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massive deadline: check
optimizing behaviour: check
desire to work on a project tracker to track the work spent in front of the computer: check
building said tracker instead of working on the project I could actually track: check
ADHS diagnosis appointment booked: check

There are plenty of ways to get people into work but this unimaginative plan will make an unfair benefit system worse

I never thought I would see this in The Times and from this writer

http://archive.today/2025.03.28-194652/https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/labours-welfare-reforms-are-all-pain-and-no-gain-t0d89j90z

Does anyone have good alternatives to happy hour gatherings after work? We have vendors who visit and offer appetizers and drinks in a bar where people can come and go as they like.

For me, I don't drink and the noise in a bar is distracting for conversations. But I'm struggling to come up with a good alternative based on price and convenience.

Any thoughts?

The Workplace Justice Program is here to help workers in Nova Scotia understand their rights & fight to make their workplaces better. Our goal is to teach workers about the laws that protect them, give them tools to solve problems as they come up, & support them in fighting for changes to improve the law for everyone. First... "Know Your Rights At Work". Please post and share widely, in Halifax.
#work #nspoli #rights #employment #HalifaxNS #halifax

Offering paid time off dramatically cuts odds of employees quitting their jobs, study reveals

https://phys.org/news/2025-03-paid-odds-employees-jobs-reveals.html

who profits from our #freedom?

You know what would be great to have in Microsoft Teams?

Threads.

Instead we get…

#Work #IT #SysAdmin

Published Doesn’t Mean Paid. https://kristie-de-garis.ghost.io/published-doesnt-mean-paid/ #Publishing #Work #Writing

Busy morning headed to market, watercolor.

ART - https://deborah-league.pixels.com/featured/busy-morning-headed-to-market-deborah-league.html

"The bad news, as demonstrated by the American story, is that an age of leisure will not automatically flow from increased productivity. The good news is that political interventions can bring us closer to this vision.

“While Keynes’ predictions regarding productivity growth have actually been exceeded over the past nearly 100 years,” conclude Behringer, Gonzalez Granda, and van Treeck, “the obstacles to more leisure time are primarily socio-political in nature.”

The Scandinavian social democracies, even in their recently weakened states, offer the starkest counterexample. They are highly productive, but their workers put in six to ten fewer hours per week than their American counterparts do, a trend that holds for low and high earners alike.

Unions have proven essential in translating productivity gains into shorter working hours. American union membership has collapsed since the postwar period; Scandinavian union rates have fallen recently, but workers in the region still maintain a powerful, centralized collective bargaining system that secures shorter workweeks, generous paid leave, and predictable schedules.

The comprehensive welfare systems in these countries further reduce overwork. With universal health care, subsidized childcare, free education through university, and robust social safety nets, Scandinavians don’t face the same financial pressures that drive Americans to sacrifice their free time for a paycheck. Importantly, these welfare policies have also increased female workforce participation, reducing women’s spousal dependency and decreasing the pressure on men to work long hours to support their families.

Scandinavian societies have seen inequality expand and their welfare states erode in recent years, but these features are still significantly more pronounced than in the United States."

https://jacobin.com/2025/03/work-keynes-scandinavia-class-leisure/

"Symptoms can start much earlier — during perimenopause, the time leading up to menopause — and go well beyond hot flashes.

The many manifestations include insomnia, migraines, brain fog, loss of concentration, memory problems, mood swings, depression, anxiety, heart palpitations, hair loss and weight gain. If that wasn’t enough, some people experience heavy, painful periods or recurring urinary tract infections."

https://apnews.com/article/menopause-work-benefit-hot-flash-insomnia-support-c91eb76a8802c3dbbd5a0fdef219086c

I finally made a super sour loaf! Bread 15B came from a stiff (acetic acid) starter and sat in the fridge for about a week with a bunch of time out of the fridge to age an have its delicious bacteria from just right. I added olives an pecans to it with wheat germ around the outside. The bread is flavorful enough to hold it's own against the olives!

Though I would also share some work projects- the "No 79" is going to some fancy Manhattan development and will be outside, with housings. Should look good- and with 3 bars on the ground floor of this new residential building, I may actually go see my work when it's installed an have a drink :) Big ruby numbers- it WILL be seen.
All that and the "ANCY"- a test for this new Spielberg movie was 1 days work (along with some email sending). Feels good to put in a full days work an be able to share with you all :)

#Cats left #today. #Tomorrow after #work I need to #travel to Simpele where my #parents live. I am a board member of their housing company. (Both my parents have #Alzheimers). We have an annual general meeting on Tue. We need to decide which builder will do the roof renovation. I barely have time to visit my parents and then I need to travel back #home. On Thu I need to go to #Estonia with my #colleagues. My life is so hectic these days. #busybee #alzheimerssucks #suomimastodon #finland

Great letter in the Guardian this morning pointing out, that its not disabled people not wanting to work that is the major problem, its employers being unwilling to employ them that is a more serious impediment for those with health issues who wish to get back into work....

But of course, as always a political class that would rather work with economic models of individuals than look at what's really happening in the world, often misses this simple point!

We should talk more about how the dominant approach of #capitalist #economists to controlling #inflation is to periodically throw hundreds of thousands of people out of #work & into misery. This is what passes for " #economic stability" & it is madness.

This really lays out a lot of what's wrong with tech, it's a great writeup: https://unionize.fyi/

I would've added a section about how ridiculous the interview process has gotten. Minor omission though, and it wouldn't have added much to the article.

Apes together strong.

Overheard in the staff lunch room today
"It's an emergency, there are no clean coffee cups!"

Old maaate... maybe if you & your oh so very important friends stacked/emptied/turned the dish washer on occasionally, you would have clean cups