"Ok Voyager, 5 things you did last week! You only have 3 instruments? Boo-hoo. You're fired!"
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(It was a graduate level real analysis course, and people who had been calculus whizzes were struggling with point set topology proofs.)
I explicitly say it didn’t suck and it wasn’t painful.
I’m less empathetic than I might be because I came into the office 5 days a week for 30 years. My wife also worked. We raised three kids. I went to night school. It’s all very doable, and honestly not that hard.
Now I understand that technology has changed circumstances, and what was not technologically feasible 30 years ago is easy today.
But with respect to empathy, most of the commenters here could bear to examine, if only just for a minute, the idea that the executives are acting in good faith, and just trying to run the company effectively and efficiently.
Well, from a purely day-to-day, operational HR standpoint, that information is important. Like many things, in the wrong hands it’s easily abused.
When you’re in the hot seat, and someone asks “Who approved this?”, the truthful answer is that no one approved it.
Weird situation. Shrinking demographics in the 70’s led to layoffs. By their union contract layoffs were done strictly by seniority. Working on a contract that was stepped by seniority, this led to a very top heavy cohort of teachers 20 years later, who were being paid top of the scale. To redistribute the ages of service they offered a limited number of buyouts, which lowered their overall costs and normalize the pipeline.
This was also a legit and reasonably sustainable move as the NY State Teachers fund, is funded at 101% of liabilities.
For me I worry it's like the search for the northwest passage. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Passage). Explorers spent about 400 years searching for something that they knew just had to be there, but when they finally did it (1957), it really wasn't important anymore.
A strike by NASA employees would hurt NASA employees far more than it would anyone else. I'm sure Elon and the prez would love a walkout by said employees.
Congress, not unions, should be the guardian of civil servant rights. But of course, public service unions are the largest donors to Congress, which then drives the narrative of a corrupt and bloated civil service.
Capitalists don’t get rich stealing from workers. The get rich improving the lives of consumers.
Everything is easy when you don't know about it.
Yes.
> The hubris! It seems obvious to me
I would turn that around and claim hubris on your part. You seem to think that your mind and the mind of God are similar, and limitations you perceive are limitations for God.
Well, not always. Per Webster:
1: the technical terminology or characteristic idiom of a special activity or group
2: obscure and often pretentious language marked by circumlocutions and long words
It would be great if it were only (1) but I’d often (2)
I work in the neighborhood though so it’s wild to imagine all that going down on the same streets I walk to work on.
The effort it turns out is only part of the equation. Directing the effort into the most productive avenues is seemingly nearly as important.
Reagan was elected with 51% of the popular vote to Carter’s 41% and carried 44 states to Carter’s 6(+DC), tallying 489 electoral votes to Carter’s 49. This was not a close election.