Post 2540733 by fitheach@mstdn.io
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(DIR) Post #2538659 by fitheach@mstdn.io
2019-01-02T10:15:34Z
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I've made a resolution not to have any resolutions.#NewYear
(DIR) Post #2538726 by Peregrinus@witches.live
2019-01-02T10:18:12Z
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@fitheachThe one unfailable resolution. I thought about this earlier today.
(DIR) Post #2538815 by fitheach@mstdn.io
2019-01-02T10:23:15Z
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@Peregrinus Is it, though? 😃 It is also a negative recursion, if that is possible.
(DIR) Post #2539051 by Peregrinus@witches.live
2019-01-02T10:37:49Z
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@fitheachWell can you fail a resolution you don't have? And if you do fail it, you were not resolute so then was it truly a resolution and if not then did you in fact succeed?
(DIR) Post #2539129 by inAktion@mastodon.social
2019-01-02T10:41:43Z
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@fitheach Bestest resolution! (If you wanna change something, do it now and don't wait for a certain date.)
(DIR) Post #2539768 by fitheach@mstdn.io
2019-01-02T11:06:08Z
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@Peregrinus I'm fully with you on that (I think). 😃
(DIR) Post #2540103 by fitheach@mstdn.io
2019-01-02T11:22:26Z
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@inAktion I can understand the logic of a new year starting, and using that prompt to make personal changes.For some people it adds to the motivation to change, as they have made a promise to themselves.Do you think many people hold off with their personal changes until the new year?However, I'm with you, if you recognise a personal deficiency the time to make the change is now.
(DIR) Post #2540291 by laraby@photog.social
2019-01-02T11:30:57Z
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@fitheach @inAktion I agree with both of you, I think the New Year resolution thing puts too much pressure on people vs making a new start low key.
(DIR) Post #2540671 by jk@mstdn.nipponalba.scot
2019-01-02T11:45:51Z
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@fitheachI made the same one many years ago.
(DIR) Post #2540724 by fitheach@mstdn.io
2019-01-02T11:47:22Z
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@laraby @inAktion We are not a resolutions household. Futhermore, I'm not really aware of any other people who take resolutions seriously. Most conversations I've had about about resolutions are when people fail to sustain them.
(DIR) Post #2540733 by fitheach@mstdn.io
2019-01-02T11:47:42Z
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@jk Made any others since?
(DIR) Post #2540769 by laraby@photog.social
2019-01-02T11:48:39Z
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@fitheach @inAktion I've never made one really. Nor has anyone I know tbh, except the usual diet fails
(DIR) Post #2540818 by jk@mstdn.nipponalba.scot
2019-01-02T11:50:29Z
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@fitheachNope and never will, like you alluded to in a different reply I don't like to wait until an arbitrary date to set goals.
(DIR) Post #2540855 by wizardofosmium@mastodon.social
2019-01-02T11:52:17Z
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@fitheach My thoughts are if something is a good idea then just start doing it. I had a similar discussion with an old boss about appraisals. If I'm not doing something right, don't wait until my appraisal to tell me. I used to hate appraising and being the appraisee, probably because I'm somewhere on the autism spectrum. My son has Asperger's and I see a lot of him in me.
(DIR) Post #2540917 by fitheach@mstdn.io
2019-01-02T11:54:23Z
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@laraby Yeah, that is my experience, too. The diet thing is different, I think.@inAktion
(DIR) Post #2543135 by fitheach@mstdn.io
2019-01-02T13:12:12Z
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@jk What about making a promise to yourself as extra motivation, at some arbitrary time of year?
(DIR) Post #2543292 by fitheach@mstdn.io
2019-01-02T13:17:31Z
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@wizardofosmium My early experience of appraisals at work were very positive. They were called performance evaluations, but came to the same thing. The secret is to have on-going feedback on performance and then a comprehensive review at the end of the year. Puts things into perspective.Perhaps some bad management happens around appraisals where everything is bottled-up untilthe end of the year and then it seems like haranguing.
(DIR) Post #2543684 by jk@mstdn.nipponalba.scot
2019-01-02T13:31:58Z
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@fitheach If I want or need to achieve something then I do so at the time I need to.. it seems to me that promises like that are delay tactics.. only my opinion of course I have good friends who swear by to do lists, kanban (?) chart and motivational speakers etc.. but none of that sits comfortably with me,
(DIR) Post #2543720 by wizardofosmium@mastodon.social
2019-01-02T13:33:45Z
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@fitheach I've always worked in environments where there needed to be evaluations but there was never time to do them, so they got rushed.A bit of back ground: I worked in Quality control, the part of the organisation that was seen by management as an unproductive cost, we were always (in their eyes) rejecting material and causing production delays. We were the area where the least amount of money was spent on upgrades to equipment - they are still using windows XP on some of the PCs.
(DIR) Post #2544629 by fitheach@mstdn.io
2019-01-02T14:10:04Z
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@wizardofosmium I have no experience or knowledge of Asperger's. How does it manifest itself in this context?
(DIR) Post #2544737 by inAktion@mastodon.social
2019-01-02T11:54:23Z
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@laraby @fitheach Same here. As I said before: why wait for a certain date to make changes? But maybe people need resolutions in order to be able to stick to them. Maybe it's easier if you make an 'official' resolution.Or maybe it has something to do with religion again and that's why I don't get it 😉
(DIR) Post #2544738 by fitheach@mstdn.io
2019-01-02T14:14:39Z
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@inAktion If you tell other people about your resolution I can see that might strengthen your resolve.Here in Scotland the new year stuff isn't religious. A secular festival is how I see it. Though the re-introductions of certain pagan rites are evident.@laraby
(DIR) Post #2544766 by inAktion@mastodon.social
2019-01-02T11:56:45Z
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@laraby @fitheach Sorry, I did not read your replies in the correct order, sorry for repeating what you have also said 😎
(DIR) Post #2544767 by laraby@photog.social
2019-01-02T12:00:21Z
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@inAktion @fitheach No apologies necessary. Just send cookies!
(DIR) Post #2544768 by fitheach@mstdn.io
2019-01-02T14:15:32Z
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@laraby If you are signed-in the server needs cookies. 😉 @inAktion
(DIR) Post #2544807 by wizardofosmium@mastodon.social
2019-01-02T14:17:04Z
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@fitheach It's an awkwardness around people, difficulty in making friends and socialising. I think there may be some heredity in it as my grandfather told me he was a bit like that.
(DIR) Post #2546461 by Fritillaria2@octodon.social
2019-01-02T15:20:27Z
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@fitheach That’s been my resolution for a few years, and now I completely forget about the ritual until reminded.
(DIR) Post #2546620 by inAktion@mastodon.social
2019-01-02T15:25:50Z
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@fitheach @laraby Maybe the server likes cakes too. Ha! That might even be its NY's resolution. Forget cookies! As of now I want cake!!! 😂
(DIR) Post #2548516 by fitheach@mstdn.io
2019-01-02T16:26:44Z
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@jk I think to do lists etc. are a different thing altogether. If I don't note down little items, then I tend to forget about them. I don't set priorities for my to-do items, it is just a big bucket. All my PIM stuff goes into my personal SOGo server, and then synced to my smartphone.
(DIR) Post #2548667 by fitheach@mstdn.io
2019-01-02T16:31:02Z
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@wizardofosmium Yeah, appraisals need to be an integral part of management or they won't be useful.Quality control not being appreciated is a failure by senior management. Presumably, senior management decided you should use QC, they should also make sure it is accepted.
(DIR) Post #2549306 by fitheach@mstdn.io
2019-01-02T16:51:13Z
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@wizardofosmium Your father too, or did it skip a generation? When I've heard of cases of AS, in the media, it always seems to be males.
(DIR) Post #2549362 by fitheach@mstdn.io
2019-01-02T16:53:04Z
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@Fritillaria2 I get a feeling making resolutions is falling out of favour. Too many people realising they are only setting themselves up for failure.
(DIR) Post #2549418 by fitheach@mstdn.io
2019-01-02T16:54:41Z
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@inAktion New web server architecture: instead of multiple cookies, one big cake. 🍰 @laraby
(DIR) Post #2553297 by wizardofosmium@mastodon.social
2019-01-02T19:06:25Z
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@fitheach I worked in the pharmaceutical industry where it is a requirement to have a quality department, you'd never pass an MHRA or FDA inspection without one.
(DIR) Post #2553359 by wizardofosmium@mastodon.social
2019-01-02T19:08:46Z
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@fitheach It was my mothers side, the Irish part of the family. Sadly too far back for me to get an Irish passport, they came over as a consequence of the potato famine.
(DIR) Post #2553439 by fitheach@mstdn.io
2019-01-02T19:12:57Z
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@wizardofosmium In which case getting internal support for the quality department shouldn't have been a problem (you would think).
(DIR) Post #2553611 by wizardofosmium@mastodon.social
2019-01-02T19:22:28Z
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@fitheach You would think. Here's how good we were.The MD thought that we needed to become more efficient. He got an independent company ( can't remember their name but they did this all over the world) to track us for a month to get a base measurement. On average we could test a finished product in 4 working days from notification that it could be sampled to "passed for sale" status. The company he got in said that most others could achieve that in about 2 weeks.
(DIR) Post #2553886 by fitheach@mstdn.io
2019-01-02T19:36:09Z
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@wizardofosmium A lot of people with some Irish roots probably arrived in Scotland due to the potato famine.To qualify for an Irish passport is it limited to parents or grandparents?
(DIR) Post #2553926 by wizardofosmium@mastodon.social
2019-01-02T19:37:55Z
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@fitheach I think it's grandparents.
(DIR) Post #2733555 by fitheach@mstdn.io
2019-01-07T11:51:31Z
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Looks like my "feeling" about New Year resolutions was correct. YouGov have polled people on their intentions to make resolutions. 62% of respondents said they wouldn't make resolutions. If "don't knows" are excluded then it is 74%.#NewYear #resolution