What's your best/worst joke?

[The_Doc_Man]

I love boobies especially the blue-footed ones!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1903879350984040549

Makes perfect sense to me.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

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I was never a mountain climber. But otherwise I'm pretty steady.

 

[AccessBlaster]

 

[Isaac]

 

[The_Doc_Man]

But... on all USA car batteries of that type, the positive post has a "+" sign etched on top!

 

[Cotswold]

 

[The_Doc_Man]

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Ouch... that just struck a chord within me. "Working from home" is the employer's sneaky tactic to mute the voice of strikers, because if they DO go on strike, they have to leave the house to show it. They actually have to go to their workplace to form a picket line. That is, if they remember where they worked, they would have to go...

 

[Isaac]

I was on my way to home depot yesterday, passed an office complex and mused at what it would be like to go there each morning, get coffee in the breakroom, say hello to a few people, etc. I can barely remember what that's like - and I suddenly felt fond of it. But when I get stuck in traffic, I am less fond and thankful for remote work...it can actually be a difficult choice, once one fully understands the pro's and con's of both sides

 

[The_Doc_Man]

I enjoyed the vibrancy of a workplace where at least some of the people were working. The coffee mess, the bullpen technical sessions, the people who were well enough educated to hold a decent conversation... all good. Morning traffic was rarely an issue because my hours were earlier than peak rush-hour. Ditto afternoon traffic. But it WAS good that the car knew the way in the morning.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

They got away with doing little when in the council offices and now get away with doing nothing at home.

Ah, but at least they are consistent, regardless of where they are "working."

 

[CJ_London]

A friend of mine worked for the local council (he's retired now). Their hours were something like 37 1/2 hrs/week. Any time over could be taken as time off in lieu. (TOIL!). He used to start early and finish late to avoid the traffic and typically built up 10-15 hrs/week. Enough so every year he could take 3 months off in one stretch. Whilst away, his job was covered by a temp who did not know the systems and was basically inefficient. So contractual hours covered but overall, an inefficient organisation.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

My first "real" job was for a relatively small company that allowed us to retain benefit hours across calendar/fiscal years. I was a true workaholic at the time (and even went to therapy for it). At one point I had over 400 hours of accumulated personal hours - 50 days! They changed the rules so that you could never carry more than 50% of your annual vacation hours to the next year. Fortunately, they made the rules so that I could take the extra days off during the week and I was able to burn off the hours before the "use it or lose it" date. I took some of the excess hours as pay, but I got maybe 30 extra days off and actually took a real vacation. Also learned my lesson, because it was tough to schedule my time off when a hot project was underway.

 

[Isaac]

It's good to realize the sooner the better where to spend time in life, and can be a tough decision. You want the best for your family, which largely involves providing monetary resources, and yet you want to spend as much time with them as possible,,, Honestly, they talk a lot about women 'juggling things' but I think it's the great unspoken thing that men also juggle a lot of tough decisions. "Make as much money for us as possible" + "Be with us as much as possible", well it's a natural contradiction in effort-direction that requires hard decisions on the daily. Also for those of us working from home, being up to your neck in code or design decisions one moment and turning your head to listen to your spouse who walks in the room, doing so with a nice attitude the next moment is NOT always easy! That's for sure. When I was in my 30's , I was the type who was logging in to work at 8 PM doing stuff for people, I couldn't get enough of the pats on the back - Thanks Isaac, it felt so good. After I hit 40 I got tired, and it no longer seemed cool to be working in the evening in general, either. Nowadays I put in my bare 40 and feel GREAT about it. Gladly and totally disagree with all the high ups at the big tech companies who want their employees 24/7 and wouldn't dream of even wanting to work at Google, Amazon, etc. Not sure why anyone does if they have a family. Also, I've noticed that younger people going into tech the academic way often think that to have a tech career you have to try to work at Google, Amazon, etc......which is funny to me, because 99% of the tech jobs are not at tech companies. They are at the bank, the courier company, the grocery store, the hospital system, pretty much everywhere else. And the effort required is less, with a better balance.