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Last day of my trip today and unsurprisingly the first night I slept through until 6:30. Not sure if it’s me getting used to the awful bed or just tired from another full day of walking.
Looking forward to getting home later though and seeing Mrs AFB.
Then a rather important European final to watch!
 
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Apple fanboy said:
Last day of my trip today and unsurprisingly the first night I slept through until 6:30. Not sure if it’s me getting used to the awful bed or just tired from another full day of walking.
Looking forward to getting home later though and seeing Mrs AFB.
Then a rather important European final to watch!
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Then, make sure that you fully enjoy your last day.

Decent Brother headed off to Amsterdam earlier this morning for a few days.
 
KaliYoni said:
Personally, I feel a lot of media and tech guru predictions of how AI will affect work and workers is grounded in emotion. Freelance journalists in particular have a lot more at risk, in my view, than a lot of other types of workers. But every few years another "sea change" in work is predicted, run through the media and management consulting hype machine, and ultimately forgotten. Has the paperless office occurred? How many companies are structured using matrix management these days? Offshoring is in decline, in both manufacturing and services. The Gig Economy relies on massive amounts of venture capital and exploitation of workers. Even Apple's products are assembled with a significant amount of human labor.

In any case, AI has been used in many functions, in many industries, since long before the current wave of generative AI products launched. These older AI's are not accessible to journalists or the general public, though, and are used for support and back office tasks that don't make for exciting headlines. So while I do think AI has had and will have effects on work and workers, I don't believe the effects are going to result in broad, sweeping change during the next few years.
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I don’t think it will happen exactly as predicted (humans are awful at predicting but amazing at adapting). However, even the things you mentioned clearly changed the landscape. For example, while it’s true that we don’t have a paperless office, emails and now Slack-type apps vastly changed the way things are communicated and - more importantly - memorialized. It changed how we prioritize things and most importantly now mid-managers have to spend a lot of time on secretarial/administrative types of tasks, which vastly reduce their values and clearly impacts their focus.
 
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Whether or not I can fit in a nice 25-mile bike ride today, considering all of the crazy Canadian forest fire smoke now in my city area.
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This is awful to read about. I recall visiting family in BC in fall 2017 when there were also many fires. The plane was descending through what I thought were clouds - weird colour I thought - then I exited the airport and could smell the burnt wood. It was really bad and made my asthma act up. I do hope things will improve.
 
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I cross check the various news apps to see the “spin” on news. Fox, CNN, Apple News, etc.

Saw this today. .. I could not make this up.

Wtf, I feel like I’m in a supermarket waiting in line, and saw a “National Enquirer “ on the shelf

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www.foxnews.com

Scantily clad 'witches' caught munching on deer carcass in bizarre security cam footage

A nurse in Canada reportedly captured footage of two scantily clad women crouching over a dead deer in what she described as "a carcass-eating ritual."
www.foxnews.com www.foxnews.com
 
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rm5 said:
OMG, you would not believe how many times people contact me either super late at night, or, when I TELL THEM IN ADVANCE that I won't be available and they STILL try. I'm not one to get upset or annoyed by small things like that, but still...

I also think it's a generational thing. It seems like people of my generation REALLY love to text me at 1 AM, but older people have some sort of limit as to how late they'll get ahold of me—usually it's like 10 PM. The same thing goes for like vacations and such, but I gotta say, I'm not really the type of person that will "sign off" for two weeks. I understand the many benefits of doing that, but it just never works our for me.

Again, I try not to be really bothered by it because it's just something that happens.
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DND. Been around forever. Fixes these things easily. I would not try to break this down by age group. You’ll find ignorant people everywhere just like people who can adjust their phones properly. If someone tends to have really bad social or texting skills, having a word with said person may work wonders too.
 
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phillytim said:
Whether or not I can fit in a nice 25-mile bike ride today, considering all of the crazy Canadian forest fire smoke now in my city area.
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The fires are just terrible. We’ve had bad air and breathing issues for days. Fingers crossed that it improves soon.
 
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ericwn said:
DND. Been around forever. Fixes these things easily. I would not try to break this down by age group. You’ll find ignorant people everywhere just like people who can adjust their phones properly. If someone tends to have really bad social or texting skills, having a word with said person may work wonders too.
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I’ve just been away for three days with a couple of friends. One had two work calls. One had around 15. I had zero.
People message me and I answer if it can’t wait or I’m trying to be helpful. Otherwise I’m on holiday.
 
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On the phone to Amazon. It would be easier to speak to the President!

Request a callback, then enter a code, then try and get through the autobot!

My advice (and the only thing that worked) was to keep saying no to every question. Eventually I got through to someone, who naturally put me on hold!
 
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Apple fanboy said:
On the phone to Amazon. It would be easier to speak to the President!

Request a callback, then enter a code, then try and get through the autobot!

My advice (and the only thing that worked) was to keep saying no to every question. Eventually I got through to someone, who naturally put me on hold!
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Ask to speak to the sales department; then, you will be connected at the speed of light - at warp speed - and, better still, will encounter a real, live, human voice on the receiver.
 
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Ask to speak to the sales department; then, you will be connected at the speed of light - at warp speed - and, better still, will encounter a real, live, human voice on the receiver.
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Got it sorted in the end. Return label is in my inbox. Stupid thing will be going back on Monday.
Now I have to either choose to order another Bosch and assume I just got a dud, or choose a different brand.
 
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Expos of 1969 said:
In late 2021 Portugal passed a law that employers cannot text, email or phone employees outside of their regular work hours. I believe Belgium may have done something similar.
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I wish the UK had that. I’m in a WhatsApp group with my boss and he regularly messages us in the evenings, much of which I ignore.

I gave my number to a guy in America that we are working with as a gesture of good will to help him out. On Tuesday night he rang me at 1.25am (UK time) which woke me up. I didn’t answer it obviously. He texted then asking me a load of technical questions and said ‘I appreciate it’s the middle of the night, but I need answers’. My boss had a frank call with him the next day and I’ve now blocked him on my personal phone.
 
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Expos of 1969 said:
In late 2021 Portugal passed a law that employers cannot text, email or phone employees outside of their regular work hours. I believe Belgium may have done something similar.
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I think that France may have done so, as well.
The-Real-Deal82 said:
I wish the UK had that. I’m in a WhatsApp group with my boss and he regularly messages us in the evenings, much of which I ignore.
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Rightly so.
The-Real-Deal82 said:
I gave my number to a guy in America that we are working with as a gesture of good will to help him out. On Tuesday night he rang me at 1.25am (UK time) which woke me up. I didn’t answer it obviously. He texted then asking me a load of technical questions and said ‘I appreciate it’s the middle of the night, but I need answers’.
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The only possible answer to that is a text that reads more or less as follows: "It is the middle of the night and I need my sleep. Goodnight."
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My boss had a frank call with him the next day and I’ve now blocked him on my personal phone.
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And again, rightly so.
 
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