[MaxBigfoot]

 

[Shadowmuse Blown]

Funny !

[MaxBigfoot]

Took me a second.  Some talent there.   

[rtpoe]

A fun essay on people getting paid while no one realizes they aren't doing much.....

How some people get away with doing nothing at work
https://www.vox.com/money/23733244/bullshit-jobs-work-employment-lazy-jobless-employed-nothing-to-do

In theory, Nate works 40 hours a week in the operations department at a major fintech company. In reality, Nate works one hour a day at most. He moseys over to his computer whenever he gets an alert on his phone that he’s got a task to complete.... “I don’t have a problem with being asked to do work; it’s just I’m not really being asked,” he says. Maybe he could take more initiative and try to take on more, but he gets good performance reviews and raises as it is, so he figures, why bother?

Reporting for this story, I spoke with multiple people who are essentially funemployed, or at least one meaning of it, who sit around at work all day with very little to do. What was most surprising was that many did not exactly love the situation and felt somewhat conflicted.... They feel guilty, or they get bored, or they’re paranoid they’ll get caught.

It's often the fault of management - no one is bothering to check on them. Or perhaps their immediate manager was laid off or reassigned, and the manager's manager is too busy to notice - or care. Maybe your job is an important box on the organizational chart, but technology or other changes have taken away the work that goes with it. And if you work from home, no one's passing by your desk to see you twiddling your thumbs.

And if you say something, you might find yourself getting a heck of a lot more work - or let go....

[solvegas]

Took me a second.  Some talent there.   

Pretty cool looking diamond back snake made with radial car tires. 

[TheZookie007]

Over at AV Club, they decided to post another one of their "slide show" lists (not linking, for reasons). This time, it's "Best TV Series Finales" (for some reason probably having to do with a current show wrapping up). They are right properly being excoriated in the comments for, as someone put it, making their list "Best Finales of the 21st Century, Plus Cheers!"

Frankly, ANY discussion of the "Best Finales" has to include these five, which were all landmark episodes from before people thought of making "series finales" as a matter of course.

In reverse chronological order (with air dates):

Newhart, "The Last Newhart" (5/21/90) - A wonderful spoof, that NO ONE expected!
M*A*S*H, "Goodbye, Farewell, Amen" (2/28/83) - What did the other networks bother putting up against this?
Barney Miller, "Landmark Part 3" (5/20/82) - Over three episodes, the 12th Precinct was shut down, and everyone reassigned.



The Mary Tyler Moore Show, "The Last Show" (9/3/77) - GROUP HUG!



The Fugitive, "Judgment Part II" (9/5/67) - The series finale that they all wish they could be.

Hearing William Conrad intone "Tuesday, August 29th: the day the running stopped." still gives one chills. The perfection of that finale includes the fact that Tuesday, 29 August 1967 was also the day the episode was aired on ABC in the United States. In Canada, the series finale was aired on Tuesday, 5 September 1967 -- and his voiceover was changed to reflect that.

[solvegas]

 

[Shadowmuse Blown]

Gandalf takes a break from The Fellowship.

[TheZookie007]

Gandalf takes a break from The Fellowship.

The sun...shall. Not. PASS!

[MaxBigfoot]

A fun essay on people getting paid while no one realizes they aren't doing much.....

How some people get away with doing nothing at work
https://www.vox.com/money/23733244/bullshit-jobs-work-employment-lazy-jobless-employed-nothing-to-do

In theory, Nate works 40 hours a week in the operations department at a major fintech company. In reality, Nate works one hour a day at most. He moseys over to his computer whenever he gets an alert on his phone that he’s got a task to complete.... “I don’t have a problem with being asked to do work; it’s just I’m not really being asked,” he says. Maybe he could take more initiative and try to take on more, but he gets good performance reviews and raises as it is, so he figures, why bother?

Reporting for this story, I spoke with multiple people who are essentially funemployed, or at least one meaning of it, who sit around at work all day with very little to do. What was most surprising was that many did not exactly love the situation and felt somewhat conflicted.... They feel guilty, or they get bored, or they’re paranoid they’ll get caught.

It's often the fault of management - no one is bothering to check on them. Or perhaps their immediate manager was laid off or reassigned, and the manager's manager is too busy to notice - or care. Maybe your job is an important box on the organizational chart, but technology or other changes have taken away the work that goes with it. And if you work from home, no one's passing by your desk to see you twiddling your thumbs.

And if you say something, you might find yourself getting a heck of a lot more work - or let go....

Yeah, that last one's probably the kicker, even if you feel like you should be doing more.  Is it worth the risk saying anything about it, especially if the unemployment situation is bad in your area, or you're not as likely to find another job that pays as much?

[MaxBigfoot]

What's funny is that I think these are equally dumb.  I drink tap water, and am fine with it.  Have all my life.   

[MaxBigfoot]

Teamwork!   

[Shadowmuse Blown]

What's funny is that I think these are equally dumb.  I drink tap water, and am fine with it.  Have all my life.   

I live on Long Island where the water from an aquifer is pumped up for dr1nking water.  Trouble is, too many people and companies have poured whatever chemicals they wanted to down their drains here and the natural filters aren’t enough to filter out those toxins.  Yes, more filtering is done these days at treatment plants, but it’s not for nothing that Long Island has such high rates of cancer. 

I drink bottled water.

[MaxBigfoot]

What's funny is that I think these are equally dumb.  I drink tap water, and am fine with it.  Have all my life.   

I live on Long Island where the water from an aquifer is pumped up for dr1nking water.  Trouble is, too many people and companies have poured whatever chemicals they wanted to down their drains here and the natural filters aren’t enough to filter out those toxins.  Yes, more filtering is done these days at treatment plants, but it’s not for nothing that Long Island has such high rates of cancer. 

I drink bottled water.

Ah, ok, those are good reasons to drink bottled water.  Do you drink one of the high end waters, or just whatever you can get for the cheapest?

[MaxBigfoot]