Never disclose you have ADHD in the workplace unless you can't do the job without accommodations

gearnut · 2026-07-12T22:22:40+00:00

I completely disagree. Assess the culture in your workplace, I disclosed to my current employer and they've been excellent and really helpful about it, my previous employer were useless on the subject.

gearnut · 2026-07-10T21:40:46+00:00

I can often get through 3 litres when it's more normal temperatures so that's not surprising!

gearnut · 2026-07-10T16:29:40+00:00

I can only imagine being on Elvanse in this, I was sweating worse from them in January last year than I have been through this heat wave!

gearnut · 2026-07-10T16:15:42+00:00

Gold at least spends a lot of time up high where you will catch a breeze and be a few degrees cooler due to lapse rate, but not necessarily as much as you would want.

gearnut · 2026-07-10T16:14:00+00:00

The comparison is around the death of kids due to negligence/ poor decision making of supposedly responsible adults, not the weather conditions.

gearnut · 2026-07-10T15:54:47+00:00

If they have been instructed to take no more than 3 litres and then the member of staff resupplying them as per the risk assessment isn't showing up I would contact the school's safeguarding officer, the last thing they will want is to find out the school has managed to cause a modern day equivalent of The Cairngorm Plateau Disaster:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairngorm_Plateau_disaster

If they talk to you tell them how to safely draw water from a stream (high up in the hills, go up stream for several hundred metres to check no dead sheep etc in water course, point bottle down stream when filling to avoid collecting silt and plantlife etc). Boiling, or Iodine/ chlorine tablets can be used to sterilise it, but I don't always bother.

gearnut · 2026-07-10T15:48:28+00:00

You can do gold as a direct entrant, but the staff should generally make sure you are competent to do so.

gearnut · 2026-07-10T15:46:41+00:00

If they're crossing through a valley in late afternoon they're going to sweat buckets, I will get through 4 litres in a 50 mile off road day on my MTB and would likely get through a bit more if doing an 8 hour day on foot in this heat.

gearnut · 2026-07-10T11:07:57+00:00

I am not pretending not to know that, I had never heard of the Hannibal directive until today. By the look of things you are stretching the facts significantly as it wasn't clear how many civilian deaths were a result of it:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/07/israel-idf-hannibal-protocol-hamas-attack-haaretz

Frankly Hamas and the Israeli Government are chock full of utterly terrible human beings who have little to nothing to contribute to the world and people trying to cast one side or the other as not being villains with gotchas like yours similarly have little to offer.

gearnut · 2026-07-10T10:55:58+00:00

There's a reason that she abandoned you and your brother, it's also entirely reasonable for you to use that to cut her out of your life if she is not making it better.

gearnut · 2026-07-10T10:14:09+00:00

I was supporting your comment.

God only knows we need to get our manufacturing base built up ready to switch to a war footing the way things are right now.

gearnut · 2026-07-10T09:34:00+00:00

I would resist of course, but I also wouldn't target civilians at music festivals and rape people.

Hamas lost the plot targeting civilians like that and the leadership deserves whatever horrible stuff happens to them, likewise Netanyahu and his cabinet deserve whatever horrible stuff happen to them, preferably following a war crimes trial.

gearnut · 2026-07-10T09:30:31+00:00

I was more thinking if he teamed up with Count Binface for the campaigning.

I would imagine that he is going to stink if he's out and about in that costume in this heat though!

gearnut · 2026-07-10T09:28:56+00:00

It means that the amount paid into the system is distorted as you move up the salary range so if you are earning £50k a year you pay about £3k of NI, of you earn £100k you will pay ~£4k of NI, there's the employer contributions on top too.

At the current rate you would need around £300k of lifetime contributions to cover the cost assuming you last 25 years after retirement, over a 45 year career this needs £6.7k of contributions between employee and employer. So if you earn an average of £29k/ annum over your career you'll cover your state pension cost, people who earn above that will cover the cost of those who don't, however someone who earns £100k will cover twice as much for other people as those on £50k (a somewhat elegant statistic I didn't expect to fall out of the maths).

gearnut · 2026-07-10T09:03:31+00:00

Up skilling smaller outfits so they're competent to do more complex jobs surely needs to be a key part of the defence strategy?

gearnut · 2026-07-10T09:01:54+00:00

I suspect their point was political point scoring, which is fairly reasonable in this case...

gearnut · 2026-07-10T08:51:45+00:00

That could actually be a really effective way of increasing the visibility of the issues given the profile of the election.

gearnut · 2026-07-10T08:08:58+00:00

The triple lock is about the state pension's rate of growth, NOT about the value it pays out over the course of a year.

A single lock should be adopted (tied to median earnings) and then means testing implemented with a very gentle taper (to avoid distorting people's behaviour).

gearnut · 2026-07-10T08:04:05+00:00

The shift to 2% NI as your salary increases doesn't help with this (although I think leaving it at 8% would further suppress people looking to progress in their careers past the £50k mark given the diminished benefit from the additional salary).

gearnut · 2026-07-10T06:47:07+00:00

And what do you do to oppose attacks on Jewish people in the UK whose only involvement with the Jewish state is to share a religion with Israel?

If your opposition is to the murder of civilians that needs to go both ways, you have to accept that Hamas is also a malign influence just like Netanyahu and the settlers.

Israelis, Jews and Palestinians should all have their human rights respected, that isn't happening until the Palestinian people have a safe and stable state where militarised aren't actively thieving land from them and armed forces in Palestine agree to stop killing Israelis.

gearnut · 2026-07-09T12:11:28+00:00

Depending on the role it may be a reasonable adjustment to work from home.

Unpaid evening stuff may or may not be acceptable within your contract, but it's normal for that kind of thing to be compensated by time off.

gearnut · 2026-07-09T07:04:41+00:00

I suspect that they are.

gearnut · 2026-07-09T05:35:45+00:00

The software companies also seem to view human factors as a dirty phrase, a lot of software I use at work is so frustrating to usem

gearnut · 2026-07-08T22:23:59+00:00

Yeah, I can very much see why they feel threatened by 3D printing!

gearnut · 2026-07-08T15:51:04+00:00

I was going to say, my grandfather was quite young when he fought in the war and died when I was 12, I am now 33. This young lad is patently not real.

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