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good news, loyal subjects of the empire! https://mobile.twitter.com/tigersgoroooar/status/1526630786924961796
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so royal mail just announced record profits of £758m. Sure is good it got sold off becuase it wasn't profitable
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May 19, 2022 13:32
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The power of the free market hard at work already!
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having pried up and sold everything that was nailed down, the government moves on to selling the nails themselves
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Jose posted:normal country Bringing back the good old Victorian times. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIb0JUwwXyE&t=215s
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happyhippy posted:Bringing back the good old Victorian times. You can always do the Japanese homeless thing of getting imprisoned to get food and housing. e: But, you might ask, wouldn't it be cheaper to just subsidise their food and homeless shelters? Why yes, it would! But then, where would the very moral and proper suffering come from? Private Speech has issued a correction as of 16:29 on May 19, 2022 |
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Jose posted:so royal mail just announced record profits of £758m. Sure is good it got sold off becuase it wasn't profitable  
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Abundance of suffering is the bedrock of british universal suffrage.
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imagine if corbyn had done this. also lol https://twitter.com/StefGotBooted/status/1527309129353637888?s=20&t=Ai5tUtfufCygRb-4G4_i0g
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Jose posted:imagine if corbyn had done this. also lol which is why we must work hard to exclude everyone who doesn't belong to our club in the party
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ahahahahaha i just found something amazing. you probably work at a place with a "absence management" policy, and many many of you will have been impacted by it. if you have ever hit a sickness "staging trigger", you have experienced it, the whole NHS runs some variant on it. this is all derived from something called The Bradford Factor, and it has many many euphemisms. the simplest way to describe it is like this: (Number of occasions of absence in previous year) ^2 x (Total days absent in the previous year) = Bradford score/attendance score if you look in your current sickness absence policy you will almost certainly find some variation on this with obfuscated language or slight variation. The Bradford Factor is broadly used as an attendance management tool in the UK in the public and private sectors. the cabinet office gushed about it in a report on public sector absence management in 2004, describing it as a sophisticated scientific formula to fairly deal with sickness absence. after all it's a Factor, it's got math in it and as such it is a near univerally applied metric. there are two major problems here. first, look at that equation again, and in fact lets simplify it to (x^2)(y)=z. see the problem? here, let an economist tell it:  but that must be a misunderstanding, right? we'll just go check the literature, find the article the The Bradford Factor is based on - oh, there isn't one? or a book, or an article or a seminar or a video or, let alone anything peer reviewed literally anything that describes the theoretical underpinning of this equation... because there is no Bradford. there are a handful of folksy origin stories like it came out of a school named Bradford but they're all completely unverifiable. there is no theory written by a Bradford, no human resources consultant or writer named Bradford, and the school named Bradford it allegedly comes from has repeatedly said it has nothing to do with them. he's made up. so if you've ever had a manager tell you "i'm sorry but you've hit your trigger, we'll need to have a staging meeting" know that what's actually happening is a totally made up unscientific nonsense has been applied so punishing you isn't your managers fault somehow and the constant fear you might have of hitting a higher trigger is the entire function of the policy. quote:The one advantage that the Bradford factor might have is that it (source: Treble, J. and Barmby, T. (2011) Policy implications for firms. Worker Absenteeism and Sick Pay, pp. 175-190.) see kids, a business management degree helps you learn all kinds of fun poo poo lmao CoolCab has issued a correction as of 02:01 on May 20, 2022 |
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CoolCab posted:ahahahahaha i just found something amazing. you probably work at a place with a "absence management" policy, and many many of you will have been impacted by it. if you have ever hit a sickness "staging trigger", you have experienced it, the whole NHS runs some variant on it. this is all derived from something called The Bradford Factor, and it has many many euphemisms. the simplest way to describe it is like this: (Number of occasions of absence in previous year) ^3 x (Average days absent per absence in the previous year) Meaning you're far better served staying absent if there's the smallest chance that you might "relapse". Like, these are roughly equal cases from the PoV of the Bradford Factor: 10x 1 day absence (10 days total) 5x 8 day absence (40 days total) 4x 16 days absence (64 days total) Admittedly it might be a good idea to encourage workers to stay away until they're not contagious, but the logic also encourages workers to go to work while potentially being contagious if they haven't taken a sick day yet. A Buttery Pastry has issued a correction as of 06:16 on May 20, 2022 |
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A Buttery Pastry posted:I'm not sure about this criticism? Aggregating numbers into a single metric for comparison purposes is entirely normal. The real mathematical criticism seems to be how the formula is set up, where the power of two on the number of absences rapidly inflates the input. Arguably, it's even worse than that, since you can rewrite it as You forgot the best option 1 X 1000 days
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yeah that was the overall conclusion of the book on the topic - it incentivizes people to stay home longer and come in sick, totally counterproductive and enormously punitive and used as if it was a sophisticated tool of some kind, it's not at all.
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CancerCakes posted:You forgot the best option  But yeah, you could stay away an entire year and get a lower score than someone who has seven separate sick days.CoolCab posted:yeah that was the overall conclusion of the book on the topic - it incentivizes people to stay home longer and come in sick, totally counterproductive and enormously punitive and used as if it was a sophisticated tool of some kind, it's not at all.
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My Bradford Factor was so high when they decided to medically retire me!
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CoolCab posted:yeah that was the overall conclusion of the book on the topic - it incentivizes people to stay home longer and come in sick, totally counterproductive and enormously punitive and used as if it was a sophisticated tool of some kind, it's not at all. funnily enough my (maybe ex we're a bit distant) partner is literally a university lecturer in HR management, I should ask her about it I bet there would be a lot of complaints involved Private Speech has issued a correction as of 09:36 on May 20, 2022 |
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I know someone who broke their leg and had to take 2 weeks off, and for the next year their manager was like "we need to look into ways of getting your Bradford scores under control" if she took another sick day
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Jose posted:leopards eating faces etc I imagine it would also have been along racial grounds, except, these are Tory staffers we're talking about
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MikeCrotch posted:I know someone who broke their leg and had to take 2 weeks off, and for the next year their manager was like "we need to look into ways of getting your Bradford scores under control" if she took another sick day "Well you could fix the lovely air conditioning so it actually works and the office is slightly less of a haven for bacteria & viruses" usually goes down well.
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Jose posted:leopards eating faces etc https://twitter.com/RobinMulvihill1/status/1527586955273314305?t=OSsxyrnoUsI238YGtw6Q_Q&s=19 Hell, they'd even get my vote.
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MikeCrotch posted:I know someone who broke their leg and had to take 2 weeks off, and for the next year their manager was like "we need to look into ways of getting your Bradford scores under control" if she took another sick day You control your Bradford score by setting a union on your boss and hoping whoever shows up is in the appropriately vindictive mood. We had a full day on it at rep training and the lecturer started that day with "this is my attempt to radicalise you before sending you off to help your fellow workers" It just appeared out of the ether, the soulless pinnacle of a century of taylorism, and became the go to excuse for obvious disability discrimination. It significantly damages the attendance, workforce retention and profitability of every company that touches it and that's fine because none of those things are the point.
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Spangly A posted:You control your Bradford score by setting a union on your boss and hoping whoever shows up is in the appropriately vindictive mood. We had a full day on it at rep training and the lecturer started that day with "this is my attempt to radicalise you before sending you off to help your fellow workers" The precursor to "the algorithm" as the goto justification for incredibly discriminatory behaviour.
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CoolCab posted:ahahahahaha i just found something amazing. you probably work at a place with a "absence management" policy, and many many of you will have been impacted by it. if you have ever hit a sickness "staging trigger", you have experienced it, the whole NHS runs some variant on it. this is all derived from something called The Bradford Factor, and it has many many euphemisms. the simplest way to describe it is like this: this sounds hellish and dystopian and I live in loving america
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Venomous posted:it's no secret that Britain's been trying to imitate the Yanks since 1979, if not earlier I mean at-will employment is worse but lol this is dystopian as hell
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the labour right insisting that they didn't poll the right kind of redf wall voters https://twitter.com/MetroMayorSteve/status/1527738988252958720?s=20&t=8bKBCZl20suR9NoConu15A
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Jose posted:Very good speech this so watch it get no media attention It's a fine speech but it doesn't even look like it's got that much attention with that small a crowd.
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Lostconfused posted:It's a fine speech but it doesn't even look like it's got that much attention with that small a crowd. the speech wasn't meant for her colleagues. most speeches aren't
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