The one-shot society

[CountDeMoney]

Some of the most zealous workaholics in the HK civil service are Brits (we still have a few of them).  I know someone who jumped off the roof because of work pressure.  His boss was a Brit.

Damn, I wish I had a bunch of chinks working for me, so I could learn that trick.

Its not hard to jump off a building unless you decide to make a 2nd attempt.

Limping back up the stairs would be a bitch.

[Razgovory]

Tell me about it.  I actually did that once.  Turns out, I'm bouncy.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Tell me about it.  I actually did that once.  Turns out, I'm bouncy.

Must be the rubber underwear.

[Razgovory]

I probably should have found a taller building, but I sure as hell didn't want to climb those stairs again.

[mongers]

Tell me about it.  I actually did that once.  Turns out, I'm bouncy.

[Iormlund]

That's why in civilized countries, it's illegal to volunteer extra hours at work (unless you're an exempt professional).  Or, more precisely, you can volunteer, but the employer is forced to pay you overtime, whether you asked for his permission or not.  It is well understood in such countries that laws designed to improve working conditions can be subverted by "volunteering", so laws have to deal with that.

In this civilized country, most overtime is unpaid and not compensated by free time either.

Here the only people that get paid overtime are electricians, plumbers, welders, assembly line workers and the like.

[Ideologue]

No but it's crazy expensive.

And how.  I've got American classmates who are coming to London doing a two year LLB here because it's cheaper than law school in the US.  Then they go back and take the New York bar.

And then what...   

Then they make salads.

No, that's just lawyers that don't take the bar.

I feel my plan comes under unfair criticism simply because it failed.

Also, your statement is untrue.

[Razgovory]

Tell me about it.  I actually did that once.  Turns out, I'm bouncy.

The plan would have worked better if I hadn't been scared of heights and willing to go find a taller building.  So I settled on a shorter one.  I know it doesn't make any fucking sense.

[Maximus]

A guy did that here. Jumped 10 or so floors onto the roof of a lower building, then jumped off that one for the coup de grace.

[grumbler]

The obvious problem is that (at least in HK), different schools have vastly different standards.  Under this system, there is also an incentive for school teachers to overgrade their students.

Overgrading doesn't work when you have (as in the US) a "school profile" that goes in with each application, so that grades are normalized by the university.  A lower GPA can thus provide a higher score because it is from a school whose grades are lower overall.

[mongers]

Tell me about it.  I actually did that once.  Turns out, I'm bouncy.

The plan would have worked better if I hadn't been scared of heights and willing to go find a taller building.  So I settled on a shorter one.  I know it doesn't make any fucking sense.

Raz, I'd be in the same boat, I can't stand heights, so if in that situation wouldn't be able to do it anyway despite the intent.

I think I have a bit of what Churchill had, with his not liking to be near the edge of a train platform when a train was approaching.

[The Brain]

Tell me about it.  I actually did that once.  Turns out, I'm bouncy.

The plan would have worked better if I hadn't been scared of heights and willing to go find a taller building.  So I settled on a shorter one.  I know it doesn't make any fucking sense.

Raz, I'd be in the same boat, I can't stand heights, so if in that situation wouldn't be able to do it anyway despite the intent.

I think I have a bit of what Churchill had, with his not liking to be near the edge of a train platform when a train was approaching.

A BAC of .25?