This is about 20 years ago. Anyway, the absurdity of the situation still strikes me today. I was reading the newspaper provided by the company and mister manager was angry that I read something he didn’t like so he tried to force me into submission.

Contractual and lawful reasons.

You can’t be fired without proper cause so when they fire you without proper cause the wil have to keep you on board for a while or choose to pay you out for that amount of time. I was sort of a foreman with a teal of about 20 technicians and I also had to work directly with our customers. They deemed me a liability because I was fired so they chose to pay out.

Same with salesmen. When you fire them without proper cause they want you out of their network as soon as possible and won’t take the risk of letting you work with costumers anymore so they just pay out the amount of time that is needed.

He first lade a threat. Then I called his bluff and then he pushed through.

In that way I got my full year off.

The stupid thing was that I was fired for reading a newspaper. I didn’t take it up to court because I knew I was getting a full years pay if they fired me that way.

I got fired for reading the newspaper during my lunch break. Once a week this newspaper came with a for hire section that also included career advice and al that stuff. I was reading that part but the CEO called me into his office to tell me off. I called his bluff and he fired me.

I was scheduled to lead a team in China for a few weeks and after that had to go to the US for some other job. Sadly people that are fired can’t work off premises anymore so the staff manager begged me to accept their withdrawal of my discharge.

I kindly declined and got payed out a years’ wage. Took the time to reorientate into less toxic work environment. I now work with politicians, don’t know what happened there.

That breeding programme called natural selection is what got us all here.

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slaps on the pigeon shed

Fastest pigeons in the world baby.

But seriously. 1.252.000 euro for a pigeon

https://www.pipa.be/en/articles/update-armando-sold-1252000-euro-total-revenue-joel-verschoot-auction-2400000-euro-19439

USPCC only makes for a fourth of Cartamundi’s revenue. And to make it even more Belgian, Cartamundi is still run by the same two families that founded the company 6 generations ago Each family owns 50% of the shares.

ING Turkey ≠ ING Netherlands ≠ ING anywhere else

Billiard balls and playing cards. Belgium is world leader in both.

Edit: forgot to add pigeons. Belgian competition pigeons are the most expensive in the world.

Edit 2: Belfries. Clock-O-Matic is a Belgian company and world leader in the automation of Belfries. It’s not that hard because most Belfries are located in Belgium and France, if not all of them.

I was there, in the days of rotten.com

That’s stupid, so good. How haven’t I heard of this before?

Kia gets this right with their window controls Just the right clickyness.

That’s the main reason I stick with OnePlus. The notification slider is a feature the I need on every phone.

I’m using heliboard without any trouble. In three languages. It takes a bit of time but if you stick with it the keyboard learns your preferences.

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I’m not saying it’s social media, but it’s social media. You’re connected to negativity 24/7. The algorithm feeds on negativity because that is what makes us stay on there.

I’ve got something to change your thinking. At least it helped me 17 years ago.

Hans Rosling - The best stats you’ve ver seen

I don’t want to dismiss the facts. There are terrible things going on but overall we’re living our best lives at the same time.

Rutger Bregman | Where do we go from here?

And hey! I’m 43 too. You have a whole life ahead of you. You still can go in any direction you want to go in.

• Vsauce
• Veritasum
• Adam Savage
• Stuff made here
• Mark Rober
• Rex Krueger
• Wisecrack

And then you see Adam Savage geeking out, nearly in tears about gauge blocks in his workshop.

Veritasum is amazing. Recently I rediscovered them with the video about the SAT question everybody got wrong. My mind was blow.