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Insurance is very much needed. If there weren't that many reckless drivers then insurance would be cheaper.
I wish we had the same thing as in Singapore. Their cars literally cannot go over the speed limit.
But yes, when insurance is basically required to have, then it's good to start having government participation in it. The government needs to be the majority stakeholder, as it also provides all of the customers.
Depends on the country. Where I live it's beneficial to start your own company once your income reaches 10k euros a month. Being an employee here is for the sake of security. Unemployment benefits, difficulty to be fired. Parent leave. Shocks during an economic crisis are absorbed by the company.
There's pros and cons to each. But if you are handling 5 SME's. Working productively all the time. From your own home. Then I'm guessing it can be beneficial for yourself to start your own company.
With such a job, you'll likely have a safety buffer in your finances for the unpaid period. No clue why there'd be an unpaid period though, you already have your connections.
Once again.. easier here in Belgium. Taxes on labour are quite high, becoming an independent can cost the company less money while putting more money on the independent's bank account.
A lot of people here complaining about the taxes, but unwilling to give up the security of employment
I would suggest starting your own business and invoicing those 5 SMEs. That does not seem like a fun work structure to me. I'd forego the 7h36 min work day then.
Especially if you aren't even using that company's building. Those costs they make do nothing for you. You should invoice as an external party, invoice your building costs to them as well. As they now have a spot open for another employee at their building.
My job is just being an accountant at a Belgian hospital. My boss doesn't even want me to do any overtime unless it's "necessary".
I prefer being at the office, accountancy here has a labour shortage. Main reason is boredom. I won't be able to keep the new juniors on board if I don't entertain them. The department's main problem is people leaving after a couple of months.
When others left, work stacked up. New people feel overwhelmed. They leave. Cycle continues.
i need to be good at accountancy, but more importantly I need to be good with people in order to advance my position within the department.
A potential leadership role in the future won't happen if I sit at home every day.
Yeah I rode via the main road once as a test ride, no thanks. A bus, followed by a truck, followed by a farm tractor on a part without bike lane.
Like a third of my bike lane of 8,8 miles is dirt/gravel road but it's fine. It being more difficult doesn't matter when it's without cars.
Also, not to be an asshole but I get to keep my tax money 🙈 big daddy government so kind to me. My end of year bonus' personal income tax, employee and employer social contribution are spent on my e-bike. Took one of 10k USD because it costs me only.. nothing. If I went with car then i would receive 1000 USD less over the span of 3 years.
On top of that, the car would cost like 4k dollars a year on loss of resale value, taxes, maintenance and gas.
Ah, I almost feel guilty.
Depends on the person I guess. I'm bored as fuck working from home. The only positive about it was that I didn't have to commute. I'd stop working after 4 hours basically. Get less done. It's not for me.
At work the kitchen is nearby. Everyone is on the same floor. 5 departments on one floor. Can just go over there when I need them instead of waiting on some email that take days to be replied to.
Working with people younger than me, they need support. A lot easier to do on site. I don't even communicate to the coworkers not working at the office. To me it's as if they are taking a day off.
If their work is done, they get more work. If it's not done then they have that work to do when at the office.
Pretty sure there's a lot of fraud. Because I frauded.
You might be right.. unless.. time travel 🤨
From an odd point of view, I think it's been good that world war 2 happened, so that we lost our grip on a lot of countries. Such as Vietnam.
Can't really say that out loud tho aha
Also I wouldn't exist without world war 2.
If I didn't have sex with my wife on that specific night then my specific sperm cell wouldn't have gone into her specific egg cell.
Existential crisis intensifies
When I worked remote, I worked for 4 hours and then chilled for 4 hours.
It's boring as fuck to be alone in a room working 8 hours. I just walked around, drank some coffee, scrolled my phone. Basically when I achieved something that was decently enough to call a day's work, then I just chilled. Just how I am.
I feel a lot more job secure when I work in office.
Why can't you do the same at the office compared to at home? Do you simply work more hours at home since you don't have to commute?
I just quit my work from home days, I like where I work. The area is well invested so it's a higher quality than just my own pc space at home.
Being there indeed has me more focused on working. It's like when you try to leave an addiction behind, then you need to change your environment. Well, the opposite works as well. If you need to work a lot, then do it always in the same environment.
The ability to work with my co workers is a lot easier at office. Otherwise it would just be phone calls or emails. When a coworker is working from home, I honestly don't interact with that person the whole work day.
Commuting to work is fun. I just bike 14 km to work. Mostly car free. Get paid 10 euros per day for biking. If I worked 5 days a week from home then I'd be giving 50 euros up just like that. Which is basically the difference between my pay level as accountant and adjunct accountant.
It would be silly.
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Wanpies is a way to say one piece, the anime. Made this name years ago and re-used it here.
It's been almost a year since I've caught up with the manga tho
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If empathy is free, then why don't I have any 🦍
If the major stakeholder and CEO is actively being an unelected politician addressing policy changes onto the public, then repercussions need to happen.
It would not be wise to show people that they can achieve plutocracy. Plutocrats only lose their power by losing their wealth, so if that's what has to happen, then that is the plan.
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Wasn't the opinion of my psychologist about me. She told me I'm mildly autistic and that I show little empathy.
For example I saw a dead pigeon on the bike lane and my concern was: my wife behind me might ride over it and be distressed.
And it's not that I care about her being distressed if I'm saying the truth. It's that her distress would be a pain to handle. That the bike would be dirty which would cause further distress to my wife.
Her response to seeing the dead pigeon was that she thought it was sad.
Empathy is tricky 🤷🏻♂️ the only thing I feel about this truly, is guilt. But that's all.
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We'd be helping their industry recover from fuck ups, no thanks
I'll be getting 20 days time off and on top of that I can choose between 4 months of time off if I so wish.
Other options are 1 day off for 20 months or half a day off for 40 months.
The thing I'm truly desiring from this is that the flemish government is protecting me from being fired the moment I request this extra parental leave.
If they cannot prove that they fire me for good reasons, then they'll have to pay me 6 months wage on top of the rest.
So if they are going to downsize, or whatever, they'll be less prone to pick me.
I'll take either the 20 or 40 months on this one.
My wife doesn't have a choice, she's 7 weeks pregnant now. Taking off work until 1 June. Then maternity leave starting 1 august (is what her HR said, even though internet says 6 weeks instead of 12, but perhaps it's cuz it's a physical job) until 15 weeks after the birth.
Personally I will do anything I can to make sure we have a long term source of income.
Keeping a good relationship with the place that pays me my wage will be beneficial.
I'll take a bulk of 1 or 2 weeks of paternal leave when the baby is born. Take one day off afterwards for 2 years.
Yesterday I saw clips on TV from us media supporting trump's stances on Ukraine and stuff like that. Made me quite angry because the way that the presentation of the news was set up was to influence the viewer. Nothing else. It wasn't to inform, it was to influence.
When it's about politics on Belgian nationalised TV channel, then it's always various people who share their points of view and it's more to inform than to dictate.
Can the Chinese even discuss politics like we do here? Haven't seen anything on rednote beside "political studies" and some Marx praises.
Must admit it's a bit more difficult with all of it being in mandarin, but god damn, are they under surveillance.