Hell in a handcart....

[perrykneeham]

Jun 1, 2024 16:21:05 GMT voice said:

And many more have struggled to right the ship, the Dutch and Belgiums in particular were more cuntish than most, hence the recovery from that was always gonna be harder.

The Dutch weren't especially cuntish really. SA was never really a Dutch possession in that sense. Your history is off here. The Belgies were dicks but their possessions were tint and quite short-lived. The Germans were similarly unsuccessful and savage. The history of actual ex-cloggy territory isn't too shabby really. Indonesia was a humongous territory and certainly had a hard transition, but it sorted itself out pretty quickly.

[voice]

Indonesia became a brutal dictatorship for decades and was was riven by civil wars and unrest, corruption and suppressed freedoms, it was certainly not the poster child for post colonial success

[perrykneeham]

It was a very popular nationalist movement. The Cold War was their problem, not Dutch colonialism.

[mids]

Singapore, Honkers. All shining cities on hills.

[flatandy]

Jun 1, 2024 16:43:18 GMT perrykneeham said:

Jun 1, 2024 16:21:05 GMT voice said:

And many more have struggled to right the ship, the Dutch and Belgiums in particular were more cuntish than most, hence the recovery from that was always gonna be harder.

The Dutch weren't especially cuntish really. SA was never really a Dutch possession in that sense. Your history is off here. The Belgies were dicks but their possessions were tint and quite short-lived. The Germans were similarly unsuccessful and savage. The history of actual ex-cloggy territory isn't too shabby really. Indonesia was a humongous territory and certainly had a hard transition, but it sorted itself out pretty quickly.

Mostly right, although 16th and 17th century Dutchy behaviour was pretty rotten, I think - not more rotten than other Euros, less than 17th century Britain or Spain or Portugal or France, say, but not great. Late 19th century (and early 20th) Belgies were utterly vile, even more so than most, largely after others had stopped with their worst behaviour, but it was (on imperial scales) fairly brief.

[perrykneeham]

So, completely correct then. Good.

[voice]

Only if you ignore the Boer and everything else that shows otherwise.

[perrykneeham]

The Boers weren't "the Dutch". You can keep insisting on your ill-informed narrative, if you like. It doesn't make it right.

[Repat Van]

Jun 1, 2024 21:04:25 GMT voice said:

Only if you ignore the Boer and everything else that shows otherwise.

And of course their former Caribbean colonies - they were cunts there too.

[perrykneeham]

Were they? In what way were they worse?

[perrykneeham]

Oh yeah. Most of the Dutch Carribean possessions are still Dutch and, tragically, essentially in the EU. The poor bastards.

[perrykneeham]

May 31, 2024 13:40:41 GMT mids said:

Quite brutal from the anti-fascist Islamoleftist.


nypost.com/2024/05/31/world-news/knifeman-stabs-multiple-people-in-frenzied-attack-at-german-anti-islam-rally/

The cop died.

"The alleged attacker, believed to be a 25-year-old Afghan who arrived in Germany in 2014, was shot and injured at the scene.

His alleged motive remains unclear, according to police."

[mids]

That's bad. It also looked from the video that the cop got it wrong and bundled someone who was intervening to the ground and the stabber came up behind him and started stabbing the back of his neck. Wonder how many votes this will get the AfD?

[perrykneeham]

What an absolute dong.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cv22wxjvg7ro.amp

[mids]

Excuse me?

"Callum Cowx"

[perrykneeham]

"US banking giant Wells Fargo has sacked a number of employees following claims that staff were faking keyboard activity to fool the company into thinking they were working when they were not.

It is not yet clear how the issue was discovered or whether it was specifically related to people working from home.

The US bank said staff had been fired or resigned "after review of allegations involving simulation of keyboard activity creating impression of active work".

New rules recently came into effect in the US which mean that brokers working from home must be inspected every three years.

A spokeswoman for the firm said: "Wells Fargo holds employees to the highest standards and does not tolerate unethical behaviour."

In 2022, Wells Fargo said it had adopted a hybrid flexible working model with staff permitted to work from home some of the time.

Some large companies have been using increasingly sophisticated tools to monitor employees since remote work expanded during the Covid pandemic.

Such services can track keystrokes and eye movements, take screenshots and log which websites are visited.

But technology has also evolved to evade the surveillance, including so-called "mouse jigglers" which are aimed at making computers appear to be in active use which are widely available.

According to Amazon, where they can be found for less than $10, thousands have been sold in the last month.

Bloomberg, which first reported the move based on a filing Wells Fargo made to the US Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, said that more than a dozen people had been affected.

The BBC has confirmed six instances in which staff had been discharged after review, and one case in which a person resigned voluntarily after being confronted with the claims.

Many of them had worked for Wells Fargo for less than five years.

Many firms, especially in the financial industry, are pushing staff to return to the office.

Remote work has remained popular since the pandemic but numbers have been drifting lower.

In the US, just under 27% of paid days last month were work-from-home days, compared with more than 60% at the height of the pandemic in 2020, according to research by professors at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) Business School, Stanford and University of Chicago.

As of this spring, about 13% of full-time employees in the US were fully remote, and another 26% enjoyed a hybrid arrangement, according to the researchers."

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjll01220yeo

Dunno. To my mind, they're ducking the only metric that really matters: productivity.

[flatandy]

Agree. If they get the stuff done that needs to get done, what does it matter?

[mids]

They could do more then, instead of sitting in their pants, wanking over Home and Away.

[perrykneeham]

That's true, but management needs to understand what productive looks like and benchmark performance against that. There's no gain in having people slacking off in the office instead of slacking off at home. It's pretty wanky for corporates types to be suggesting that their staff need supervision and, worse still, to suggest that their supervision is effective.

You only get so much work out of people. They need to recognise that, and work with it.

[flatandy]

Jun 14, 2024 13:42:42 GMT mids said:

They could do more then, instead of sitting in their pants, wanking over Home and Away.

Why shouldn’t they be wanking over Home and Away? This is just an incentive to be slow and inefficient and a bit rubbish.