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This has been a news theme for some years. A few years ago the problem got some attention, as problems periodically do. I remember Home Depot and a lumber mill featuring. They had enough candidates for the jobs they had, but rejected many for weed. There was much believable hand wringing.

Of course now Amazon is in the news for asking their contracted local delivery "partners" to not reject driver applicants for weed. Although this time around it's not because of weed directly, it's the general lack of applicants; Amazon's already expressed concern that, due to turnover, they may have already cycled through most of their potential workers.

It's a new class of employee in the UK.

From their FAQ:

The Finance Bill, 2017 created the concept of "employed for tax purposes" and "inside Off-payroll rules". These terms are a complicated way to describe the No Rights Employee.

> For example, some systems automatically reject candidates with gaps of longer than six months in their employment history, without ever asking the cause of this absence. It might be due to a pregnancy, because they were caring for an ill family member, or simply because of difficulty finding a job in a recession.

Or a pandemic!

But just set it and forget it, and you can make it to happy hour with your crew.

This is why cops on Interstates will target out of state plates. People just want to get on to their destination. And not being a state resident, it makes it harder for them to fight after the fact. [citation needed]

I recall an episode of COPS where the Sheriff (?) of Multnomah County Oregon was grinning into the camera, declaring how good he's going to look driving around a pickup truck that they'd just confiscated.

Multnomah County featured a lot on COPS. That Sheriff was camera ready.

No, it's not an aberration. Cops in various departments around the country take classes to do this most effectively.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=asset+forfeiture+classes&t=lm&ia=w...

Any property can be seized. Put it in a financial institution, and dispose of it as you see fit at your destination.

And the Veterans Administration puts the "pretend" in "care."

Source: Watching news articles over decades of the VA denying "service related" for injuries and poisoning, so the government isn't held responsible. Agent Orange and cancer, for example. Or burn pits in the middle east wars. Or concussions from explosions.

One thing about processed foods is that they're usually based on refined grains, i.e. preprocessed carbs. Your body sucks up these carbs too quickly, resulting in insulin resistance and pancreatic failure.

Look down the aisles of a store. If it's in a box, or a bag, it's probably based on processed carbs.

Disclosure: Biased diabetic who has struggled with management, and now "strictly" (with the best of intentions) limits processed carbs. Bread of any kind, especially. Toss the hamburger bun, for example. And it's worked, with help from meds.

Regolith installed, via PPA. Don't forget "sudo apt update." I forgot.

Commence fiddling in three ... two ... one ...

EDIT: One thing I like immediately is the little shortcut hint menu on the right. I first expected to be able to click each hint, and have that action happen. But it doesn't do that. It doesn't do anything. You have to actually read the hint, and type the displayed shortcut, thus forcing you to learn the system. Not tough love, just firm love.

Originally SW dev, most recently SWQA. I rage quit my last job over a conflict with a dev manager. No one else was interested in me.

Been driving three years and change. I mostly like it. I've never had a meeting, standup or otherwise. I miss my couch, weekends and the money. But it's pretty low stress. No SO, and my son is grown.

I used to use Awesome. And I3 before that. My young adult son would sometimes ask to do something quick on my laptop. Hilarity ensued.

Now I'm a truck driver. Bought a new laptop awhile back. Don't have time to fiddle (drive, eat, sleep) so I left the default Mint desktop.

Right now I'm being unloaded at a distribution center in Alabama. They tell me it will be 5 to 6 hours until they're done. No labor on Labor Day, I guess.

So I'll install Regolith, based on a couple comments here, and see how that goes.

I actually kinda miss fiddling.

And don't build a house inside a reservoir.

How One Houston Suburb Ended Up in a Reservoir

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/22/us/houston-ha...

You may have run across Thomas Nagel via his What is it like to be a bat?

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=nagle+%22to+be+a+bat%22&t=fpas&ia=...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_It_Like_to_Be_a_Bat%...

> Nagel famously asserts that "an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism—something it is like for the organism."[2] This assertion has achieved special status in consciousness studies as "the standard 'what it's like' locution."[3] Daniel Dennett, while sharply disagreeing on some points, acknowledged Nagel's paper as "the most widely cited and influential thought experiment about consciousness."

"This."

Truck driver. Besides Walmart (my major shopping store, because you can park a truck up in there), truck stop convenience stores are chronically short of things in the last N months. I know, the irony ...

Unflavored half and half single servings for coffee go early. The bulk half and half dispensers are usually empty these days. (The flavored side is often still available.) Then coffee lids. Then large coffee cups. Gatorade Zero often goes, and then regular Gatorade. The Power Aide seems to always be available. The open cooler boat with yogurt and sandwiches often runs low or empty.

Vicious cycle of staff shortages everywhere, thus unable to source, produce, deliver and stock at former rates.

So do cows, eventually. :)

As a truck driver, just about every day is just about the same, so I lose track.

But I am sometimes reminded that it's Mother's day (the actual Sunday), when I'm in a Walmart on a Sunday morning (maybe I parked there the night before) and see a few men that need a shave, looking over the flowers, often with a kid or two tagging along.

That's how you know they love you.

Which (may) highlight the fact that now one never has to think of her.

GoDaddy? Their first choice was GoDaddy?

> A site that explicitly encourages people to narc on their neighbors by revealing privileged medical information seems to be in pretty clear violation of those standards, one might think, which is exactly what prolifewhistleblower.com did.

How delightful if HIPPA played a part in removing this law. The essence of the law is those ability of anyone, anywhere in the US, to bring a lawsuit. The theory is that since law enforcement is not involved current law like Roe v Wade is not violated.

This sub-thread is better than a Vim thread. :)

Yeah, that "updating your resume" in your parent is a pretty big employer foot gun. Makes you that much more exit-ready.

> So too bad, had a better offer to advance elsewhere and their interest in me was clear.

"Their interest in me was clear."

Exactly this.

Enlightened and effective leadership would pair a "not this time" response with a series of career development meetings, resulting in a tailored path for advancement; not as detailed as "this job, then that job, then that," but informed enough to show the candidate that they were heard and valued.

An additional bone in the form of a small raise and or training would also be effective.

And of course the plan needs to be reviewed periodically and sincerely, for adjustments and progress on the part of both parties.

I wonder if internal rejection should be seen as similar to being put on a PIP: a drawn out layoff.

It makes sense to hire external if you're trying to grow headcount, or trying to "frontfill" before firing people.

What a weird design. Listing and viewing would often be done when you want to "clean things up, but not everything.

Disclosure: never used or saw safari, and i don't have a mac, nor the mac nature.

In context, it means that the people being put in charge, the "majors and lt colonels," have never done the job, so they're unqualified, no matter how smart and dedicated.

["Don't learn Python packaging, learn how to get from source and dependencies to target."] That's quite an insight.

Also,

> But Go is designed to make you not want this.

One of my favorite sincere quips from my former life: "You should try not to want that."