PhobosAnomaly

joined 1 year ago
[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 13 points 2 months ago

This is how you get shot for the silliest of reasons.

[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 20 points 2 months ago

Unless it's the initial outreach team or on-premises staff, sales would be one of the few roles totally suited to remote working.

Some of the more creative or collaborative roles I can see the argument for hybrid working - even if it's just one day a week or month in the office - but sales, customer service, or first line support seems to be the last area you'd impose a return to work mandate on.

That said, I haven't got extortionate office rents to justify πŸ˜‚

[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 50 points 2 months ago (4 children)

a real 4chanerd would assume that this heartwarming story is somewhat less-than-genuine and non-heterosexual.

[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 33 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Disclosure: I'm in the UK where the worker protections are half-decent.

was it ever not OK?

It was not OK to not take a jobby on work time when you had the opportunity!

I've worked shifts where my relief staffer has been in twenty minutes early (long commute, unpredictable traffic) so I've handed the shift over, and ensured that the remainder of my time was spent losing half a kilo of weight in five minutes. Conversely, it feels far more productive to leave the house half-needing to give birth to a brown otter, and nip to the bog once your feet are clear of your workload that you've taken on from the previous shift to go and perform the bowel movement while being paid for it.

Shitting in my own khazi on my days off feels like voluntary work now.

Sensibly though, any manager who controls bog time is just a bit of a fanny. Unless someone is obviously taking the piss like spending four hours of a ten hour shift, then people will perform better once they've laid a cable whenever they've needed to.

[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Do a credit card next!

[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 6 points 3 months ago

Oh I like a pessimistic view - partly because it makes a discussion spicier, but also because it's important for a user to understand the power that an instance owner wields!

[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh man, this is awesome - it's wonderful hearing from the practitioners of the art!

I'm just trying to figure out what driver establishing the tipping point for breaking or the ban hammer - is there any empirical data to drive these decisions, or is the fediverse user base small enough that you act on "feel" or "professional instinct"?

Managing emerging technologies fascinates me so any input - including the germs you've already volunteered - is very much appreciated πŸ‘

[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

That's a strong viewpoint and I appreciate where you're coming from, but how many votedicks does it take to derail a post? I appreciate the fediverse is reasonably small in comparison to othe headline social media sites, but does banning one or two bots or people do enough to save posts from getting bombed?

[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 23 points 3 months ago (11 children)

Thamk you for the insight, instance administrator views are valuable and unique.

At the risk of sounding like I'm presenting a bad faith argument, why ban them? I don't like the whole "free market" analogy but surely it's one of the liberating features of federated servers, being able to to largely express your votes or content as you see fit within the legal framework of the host nation. Wouldn't the odd one or two mass downvoters/upvoters/theyvoters ultimately be a statistical abberation or is the fediverse still small enough for this sort of shit to carry weight?

Open criticism of my view welcome, as always!

[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 12 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Same as the Unihertz Titan. I ran with that for two years and it was decent, if underpowered.

The dream is all but dead for all fourteen and a half of us QWERTY phone enthusiasts I think. A surprising number went to the Samsung Galaxy Flip models, though having used this for two years or so, I wouldn't recommend it either.

Maybe one day...

[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 14 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Purely a subjective opinion (and I apologise if the artist shows up in this thread) but is it me or does it look like the person who made the background took a step back after it was done, marvelled at how pretty it was, and enjoyed the moment before thinking "...fuck I forgot about O'Brien"?

It's a great bit of artwork but poor Miles looks like an afterthought!

[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 4 points 4 months ago

It's time for Prospero to finally shine, nearly 30 years later!

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