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G-Mach posted:A decent phone repair guy can replace a battery on a iphone in around 10-20 minutes and a screen can be done around an hour. The phones which suck to work on are the flagship Samsung phones. Quandary posted:I can't speak to every point, but with regards to the headphones jack the primary reason they removed it is because it's an enormous footprint requirement for something that's almost redundant when there is a lightning connector right there. Removing the headphones jack allowed that space to be used for something else (ie more battery), the fact that it worked within the business model is a lucky coincedence. I work in the semiconductor industry - I don't think you realize how critical PCB space is in those applications and how much it drives costs and functionality.
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Dylan16807 posted:That's still five times slower than it could be, if the design took battery replacement in mind. It's not about thickness, it's about circuit board space savings
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I went to the Amazon Go store and it was fine. As I was downloading the app I was like "oh cool that's a huge barrier to entry" but it was sort of neat walking in, grabbing a can of la croix, and leaving. Jeff Bezos should be drawn and quartered.
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I predict a bunch of people will buy a whole bunch of poo poo they don't need at the Go store, trying to figure out ways to successfully shoplift from the Great Algorithm.
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PT6A posted:I predict a bunch of people will buy a whole bunch of poo poo they don't need at the Go store, trying to figure out ways to successfully shoplift from the Great Algorithm. I like grocery shopping. I like going after the gym or after work or whatever, and going by my list. I don’t mind paying with my phone or with a credit card. And everyone talking about how it saves them time... blah. I’m guessing (I work 80+ hour a week running my business) that I have less time than most people do.
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LionArcher posted:(I work 80+ hour a week running my business) You work 80+ hours a week, go to the gym, grocery shop, and still have time to read these forums? Really getting tired about people reflexively lying about how many hours they work. For reference, you're claiming you work MORE THAN 7:00am to 7:45pm with no lunch 7 days a week and still go to the gym and aren't annoyed by the time you spend grocery shopping. Right. Megaman's Jockstrap fucked around with this message at 20:20 on Jan 25, 2018 |
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Jan 25, 2018 20:17
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:You work 80+ hours a week, go to the gym, grocery shop, and still have time to read these forums? Like everyone else he or she reads the forums at work while doing the bare minimum to not get fired.
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withak posted:Like everyone else he or she reads the forums at work while doing the bare minimum to not get fired.
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LionArcher posted:(I work 80+ hour a week running my business) Thanks, I needed a sensible chuckle this morning.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:You work 80+ hours a week, go to the gym, grocery shop, and still have time to read these forums? I read it when I’m at the gym on the bike.
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The thing was I tried to do the "actually work for the entire time you're there no goofing off" thing when I went to work for some startups and I can honestly say that consistent "real" 60 hour workweeks will make you want to die. And I actually worked some no-poo poo 80 workweeks and it utterly wiped me out for 2 - 3 days afterwards, I literally had memory loss. I have nothing but respect for people on assembly lines or other monotasking job who are working 100% of the time and only get their mandated 10-minute breaks and lunches, it's hell.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:The thing was I tried to do the "actually work for the entire time you're there no goofing off" thing when I went to work for some startups and I can honestly say that consistent 60 hour workweeks will make you want to die. And I actually worked some no-poo poo 80 workweeks and it utterly wiped me out for 2 - 3 days afterwards, I literally had memory loss. I have nothing but respect for people on assembly lines or other monotasking job who are working 100% of the time and only get their mandated 10-minute breaks and lunches, it's hell. Agreed. I’m doing 80 weeks for about the next month. Most of the time it’s 50 or 60hour work weeks. But I do what I love. I was just taking a shot more at the tech writers (Leo Laport on his podcast about amazon go comes to mind) and people acting like they are too busy to grocery shop, when they in fact have pretty cushy jobs and don’t work that much.
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LionArcher posted:Agreed. I’m doing 80 weeks for about the next month. Most of the time it’s 50 or 60hour work weeks. But I do what I love. I was just taking a shot more at the tech writers (Leo Laport on his podcast about amazon go comes to mind) and people acting like they are too busy to grocery shop, when they in fact have pretty cushy jobs and don’t work that much. What do you do, if I may ask and if you are comfortable sharing?
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:What do you do, if I may ask and if you are comfortable sharing? Run an online publishing company.
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hotel owners work absolutely batshit hours. My brother is head chef at his friend’s hotel and once covered for him for a week and it drat near killed him. Up at 6am to start dealing with breakfast, work right through to midnight and repeat.
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learnincurve posted:hotel owners work absolutely batshit hours. My brother is head chef at his friend’s hotel and once covered for him for a week and it drat near killed him. Up at 6am to start dealing with breakfast, work right through to midnight and repeat. Delegating, it's a thing.
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Not easy at the height of summer, or if you have a wedding party. There are a fair few famous British pubs I know of that are out in the sticks like the cat and fiddle and the Fox House where they can’t get the staff, so the poor waitresses end up working from 10am-12pm 5 days a week and then the teenagers take over for the weekend. British pub and hotel trade is brutal burnout is high as are most of the chefs. Plus side. There is a minimum wage and no one declares tips which are voluntary and not added to the bill so there is a lot of money in it.
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MiddleOne posted:Delegating, it's a thing. Small business owners, especially in hospitality, seem to think that the secret to profitability is cutting staff to the bare minimum and then cutting some more. I have a friend who works in a relatively popular, well-rated restaurant and their back of house staff consists of one full time and one part time employee. The place serves food from noon to midnightish six days a week, at least in theory.
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PT6A posted:I predict a bunch of people will buy a whole bunch of poo poo they don't need at the Go store, trying to figure out ways to successfully shoplift from the Great Algorithm. I predict the stores will be hard to maintain, and people will be often shoplifting by accident due to broken cameras and wifi issues.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:The thing was I tried to do the "actually work for the entire time you're there no goofing off" thing when I went to work for some startups and I can honestly say that consistent "real" 60 hour workweeks will make you want to die. And I actually worked some no-poo poo 80 workweeks and it utterly wiped me out for 2 - 3 days afterwards, I literally had memory loss. I have nothing but respect for people on assembly lines or other monotasking job who are working 100% of the time and only get their mandated 10-minute breaks and lunches, it's hell. At about 65 hours a week one should start tracking hours worked in a rolling 7 day period. Any time that gets about 70 you'll feel like poo poo and you are probably getting to the point where one should not be driving a car. One should certainly not be making critical desicions at that point. Trucking companies have spreadsheets to track hours that work quite well for this. You're not going to find research behind it either. But 70 in 7 is pretty good rule to not exceed regularly.
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DrNutt posted:I saw an Amazon ad for a neat leaking keyboard on Facebook the other day, it looked like some nifty retro future thing, almost like old typewriter keys, and I was like, neat, I'll check it out. I clicked the link and the motherfucking thing was 1000 dollars. Who spends 1000 dollars on a keyboard? Someone with enough money to burn that they can afford to pay the guy building those for his time. A thousand bucks is a lot of money, and at the same time it''s probably barely enough to make the man hours in bespoke gadgets pay out.
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learnincurve posted:Not easy at the height of summer, or if you have a wedding party. There are a fair few famous British pubs I know of that are out in the sticks like the cat and fiddle and the Fox House where they can’t get the staff, so the poor waitresses end up working from 10am-12pm 5 days a week and then the teenagers take over for the weekend. British pub and hotel trade is brutal burnout is high as are most of the chefs. Working a two hour shift sounds pretty awesome to me. 
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learnincurve posted:hotel owners work absolutely batshit hours. My brother is head chef at his friend’s hotel and once covered for him for a week and it drat near killed him. Up at 6am to start dealing with breakfast, work right through to midnight and repeat. Why even bother at that point? I guess it's understandable if it's a short term thing and you're working towards some extremely near term goal, but as a way of living over the long run this is just miserable. No one lies on their deathbed wishing they'd worked more.
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It’s a certain kind of mentality I’ve only ever seen in the hotel/pub trade. The job is their life, their friends are the staff and customers and the only time they ever leave the place is to go to the cash and carry. The aim is to make enough money in order to sell the place and retire at 45, the reality is that you often see 70 year old landlords who drank all their savings welded to the bar. Edit: it’s like the plot of a horror movie where somone gets possessed by a creepy building and it slowly takes them over unless they have a complete mental breakdown or escape. learnincurve fucked around with this message at 23:34 on Jan 25, 2018 |
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learnincurve posted:It’s a certain kind of mentality I’ve only ever seen in the hotel/pub trade. The job is their life, their friends are the staff and customers and the only time they ever leave the place is to go to the cash and carry. The aim is to make enough money in order to sell the place and retire at 45, the reality is that you often see 70 year old landlords who drank all their savings welded to the bar. This is a good description of the bar owner I know. It kinda makes sense because he isn't actually doing what anybody would consider "work" 90% of the time he's at the bar. He's shooting the poo poo with regulars and bartenders and drinking a ton. His main motivating factor seems to be that it makes him the center of gravity in his social circle, which consists almost entirely of current and former employees who won't (can't?) call him on his bullshit.
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Dmitri-9 posted:https://twitter.com/BrankoMilan/status/956373515455909893 "monopsony" should enter the common vernacular this year hopefully.
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MiddleOne posted:Price-fixing can go both ways.
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Seth Galifianakis posted:This is a good description of the bar owner I know. It kinda makes sense because he isn't actually doing what anybody would consider "work" 90% of the time he's at the bar. He's shooting the poo poo with regulars and bartenders and drinking a ton. His main motivating factor seems to be that it makes him the center of gravity in his social circle, which consists almost entirely of current and former employees who won't (can't?) call him on his bullshit.
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BrandorKP posted:At about 65 hours a week one should start tracking hours worked in a rolling 7 day period. Any time that gets about 70 you'll feel like poo poo and you are probably getting to the point where one should not be driving a car. One should certainly not be making critical desicions at that point. Trucking companies have spreadsheets to track hours that work quite well for this. You're not going to find research behind it either. But 70 in 7 is pretty good rule to not exceed regularly. I worked 10-13 hour days 8-9 days on 1 off for a couple months as a cellar hand at a winery. This checks out, I was easily the worst employee I've ever been in my life in that time period. I remember just vacantly pressure washing a piece of cement for AT LEAST an hour because they said clean it, it wasn't spotless, and my brain had straight up given up hours ago. I opened a tank of wine directly into my face at one point. I swear I'm at least a generally competent human but that job ruined me.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:The thing was I tried to do the "actually work for the entire time you're there no goofing off" thing when I went to work for some startups and I can honestly say that consistent "real" 60 hour workweeks will make you want to die. And I actually worked some no-poo poo 80 workweeks and it utterly wiped me out for 2 - 3 days afterwards, I literally had memory loss. I have nothing but respect for people on assembly lines or other monotasking job who are working 100% of the time and only get their mandated 10-minute breaks and lunches, it's hell. In my experience assembly lines will have many different stations to work on which workers are able to rotate between so rarely is someone monotasking the entire shift. For the factories I've worked at we had line workers rotate at most every hour. For higher end lines where each station requires more technical expertise "monotasking" is more likely to be the case; but then they'll also have multiple tasks to complete for it. And even then they'll rotate between similar stations; though this might be more once a shift or even longer period. The big thing that is looked at when setting up rotation schedules is how repetitive the work is. You want to make sure that you don't have someone doing the same exact task over and over again as that will lead to injury. The factories I've worked at also give paid breaks that are longer than 10 minutes. In one of my jobs we received two 30 minute breaks paid. There is also downtown due to cleanings, change overs, and mechanical failure that also helps break things up. Not that any of that means they are any less deserving of your respect of course; but a lot of times the work gets demeaned as overly monotonous when honestly a call center is probably 100x worse for that.
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I’m at work 50 hours per week, commute 14 hours per week, spend 8 hours per week at the gym, spend an average of 4-8 hours per week cycling, and have 4 kids. My wife works about the same hours I do but commutes less. We buy groceries online. Along with almost everything else.
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Last factory I worked at was nothing like that. If you worked on the casting line, and they were making say, foam, the things ran 24/7 until it was done. If you were on the windup side, you worked 12 hours, with three 15 minute breaks when relieved, and a single half hour lunch in the middle of the day. Your job was to repeat the same tasks over and over again, some less monotonous than others. I recall one job was "guiding foam", where there was a slit in the ceiling above the line where rolls of foam were arranged. The foam was hung loosely on a bar, and ran through a series of rollers, and you would guide this onto the wet vinyl before it ran through the oven and cooked together. You needed to keep the foam straight so the roll came out right on the other side, and you needed to let it feed without tension so it wouldn't drag back through the oven. I had to keep a hand on it at all times. Pull the foam down too slowly, and it would tighten up on the rollers, causing it to drag through the vinyl and ruin material, create gaps, etc. Pull too hard and the whole roll would start unraveling and dump in front of you and be fed into the machine, starting a massive fire and forcing a machine shutdown. Basically pull repeatedly on material at the same exact pace over your head all day, with brief periods of absolute panic when someone on the line drops the ball for a moment. I think they paid $17/hr at the time, and they couldn't keep people in that department more than a few months at a time.
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eyebeem posted:I’m at work 50 hours per week, commute 14 hours per week, spend 8 hours per week at the gym, spend an average of 4-8 hours per week cycling, and have 4 kids. My wife works about the same hours I do but commutes less. Same, but I work harder and cycle more than you.
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Fame Douglas posted:Same, but I work harder and cycle more than you. 
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i work sixty hours per week, spend twelve at the gym, another six chopping wood and another six climbing mountains without gear, most weeks i fit in an hour of shark-wrestling, i have nine children and my wife is a side of beef
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I've achieved CHIM so your linear concept of time is beneath me. ALMSIVI
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I work approx. 27 hours a week, volunteer maybe 3 hours and commute for about 9 hours. Other than the commute it's pretty all right.
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All dick measuring aside, if you ever have to ask the question what constitutes a "day", that's another very strong indication you're working too much.
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BrandorKP posted:All dick measuring aside, if you ever have to ask the question what constitutes a "day", that's another very strong indication you're working too much. I just get this effect from my overnight warehouse work, and that's only 45 a week.
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