@#3 ... I know everyone's circumstances are different, but if you are sick, can't most people just work from home? ...

If you are sick, the first priority should be to get well, not work.

I remember, back circa 2000 or so, when I was responsible for software engineers in a company team in The Netherlands....

I talked with them extensively. Great people.

One thing that did surprise me though, it was not unusual, or uncommon, for a person to stand up in their cubicle and utter, loudly, the word "f--k."

Yeah, the first time I heard that, it did catch my attention. Then the local manager told me, that's the usual here.

Quite odd for me.

But I digress.

Another aspect of the corporate culture, --- if you call in sick you should expect a visit at your residence from ~a company representative~ to assure you are really sick.

That was surprising to me.

More from the article ...

... He is seeing a record number of requests from firms for his agency to check up on employees suspected of calling in sick when they are actually fit to work.

"There are just more and more companies that don't want to put up with it anymore," he told AFP, adding his Lentz Group was receiving up to 1,200 such requests annually, around double the figure from a few years earlier.

"If someone has 30, 40 or sometimes up to 100 sick days in a year, then at some point they become economically unattractive for the employer," he said in an interview at his office in the gritty district around Frankfurt's main train station. ...

@#2 ... For a group of people who hate government, they sure are lax with allowing the worst thing to happen to it under their watch. ...

Perhaps that particular outcome is viewed as ~achieving their goals?~

@#3 ... According to the article, it seems like Sinclair depends on that Disney $$$? ...

So, the wealthy apparently ~taking care of~ their wealthy brethren?

@#2 ... Betcha there's a larger one out there ...

I do not question that.

But, that aside, wow, just friggin' wow ...

What was discovered in this cache should raise a concern or two ...

@#5 ... He's "trolling" the "woke" for "the lolz". ...

Is he?

Or has he lost it in the memes?

I wish I knew.

Why?

Well, because Mr Musk seems to have a strong, very strong, influence upon Pres-elect Trump.

Stated differently, why are we even having this type of conversation about such a close Pres-elect advisor?

Related ...

More from the article ...

... Roberts in an annual year-end report, opens new tab on the judiciary released just weeks before Republican President-elect Donald Trump takes office did not directly address what polling suggests has been a decline in public confidence in the judicial system broadly.

But Roberts said he felt compelled to highlight several areas of "illegitimate activity" that went far beyond informed criticism and debate concerning judicial rulings, which he said "threaten the independence of judges on which the rule of law depends."

Those areas of threats, he said, include a "significant" uptick in violent threats and online intimidation directed at judges, disinformation about court cases magnified by social media, and cyber threats posed by foreign state actors.

In the past five years, the U.S. Marshals Service has investigated more than 1,000 serious threats against federal judges, Roberts wrote. In some extreme cases, judicial officers have been issued bulletproof vests, he said. ...

So long as the topic seems to be Disney and local affiliates ...

Maybe we should also talk about Disney apparently tying ESPN to the local affiliates that Disney owns.

For example, my understanding is that if I want to view my local ABC affiliate (WABC-TV7 from NYC) I also have to subscribe to ESPN's steadily and rapidly, imo, increasing charges.

So I ask a simple question, why do I have to subsidize the ridiculous salaries of sport players in order to see my local weather?

Does Disney have an answer?

More from the article...

... Carr, who has been nominated to be chairman of the FCC by President-elect Donald Trump, accused ABC of trying to "siphon more and more money away from local broadcast TV stations" even as Disney shifts marquee programming to its streaming services. The loss of revenue may hurt local news coverage at a time when Americans' trust of the media is at a low, Carr wrote in a Dec. 21 letter.

"I want you to know that I will be monitoring the outcome of your ongoing discussions with local broadcast TV stations to ensure that those negotiations enable local broadcast TV stations to meet their federal obligations to serve the needs of their local communities," Carr wrote.

Disney didn't respond to a request for comment. ...

"The only difference between genius and insanity is that genius has its limits."
  - - - Albert Einstein

The small difference between brilliance and insanity?

@#29 ... You guys are even dumber than than the the right wing trolls in this site ...

So, to substantiate your comment, you post an unsubstantiated comment, quite similar to the "right wing trolls" you assert participate on this site?

OK ...

Two comments ....

1) good to see you admit there are "right wing trolls" on this site.

2) sad to see that you may be projecting with that comment.

@#2 ... "Florida and Texas have been building more homes than anywhere else in the country ...

My guess might be that ... with Pres-elect Trump's immigration policies, the home builders may find it difficult to find the workers they need to build homes, i.e., fewer homes.

So, a win there?

Already on the Front Page ...

@#8 ... No, let's not "go with that", because Ian Cramer has absolutely nothing to do with Hunter Biden. ...

Did I say that?

I merely pointed out a possible false equivalence.

... That is my whole point. It is sickening to take a tragic situation and turn it a "Red vs. Blue" pissing contest, comparing the parents of grown ass men. ...

Please see #5
... So, you hold Cramers parents accountable for their 43 year old son's actions, but you do NOT hold Biden responsible for his 53 year old sons actions? How do you square that up? ...

@#15 ... I'm talking about mindsets on topics and issues. You don't have to have over 50% to have the majority view on issues that are black and white. ...

That's a rather broad statement. usually when such a broad statement is issued, it represents a retreat from a prior statement, imo.

So...

What issues, please be specific, are you talking about?

@#4 ... We all have to prove citizenship when we register to vote; there is no valid reason to require us to prove it every time we vote. ...

That is the way it should work.

Prove your citizenship when you register, not every time you vote.

And I will state once again, each time I vote here in Connecticut I have to show a valid ID.

I have no problem with that because Connecticut does not use that ID requirement to target voters who do not vote for Republicans, as other states seem to do.

Maybe that is why the Connecticut license plates say, "Constitution State."

Whoa ...

It is December 31 here.

Why is there a thunderstorm outside?

So odd.

@#5 ... So, you hold Cramers parents accountable for their 43 year old son's actions, but you do NOT hold Biden responsible for his 53 year old sons actions? ...

An interesting point.

From the cited article...

... Bismarck police said Ian Cramer's mother had taken him to a hospital because of mental health concerns. ...

So, yeah, let's go with that ...

How many deaths did Hunter Biden cause as a result of his problem?

And Hunter Biden went into rehab to help resolve his problem.

What did Ian Kramer do to help resolve the problem he faced, aside from apparently killing a police officer?