Digitalprimate @ RecursiveParadox @lemmy.world

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I quit once using the Allan book, and everyone I know who read it has, but there is a catch: it will never work a second time.

I quite by accident using much vilified e-cigs. Yeah there is some serious bullshit going on with the super high nic disposables the kids get a hold of, and with disposables in general. But just enforce the damn laws you already have and don't enshitify or even destroy the thing that probably saved my life 12 years ago!

I don't think you got down far enough to the place where I explained I did ask them and got a bs answer. Or how I know my Millennials are happy with the job (mostly, there's always something that could be better). And I did get them a lot more money last year, risking the wrath of every other member of senior management.

Talking down to anyone at my workplace is a huge no no. Our owner/CEO is a seriously old school Cypriot and takes his (mainly British inherited) civility very seriously.

Actually my two most senior people are permanent WFH and I'm quite sure they do this (and I do not care at al).

The ones in our offices, yeah that would not go over well with their colleagues, you are right.

In this case unfortunately it means "objectively not doing the job you are paying them to do." Like, core job duties.

I did. I fought with my CEO for two months and got everyone in the department except me a massive raise, 15%-20%.

Hey fair enough. But they are, and they tell me all the time because we talk constantly. It was the Zoomers I could not talk to on Skype/whatsapp/signal/slack ...whatever platform they wanted. So how did I fail to reach them? That's what I am wondering as a manger because, yeah a job is just a job, but it doesn't have to suck, and I as a manager can make it suck much less. It's within my power, but I cannot do the thing if you don't ask for the thing despite multiple attempts. There must be something wrong with how I attempt to engage them.

Hard agree.

Yes, multiple times. We talk, all the time; we have to bring in multiple locations.

She brought this attitude over from Banking where she was last, and even though I tried to engage her, she just refused to talk to me. Despite me getting her a 20% raise this year, not that that is the central thing.

Yes but only if you live in Cyprus....

Hey that’s not cool. They took the time to write a long and coherent reply for which I am great-full

That is was “personal” and they didn’t want to talk about it. I spoke with all the other team members and found out it was because of things other people had - like wfh or different hours - that she never asked me about even though she knew directly approved for the others.

You're getting downvoted and rightfully so, but you have accidentally made a good point. Believe me, as an older Xer I am very aware of the age issue and look at all CVs (resumes) no matter what the date on the college graduation says and have interviewed people even older than I am.

Combination of LinkedIn and local contacts. The two cities where the team works are rather tight communities, and you either do what we do or you do banking or FX.

Edit: I forgot one left to become a personal trainer, so that one kind of doesn't count I suppose.

None of them were there long, but none of them moved to higher paying jobs either.

Sorry gotta downvote you on that one partner. I'm a long term immigrant from the States, and I still think pumpkin pie is the bomb.

The privacy on that site was horrible, and I stoped de-selecting vendors who want permission to track me after two minutes.

But I wanted to ask you: are there any biologics based on this discovery in phase I or even II at this point? Any odds on one of them making it to III?

(also re: your last comment, read William Gibson's The Peripheral; you are describing his "jackpot" scenario)

Thank you for the actual, technical explanation.

Nah he's ok. He just has a bit of a labor problem he really needs to fix.

Ik had geen idee.

More upvoting of posts.

I know that sounds a bit dumb/lame, but when I first got here and every post had like 5 upvotes, maybe 20 and then maybe once a week you'd see one with more than 100, it was jarring. Made the place feel empty and without interaction. Which it's really not, but that was my and I think perhaps a lot of peoples' first impression.