Category: Ohtheirony

Working disconnect

Not really surprising but disconcerting nonetheless:

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/executives-think-they-know-the-top-reasons-employees-quit-theyre-dead-wrong/

“Here are the top three reasons that executives said they believe employees quit their jobs:

  1. Compensation (52%)
  2. Poor career advancement (37%)
  3. Performance (37%)

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And here are the top three reasons why employees said they actually quit, according to past worker surveys:

  1. Bad bosses: Bad managers account for 75% of voluntary turnover. (Source: SHRM)
  2. Lack of recognition: Only 1 in 3 employees strongly agree that they are properly recognized for their contributions. And people who routinely feel ignored are twice as likely to quit. (Source: Gallup)
  3. Burnout: 50% of millennials, 40% of Gen X, and 35% of baby boomers said burnout makes them leave their jobs. (Source: Staples Workplace Study)”

Guess when you sit at the top it’s easier to live in denial.

SMH

Yup, shake my head, roll eyes, sigh… just, no:

[https://www.engadget.com/2017/10/18/giant-robot-fight-usa-japan-megabots/]

USA and Japan’s giant robot battle was a slow, brilliant mess

Team USA came out on top, but not before three rounds of action.

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I’ve written before about the current state of robotic affairs, and stunts like this just dropped the bar even lower.

AND… since that article came out a couple days ago, this one from today shows just how abysmal it truly truly was:

[https://www.engadget.com/2017/10/20/epic-live-giant-robot-battle-faked/]

This week’s ‘live’ giant robot battle was fake

This is a sad, sad day for us all.

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Yeah, guess I need to go watch ‘Pacific Rim’ again to cheer myself up.

These old eyes

I once chortled when a coworker (same age as I) used his phone camera to take a pic of a serial number on a piece of hardware that was printed in a tiny font, just so he could enlarge it to read it easily. But my laughing days are over, since in the past year I’ve had to start using reading glasses to see anything up close, and I feel his pain now. Getting old is depressing.

Parental fears

From NPR [http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2010/08/30/129531631/5-worries-parents-should-drop-and-5-they-should?sc=fb&cc=fp]:

Based on surveys Barnes collected, the top five worries of parents are, in order:

Kidnapping
School snipers
Terrorists
Dangerous strangers
Drugs

But how do children really get hurt or killed?

Car accidents
Homicide (usually committed by a person who knows the child, not a stranger)
Abuse
Suicide
Drowning

Why such a big discrepancy between worries and reality? Barnes says parents fixate on rare events because they internalize horrific stories they hear on the news or from a friend without stopping to think about the odds the same thing could happen to their children.

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Just an example of how uncommon it is for people (in general) to worry about the things that have a much higher probability of happening. Humans are weird.

A non-sport

Finally, after first taking this stance many years ago in the old high school, I am vindicated:

[http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/07/21/federal-court-rules-cheerleading-sport/]