I was in operations working the DuPont schedule for over a decade. Concerning DST, you work an extra hour, with pay, or work a shift that is one hour less, depending on which direction the clock is moving
When we worked the 11 hour shift (normally 12), as clocks spring forward, you would be compensated a full paycheck if you had no overtime hours, as the company was forced to pay you a full 2 weeks of wage for the pay period. If you had any overtime hours in that check, your pay would reflect 1 hour less to cover the shortage due to the time change.
Some companies pay the full 12 hr shift when the clocks spring forward, but mine didn’t.
My company is 100% remote. We have boomers, gen Xers, millennials, and gen Zers. We’ve had conversations individually and as a group and no one wants to change from remote to in office.
The problem the article is describing is a social problem with our society, and the answer has nothing to do with where you work. It’s more about how much you work, how much you get paid, and what you can do with your free time to carve out a balanced life.
Return-to-office doesn’t fix that because it just eats into off-the-clock time you commit to work for commuting.if anything, it exacerbates the problem.
Do people really not understand that we are in the early stages of ai development? The first time most people were made aware of LLMs was, like, 6 months ago. What ChatGPT can do is impressive for a self contained application, but is far from mature enough to do the things people are complaining it can’t do.
The point the industry is trying to warn about is that this technology is past its infancy and moving into, from a human comparison standpoint, childhood or adolescence. But, it iterates significantly faster than humans, so the time it can do the type of things people are bitching about is years, not decades, away.
If you think businesses have sunk this much money and effort into AI and didn’t do a cost-benefit analysis that stretched out decades, you are being naive or disingenuous.
“We have such terribly designed and fragile products that you should pay extra to insure them because we can’t make something worth buying and you need protection if you spend money with us.”
Great sales pitch. The pixel watch has a long future ahead of it …
At least 41 people have died in the Lone Star State’s unairconditioned prisons due to heat-related or unknown conditions this summer, according to the Texas Tribune....
I train people in a technical field, so I’m used to breaking complex things down to basic sub parts and combining them until they illustrate the concept.
I stopped explaining anything to people outside of work after I had someone ask me how something worked, then called me a mainsplainer after I answered their question.
Now, if someone asks me how something works, I just say I’ll have to look it up and get back to them. Then they usually either look it up themselves or forget about it.
I hate the word ‘Consumer’ or I mockingly call it ‘CONSOOMER’. Because that’s to imply everyone in the world is just cattle, but with wallets. We’re no longer customers. We’re consumers now. And a consumer’s purpose is to consume shit, whatever is put out there. Got money? Shut up and consume, it’s what...
Wouldn’t the whole system make more sense as a commission based wage scale that is tied to the price of the items ordered? A base wage that meets legal requirements added to an incentive tied to a percent of each item sold?
The variable percentage would be tied to how much the waiter sold and what items, which would scale with both the amount of work (on large tables) and the skill of the waiter to help the business move product and give the customer a good experience.
The balance point being selling as much as possible while providing the customer an experience they want to return to.
Any hard selling and under serving keeps people from wanting to come back and hurts the business. Any lack of care in service prevents additional sales that can boost wage earnings and prevents the business from not selling stock before it goes bad.
Discretionary tipping is dumb, even if you are a capitalist. There is a balance that doesn’t stagnate the business or create exploitative labor practices. We just don’t do it because we are a social democracy that has a systemic misunderstanding of when capitalism is good and when it is bad.
The recall covers certain pickups from the 2021 through 2023 model years with single exhaust systems. Ford’s F-Series pickups are the top-selling vehicles in the U.S.
I have a PTAC unit in the room above my garage (Amana PTH123A35AC) that I’m trying to connect a thermostat (Honeywell 50018270-001) to. These are my current connections:...
Disclosure: I haven’t done ac work in 20 years, I never really worked on any ptac units, and you should know what you are doing before you mess with any electrical work. This information is general and I have no idea what the condition of your ac wiring or home wiring is in, so don’t follow any of this advice without researching and understanding what you are doing. Safety is more important than comfort. These are just ideas for you to look into.
A thermostat is a fancy set of switches.
Red brings the power in and internal switches turn on the heating, cooling, and fan cycles depending on settings. If everything is working except cooling, you may need to install a jumper between the R and the Rc on the thermostat or look into internal settings of the thermostat to get power to your cooling cycle. Sometimes units have separate power supplies for heating and cooling cycles due to different methods of heating. If everything is electric, it probably needs to be jumpered to supply power to the cooling cycle, but that can vary depending on model.
You can verify power not getting to the cooling cycle by checking voltage between the R and Y connections on the thermostat. You should show 12v between R and Y on the tstat if the cooling cycle is on and no cold is coming out. If you read 0v and the fan is running, the thermostat is working fine and there is a setting on the unit that needs to be bypassed. If you are reading 12v, you can try using a jumper wire to connect the R and Rc to see if the cooling cycle turns on, but I wouldn’t start jumpering things without knowing what voltages are present. If you don’t have a voltmeter, wait for advice from someone that has experience with those units.
There is also a bypass procedure to control those units from a remote thermostat that takes the local thermostat on the unit out of the circuit
What do you call this place? (lemmy.world)
Electric Valley? Wire Canyon? Zap Way?
What do overnight shift workers do when the clocks change?
If you are at work in the middle of the night when the clocks change, do you work an extra hour in the spring and one less in the fall?
YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers (www.androidauthority.com)
cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/2883134 (!android)
Gen Z is lonely. Going back to the office may be the cure for some. (www.businessinsider.com)
High winds lift a forest’s floor in Scotland (files.catbox.moe)
So Far, AI Is a Money Pit That Isn't Paying Off (gizmodo.com)
Tesla misses estimates for quarterly deliveries; shares fall (www.reuters.com)
Tesla reported a decrease in total deliveries for the third quarter of 2023 compared to the previous quarter, delivering 435,059 vehicles....
Google says it can’t fix Pixel Watches, please just buy a new one | With no official repair program and no parts, broken Pixel Watches are just e-waste. (arstechnica.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/5176306...
Texas drunk drivers will now have to pay child support if they kill a parent, guardian (www.cnn.com)
A new law in Texas requires convicted drunk drivers to pay child support if they kill a child’s parent or guardian, according to House Bill 393....
It's not just you — no one is posting on social media anymore (www.businessinsider.com)
Social media is on the decline. Instagram is all ads. No one's posting on BeReal. TikTok is for influencers. The new place for sharing: group chats.
Texas inmates soaking bedsheets in toilet water to cool off in unairconditioned prisons (www.sacurrent.com)
At least 41 people have died in the Lone Star State’s unairconditioned prisons due to heat-related or unknown conditions this summer, according to the Texas Tribune....
How did the mansplainer die?
He fell into a well, actually
What's a 'dirty word' that you hate hearing when it's used to describe something or someone?
I hate the word ‘Consumer’ or I mockingly call it ‘CONSOOMER’. Because that’s to imply everyone in the world is just cattle, but with wallets. We’re no longer customers. We’re consumers now. And a consumer’s purpose is to consume shit, whatever is put out there. Got money? Shut up and consume, it’s what...
‘I’m not wanted’: Florida universities hit by brain drain as academics flee (www.theguardian.com)
A new trend in tipping emerges (lemmy.world)
Ford recalls 870K F-150 pickups in US because parking brakes can turn on unexpectedly (apnews.com)
The recall covers certain pickups from the 2021 through 2023 model years with single exhaust systems. Ford’s F-Series pickups are the top-selling vehicles in the U.S.
Need some help connecting a thermostat
I have a PTAC unit in the room above my garage (Amana PTH123A35AC) that I’m trying to connect a thermostat (Honeywell 50018270-001) to. These are my current connections:...