Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[gnarlygninja]

Lots of 'experts' end up having less contact with the average human, because they are generally sought out by people with more than a basic knowledge of the subject. I see it in IT and education all the time.

This might be a chicken or the egg situation. I suspect a lot of these people didn't have much contact with the average human at any point in their lives.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

This might be a chicken or the egg situation. I suspect a lot of these people didn't have much contact with the average human at any point in their lives.

Last Friday, a senior management team came out with a "clearly, you shouldn't be doing this thing X, because you're not morons" directive and were shocked that, in fact, we all were doing thing X, had been for years and they would have known that if they'd actually had any of the people doing the core work of our business on their strike team. There's now a lot of hasty "oh uh, we didn't mean you folks were morons, and we'll figure out a bunch of workarounds really fast now that you're all yelling at us."

 

[CleverNickName]

...or, maybe you're taking it way too seriously.

 

[overgeeked]

It's kinda wild when you put it like that.

 

[trappedslider]

Humanity is nothing but a pyramid scheme hidden behind a facade of tears

 

[Autumnal]

Clearly not true fo the vast majority of humanity’s existence. We’re biased by writing and durable artifacts.

(This is of course a stance oblivious to things like other people existing here and now and concerned about the world they exist in and will exist in in the future, and about the world they and others like them or connected to them have lived in so far. It’s an intellectual curiosity but not significant for the moral issues facing currently existing people.)

 

[dbolack]

Yup. But at least in the U.S., both are stupidly common.

When I worked for Sun, I was stunned they didn't track sick days. They trusted you not to abuse it. Even if it was a mental health day.
Never heard of anyone abusing it.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

When I worked for Sun, I was stunned they didn't track sick days. They trusted you not to abuse it. Even if it was a mental health day.
Never heard of anyone abusing it.

Apparently when you offer unlimited vacation days, the actual number of vacation days taken goes down.

 

[prabe]

Apparently when you offer unlimited vacation days, the actual number of vacation days taken goes down.

This fails to surprise me, especially if the not-unlimited vacation days go away at some point.

 

[DrunkonDuty]

You've heard of a Hawaiian Pizza? This is a New Zealand. Everybody try to be open- minded about other cultures!
/s

I think the kiwi fruit actually comes from China. Sorry New Zulland.