Latest Moan From You and Me 2024

Software can certainly control what you can do on an employers PC, and why shouldn't the company know what is happening on their equipment in their time? What software can't do, at least can't do yet, is control how much work somebody does. If by 'control how often you work on your PC' you mean access is only available during certain hours, that is also the employer prerogative.

 

Well by the time they've been through my online data their spelling and general knowledge will have improved and they will a good knowledge of a wide variety of plant and gardening web sites, they may even now be members of this very forum; or more likely have a pain in all the diodes down their left side.

 

You have a wrong imagination of PC work.
Office jobs are not about filling out spreadsheets which no-one needs and reads. There are always statistics and targets that need to be met.
If Tata or Ford had no office jobs, the steel/car workers’ work would be for nothing. Those office jobs can be done from home and they sell the steel and cars.
I hope I made it more visual.

 

My attitude is very simple they provide the computer they can install what they like on it, if I provide the PC, ie when working from home, they can keep their greasy little paws off it; as my IT works better than theirs.
I'm even peeved that they expect me to use my mobile phone for verification codes when using their PCs.

 

Last week i watched a girl walking on the pavement then with out looking stepped out in to the road, luckly i was watching and was ready!!
Today same spot 3 girls walking on the pavement and 1 of the girls pushed the other 2 out into the road just as a car pasted luckly again the girls didn't get hit by the car in front of me, looking at my dashcam footage it looks like the girl that steped out in front of me last week, don't they fear for they own safety today, i know the laws have changed but doing this sort of thing is dangeous

 

One of the saddest newspaper reports I have ever read was about a couple of lads larking about on a tube platform. One pushed the other towards the tracks just as a train was arriving. The lad lost his balance, grabbed the tie of his friend and the arm of a stranger standing there by chance to stabilise himself, but he fell anyway, dragging his friend and the stranger with him. All 3 died at the scene. Larking about can be deadly.

 

I think I have a reasonable understanding of PC work. For most of my working life I worked on IT support covering many different areas including PC support. Software can determine how long a keyboard has been in active use, for example. It cannot determine what other work an individual may have been doing when the keyboard is inactive. The proportion of time spent on or off the keyboard is something managers should be able to judge for a particular job. Where have I said, or suggested, that office jobs are of no importance?

 

UK may approve bee-killing pesticide despite election promise to ban it

 

I suppose we could stop growing sugar and go back to importing it from countries that use the chemicals.
If anyone has an answer to the problem I'm sure we would be doing it, unless it means a certain crop then becomes unprofitable.

I suppose we could stop growing everything and just build houses, but that wouldn't be right either.

Were moving further and further down a rabbit hole.

 

One teaspoon can kill one point two five BILLION honey bees.

And what else, while it’s at it?

 

In the UK the JI centre is looking to breed virus yellows resistant varieties of sugar beet. Also looking at treatments to target the viruses in the plant.
Tackling Virus Yellows Disease in Sugar Beet | John Innes Centre

 

Some of your replies indicated that WFH employees don’t do much and have a jolly life.
It’s not the keyboard that they count nowadays.