The Off Topic Topic

[Syt]

Something interesting I learned today, the US had several "Anatomy Riots" where people rose up against doctors over corpse stealing.

https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/the-anatomy-riot-of-1788/

Not just the US (I'd be surprised if it wasn't a thing in Canada too) - although here it was less public riots (though outrage/terror was high) as rival gangs of bodysnatchers attacking each other:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resurrectionists_in_the_United_Kingdom

Weirdly, I was just watching the Good Omens episode with the 18th century bodysnatching scenes set in Edinburgh the other day, which also highlighted the "challenges" of the profession.

[Zanza]

I just got instructions from HR how to handle remote workers going on strike. As they are not clocked in obviously, they have report having strikes to their supervisor. 

[Syt]

I just got instructions from HR how to handle remote workers going on strike. As they are not clocked in obviously, they have report having strikes to their supervisor. 

"You still striking?"
"Ayup."
"Ok. Will call you again in an hour."

[Sheilbh]

I just got instructions from HR how to handle remote workers going on strike. As they are not clocked in obviously, they have report having strikes to their supervisor. 

I have a friend in academia who was regularly on strikes for the last few years and while they still had physical picket lines which there was a rota on, most of them work remotely and it was very weird from that side too.

[grumbler]

So here's an interesting twist for those following college football: right now, there are three undefeated teams in the Big Ten: #1 Oregon, #3 Penn State, and #13 Indiana.  Should all three win out, there'd be a three-way tie for the two spots in the conference championship game.  They don't play each other, so there's no head to head record, the same conference record, the same overall record.  They'd go to tiebreaker #5, which is the overall conference record of their conference opponents.  That would put Penn State and Indiana ion the conference championship game.  Oregon couldn't be the conference champion and so couldn't get the bye that the conference champions get.  They'd effectively be demoted from #1 to #5 because of the play not of the team, but of their opponents.

Just another fucked-up detail caused by the fucked-up conference system.

Not that Indiana is likely to go undefeated, mind.  They aren't likely to beat OSU.