6 posts tagged “qotd”
Do you believe that employee loyalty still exists in today's work environment? How loyal are you as an employee to your company or boss?
Submitted by Jessmiloo.
Sure it exists -- with limits, especially those set by geography. I work for a department in a university, which I grant is one of the more conservative and old-fashioned institutions out there (it's sort of like if the Vatican were run by a bunch of nuevo-anarcho-hippie-feminists), but still. Worked there for nearly nine years, in two different jobs (so far), and I really feel like I am part of a real, live, vibrant community. YMMV, because even folks elsewhere in my division have a VERY different experience of the place, and not all quite so positive.
All that said, my GF is thinking about applying to PhD programs around the country starting as soon as next fall, and if she goes, I will follow.
Add to that the fact that while I love my job and get all sorts of good mojo working there, it's still a day job, and my actual life's work is something else (writing), to which I have more loyalty.
Still, the organization is pretty high on my list, mostly because of what they've given me: a certain amount of freedom and flexibility, respect, interesting challenges, colleagues who are actually collegial and supportive, a livable wage, and work that I value (as opposed to being a flack for a tobacco company or, say, Halliburton, which would quickly cause me to poke out my own eyes with a sharp stick).
Which small businesses are hurt most by rising gas prices? What can they do to save money?
Sponsored by HP.
I would say cab companies (which are small in this part of the world), and I would recommend them re-imagining their business model and going the pedicab route.
As a bonus, they'll get to eat enormous quantities of food and develop very shapely calves, especially if they operate their business here in Lawrence, where there are plenty of hills.
I also vote for electric scooters for pizza delivery drivers.
You crash your friend's car because you're driving too fast in bad weather. Everyone's okay, but the car has to go into the shop. Who pays the deductible?
Here's my question, oddly related:
A naive 19-year-old clips your car while you're making a left turn. (She tried to pass you on the right and there wasn't quite enough room. It's her first accident ever.) The car is still completely drivable; the damage is a gouge/scrape to the passenger-side rear rocker panel and a broken side brake light on that side (the red lens is gone, and the housing around the light bulb is cracked). This is not the "real" brake light on the rear of the car.
If you had been at fault and had to pay the deductible for this mishap, you would let the damn thing stay broken (not worth $250 out of pocket to fix it). The car is a 1997 Ford sedan, in reasonably good shape, but but some scuffs elsewhere on the car.
The other driver is clearly at fault. Do you go ahead with the claim and make them pay for the repair? Why or why not?
I'm sorta 50/50 at this point, and looking for opinions (an unusual situation for me to be in, to be sure--normally I haven no shortage of opinions).
You crash your friend's car because you're driving too fast in bad weather. Everyone's okay, but the car has to go into the shop. Who pays the deductible?
Here's my question, oddly related:
A naive 19-year-old clips your car while you're making a left turn. (She tried to pass you on the right and there wasn't quite enough room. It's her first accident ever.) The car is still completely drivable; the damage is a gouge/scrape to the passenger-side rear rocker panel and a broken side brake light on that side (the red lens is gone, and the housing around the light bulb is cracked). This is not the "real" brake light on the rear of the car.
If you had been at fault and had to pay the deductible for this mishap, you would let the damn thing stay broken (not worth $250 out of pocket to fix it). The car is a 1997 Ford sedan, in reasonably good shape, but but some scuffs elsewhere on the car.
The other driver is clearly at fault. Do you go ahead with the claim and make them pay for the repair? Why or why not?
I'm sorta 50/50 at this point, and looking for opinions (an unusual situation for me to be in, to be sure--normally I haven no shortage of opinions).
By the way, my answer to the QOTD is a vehement YOU, the driver, pay the deductible, because YOU crashed the car by being reckless.
What's the current hottest restaurant in your city? Have you tried it out yet?
Is this question for real? It's like they aren't even trying with this question of the day thing. How about asking for the most bizarre behavior you've witnessed in a restaurant, or participated in? Strangest food? (Redzilla would win that one, she has some stories...) Or how about asking about the restaurants that you love that will never ever in a million years be "hot" because they actually have some personality and good food, maybe a touch of déclassé hominess?
Sigh.
What one year of your life would you like to re-live, if you were given the chance?
Submitted by Ross.
This puts me in the mind of a line from a song by the New Mongrels ("Not Dead Yet," on the excellent album of the same name):
Well my packs they came in twenty-fives and sixes
and my days in twenty-four
All those hours I spent drunk and smoking are like pictures
I can't get back from the drug store
Given that information, you could pretty much choose a year between ages 19 and 26 or so that I could try a re-do on.
That's interpreting the question as a "what year would you live over and try to fix" kind of a deal. If you asked me what year was really fun that I would like to relive as-is...? I don't know. I could pick and choose a month or a week here and there, but a whole year?
I'd have to go back maybe to 1976 or so, when I got my first bike and had a really cool red and white windbreaker and spent most of my time outside of school either reading or climbing trees or both simultaneously (I used to be a lot more coordinated). There were also patches of wild strawberries and a few wild blackberry canes growing in the fields near my house (now all subdivisions), and my sisters and I would play "run-down" with the other kids in the neighborhood.
Remember run-down? That's what you play when you only have two baseball gloves, one ball, and two bases to play with. Two kids with the gloves try to tag out the other kids, who run like mad between the two bases.
After dark, we were sometimes allowed to stay out later and play flashlight tag or "ghosts in the graveyard." I don't exactly remember the rules for "ghosts in the graveyard," but I do remember often nearly peeing myself in fright, waiting in the dark to jump out of some hiding place and run like mad for the home base.
Also I think cubicles had not been invented yet, and even if they had, they didn't put five-year-olds in them (but they did have study carrels).
That was a pretty good year.
