Notices by 🦃 Kat Callahan :chiba: 🦃 (jezebelkat@famichiki.jp)

@Dana

the Rona vax always knocks me on my ass for 48 hours.

Boo, the US federal government has stopped covering the cost of COVID shots for uninsured folks. Of course.

Tried to get my latest shot while I was here and $190. Absolutely not. I'll have to see if I can get the latest one in Japan.

"it's time to start planning for your Halloween party!"

No. Get out.

@icedquinn @kkarhan @lowqualityfacts

I was a social studies teacher before my most recent position. I've read the Prince. Probably multiple times.

A main problem my coworkers and I faced in the office was interruptions because people would try to get their tasks moved to the top of the list by "coincidentally" stopping by to "say hi."

I see what you're doing, Debra. No, I am not going to provision that account faster because you stopped by to chitchat.

That stopped when we went remote.

@kkarhan @icedquinn @lowqualityfacts

And by conferences, I don't mean I was an attendee--I was either a host or I was responsible for physical set up of equipment, which obviously one cannot do remotely.

But if 99% of my job can be done inside a browser tab, why am I commuting into downtown? Not all jobs can be remote, but a significant amount of them can be when your day is spent staring at a screen anyway.

@kkarhan @icedquinn @lowqualityfacts

For some of us, our productivity actually increased. Because our commute was terrible. Tokyo rush hour is not for the faint of heart.

Being able roll out of bed onto my laptop made it easier to get things done, versus needing an hour or two of recovery after 90 minutes sardined into a rush hour train car.

There is no reason for jobs of my type to ever be in person except on very special occasions. I think I went in once every 3 months for conferences.

@kkarhan @icedquinn @lowqualityfacts

I used to commute into downtown to sit in an office at a computer to do stuff in web browsers which were all cloud based.

Then the pandemic happened.

And we all had to do the same thing at our computers in web browsers... at home... which was fine... because... all cloud based.

"Oh, no productivity drop," and the office has still only gone to two days in office for permanent full-time workers. The rest of us, all stayed remote.

@thomasfuchs

I just use nope@nope.com anywhere an actual email address isn't needed. You'd be surprised how many services don't require verification.

@Dana

She looks like the cat I had as a kid, Purrcilla (pun very much intended).

@Dana [[[desire to give scritches intensifies]]]

@jamesrg @glen_malley @Dana

I still use a physical Pasmo.

I also have a physical Oyster card for London that never gets used for obvious reasons.

@Dana oh, no, this is definitely the color, or at least close to it, it's just I was thinking of it being in a subway tile rather than a trapazoid, but that is increasingly looking like it isn't available without costly importing.

The turqouise family of colors is very promiment in New Mexico, and I have a lot of stuff already close to it:

What do we think of this tile for the kitchen and bathroom backsplashes? I've asked for a sample. If it's true to tone on my monitor (which is a very, very good monitor), then it ought to be in the right color range.

@Dana oooh cute.

Definitely cuter than mine.

@avdi

My experience as a union organiser: there are only two classes, the labor class and the capitalist class. The blue-collar/white-collar distinction is a created one to sow division between workers.

If you trade labor for wages, you are working class. Whether that is coding or factory line assembly. And management doesn't view you as differently as they want you to view yourself.