I know turnout isn't great at the best of times, but 33% is pretty rough. Hopefully that's a symptom of the fact that most know there's a GE coming in a few months .....
Nah. Sport thrives on emotion. Without the hum of the crowd, the jeering, the celebrating and the moment to moment difference between ecstasy and heartbreak it feels incredibly flat.
Your argument seems to stem from the fact that some people inside crowds can be a problem. And that's true for sure, but (and I'm sure the athletes taking part would largely agree), the crowds help the athletes take their game to another level.
I defy anyone to tell me that a European night at Anfield is made better by having no crowds in attendance, or that a Canadians game at the Bell Centre is improved without 20k screaming fans living and dying with each shot on goal, or that a heavyweight title being given out in an arena full of adoring fans isn't significant better than the alternative.
Obviously better pay would be great, but speaking as someone who worked retail for fifteen years I'd just be happy if my store management team had my back.
Too often they'll take the customer side to keep them happy, then come around to you and admit that they know the customer is being an ass, but still give you a telling off anyway because the 'customer is watching'.
If the customer is the issue, tell them so. If they don't like it, they're welcome to get the fuck out of the shop.
I worked retail for fifteen years. Would I prefer customers leave me and my colleagues alone? Absolutely I would.
Unfortunately that's the job. Without going full-boomer and telling people to suck it up in a job they don't like.....if you're uncomfortable cleaning up after others then maybe hospitality isn't for them?
Yeah I'll be doing that going forward. Truth be told I did some volunteer work during that time, but I didn't deem it overly relevant to the job I was going for, plus with it being 15 years ago...you know.
I left school at 16. Did a year at collage before deciding it wasn't for me. I then spent a year doing nothing. Not totally unusual for a 17/18 year old. I then spent 15 years working for the same company, without any gaps in my employment.
To say I was surprised when the interviewer asked about the gap in my resume from 15 years previous when I'm a 34 year old would be an understatement; it was literally half a lifetime ago.
Fifteen years at the same company bro, that's the important part of that résumé, not the 8 months that a 17 year old kid had off. Fuck me.
Sounds great in principle, but where are me and the other 60 houses down our terraced street with no off-street parking supposed to park our cars?
Yes, I'd love to live in the public transport utopia that's just over the horizon, but right now, I need a car to get to and from work and I live in a house that was literally built before cars were a thing.
Again, I can only speak to our street but the vast majority of car owners make sure there's ample room to get through. The issue is that there's usually one or two assholes who ruin it for everyone, and those guys usually find out pretty quickly why it's a bad idea to block the path.
For context: I drive, but I've also had two kids and therefore two pushchairs I've had to navigate along the pavement. My car also got totalled a few years ago by a delivery driver who drove into it whilst it was parked. Id rather it not be parked on the road/pavement but what choice do we have here?
The problem here isn't that libraries need to stop catering to parents with young kids, it's that they've not set up an appropriate space, or time for these little kids to come visit.
My local library (and lots in the UK) have a designated time for things like group reading and kids corner sessions. That way they're not disturbing random folks just trying to get about their day, and they're also giving what can be a vital space for young children to discover books, and parents to interact with other parents.
Sounds to me like your library is failing to enforce it's own rules.
As an aside, how do you manage to maintain focus when reading so many books at the same time? I genuinely don't think I could manage more than maybe two at a push.
I can only speak to the warehouse I work in and it's generally the case that the older the staff member, the less likely they are to be able to keep pace with the frankly ridiculous level of work we're expected to do.
At what point do we have to have a serious conversation about just what sort of work we can expect a 70 year old to be able to do?
It's all well and good raising the retirement age, but eventually you'll get to a point where you've got people who are simply unemployable because of their age.
Yes I'd prefer to stay away from the news side of the industry because I can find that stuff to be exhausting at times.
Ideally LTAG will flourish into a place to talk about what you're playing, dissect the latest video from your favourite content creator or post some really cool art from an old magazine you've just found in the loft.
"Day in the life of a dog". A game where me and my brother would (you guessed it) spend an hour or two doing nothing aside from pretending to be a dog.
I know turnout isn't great at the best of times, but 33% is pretty rough. Hopefully that's a symptom of the fact that most know there's a GE coming in a few months .....