Interesting Links for 11-02-2022

[andrewducker]

France follows Austrian and bans Google Analytics

(tags:europe rights privacy google usa dataprotection )

The Korean court recorders were hardcore

(tags:history Korea )

Jurassic World Dominion looks amazing!

(tags:JurassicPark movies dinosaurs trailer video )

"Gay propaganda" law keeps Sims 4 wedding expansion out of Russia

(tags:LGBT games sims bigotry Russia )

Scottish Adult Disability Payment legislation unanimously approved

(tags:Scotland welfare disability GoodNews )

Leaked EHRC Guidance Reveals Plans to Exclude Most Trans People From Bathrooms

(tags:LGBT transgender OhForFucksSake bigotry UK )

The leaked EHRC guidance would be ripped apart by the courts unless the law was changed

(tags:law UK LGBT transgender )

How do you diagnose a dinosaur with a respiratory disease?

(tags:disease dinosaurs viaPatrickHadfield )

£150 cost of living payments for Scottish households

(tags:Scotland )

Limit setting for employees

(tags:work advice )

France to build six new nuclear reactors as part of carbon-neutral push

(tags:france nuclearpower )

Tiger! Cubs! In! Scottish! Snow!

(tags:tiger kittens snow )

Amazon's 'Lord of the Rings' Series Rises: Inside 'The Rings of Power'

(tags:amazon lotr tv )

Comments

[nancylebov]

"Limit setting for employees" is at least as much about limit setting for employers. If the first step to find a reasonable employer, how do you do that?

[andrewducker]

Ask around, check Glassdoor, Google them, ask during the interview.

[nancylebov]

I grant that once you've got a reasonable employer, you still need to make use of the slack they offer.

You've got a point that there are resources for vetting employers to some extent. I don't know why so many people have awful jobs. Do they not know about the ways to check? Are they desperate enough to take the first offer they get? Are there problems like a bad division in an otherwise decent company?

[andrewducker]

I have, on three occasions, worked for rubbish employers, where multiple staff complained daily about the way the company was run, and how unhappy they were.

I left each one after a while, and was much happier for it. And then I would bump into one of those ex-colleagues a year or two later, and it would turn out that they were still working there, still complaining, still miserable, and still doing nothing about it.

A lot of people, I think, assume that everywhere is as bad as their current employer, and that switching employer won't gain them anything.

[nancylebov]

There are also people who feel or are so drained from their current bad job that they don't have the energy for job hunting.

[andrewducker]

Also true.

[calimac]

"Are there problems like a bad division in an otherwise decent company?"

My only evidence is 'agony aunt' columns, but I often see letters from people who used to have a good boss but their new boss is terrible.

[andrewducker]

I've had that (it was the reason I left one of the three jobs I didn't like).

I've also had the other way, where I hung on because I knew I'd get a decent manager eventually.

[jducoeur]

Yeah -- this is downright common in larger corporations. My wife has been through this sort of roller-coaster ride, going from great boss to awful boss to great boss; in practice, her quality of life is greatly impacted by it.

[hilarita]

You can also get substantial variation by division or even by line manager.

[snippy]

Luck? Eventually getting to know trustworthy people in the same business who will tell you the truth is what worked for me. I'm one month in at a job I think will be the first good employer I've ever worked at - and I started working full time in 1980. Every time I changed jobs it was hoping the next one would be better; I hope I've found one 6 jobs later (I stayed at one for almost 30 years even though it was bad because it was union and had excellent health insurance at no cost to me and I was having kids and needed that).

[cmcmck]

On the EHRC, see my latest!

[calimac]

You knew I was going to write a thousand-word commentary on the last item, right?