When I still managed a team, at the beginning of every team meeting, we’d have the Two Minute of Hate. Everyone in the team would be able to complain about whatever was bothering them.

Very often, when the hate was work related, the team would come together to solve the problem. It worked really, really well.

Other managers tended to be very uptight about the idea.

Sometimes the hate would last through most of the meeting.

After some fairly distressing and debilitating hates, I added Eye Bleach permanently to the end of the agenda. It was when people would share something to make everyone feel better. It was usually either cute pet or kid pictures, or happy news or uplifting stories.

I still work there, but I’m not a manager anymore. I’m still strangely part of the management team, but I have no direct reports, and I’m not officially a manager.

I’m not really sure I was really the person they wanted managing people. I suppose it’s not too surprising, but the entire management team seems to think they are what keeps the place working. I always saw management as a necessary evil. My team was what kept things working, not their manager.

Whip out the red pen, make corrections, and send it back with points taken off.

When my wife was working she’d ask, “Which is better or are they the same?”

No, health insurance CEO wants them to go ahead and die already so they can stop paying people to deny their claims.

Ironically, if you really wanted to make healthcare CEOs safer, you’d set up a hotline for people who have been denied medical coverage.

Hope leads to peace, despair leads to bullets.

My wife is an eye doctor. She’s an optometrist, not opthalmologist, but she would definitely mock me if I got it wrong ;-)

Again, it’s ophthalmologist

God rest ye merry gentleman is the “ye” example I like to think of.

Ophthalmology

Even cheated on their kids!

They aren’t saying you won’t get anesthesia. That would be wrong.

You just have to pay the bill when you wake up.

I think the point is that “rich vs poor” should not be a distinction that matters when considering what resources to expend on the investigation.

If you start from that premise, there’s really no reason to compare what is spent collectively on the murder of wealthy people to what is spent collectively on the murder of poor people.

The comparison itself assumes as given that there is some reason to divide the victims in that way.

According to This, there were 29 murders in New York in October of this year. How many of those got the same treatment?

I see that “snitches get stitches” is still in effect in Philly.

I give my mom credit. In the 80’s she found summer classes for me where I could learn about programming.

To this day I’m not sure if she was responding to an interest I expressed, or if she planted the interest in my mind. However, for more than 30 years people have been paying me to stare at computer screens all day.

Thanks, Mom!

This post gives me “people don’t want to work anymore” vibes.

Another way to look at it is, people don’t want to pay people to work anymore. Either the pay is such shit that the employees have no incentive to give a crap, or the employer doesn’t hire enough people to get the work done.

https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/william-shatner-space-boldly-go-excerpt-1235395113/

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/mapviewer/index.html?webmap=96ec03e4fc8546bd8a864e39a2c3fc41

I agree. I think we’re at the stage where the Democrats are the Whig party. They aren’t going to change, they need to be replaced with a true progressive party.

Assuming that we continue to be as much of a democracy as we were, now might be the time for that replacement to happen.