Really enjoyed this on the channel much more than I thought I would. I may have to buy the disc during the next November sale and am certainly interested in reading some of the work by the participants. Any recommendations?
Lots of interesting supplements too. Especially the Dick Cavett episode. I have Husbands, but anyone can mention some more films that have good Cavett episodes? I really enjoy those
https://criterioncast.com/festivals/doc-nyc/doc-nyc-2019-preview-ten-films-to-see-at-this-years-festival
They must love being hated. Because every time I've suggested it to them on teams they look at me shocked and wide-eyed as if I've spoken blasphemy in an ancient dialect.
There's book clubs, board game clubs, dungeons and dragons, knitting clubs, running clubs, writing clubs, film clubs, litter picking and gardening clubs, and that's just the ones I've seen posted in my town this last week. If you actually tried looking and can't find anything, call your local council up, they likely have a list of the bigger ones at hand already. Mine has all the groups for sports and young mothers clubs.
I will be forever pissed off if your whining about no social life causes us to all to waste what little money we actually have to travel for hours each week in the cold and rain, just so you can moan in the office to us instead about how the weather is bad and how the high street is dying and how your diet's gone to shit because you're spending your money on high street sandwiches and kitkats because there's no time to make lunch anymore and how there's no communities in your local area any more.
You can go to hell if you're then going to bitch at me for being mad for being in office when I don't have kids so clearly don't know what an actual struggle is. Your kid is 32 and you're just pissed that WFH is never an option for her and her kids, stop blaming the single mothers who work on your team and trying to ruin it for them.
You don't have to travel in the rain, and if there's no communities anymore its because your selfish arse couldn't spare two seconds to call up your local council or ask your town Facebook group what's actually available. We can't maintain any communities if we're all exhausted from working 9-5 in office, and travelling from the crack of dawn till late in the evening just to do it all over again 12 hours later. There's literally no time to do anything but shower and sleep.
Seriously. Stop ruining it for the rest of us, and get an actual hobby. If my several depressed self can join a local book club, I'm quite sure you are more than capable of doing the same.
Ving takes a form and quickly fills it out to change his name. He sends off the form, but immediately starts to regret it. He is told that to revoke his form he must pay a small fee. Ling takes out her purse and is about to hand over the money when suddenly… A man, their father, bursts through the door and embraces Ving and tells them, “Don’t stop, be Lee, Ving”, “Hold on to that fee, ling.”
If they were going to just rattle speeches at us for 45min and take 4 broad (essentially FAQ), why not just record it and email it. Town halls are FOR QUESTIONS. What a bad faith effort to just prevent hearing anything about the confusion university members have on their policies.
This is how you perpetuate an echo chamber with no accountability. So much for shared governance and engaging with your community.
They need to do better.
My company had a virtual company-wide town hall meeting today and everybody was encouraged to send their “anonymous” questions via the chat portal. Attendees could see other questions being asked and the names were masked as Attendee 6874, Attendee 9522, etc.
Some of the questions being asked were good, others were softball, others were obviously planted by HR. The HR, CEO, and CFO said the questions would be saved and the commonly asked questions not answered would be addressed in a newsletter. The CEO and CFO took turns answering questions and giving their BS responses and referring to HR as needed for an “official ruling.”
About 45 minutes into the meeting, the CEO said, “Let’s take a question from ‘Nick Andrews’ (name changed).” The CEO got wide eyed and paused. He revealed what I knew all along. The questions were not anonymous. HR, the CEO, and the CFO had a list of everybody’s name and their questions, thus their sentiment towards the company.
Many people said they moved and they could not come into the office, would they be exempt from mandatory “return to office policies”? People were asking about when bonuses were going to be paid after record profits were announced and the executives paid themselves there quarterly and annual bonuses. People asked when they would get additional resources so they could stop working 10-12 hour days. All that information is now conveniently available for HR and the executives to review.
Please do not participate in company sponsored “anonymous” events. The company knows who you are. They will identify you. They will find you.
- The two weeks will remain two weeks. Agwunobi strongly implies that it will not change.
- Reasoning behind delayed move in is a significantly more contagious variant, with double the capacity compared to the two-week quarantine of previous semesters.
- Spring break is still too far out for UConn to have plans. They want to keep spring break due to student input.
- No flexibility in P/F because of financial aid, accreditation issues, and data showing grades have not been impacted by the pandemic/online learning.
- Add-drop will not be extended because of concerns over students starting classes too late. Students can still petition to drop after the 10th day through normal means.
- <90% online learning will be synchronous, but can't guarantee all synchronous.
- Very unlikely that semester would be extended, would not be feasible for the university to do this.
- Deadline for cancelling housing MAY be extended if professors decide to stay online. Future communication will clarify.
- Students that are not approved to live on campus can come this weekend 9am-8pm to pick up from their dorms.
- Starting off the semester, guests will not be allowed. Will likely change after first few weeks.
- If you tested positive over break, tell SHAW and do not re-test. You can continue to test positive for well after you've recovered.
- NEVERMIND, apparently this wasn't true: Dining halls will keep takeout containers.
- SHAW will have Moderna & Pfizer boosters for people arriving in first few weeks.
- There are no restrictions on leaving campus in February if you live on-campus.
- No refund of tuition, health, transportation, rec center fees. University cannot absorb costs related to these like they can for housing.
- Second part of COVID relief funds will come, go to Financial Aid website for more information.
