The single greatest risk to our MSP business is the 'human factor'. people making mistakes, or not taking their tasks seriously. I'll give you an example: we set up Shadowprotect backups of servers/workstations, imagemanager replicates the backups to us. We have email notifications coming to us, and imagemanager verifies the chain on our end. We also have monthly backup audits where a technician will check the backup is working and perform a file level restore.
Case one : the backup had been failing for a week. The folder in our offsite repository was not being managed by imagemanager ("slip of the fingers" when the technician was initially setting them up). At some point in recent history they moved from plain old POP boxes to Office 365, so their SMTP settings in Shadowprotect were wrong. Essentially : no email notifications, no imagemanager inactivity alerts.
Case two : Technician edited the shadowprotect backup job. "slip of the fingers" unticked a data volume. Subsequent monthly backup checks (by a rather apathetic technician) involved them going "yep, backup history all shows succesful, I can perform a restore from the folder containing their backups".
Fortunately both of these were both picked up before the backups were NEEDED. But frankly it scares the shit out of me that one day we'll get "that phone call", and find that errors/negligence means their backups are not available.
We're a ConnectWise house, and we've got an internal monitor ensuring if shadowprotect services are present on a machine then shadowcontrol is installed. But this only resolves part of the problem.
So my question is : how are you ensuring your backups are backing up the correct volumes, and they work?
Why is it that almost every Transformer project needs Humans when we deal with live action? Beast Wars, Tf Comics, Netflix WFC, all of these are human free and we can understand and relate just fine. I would love to see a Transformers: Stormbringer movie only set on past/ present Cybertron just for example. Why can’t they just write the characters like they were human and craft a great story? Damn...
Dang that's a long title. And its a hefty one.
PTSD really only became an official term in the 1980's.
I'm looking mostly at different military generals and their views of their "seasoned" soldiers through history. Anyone from Patton to Julius C-.
When I hear (in 2021), that troops have PTSD and emotional/mental issues following combat, I think "well duh, of course...". But I'm wondering if that sentiment is as prevalent today as it was as, lets say, back in the Punic Wars.
This also wraps in a HUGE question in the history of psychology which is -- "How sympathetic towards emotional/mental disorders has society been since their emergence?"
We can be sympathetic all we want, but the effects of war on the mind play a massive part in how a unit behaves. So how were these effects dealt with and viewed through military history?
If this question seems enormously open ended (there's probably a whole textbook on this question), then I'd love to hear how maybe specific nations or cultures have viewed this issue. Maybe not the entirety of society as a whole.
For anyone answering, I thank you SO much. This has been one of my BIGGEST questions since starting to learn about military history.
If you need me to be more specific, I will gladly try to narrow it down. It's difficult for me to articulate this concept because it is so large, but I would like some guidance on where to start with this subject.
Just realized how much Humans are shown to directly and indirectly affecting Titan Fights in Monsterverse from first movie itself
1.) Godzilla helped by distraction from Ford Boredy blowing up MUTO nest
2.) Godzilla helped by Humans against MUTO Prime.
3.) Kong helped by Humans by distracting Skull Crawler and blowing it's eye.
4.) Godzilla helped by Humans again by Distractiing Ghidorah
5.) Kong helped against Warbat
6.) ALCOHOL
I think this obsession with Humans becoming a deciding factor between Titan Fights should stop.
Human intervening only for it to fail like Nuclear Weapon plan in Godzilla, Colonel Packard's plan in KSI and Oxygen Destroyer fiasco is more than enough for human intervention.
I mean it would've been way better to see Godzilla and Kong working together bit low and finding a way to destory MechaGodzilla in full power and not by the Power of Alcohol. And same in other movies.
For a franchise which is about "Arrogance of man is thinking Nature is in their control and not the other way around", they sure as hell make it look like our Titans would've been long dead without puny humans saving them in some form. And it's quite frankly Irritating.
So I was researching internships (for recent high school graduates) interested in the field of Human Factors/ Human Computer Interaction/ Engineering Psychology and I kept coming across "UX Designer/Researcher", which brings me to the question: What is the difference between User-Experience (UX) Design and Human Factors/Engineering Psychology?
Edit: Thank you to everyone that commented as it was very informative!
One would imagine from the fact that the 2 comes right after the "receptor" word that it means there is only one type of EGF, but two (or more) different receptors, but I also find many mentions of "Epidermal Growth Factor 2-positive Breast Cancer" or similar strings on the first page of Google, without the "receptor" bit. My educated guess is that these articles are being careless, because cancer cells express (or not) receptors for the growth factors, not the factors themselves. But I'm not an oncologist to know for sure.
As a medical translator, this kind of thing has been nagging me for quite a bit, because when translating, it matters to know which entity the "2" is attached to! For molecules which have many variants like "neuregulin 1", "neuregulin 2" etc., which could also plausibly have several variants of receptors, how would you know if the number is the neuregulin's or the receptor's? This stuff's tough.
I'm not even sure if I'm asking the question seriously or if I'm being rhetorical. Logically, I'm aware that of course a job doesn't define you unless you want it to. In other words, people can define themselves however they want. But it seems like other people (people that are not you) and society in general always judges you by your job or lack of a job. Hell, even in news you always hear about a person's job first and foremost. For example (just inventing one), "A cashier was gunned down...", or "A truck driver saved...". The occupation is up front and center. People always want to know "what do you do?". And if you don't work, people instantly think you're lazy, as if the only way to not be lazy is to be enslaved by some job.
I don't know where I'm going with this. I know that personally a job isn't everything, but the world doesn't revolve around me and I know for a fact that in society, a job IS everything.
I'm just frustrated with the way things are. I wish it was different. I wish your occupation wasn't the main focus of your life or my life.
Edit: And there's also the fact that even if you choose not to define yourself by it, your job still takes up the vast majority of your time and your lifespan, so no matter what it's still the central aspect of your existence, or at least very close to your central aspect.
As examples of what I’m thinking of when I say bad decisions, off the top of my head I’d say allowing the Primarchs to be scattered (if he had any choice in this!), letting Angron’s soldiers die and leaving the butchers nails in/letting Angron remain in charge of his legion, and disbanding the librarians but not really sharing knowledge of the dangers of the warp.
Hello everybody,
at the moment I have a bachelor's degree in business psychology and am faced with the decision to study either business psychology or human factors for a master’s degree in Germany.
I really want to study Human Factors because I can imagine a future as an UX engineer. But now my concern is that the Human Factors degree will limit my professional opportunities. Because, in my opinion, human factors engineers are not yet adequately recognized in Germany and, as a business psychologist, I have more opportunities to work in various positions (marketing, market research, organizational development, etc.).
Is there anyone from Germany who has already made such a decision and has entered the job market? Or what do you think, HF experts? Are the worries justified and which degree would you have chosen in my position?
Thank you in advance for the answers!
I know that title is worded pretty bad, I'm having a hard time articulating this question.
But I generally had a really hard time with pushing associates when they are not meeting rate, especially when they are genuinely a hard worker.
I no longer work at Amazon but when I did it was always a challenge. I think what was different for me was the fact for most of my life I worked at a factory, as well as both my parents as respectively "tier 1" roles. I remember the 16 hour days my parents would put in and they'd come home, sleep, and go right back to work. And when i was in college i did the same.
The factory work was easier than Amazon thats for certain, but still tough. 8-10 hours on your feet, moving from spot to spot, wearing annoying PPE gear.
When i went to work at Amazon as an AM it was tough seeing a lot of folks work as hard as they did, it reminded me a lot of my parents and how hard they would work- and even myself. I always tried to make their lives easy as i possibly could, but my superiors would always chime me their rates, and ask why they are lower than others.
Doing the STU convos and 7/10 times they would say they are trying their best, and that they are a little tired- or something. Telling my managers that those associates are tired was a big no no. I remember when I would be on our debrief call and someone would cite fatigue as an excuse for not meeting rate the other higher ups would become irate.
The worst of it was always the stowers. Our building had a bad culture where only a handful of associates were cross trained, and the same people had the stow night after night. The reward for their hard work was well... more stowing. And before I had left in Feb they had just increased the rates again. It became a lot harder, and associates were always confused.
I remember one associate who I had worked often with, genuinely upset asked me why we are punishing them so much. I didn't even know what to say, i could tell she was overwhelmed and bewildered why am i asking her to scan almost 3200 packages in one night. She had scanned before, but it was never that bad- but then the cost initiative started, and things got tougher for them. I wish i could have told them to take a break and let someone help her- but my hands were tied.
Another associate, he would stay 2 hours after his shift if i asked him to he was always that reliable. He's a 53 year
... keep reading on reddit ➡Does anyone on here have any information or insights on being an AF Behavioral Scientists. I have two questions regarding this career.
- The description on the Air Force site says it needs minimal of a bachelor’s-degree, but later contradicts itself and says you need a master’s. Which is correct? 2.I have a degree in Special Education (I know this is not one of the options it mentions) but is there a substitution list? I have also worked in a mental health hospital and am currently starting a job in ABA (applied behavior analysis) on top of this, I have taken psychology, sociology and ABA courses. Would I be able to qualify for this position?
Hello everyone, I am currently an international PhD student in aerospace engineering in the USA, and I recently started working on a topic related to human factors in aerospace eng. I chose this topic because I found it interesting to work on, however I am not sure what job prospects I have after graduation, especially that I am an international student. As a side note, I worked on various projects in fluid dynamics and solid mechanics during my master and the early years of my phd, and I sometimes feel like I should have stuck with those topics as they may allow for more job opportunities, even though I hated the work and the work environment in those fields. I would appreciate any suggestions and guidance on job prospects in human factors- aerospace engineering because I really love the work I am doing now and I want to stay in this field! PS: bachelor, master, and (hopefully phd) degrees all in aero eng.
Can you get a MS in Human Factors Engineering with just a BS in psych. Has anyone pulled this off, and if so, what else did you have going for you that helped.? I have some math, physics, Chem classes under my belt.
I just feel like a BS in psych and mediocre gpa would drag me down compared to others who studied engineering.
HUMAN FACTORS DESIGN GUIDE FAA Technical Center For Acquisition of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf Subsystems, Atlantic City International Airport, NJ 08405 Non-Developmental Items, and Developmental Systems Dan Wagner, ACT-530 Joseph A. Birt Michael Snyder System Resources Corporation (SRC) James P. Duncanson CTA INCORPORATED January 15, 1996 Final Report and Guide This document is available to the public through the National Technical Information Servi
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Hello everyone, I am currently an international PhD student in aerospace engineering in the USA, and I recently started working on a topic related to human factors in aerospace eng. I chose this topic because I found it interesting to work on, however I am not sure what job prospects I have after graduation, especially that I am an international student. As a side note, I worked on various projects in fluid dynamics and solid mechanics during my master and the early years of my phd, and I sometimes feel like I should have stuck with those topics as they may allow for more job opportunities, even though I hated the work and the work environment in those fields. I would appreciate any suggestions and guidance on job prospects in human factors- aerospace engineering because I really love the work I am doing now and I want to stay in this field! PS: bachelor, master, and (hopefully phd) degrees all in aero eng. Also, I posted this on the aerospace engineering sub and they suggested I post here too!
