Random Thoughts Thread

[Viking]

Other researchers have now explored this ‘misclassification hypothesis’ more closely, including a huge UK-based population study published this year.

It showed that when you simply compare alcohol consumption and health outcomes, you find a clear beneficial effect of moderate alcohol consumption. But if you take former drinkers out of the abstainers group, then the benefits don’t look so rosy – in fact, they all but disappear.

Meanwhile, another team of researchers studied people whose bodies cannot process alcohol properly – and therefore who generally don’t drink alcohol at all – and found those with this genetic marker had better cardiovascular health and a lower risk of coronary heart disease than those without it.

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/2015...ly-bad-for-you

Hah! Causation and correlation, suckers.

[Montmorency]

Sample-hacking, yo.

[Hooahguy]

Its so rewarding to attend class and actually enjoy what you are learning. Today I sat through a 3 hour class on Russian foreign policy in the post-Stalin era and it went by way too quickly!

[Viking]

I am sure anyone with impostor syndrome will get panic attacks after watching Shattered Glass.

[Fragony]

big LOL, my maid is so cute when she is drunk, got a big X

[rickinator9]

big LOL, my maid is so cute when she is drunk, got a big X

Big X?

[Fragony]

Big X?

Peck on forehead, I like these things. She's also a pretty good dancer. My home is nsanity, from bare knuckle fighting to a Tango, we do it all.

[Hooahguy]

My home is nsanity, from bare knuckle fighting to a Tango, we do it all.

Dont forget the cats!

[Vuk]

Three times my yearly sales goal this month with time to spare, and perfect metrics. Why am I paid so little? I brought them $15K+ with just one sale this morning that no one else would have gotten. My numbers are unheard of, I am never late, and I work well with everyone. Time to give this fat old bastard a raise.

[Hooahguy]

Three times my yearly sales goal this month with time to spare, and perfect metrics. Why am I paid so little? I brought them $15K+ with just one sale this morning that no one else would have gotten. My numbers are unheard of, I am never late, and I work well with everyone. Time to give this fat old bastard a raise.

Yeah Ive been there. Fact is, there is no raise coming until at least a year. They dont care how successful you are, you could bring in a billion dollars next week and I would doubt they would give you a raise.

[Fragony]

Yes dear cats, if you insist om stealing my food when I am having a toilet break it can be the incrediby spicy Indian food of the restaurant next door, I like spicy food but my bonzai-tigers need water now

[Ibrahim]

Yeah Ive been there. Fact is, there is no raise coming until at least a year. They dont care how successful you are, you could bring in a billion dollars next week and I would doubt they would give you a raise.

that's assuming an oil slump (or in your case, some other slump) doesn't severely depress the market, causing a failure to provide the promised raises (I'm actually two raises behind because of the oil slump).

They do have me marked for the raises, which I am told they hope to get me as soon as I resume a regular work load (likely next summer). Like Vuk, I was never late, did jobs no one else could (or would) touch, was very flexible, and surprisingly creative (for a guy who's self-described as having the creativity of a brick )

[Fragony]

You get the job because you are good at it, don't complain, it won't be apreciated. Just an advice Vukkie, comming from the evil manager's sphere I know what I am talking about.

[Vuk]

lol, I am not complaining to them. We are one of the best in the world for what we do, so it goes without saying that majority of our employees are very good. They keep the yearly goal just above what the median sales person brings in to always keep it rising and motivate us to improve. That means that more than half of employees do not make their goals each year and get coaching. The ones who make/exceed it usually do by small margins. There are only 12 other employees out of the few thousands we employ who are getting double or more their yearly sales goal and I am getting three times that goal in a month. Did I mention that I am part time and that all of the other top performers are full time and have way more opportunity to make sales? There is only one person in the company who has consistently been pulling in more additional revenue than myself, and this month I surpassed her (not even close for the year, but for the month).

I was hired because I had a proven track record of being able to sell things and work in a professional environment...so did everyone else. I am doing though, what only one other person in my role in a 7 billion dollar company is able to do. That is pretty impressive. That goes way beyond the reason I was hired. They give out raises based solely on how long you have worked there. There is a woman I sit next to who has been there since this division opened over a decade ago and she never meets her sales goal...yet she is making literally about twice what I am and has full time.
I would be earning my company way more money if they gave me full-time and motivated me with performance based raises. You would think it would be in their best interests.
(It would be better for them than if they did it commission based like they apparently considered years ago, because a %5 commission on what I bring in would cost them a lot more than giving me a $2.50 raise)

[Hooahguy]

Finally got a smartphone and joined the modern world!

[Vuk]

Finally got a smartphone and joined the modern world!

Me too, and I have never stopped regretting it. They suck. They cannot do what a phone can as well as a phone, or what a computer can as well as a computer. If I absolutely need a mobile computer of some sorts in the future, I will get a light laptop or a tablet.

[Hooahguy]

What phone do you have?

[Vuk]

An LG. It is not the type of phone I have that disappoints me, but the limits of smartphones in general.

[Hooahguy]

Gotcha. I got myself an iPhone 5s so we will see what happens. I hope I didnt make a bad choice but I had to join the modern world at some point.

[Tuuvi]

In some ways texting is a lot better on smartphones than on flip phones but man touch screens can be such a pain in the ass. I hate it when I get my phone out of my pocket at work and somehow all of my settings have been changed and I've been making calls to random people in my contacts.

[Montmorency]

I hate it when I get my phone out of my pocket at work and somehow all of my settings have been changed and I've been making calls to random people in my contacts.

Smartphones are difficult without protective covers. Also, never put the screen-side in facing your leg.

[Hooahguy]

Smartphones are difficult without protective covers. Also, never put the screen-side in facing your leg.

Yes but then you are also susceptible to something cracking the screen by hitting your leg. A friend had that once, cracked his screen when he bumped into a banister.

[Beskar]

Also lock your your phone with a pin. They can do a lot of damage with a free and open phone ranging from identity theft, harassment, plus makes it easier to sell on. As for Tuuvi, stops you from calling everyone too.

[Husar]

Also, never put the screen-side in facing your leg.

I always do that, never had a problem. I do use a pin though and turn the screen off before I put it into my pocket. I also always use a some kind of rubber cover to protect the back and sides, that may help with not activating the buttons accidentally.

[Fragony]

Awesome https://www.facebook.com/MangoNews/p...90516610984482

[A Nerd]

The fall has finally arrived here in New England. The weather is pleasant, dry and comfortable. Much welcome after a rather uncomfortable summer.

[Vuk]

Sick as a dog for a week and missed a day and a half of work. Ouch.

[Hooahguy]

Just bought my ticket to see Iron Maiden and Im gonna have a beer to celebrate!

[Hooahguy]

Is 10:15 in the morning too early for a beer?

[drone]

Is 10:15 in the morning too early for a beer?

You are celebrating Maiden tix, it's past noon in London, so no.