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Microplastics posted:I think your days as a surgeon are numbered. he was dead before I got here
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Payndz posted:traditional British Sex Arse Quality username
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Microplastics posted:I think your days as a surgeon are numbered. Their a primary school teacher.....
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Failed Imagineer posted:Just saw an invoice for a medic who consults for my program... he's getting $735 as an hourly rate. This doesn't motivate me to work any harder tbh I worked at a place that had absolutely ridiculous external consulting rates. I think mine in a pretty junior position was over £500/hr. Guess how much of that I saw (it was none). I don't think anyone actually paid that anyway, it was purely accounting stuff - on the funding report we could say we had charged our industry partner XXXX for X hours work, the partner could note it down towards their contribution in the private-public funding model, the public funding body would be happy and then we'd spend the (much smaller) sum of money we actually got on writing the next funding proposal. Academia is a wonderful system.
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So that’s a yes then https://twitter.com/benkentish/status/1617498838931066881?s=46&t=_xdgmCJOZM0QBW91wI-VFQ
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Graun says Sunak has done the drastic thing necessary https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/23/rishi-sunak-asks-ethics-adviser-look-into-nadhim-zahawi-case he's asked the ethics adviser to give us a month for it to die down
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big scary monsters posted:I worked at a place that had absolutely ridiculous external consulting rates. I think mine in a pretty junior position was over £500/hr. Guess how much of that I saw (it was none). I don't think anyone actually paid that anyway, it was purely accounting stuff - on the funding report we could say we had charged our industry partner XXXX for X hours work, the partner could note it down towards their contribution in the private-public funding model, the public funding body would be happy and then we'd spend the (much smaller) sum of money we actually got on writing the next funding proposal. Academia is a wonderful system. Well that's all insane and dumb . This guy was definitely getting all the money straight to his Dr. Me, LLC. though. Money for work that I've already pre-reviewed before it gets sent to him for review. The efficiency of the private sector
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Personally my happiness has gone from what I thought was normal to very high since I went self-employed. I say thought was normal because I realised once I got to my current state I’d actually just not been happy for 10 years. I work more but it’s varied and is entirely decided by what I think needs doing. Actually having control over your own life back is the best feeling in the world. I realise I’m privileged in being about to do it but If it’s something you’ve pondered and you have the resources, I couldn’t recommend it enough.
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killerwhat posted:What surprises me is that despite working less hard I now feel the weight of having to go to work much more keenly. Like, I have to do this forever? [...] Now my job is just a job, i.e. making money for people. [...] Failed Imagineer posted:Yeah same. I think that's just getting old and jaded tbh On the surface, yes. It won't be news to anyone here but that is simply a manifesting symptom of realising the unavoidable fact that the bullshit jobs system doesn't work and that it is very telling that the PMC had to invent accusatory terms like "quiet quitting" to describe "doing 100% of your job rather than 150%". It's one reason they're throwing a tantrum over WFH, as it allows one to quiet quit pretty easily, once one has defeated the cop in one's brain! In short, as someone said earlier: Failed Imagineer posted:[...] The important thing is to get paid for those hours but only spend maybe 30 mins a day actually spreading dem sheets In long, everyone should quiet quit: set your work output to a level that fits your compensation. Note that compensation here doesn't just mean your salary but factors that are unique to you, including "I like my colleagues so I'll do a bit more to help out when needed" and "I can't lose this job, I need the money" and "I'm self-employed, I do what I want when I want, and I love it." The way I did it began in 1994 when the National Lottery started. To myself, in my literally autistic brain, I called it the lottery factor. My early career aimlessness crystallised into a simple binary of "If I won the lottery, would I quit working? Y/N" For the longest time, I was having fun, my colleagues were great, I was making money. But eventually the graph fell below the line and No turned into Yes, and then it was quittin' time. In even shorter again, we should all quit being complicit in our own exploitation.
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Another scandal... I can't keep up with them all tbh https://twitter.com/andrewgregory/status/1617550487124942848
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Well, Truss promised to deliver, deliver, deliver (note the PMC business language again). What's the guy that lost to Truss got to say about it? Is he hiding?
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This is the same stuff that's been going on from the start, it's just that with Keir they know that the corruption will be allowed to continue.
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Only Kindness posted:
So have you been cheerfully unemployed since '94?
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If I didn't need money I wouldn't work at all, there is an infinity of other stuff I could do with my time if I had the resources. As I've said before I don't do what is actually helpful for my job, I do what makes it look like I have done the most job in the least amount of time, which is extremely stupid stuff. I also do things like plot my route inefficiently so I get paid as much as possible for driving around on the moors rather than actually being at work. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 18:40 on Jan 23, 2023 |
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OwlFancier posted:If I didn't need money I wouldn't work at all, there is an infinity of other stuff I could do with my time if I had the resources. So many Warhams; unpainted. * There, Hemingway**, I wrote the worlds saddest story with 2 words to spare, how's that for working smarter, not harder. ** Yeah, I know it's apocryphal 
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I feel like there is a difference between "didn't have to work" and "was a billionaire" and a warhammer habit falls into the latter category.
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Failed Imagineer posted:So have you been cheerfully unemployed since '94?  Oof, didn't "1994 == early career" and "the longest time" and "eventually" give it away?Mea culpa - but no, I've been happily lean-FIREing for ~3 years, AMA.
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Only Kindness posted:
I have no further questions, hope it works out for you
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If I didn't have to work for a living I would try to get a voluntary role with a conservation charity and do productive and / or menial and disgusting things on a nature reserve.
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The Perfect Element posted:If I didn't have to work for a living I would try to get a voluntary role with a conservation charity and do productive and / or menial and disgusting things on a nature reserve. Instead you'll just have to do those disgusting things in the office kitchenette with the wipe-clean vinyl tiles
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Tesseraction posted:Graun says Sunak has done the drastic thing necessary https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/23/rishi-sunak-asks-ethics-adviser-look-into-nadhim-zahawi-case This may well lead to someone losing their job the ethics advisor
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The ethics advisor would like to advise everyone that ethics are bad
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Microplastics posted:The ethics advisor would like to advise everyone that ethics are bad Do ethics have intrinsic "good" values? Are "values" necessarily what regular people might consider "good"? Or are they purely neutral terms that we load our own baggage on to? This is a question I often ask myself!
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I'm sure she is a wonderful person and it's great to hear she isn't a Tory. But I can't see her name without thinking of the Viz article "Carol Vorderman's Bukkake Sudoku."
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The Question IRL posted:I'm sure she is a wonderful person and it's great to hear she isn't a Tory. Well now I won't be able to either
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The Question IRL posted:I'm sure she is a wonderful person and it's great to hear she isn't a Tory. I wouldn't swear she's not a tory but if she is, she's pretty sick of the current incarnation of toriness. What is this bukkake sudoko of which you speak? I can sense another wasted evening of google rabbit holes.
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Jared Omara used to be one of the top posters on the morrissey solo fan forums iirc.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I wouldn't swear she's not a tory but if she is, she's pretty sick of the current incarnation of toriness. DO NOT GOOGLE THAT "bukkake" is a japanese word meaning, I think "splattered" but it has a specific pornographic meaning that you might be able to imagine. I have no idea what it refers to in this instance but I strongly advise against googling it without bracing yourself. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 20:22 on Jan 23, 2023 |
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OwlFancier posted:DO NOT GOOGLE THAT I cannot emphasize this enough
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keep punching joe posted:Jared Omara used to be one of the top posters on the morrissey solo fan forums iirc. Whereas my brain just parsed this a forums for people to watch Morrissey wank. Which does kinda sum up his solo output tbh
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fuctifino posted:Another scandal... I can't keep up with them all tbh Turns out people were exploiting the pandemic for personal gain, who could have guessed. I mean apart from basically every contract the government gave out.
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keep punching joe posted:Jared Omara used to be one of the top posters on the morrissey solo fan forums iirc. Ha, I used to lurk on there, I've probably argued with him. the last time I checked in it was just basically alt-right and now ex-fans shouting at each other.
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