|
|
#
?
May 16, 2023 14:53
|
|
|
Bird in a Blender posted:Sometimes I wish I did peace corps after school. I don’t think that’s necessarily BWM because every friend I have who did PC ended up with pretty good careers. You just have to be ok living in some very undeveloped areas for a couple of years. I know some peace corps peeps and like anything else the people who did well after used the connections and relationships they made in the PC (or elsewhere) to get to where they are. The biggest lie that I'm sure we all know is a lie is that the world is a meritocracy. People who go to expensive private schools don't have better outcomes because they got a superior education. It's because they already had or built social networks while in school. Real social networks, not internet bullshit. The peace corps seems to be a really good way for someone without the family head start to build networks like that. So I'd put that down as GWM while being GWL.
|
|
#
?
May 16, 2023 14:57
|
|
|
Bird in a Blender posted:Sometimes I wish I did peace corps after school. I don’t think that’s necessarily BWM because every friend I have who did PC ended up with pretty good careers. You just have to be ok living in some very undeveloped areas for a couple of years. From my experience the people who get good jobs after PC would have gotten them anyway because they are motivated (and like motronic said have good connections). Career-wise, PC really only helps you get into grad school, federal government, and international development industry jobs. You can always do PC when you retire. Older volunteers usually did a better job, were more respected by locals, and were happier from what I saw.
|
|
#
?
May 16, 2023 15:11
|
|
|
drk posted:these workers have a much healthier attitude on employment Cute human what’s its name? Annoying customer
|
|
#
?
May 16, 2023 15:16
|
|
|
PC helped me get into a good grad school but it definitely is not a help for securing a future. Also, it sucks bad.
|
|
#
?
May 16, 2023 19:19
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 9, 2024 19:00 |
|
|
This is too astounding not to share https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRKvBnAT/
|
|
#
?
May 16, 2023 19:53
|
|