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ImplyingImplications , to Work Reform in Is anyone else tired of “employee engagement”?

I just got invited to a staff BBQ at the manager’s house. It’s at 5PM. On Friday. I just spent 50 hours this week with you guys! Wasn’t that enough?

bstix , to Do It Yourself in Fixed my washing machine today!

Well done. I can fix a dryer but I wouldn’t deal with a washing machine. The combination of water and electricity scares me. Mostly because my own washer gives me a static shock everytime I empty it. The grounding just doesn’t work for that.

Arbiter , to Work Reform in Is anyone else tired of “employee engagement”?

True employee engagement is Unionization.

PC509 ,

Effective, sure. But, if a company is truly engaging, listening, adapting to the employees needs and feedback, unions would be a lot less needed or effective. When companies are exploiting workers, lowering wages and benefits, causing more problems and not listening to employees, unions can really make a huge difference. If the people are looking to unionize, the company is failing and the workers aren’t being listened to and they want change to happen.

Unions can do a lot of good. I’m very pro-union. But, people don’t go looking to unionize if things are going great and the company is really listening and adapting to employee concerns.

amnesiacrobat , to Work Reform in Is anyone else tired of “employee engagement”?
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I went HAM on my most recent one. They’re anonymous but I’m sure my direct manager can tell my writing style. But the place I work for has been in refusing to do any hiring including backfills so now I’m a team of 1 doing what 7 people used to do and I let them know I’m not pleased.

Izzent ,
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You hold the bargaining power of 7 people. You can force changes just by waving the “I can quit anytime” card around

galactusaurus OP ,

This is bad advice. Do this and your name will go on the Problem List. Now, if you don’t care about getting laid off, go nuts.

Izzent ,
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The guy is already giving honest feedback on “anonymous” surveys… He’s probably on that list. At least he could try to improve his situation, and look for a new job at the same time since it’s clear they don’t respect his efforts.

entropicshart ,
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Just FYI, they’re not really anonymous. These surveys get reported back to each individual manager with the responses, ratings given, and counts of staff completed; so it is very easy for managers to discern who wrote what.

amnesiacrobat ,
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I figure they aren’t. I didn’t curse or name anyone by name, I just made it pretty clear that the understaffing is job performance at a pretty severe level and that the workload has everyone miserable

Kestrel , to Star Trek in UPDATED 9-3: StarTrek.website - Lemmy info, FAQ, Patreon info, future plans, and more!

Was pretty skeptical about all this stuff, but it seems like y’all have succeeded in moving a good chunk of people from Reddit to this new place, which hopefully bodes well for the future.

Hopefully y’all will be able to keep moderation functioning well, especially considering that a lot of Folks’ll stay split between here and the Reddit subs. Like the biggest reason (IMO, of course) that r/DaystromInstitute is/was one of the best subs out there was just how effective the moderators are/were.

qat ,

Was pretty skeptical about all this stuff, but it seems like y’all have succeeded in moving a good chunk of people from Reddit to this new place, which hopefully bodes well for the future.

As long as there is enough people here to have a thriving discussion, we can be self-sustaining.

UpperBroccoli , to Star Trek in Why is there a random Jem'hadar in Quarks bar?
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Why not ask Morn about it, he knows everyone and never stops talking anyway!

ferengigrindset , to Star Trek in My wife and I are watching through TNG, on S3 now, and I kinda like Wesley.

He definitely improves as the series goes on. I think most of the hate comes from Season 1 where he’s a genius kid who knows more than all the senior staff of the flagship. He gets a lot better when his stories aren’t just him whining about how no one recognizes how much of a genius he is.

Takeshidude OP ,

We did skip a lot of Season 1, so maybe that helped my perception of him.

lxskllr , to Star Trek in My wife and I are watching through TNG, on S3 now, and I kinda like Wesley.
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@Takeshidude

He's alright. No love, but no hate either. What bothered me most was the 'Leave it to Beaver' presentation in the early years.

demvoter , to RedditMigration in Removed as moderator of /r/Celebrities after 14 years
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This should be a lesson to all remaining mods to stop putting their effort into that site. Reddit doesn’t care about who helped build it. They only care about making money for themselves.

What a shitty way to remove you. Completely uncalled for.

Ulu-Mulu-no-die ,
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Mods should quit moderating altogether IMO, more than 20 thousands participated in the protest, there's no way they could replace them all in a reasonable time-frame, it would be a much better chaos than the blackout.

jimmyjazx , to Home Improvement in YSK: Installing a bidet attachment to your toilet is super easy and probably cleaner than using toilet paper.

Life changing. Make you hate road games even more.

MicroWave ,
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Yeah I miss my bidet every time I travel now.

StrangeWorrier , to Home Improvement in YSK: Installing a bidet attachment to your toilet is super easy and probably cleaner than using toilet paper.

I don’t like the wet feeling.

geobmx540 ,

get one with an air dryer included!

StrangeWorrier ,

That still involves a process where my butt hole gets wet.

Garblegork ,

So does pooping…

StrangeWorrier ,

Not for me…

Denalduh ,

Do… Do you not wash your butthole?

EmptyRadar , to sysadmin in Calling all /r/sysadmin reddit refugees!

Yeah I came here from Reddit, sysadmin was one of the first communities I looked for. We need a place we can feel sane.

shadow_ireheart ,

We definitely need somewhere to bitch first and foremost

Tricky_Nerd ,

Sure, but we also need someplace to share ideas, problems, solutions, and any other resources we can.

Every single one of us knows that you can't know everything there is to know about IT, communities like this make all of our jobs easier.

Kage159 ,

So we need a GrumpySysAdmin. :)

sagittarie , to Home Improvement in new build, rock filled yard.
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The rocks could be tightly packed silt, loose sandstone, or maybe mica from excavation. Pictures would help.

Number1 OP ,

Sorry for the late reply!

Here are some of the rocks. A big pile. An example of the breakable rocks and the “real” ones

postimg.cc/gallery/LqJ807k

sagittarie ,
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Yeah looks like Mica and sandstone. Unfortunately landscapers/contractors love to just cover things up with top soil and run away.

druid , to Star Trek in S1E14 - What is this reverse 🖖 hand signal Riker does?
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@QDidNothingWrong I suspect it's just a simple case of the actor getting it wrong and no one on set really noticed at the time. It's definitely not the standard form.

QDidNothingWrong OP ,

Another fascinating point is it’s not tradition to do the Vulcan salute to a non-Vulcan of which none of the characters on screen were so it’s strange he’d use that salute when not referencing anything Vulcan in the scene.

kg333 , to Star Trek in S1E14 - What is this reverse 🖖 hand signal Riker does?
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It is a Vulcan salute: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan_salute

I don’t recall why Riker would have been using one in that context, though, unless TNG was trying to establish the gesture had expanded in use across the Federation.

EDIT: also, this is in S01E15 “11001001”, not E14.

QDidNothingWrong OP ,

The thing is… the Vulcan salute is palm out. He has palm in, thumb in. It caught me off guard which was why I felt the need to come post as I couldn’t find it anywhere online.

Someology ,
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Nope. His palm is definitely out. He just doesn’t have his thumb extended. Other than the thumb, it’s a completely normal Vulcan salute. Perhaps Frakes had a bit of trouble with it early on and just hadn’t got his thumb out properly yet?

QDidNothingWrong OP ,

No. It is not. I’ve watched the scene a dozen times. His palm is in… facing him, and thumb is in. Even in the screenshot I posted his palm is in.

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