Re: In other news

BeH <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]: 

> On 24.02.2024 21.56, Merlyne wrote:
>> BeH <[email protected]> wrote in
>> news:[email protected]: 
>> 
>>> On 11.02.2024 15.49, Merlyne wrote:
>>>> BeH <[email protected]> wrote in
>>>> news:[email protected]: 
>>>>
>>>>> On 14.01.2024 16.02, Merlyne wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Please report any progress in this matter.
>>>>>>>>>>>> Progress?
>>>>>>>>>>> The relative change in number of incidents where people
>>>>>>>>>>> utilise your open door since starting rants by mentioning
>>>>>>>>>>> it. 
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> This will be hard to assess in a hybrid work model.
>>>>>>>>> So include whatever corresponds to walking through an open
>>>>>>>>> door in your digital world. Faceapp, Whatstime or whatever...
>>>>>>>>> We must have data. 
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I have tons of data.
>>>>>>> But do you have open door policy related data is the question?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Not yet.
>>>>> How about now?
>>>>>
>>>> Still none.
>>> Any new data?
>>>
>> Nope.
> You didn't mention your open door policy at the meeting at all, did
> you? 
> 

I may have. I usually talk and talk.
I probably said it. At least once.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Fetch is never going to happen, Gretchen!
>>> [point]
>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Some dogs like it, I think.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Maybe they want us to think that.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> No, I'm sure they genuinely enjoy the fetching part.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> It's the letting go after having fetched they are
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> somewhat ambivalent about. 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> My dog fetches the ball/stick/whatever and then runs
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> away. 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> IOW it can't keep cleaning up your mess. It has important
>>>>>>>>>>>>> stuff to do. 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> OR the dog does not understand the rules of engagement.
>>>>>>>>>>> Well you have to explain it properly first. You can't just
>>>>>>>>>>> assume the dog knows your intentions... They are a bit like
>>>>>>>>>>> co-workers that way. 
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I don't speak dog.
>>>>>>>>> Just speak slow and loudly in English. I'm sure that will
>>>>>>>>> work. 
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> It doesn't work well with foreigners.
>>>>>>> Doesn't the management have a course for that?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> For yelling at foreigners?
>>>>> No, for getting dogs to work well with foreigners.
>>>>>
>>>> I will only work if the dog speaks the same language as the
>>>> foreigners or the foreigners used hand signals that the dog
>>>> understands. 
>>> Alternatively the foreigners can learn the few words the dogs
>>> understand. 
>>>
>> It's that my first point?
> The reverse. This it the foreigner speaking (some words in) the same
> language as the dog.
> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> I never eat breakfast cereal. You can keep it.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> You mean the leprechaun can keep it. I don't eat cereal with
>>>>>>>>>>> added sugar bits.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> They're magically delicious!
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Diabetes!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Yeah, yeah. None for you!
>>>>>>> That was never on the table. I meant for all the sugar filled
>>>>>>> cereal eating kids...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As long as their pancreases are functioning properly, it
>>>>>> shouldn't be a problem. 
>>>>>> You were advocating the consumption of carbs for breakfast in
>>>>>> another post.
>>>>> Specifically a sensible mix of simple and complex carbon.
>>>>> "Cereal" with 30% sugar content is a candy.
>>>>>
>>>> That is probably most cereals.
>>>> Without the sugar, kids won't eat it.
>>>
>>> Sure they will if they are hungry enough.
>> 
>> Have you met modern day kids?
> Sure. The kids today are okay. It's whoever buys their breakfast
> cereal that's screwed up.
> 

100% The parents make the kids mental.