My employer, employing 90 people, a lot of which are in their 20s and 30s, has decided to organise the yearly seminar event in a place where most of the company needs to board a plane to go. I immediately said I wouldn’t go if I needed to take a plane, I was not the only one to say it. The company offered to reimburse any alternative journey (train+boat) which is a bit more expensive, but way way longer (14h transport vs 3h on plane, not taking into account the time in between train and ferry: I’ll be traveling for more than 24h in total between start and end, and same for the return journey). I said I’d do it, the others that spoke out: not so much, they are either not coming or taking the plane… In the end I think I will be the only one, we’ll see.

I understand your feeling regarding our small action being useless, I feel the same.

What I try to tell myself to keep doing it is: If most of everyone would do it, that fart in the wind would be loud enough to make politician realise they have to take it into account and pass legislation aligned with that.

Deep down though, I know we’ll never be enough to do it for it to have an impact

Love it.

Thanks for sharing, I didn’t know him, and the video was really great.

It already was the metal concert of the decade, now with his passing just weeks after, this will be remembered as a once in a century event in the metal world, how I wish I could have been there !

I was looking at his wiki page a few hours ago, and he was still alive, crazy timing

They are actually called “Sea Men”

We could be looking at the stairs from underneath.

Tout le monde trouverait absurde de parler du “trou de l’armée”, et de vouloir que l’armée soit “rentable”. Mais si on remplace armée par sécurité sociale alors la ya pas de souci, les gens sont prêt a débattre du sujet pendant des heures.

Tout n’a pas vocation à être rentable, la santé, l’education, la defense, et tant d’autre domaine coûte de l’argent, et ne doivent pas rapporter d’argent, ce serai absurde.

You meant vertical I think, but get it, this order makes sense even though it wasn’t my first instinct

You should probably see a doctor

'What do you do" said the Dungeon master ?

There are two possible answer, none of which is a better options than the other, different company are looking for different answer:

1 - you want to climb the corporate ladder and want more responsibility => they want that answer if they are planning to grow the team and need people that will take the manager position when that happens

2 - you want stability and to become an expert at that one job, no plan to move (choose whichever personal project of yours outside of work is your focus here, family, house, dogs, sports…) => they want that answer if the team is already quite big and they already have “manager” potential in it. They now need people that will not quit for a better paying job quickly.

Not always, half the time they want to see if you are going to stay where you are and not try to look for another better paying job.

There is no right answer to this question because different employers are looking for different answers. Best is to answer honestly and if it’s not what they wanted to hear it’s actually best for you cause you dodge that bullet.

Interesting take on the situation. I like it.

We are what we do and say.

Whatever we think we are beyond that is the mask we present to ourselves because we don’t like the look of what we do and say, we create this mask to fool ourselves into thinking we aren’t what we actually are: what we do and say.

Starship troopers’s point was missed by the same people making the sequels to it, I was so disappointed by the sequels, and don’t understand how they could have been so oblivious.

I can relate so much, I’m getting a little closer to that dream life everyday.

This ruling stated that corporations are not allowed to pirate books to use them in training. Please read the headlines more carefully, and read the article.

This ruling stated that corporations are not allowed to pirate books to use them in training. Please read the headlines more carefully, and read the article.