Re: In other news

BeH <[email protected]> wrote in
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> 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.
> 

Maybe.
That means no one will be by to bother me.

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

That too.

Big pharma likes people to get used to popping pills every day starting 
a young age.