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CrispyQ

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26. Your son sounds like an excellent manager, the kind I would have liked to work for.

Fri Feb 4, 2022, 10:22 AM

Feb 2022

When I worked IT, I almost always had access to log in from home. I'd often work on coding problems on my own time, at home, where it was quiet & I wasn't interrupted. Office environments are not always conducive to stepping through code.

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Interesting comment from a friend today [View all] Orrex Feb 2022 OP

I'm here for the "Kids these days" responses. Cuthbert Allgood Feb 2022 #1

LOL I'm there with you! Orrex Feb 2022 #2

.Okay. "Kids these days are smart enough to understand that their time is worth more than LoisB Feb 2022 #9

That's one of the many encouraging things about the next generation lostnfound Feb 2022 #25

Ha!! progressoid Feb 2022 #11

Some employers define "bad work ethic" as workers demanding a living wage, Solly Mack Feb 2022 #3

They want robots FakeNoose Feb 2022 #30

IMO, it's about control, mostly. Bosses want to control the people under them. CrispyQ Feb 2022 #4

My son and his staff had to work from home murielm99 Feb 2022 #7

Your son sounds like an excellent manager, the kind I would have liked to work for. CrispyQ Feb 2022 #26

He has a boss. murielm99 Feb 2022 #35

This message was self-deleted by its author murielm99 Feb 2022 #36

Good For Your Son! ProfessorGAC Feb 2022 #31

Exactly what it is. Some bosses just HAVE to have you under their thumb oldsoftie Feb 2022 #15

We got to remember that a lot of so called bosses, only being made 'bosses' from their SWBTATTReg Feb 2022 #5

The worst of the "Peter principal" zipplewrath Feb 2022 #20

+1 n/t area51 Feb 2022 #28

All the wealthy people I have known in my lifetime Mr.Bill Feb 2022 #6

So true Johnny2X2X Feb 2022 #17

I had forgotten about the religious angle, Mr.Bill Feb 2022 #18

Businesses should look at profit sharing mixed with work at home. Patterson Feb 2022 #8

Yep. If there were ever a time for creative problem-solving, calimary Feb 2022 #10

my first job was as a car hop at a drive in restaurant. My pay was 50 cents demigoddess Feb 2022 #12

The "wealth gap" is widening big time. The pandemic has accelerated it. Evolve Dammit Feb 2022 #13

and beware judging employees by slack moments Skittles Feb 2022 #14

Getting the work done for LESS money & HAPPIER employees seems like win/win oldsoftie Feb 2022 #16

We did the math on a couple of points Orrex Feb 2022 #23

I don't think there has ever been a time when employees had too much power... Wounded Bear Feb 2022 #19

Gawd you're right. Even union contracts are negotiated with the employers having the upper hand TeamProg Feb 2022 #29

For decades and decades DENVERPOPS Feb 2022 #21

Control freak bosses I_UndergroundPanther Feb 2022 #22

I've worked placed where the supervisors' entire job was to count bathroom breaks Orrex Feb 2022 #24

I will never, ever work in a phone bank environment again Coventina Feb 2022 #32

You would definitely be dealing with less shit in that job Orrex Feb 2022 #33

No kidding. The shit involved in cleaning toilets is also much easier to deal with. Coventina Feb 2022 #34

+1 BeckyDem Feb 2022 #27