Delicious LiveJournal Links for 9-29-2010

[andrewducker]

• 15TH century peasant romance comics
  (tags: comics history funny romance relationships)
• New Labour leader's voting record. Not good on ID cards, immigration or anti-terrorism. Good on gay rights though.
  (tags: rights labour politics uk)
• The 11 Most Surprising Banned Books
  (tags: censorship education literature)
• Common antidepressants can affect our moral decision-making
  (tags: drugs psychology depression serotonin)
• Primark apologises to breastfeeding mother in Swansea
  (tags: breastfeeding primark uk)
• If low serotonin levels aren't responsible for depression, what is?
  (tags: serotonin neurogenesis brains psychology depression)
• Distractible People Are More Creative
  (tags: creativity psychology brain neuroscience attention distraction creative)
• Norfolk workers might not be paid for cigarette breaks
  (tags: smoking work)
• How babies pay attenion differently to adults
  (tags: psychology attention neuroscience intelligence children baby)
• How death spirals work in ants. Amazing stuff.
  (tags: ants weird)

Comments

[fyrie.livejournal.com]

It did, because it was considered unfair that they were having an additional break because of something they have as a habit.

Then, it turned into a dictatorship and new rules have been popping up all over the place about how long breaks must be, where you can go when you take them etc. It's all gone a little bit insane.

[andrewducker]

That's why I like flexitime. Outside of 10:00-11:45 and 2:30-3:30 I can step outside at any point I like, so long as I'm inside for 35 hours a week.

[fyrie.livejournal.com]

Funny thing is that we're meant to be on flexi-time too. Admittedly, if you nominate to be on an early start, you're expected to be in by 8.30, but lately, we've been having daily e-mails berating the people who got in 5 minutes late because of traffic.

[andrewducker]

Yeah, when things get too autocratic it's really not any fun. Eventually you start losing all of the good people, and hopefully management realise they're going too far.

[fyrie.livejournal.com]

Personally, I'm not fussed, because I'm always in far too early and leave late, but I know a lot of people aren't entirely thrilled about it all. We'll see what happens the next time we have a team meeting. I suspect opinions will be voiced and made abundently clear.