Re: In other news

On 12.03.2024 14.30, Merlyne wrote:
> 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.

Maybe they didn't think you meant it. Maybe your tone of voice wasn't
sufficient open-doorish. It can happen when one says a lot of other
stuff as well.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 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.

And then drags them to a doctor who blindly prescribes some stuff to
counteract the hyper activity...


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BeH

"No nation can be free if it opresses other nations"   - F. Engels