TIL: Today I Learned

[Takhisis]

Is that the same as ‘downsizing’ and ‘streamlining’?

 

[Samez]

You obviously know your buzzwords well.
Sad thing is we are currently spending at least 150k€ on consultants per year and the answer to all problems is always the same: reduce staff - even if the issues is: we couldn't finish the job in the scheduled time due to the lack of workers

 

[Takhisis]

So the company needs to lay off workers because they don't have money because they can't fulfil their contracts because they have too few workers?

 

[gay_Aleks]

welcome to recession, Takhisis

 

[Zkribbler]

Sad thing is we are currently spending at least 150k€ on consultants per year and the answer to all problems is always the same: reduce staff - even if the issues is: we couldn't finish the job in the scheduled time due to the lack of workers

It's called corporate anorexia. This occurs when myopic management sees employees as an expense rather than an asset. It's like trying to make your car go faster by emptying the gas tank in order to lighten the load.

 

[Takhisis]

But if you burn the gas then you do go faster…

 

[Zkribbler]

The last words of Groucho Marx were: "Die, my dear? Why, that’s the last thing I’ll do!"

 

[Naskra]

The last words of Groucho Marx were: "Die, my dear? Why, that’s the last thing I’ll do!"

This is usually attributed to Palmerston.

 

[Zkribbler]

Today I learned about the price of flowers in Canada.

The wife of a friend of mine is hospitalized in Ontario. I was going to send her a get-well bouquet, but an itty-bitty bouquet there costs $50. Growing up in southern California has spoiled me. In L.A., it's 1/3 - 1/2 of that. Here in the Philippines, it's about $5. I attribute the cost difference to the presence of sunshine.

 

[MagisterCultuum]

Today I learned that in the Nevada caucus they don't decide ties using anything as silly as a coin toss like in Iowa. Instead, they shuffle a deck of cards 12 times and have a representative of each candidate draw a card. Whoever draws the highest card wins.

 

[Phrossack]

Today I learned that the Indian main battle tank Arjun has a special ammunition type called the Penetration-Cum Blast.

 

[Arakhor]

Heheh.

 

[Commodore]

Today I learned that the Indian main battle tank Arjun has a special ammunition type called the Penetration-Cum Blast.

Imagine having to report casualties and losses to those rounds.

"Sir, we lost 50% of our tank force to enemy cum blasts."

 

[gay_Aleks]

They could just re-word it to "enemy ordinance". Might be innaccurate, but anything to prevent such a situation, no?

 

[Commodore]

They could just re-word it to "enemy ordinance". Might be innaccurate, but anything to prevent such a situation, no?

Nah, you gotta let your commander know exactly what type of munitions the enemy used so he/she has as complete a picture of the battlefield as possible so as to develop the most effective counters to the enemy's tactics.

 

[Kaitzilla]

TIL how a match works.

Spoiler :

Link to video.

 

[Kyriakos]

^Nice. White phosphorus gets all the heat.

 

[s0nny80y]

today i learned
year of the 'hoe' (which is chinese for monkey)
'women' = we
'you' = oil
'funny' = translate
https://www.google.com/search?q=translate&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
'araw' means sunn in filipino
also means alla in chinese o.0 j/k

 

[Commodore]

TIL: Ben Carson was in the 2003 movie "Stuck on You". I watched the movie yesterday and I noticed one of the surgeons in that movie looked a lot like Carson. I looked it up and sure enough, that's him in the movie.

 

[s0nny80y]

the space station looks like a futuristic orthodox
cross

needs an artificial gravity wheel

croissantwich!