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  • Unless it’s the initial outreach team or on-premises staff, sales would be one of the few roles totally suited to remote working.

    Some of the more creative or collaborative roles I can see the argument for hybrid working - even if it’s just one day a week or month in the office - but sales, customer service, or first line support seems to be the last area you’d impose a return to work mandate on.

    That said, I haven’t got extortionate office rents to justify 😂




  • Tough one. As has already been mentioned, there has to be a clear line where the kids are involved - that is to say, are you going to be there for them or not?

    If it’s the latter, that’s not an issue. Declaring that from the outset isn’t a drama - single parents aren’t suddenly robots and enjoy the affection, sex, and friendship too. There’s no expectation beyond that and a few hot dates, and if it does start to cross red lines then there’s a clear reason to start nosediving it into the sea.

    I think leading a parent on though to the point where you’re introduced to the kids and become a part of their life, and then drop the bombshell that you’re after the casual or physical side of things means your actions have caught more than just the pair of you in the blast, and that just sucks.

    Honesty isn’t hard, and most of the time it’s pretty hot!

    e for context: I use “you” in the assumption that you’re looking to date a parent - reframe it to your own view :)









  • Disclosure: I’m in the UK where the worker protections are half-decent.

    was it ever not OK?

    It was not OK to not take a jobby on work time when you had the opportunity!

    I’ve worked shifts where my relief staffer has been in twenty minutes early (long commute, unpredictable traffic) so I’ve handed the shift over, and ensured that the remainder of my time was spent losing half a kilo of weight in five minutes. Conversely, it feels far more productive to leave the house half-needing to give birth to a brown otter, and nip to the bog once your feet are clear of your workload that you’ve taken on from the previous shift to go and perform the bowel movement while being paid for it.

    Shitting in my own khazi on my days off feels like voluntary work now.

    Sensibly though, any manager who controls bog time is just a bit of a fanny. Unless someone is obviously taking the piss like spending four hours of a ten hour shift, then people will perform better once they’ve laid a cable whenever they’ve needed to.






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    Most likely. I “reassigned” an old work Dell Optiplex to play about with Linux a few years back, and it didn’t like whatever onboard graphics chipset was on the board. I bought an inexpensive GeForce card… not realising that it would end up looking like this bad boi, and that I had to buy a low-profile card.



  • I find it quite handy - it’s a bit excessive on nearly every post, but it does add context when I don’t recognise the news source, and it’s useful to see whether I really need to do some more digging on the article rather than should look for other views on a story.

    It’s frustrating to see a comment or two on a post preview pane you’re interested in though and boom, it’s a bot rather than another user to engage with.

    It would work really well as a plug in or tool, giving you inline information in the post itself.