The Off Topic Topic

[Syt]

Billionaires were a mistake.

[garbon]

Billionaires were a mistake.

Well, of course, as I'd said before if you have that much the scale is titled toward you being a bad person.

[Syt]

Whoa, I guess these guys invented the ... lunch break?


As far as I can determine it doesn't seem to be satire.

[Tamas]

 

[garbon]

  

[garbon]

Oh looks like it was post back in 2020. If you look her up on LinkedIn she's trying to be an influencer.

[Josquius]

Silly phrasing, but I guess I could see the point if it is a "Companywide lunch hour. If we see you online at this time you will be shot"

[garbon]

Silly phrasing, but I guess I could see the point if it is a "Companywide lunch hour. If we see you online at this time you will be shot"

Which never works if you have an external facing role.

[Josquius]

Silly phrasing, but I guess I could see the point if it is a "Companywide lunch hour. If we see you online at this time you will be shot"

Which never works if you have an external facing role.

Oh yes, probably lasted all of a week before steadily crumbling into nothing.
But standard to see it tried.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

Whoa, I guess these guys invented the ... lunch break?


As far as I can determine it doesn't seem to be satire.

No scribes allowed I assume

[Syt]

Oh looks like it was post back in 2020. If you look her up on LinkedIn she's trying to be an influencer.

Yeah, but bad enough either way

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

Whoa, I guess these guys invented the ... lunch break?

As far as I can determine it doesn't seem to be satire.

Twitter instituted something like this during the pandemic, but we gave it the more generic and on-brand name Perch Time.  The idea was to provide an hour a day where internal meetings were not supposed to be scheduled and people could feel free to decline if someone tried.  This rolled out along with no-meeting Fridays and a general encouragement for people to set their own focus time blocks where they could indicate they wanted to focus on their individual work for a few hours.  As garbon noted, these are hard for people in externally-facing roles to take full advantage of, but at least it controls the internal disruptions somewhat.

The way this post is worded is definitely cringe, though.  Not surprised she's trying to work herself into one of those LinkedIn influencers.

[Oexmelin]

In our society? Seriously?
Those people are nuts.

The hole they try to fill with money is bottomless.

[mongers]

Do US food product labels typical included the amount of fibre?

I ask because over here it's the norm for nearly every producer, but for some reason* Mars doesn't ever include the fibre content of their confectionary/cakes.


* My guess, in chocolate, the sugar and fat doesn't have any fibre, so if the fibre % is included it's a good tell for just how little cocoa solids they're trying to get away with in it.

[Josquius]

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Its curious we always just use the US terms verbatim.
Japan is of course very different indeed. But even with the UK vs. US I expect there are differences.