While at a plumbing show room today looking for bathroom stuff we saw this highly automated toilet/bidet combo. I find the combination to be so disgusting. I never want something that I shit into to also have a warm, shootback option.
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03/26/2013 17:52 #57427
Bidet/Toilet ComboCategory: bathroom
03/23/2013 17:02 #57418
Sambucas on Church stCategory: food
03/23/2013 16:02 #57417
Lemons in CanadaCategory: food
How are lemons so damn cheap in canada? I feel like you couldn't even pay someone to package them, let alone grow, pick and ship them for that price.
hodown - 03/24/13 18:39
That sounds like food heaven.
That sounds like food heaven.
lilho - 03/24/13 12:10
No one buys them here we all have lemon trees!
No one buys them here we all have lemon trees!
paul - 03/23/13 21:39
I love that store so much. I would kill for something like that in my neighborhood.
I love that store so much. I would kill for something like that in my neighborhood.
uncutsaniflush - 03/23/13 21:36
It's not lemons in Canada, it's lemons at the Kitchen Table store. They cut out a layer of distribution. They are their own middlemen I think. They have their own buyers buying produce at the Ontario Food Distribution Market (or whatever it is actually called I never remember) and sending it to their stores in their own trucks. Or, at least, that is what the Kitchen Table used to do.
It's not lemons in Canada, it's lemons at the Kitchen Table store. They cut out a layer of distribution. They are their own middlemen I think. They have their own buyers buying produce at the Ontario Food Distribution Market (or whatever it is actually called I never remember) and sending it to their stores in their own trucks. Or, at least, that is what the Kitchen Table used to do.
03/22/2013 21:40 #57414
Weekend Trip To TorontoCategory: vacation
We came up to see Andy C at the Guvernment but have been traveling around as there is no parking by the hotel due to some game. I am starting to get a cold. I hope it can hold out till at least tommorow.
03/22/2013 10:50 #57412
the downside of being salariedCategory: work
Sometimes I wish I could get overtime. There are so many things I want to program for work right now and I generally work about 45 hours per week but I would go back to working 50 or 60 if I could get compensated for it.
Like (e:terry), the harder he works the more money he gets. For me there is no benefit, in fact like many of my salaried coworkers, it encourage me to do work elsewhere.
Like (e:terry), the harder he works the more money he gets. For me there is no benefit, in fact like many of my salaried coworkers, it encourage me to do work elsewhere.
jbeatty - 03/24/13 08:31
I'm always fascinated by the workaholic culture that programmers seem to thrive in.
I think being a salaried employee motivates my to do my work quickly and efficiently. There is no threat of me ever receiving a bonus or overtime, or an actual raise that would make a noticeable difference in my finances. I am simply motivated by maximizing my personal time and leaving work early everyday.
I would be a much better worker if there was some incentive to increase my productivity. But since my job is incredibly boring I'm pretty happy to have lots of free time.
I'm always fascinated by the workaholic culture that programmers seem to thrive in.
I think being a salaried employee motivates my to do my work quickly and efficiently. There is no threat of me ever receiving a bonus or overtime, or an actual raise that would make a noticeable difference in my finances. I am simply motivated by maximizing my personal time and leaving work early everyday.
I would be a much better worker if there was some incentive to increase my productivity. But since my job is incredibly boring I'm pretty happy to have lots of free time.
tinypliny - 03/22/13 17:51
Depends on the job too, btw. When you are a professor, postdoc, researcher with a grant etc, hours don't mean much. You just need to do the job regardless of how long it takes.
Depends on the job too, btw. When you are a professor, postdoc, researcher with a grant etc, hours don't mean much. You just need to do the job regardless of how long it takes.
YesThatCasey - 03/22/13 16:58
In my view, the problem has less to do with lack of compensation for overtime, and more to do with the erosion of correlation to average working hours. Salaries were intended to provide independence to workers who had fluctuating workloads and difficult output measurements. Some weeks, you might spend 10 or 20 hours in the office because that is what was needed, while others might see you there for 12 hours every weekday. If, on average, you were putting far more time in than the average worker, another would be employed to help rebalance the workload.
Today, however, the expectation behind salary is that you are at the office for 40 hours a week, and more whenever it is required (which is consistently trending upwards). This expectation deters hiring an additional worker, and strains the already overburdened worker, which at least partially creates the disincentive that you refer to.
Of course, you are not the average worker since you want to work 60 hours a week, and the unionization and politics of your workplace are bigger contributors to the problem than the salary model.
In my view, the problem has less to do with lack of compensation for overtime, and more to do with the erosion of correlation to average working hours. Salaries were intended to provide independence to workers who had fluctuating workloads and difficult output measurements. Some weeks, you might spend 10 or 20 hours in the office because that is what was needed, while others might see you there for 12 hours every weekday. If, on average, you were putting far more time in than the average worker, another would be employed to help rebalance the workload.
Today, however, the expectation behind salary is that you are at the office for 40 hours a week, and more whenever it is required (which is consistently trending upwards). This expectation deters hiring an additional worker, and strains the already overburdened worker, which at least partially creates the disincentive that you refer to.
Of course, you are not the average worker since you want to work 60 hours a week, and the unionization and politics of your workplace are bigger contributors to the problem than the salary model.
tinypliny - 03/22/13 12:29
I am conflicted. I think salaries encourage stability and constancy to work. Of course this comes at a cost - less money. But really, how much money do we all really need to live well? Are all our money wants even really necessary?
I am conflicted. I think salaries encourage stability and constancy to work. Of course this comes at a cost - less money. But really, how much money do we all really need to live well? Are all our money wants even really necessary?
Robert - 03/22/13 11:57
I feel like salaries are such a rip off. i'd watch one of my managers at the hotel work like a maniac while the other ones slacked off and fucked everything up. I felt terrible for her, she should have been making bags of money... but she was salaried.
but wages are just as bad sometimes. if you weren't salaried, then you'd just have your hours tracked and they start freaking out on you about payroll etc...
I feel like salaries are such a rip off. i'd watch one of my managers at the hotel work like a maniac while the other ones slacked off and fucked everything up. I felt terrible for her, she should have been making bags of money... but she was salaried.
but wages are just as bad sometimes. if you weren't salaried, then you'd just have your hours tracked and they start freaking out on you about payroll etc...
Natasha must think very highly of herself. I though that was called Eggs Royale?