I have no remorse for hiring managers. The length of time it takes to make it through the hiring process they have fomented makes the shotgun approach absolutely necessary if you want to get hired (at all) in a timely manner.
It's not just the safety and health of customers and the public that the modern executives don't seem to care about. I work in the CPI and process/employee safety has started to take a back seat to DEI and environmental concerns (to be sure, fair hiring practices and environmental stewardship are great goals to have, but not to the detriment of a safe workplace.)
Stock buybacks take precedence over spending on safety improvements, and reduction in working capital (finished product) to appease the bean counters results in missed sales when the inevitable process upset occurs and there is no surge capacity.
The concepts of "Trump being a uniform piece of shit" and "Trump being the target of a weaponized judicial system" aren't mutually exclusive but he can't seem to reconcile that fact. I like to think it's because he has an appreciation for Trump's genuine skill at showmanship, but I tire of it.
There is inarguable value in the twice weekly media roundup that they do, so long as they stick with mainstream sources and stay away from silly medical blogs and Cuban ex-CIA guys. No one is perfect I suppose.
FWIW I don't think either of them are any sort of bigots, but sometimes old school chauvinists and maybe xenophobic in a way that makes you groan but not particularly offensive. I hear way worse daily on my university campus. It's the criticisms that they shy away from that make people irritated, I think.
Distraction plays a huge part these days. When I was growing up in the 80's and 90's, drivers drove. Now they're watching TikInstaXFaceTube and relying on lane departure warnings and brake assist to do the driving for them.
I hate Login.gov. And ID.me. And every other external service the various USG agencies, departments, and administrations have "partnered" with to make logging in "easier." When I want to log into the VA's website, do I use my DS logon, or ID.me, or Login.gov, or MyHealthEVet? I don't know which one I used last, so I guess I'll just create a new login credential. I'm tech savvy and get confused, so I can't imagine the confusion of a boomer Vietnam veteran.
Login.gov exists so you have one login across all federal agencies. Why would you hate this? It is more efficient and a better UX for consumers of digital government services. Admittedly, there will be some rough edges during this transition from disparate idps or legacy private corp identity providers, but the end state will be improved.
Because ID.me is a for profit company, and Login.gov is accountable to citizens as a GSA product. We swap out suboptimal solutions for more optimal solutions as the situation dictates.
I get the desire to upgrade, and I'm guessing there's a good reason the ID.me logins can't be migrated to Login.gov. But it's very rare and unsettling for login method and creds to change on a site. I've pretty much only seen that on govt websites... and botched Microsoft acquisitions. So there should be a high bar for this, and I hope Login.gov is really the last time.
It's hard to cook when you're not in the kitchen, so it's not surprising that an excellent oven like JennAir skimps on what is at best a marginally useful marketing ploy.
Remote start was my first or second criterion when purchasing a new oven 2 months ago. It's not marketing.
> It's hard to cook when you're not in the kitchen
It's for preheating. I can save 15 minutes if I can remote start the oven. That's a big deal when you only have 2-3 hours between getting home and kids in bed. It's ok if we have different lives, but don't discount features important to me because of that.
There are two separate "remote start" philosophies - one is "put item in oven before leaving, remotely turn on at X time, done when home" which is pretty clearly what the JennAir is aiming towards. The other is "I want to preheat the oven" which is what the other leans towards.
Both honestly skeeve me out; I wouldn't want to use it unless I had remote cameras and could confirm the oven was empty/only had what I wanted in it.
OP here. I specifically bought this oven with remote start for preheating only. Preheating to 400 degrees easily takes 15 minutes. I want to get home and toss the food into the oven right away, not wait another 15 minutes just to start cooking after I've arrived home.
> Both honestly skeeve me out;
I'd rather set remote start from the oven itself, but it's not an option. App only.
> one is "put item in oven before leaving, remotely turn on at X time, done when home" which is pretty clearly what the JennAir is aiming towards.
Almost all ovens have been able to do that since at least the '60s. You don't turn on the oven remotely, you set a clock that tells the oven when to turn on.
That's what my 1960's JennAir does. It has two clocks you can set in addition to the one that tells time: one to turn on the oven at a prescribed time, and another to turn it off.
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