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2.If you work in a job as a “doer”, such as developer, builder of things, etc., do you find yourself booked up in many meetings? Then congratulations, you’ve discovered a red flag. “Doers” should not be in too many meetings. Because gasp…they need time to actually do stuff. If management cannot squash this early so you can do what you do best, you’ve found yourself at a mismanaged company.
Gold.
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Hold one more meeting with your manager to decide which meetings you need NOT attend. Perhaps, this will be the most important meeting.
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You are a victim of the square-cube law, which seems to apply to many things from simple geometry to architecture, engineering or biomechanics. In your case, obviously doubling the organisation's size has quadrupled the effort to coordinate the activities. Or simpler: After reaching a critical size, management is mostly busy managing itself.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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CodeWraith wrote: After reaching a critical size, management is mostly busy managing itself.
 Quite funny. But I guess these are serious issues.
Now they have released a tracking tool that's built in-house. (Basically complicated, unusable)
And giving KT about how to use it.
Now I'm going to dump the completed-meeting list there.
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It started with 1 meeting in the morning. Now they consume all my time  
In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.
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I'm guessing that part that's not easy is staying awake.
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I was expecting that some will try to exploit the situation by stocking up and selling at high prizes...
But the actual low level came from the 'teachers union'... They stopped - a very minimal - work from remote until promised full payment and an exemption from returning the missed days from now on. So does not matter how long they will stay at home they have only 9 days to return to us...
The most infuriating part of it, that those at kinder-garden are obviously can not 'teach' remotely... a large part of the students and the teacher have no sufficient computer and/or knowledge to use it for remote communication...
So it will end up the teacher will send emails full of crap and student will be upset and frustrated...
Those filth of filth... Sitting at home and get payed while almost half a million sent home without an agora...
No wonder the future not that bright anymore...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: No wonder the future not that bright anymore...
If all the kids are learning is capitalism and looking after number 1, I have to agree.
They certainly won't be learning anything about honour, duty, or compassion.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: If all the kids are learning is capitalism
If you think capitalism is being taught as a 'good thing' in the modern western education system - you haven't had any contact with the schools in the last 20 years. 
As for capitalism not being compassionate - name a better system that has raised more people up out of poverty.
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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DRHuff wrote: If you think capitalism is being taught as a 'good thing' in the modern western education system - you haven't had any contact with the schools in the last 20 years.
Could be. But then, where do they get it from? Probably from capitalism itself: The entire society, our entire lives are immersed in capitalism, through politicians, media/entertainment, the entire commercial/advertising world, even religion.
It doesn't always appear as capitalism per se, but hides under different disguises. Listen to Donalds press conferences: Every day for two weeks now, he has been praising "private capital" and commercial forces for being The solution to handling the corona virus, and constantly stresses how fundamental it is to give private capital a possiblity to make more profit as soon as possible to get the nation back on its feet - a major medical problem is essentially handled by making sure that capital owners get what they want.
Or you can call it "human rights" - the "freedom" to exploit other humans is a human right. Look at the UN Declaration of human rights, and consider how many of the articles would make no sense in a society with no money, no capitalism, no mechanisms for economic exploitation. Listen to how DT talks about closing the borders to save the nation's econonomy - national borders is a weapon in the protection of capital interests. (This is ages old: The kings didn't build their armies to protect the peasants, but to protect their own capital.)
In today's Western society, capitalism is preached as something given by nature, something that cannot possibly be questioned or objected against. It is as permeating as Christianity was a couple hundred years ago. You can hardly point out that other societies may have different ideas, without being labeled an anti-capitalist. Kids shall not even be made aware that there is something that is quite different from the capitalist world they are living in; there shall be no critical ideas.
So even though you appearently have revealed that schools may disclose the fact that there may be other ways, I don't think you have to worry. Society will soon enough pick such misconceptions off their minds.
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Member 7989122 wrote: something that cannot possibly be questioned or objected against.
Object to it all you like - I don't care. But if you object to it you must think there is an alternative. What is it?
I mean - if I put up millions of dollars to build a factory and you work in it - you seem to think that you should get to own the factory. If you want to own a factory - build one yourself - or get your coworkers together and buy it from the owner and run it the way you want.
One of the joys of capitalism is that you can leave if you don't want to participate. Socialism and communism - not so much.
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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DRHuff wrote: One of the joys of capitalism is that you can leave if you don't want to participate.
Yeah, right...
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DRHuff wrote: If you think capitalism is being taught as a 'good thing' in the modern western education system - you haven't had any contact with the schools in the last 20 years
The teachers are teaching the modern form of capitalism by their actions -- "We've got something that you want, so the price goes up!"
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This sort of behaviour by the teachers' unions is one of the reasons why over the last 50 years teaching has gone from a respected profession to no more than a baby-sitting service.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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last time teachers could call out kids not following the plan or disrupting class, send them to the principals office for talking to (with their parents), and identify kids that perhaps needed 'more help.' And yes, other discipline could be applied.
these days:
1. they can't do anything to them: kids can play up, act the fool, do nothing, even directly disrespect the teachers.
2. they can't even call out kids that need extra help - that's stigmatizing them (or some such nonsense)
- and the parents siding with the kids on and disputes wonder why the teachers get no results.
so yeah, teaching is no longer a "respected profession," not because they don't try,
but ...
... because they can't do anything to be respected
... because [putting it simply] the bleeding heart idiots took away their ability to get respect.
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the goat in your machine wrote: so yeah, teaching is no longer a "respected profession," not because they don't try,
but ...
... because they can't do anything to be respected
... because [putting it simply] the bleeding heart idiots took away their ability to get respect.
Agree
I have seen teachers getting in problems, just because they cared and tried to do more for some students. No wonder that they afterwards say: go to hell.
Of course there are other teachers too, that just got in this job for the big vacations and don't give a crap for their students.
M.D.V. 
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Nah teachers were respected when, if you were a PITA, they could inflict pain and anguish ie the cane. I grew up respecting teachers because my bum hurt.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: those at kinder-garden are obviously can not 'teach' remotely
You'd be surprised at how easily most kids can pick up an iPad.
But I get what you mean: Kindergarden is little more than glorified babysitting, so the problem isn't the material being "taught"...you pretty much need an adult to be present.
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I wouldn't think so they're so Ice-o-lated!
I'll just get my coat now and leave!
I'm hiding from exercise...I'm in the fitness protection program.
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One of several articles: [^]
And with winter there fast approaching, it'll probably stay that way.
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Uuuh... "who has been at the Concordia Station in Antarctica since November, said being in the southernmost continent already felt "so otherworldly" because of the increasing darkness and cold."
This is not the Arctic, but the Antartica! November is right before midsummer, it is getting lighter and lighter! By today, they have had a long period of midnight sun!
This is such a fundamental mistake that I ask myself whether the entire story is just made up. I cannot imagine any real researcher referring to "the Antarctic winter environment" when it is in fact the Antarctic summer. The story may be real, but the journalist was clueless and misunderstood some essential points. Then he might have misinterpreted just as badly whatever else the researchers told him.
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He's been there since November, has gone through summer, and now it's getting increasingly dark and cold.
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OK, I'll accept that as an excuse. But it is like people on the northern hemisphere complaining about winter cold and darkness in early September. It is a little bit early.
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Well, he's at Concordia Station[^], which is in the interior south of New Zealand, and the equinox has passed. It's not as if he's on one of those wussy stations around the Antarctic Peninsula.
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