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Submission + - Federal shutdown may send millennial workers to exits (techtarget.com)

Submitted by dcblogs
dcblogs writes: The federal government measures the “engagement” of its federal workforce once a year with a massive survey of 1.5 million employees. And what it has found is that most federal workers are very dedicated to their work. Its most recent survey, the 2018 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey, asked employees if they are "willing to put in extra effort to get their job done," 96% of the survey takers responded affirmatively. Moreover, 91% agreed with the statement that they "look for ways to do their jobs better," and 90% "believe their work is important." But this job dedication is being tested by the U.S. government shutdown, and most at risk of leaving are Millennial-age workers. Less than 6% of federal employees are under the age of 30 and represent half of all people who leave an agency within the first two years.

Comment Not the Point of Universities (Score 3, Insightful) 164

by moehoward (#57842294) Attached to: How Do Universities Prepare Graduates For Jobs That Don't Yet Exist?
The point of a university is (should be?) to teach people how to learn. (In addition, of course, to how to hold your liquor, put on a condom, and provide life-long devotion to its sports teams.) Critical thinking is/should be the core of all institutes of higher education.

Submission + - Wall Street Rule for the #MeToo Era: Avoid Women at All Cost (bloomberg.com) 1

Submitted by gollum123
gollum123 writes: No more dinners with female colleagues. Don’t sit next to them on flights. Book hotel rooms on different floors. Avoid one-on-one meetings. n fact, as a wealth adviser put it, just hiring a woman these days is “an unknown risk.” What if she took something he said the wrong way? Across Wall Street, men are adopting controversial strategies for the #MeToo era and, in the process, making life even harder for women.In finance, the overarching impact can be, in essence, gender segregation. Now, more than a year into the #MeToo movement — with its devastating revelations of harassment and abuse in Hollywood, Silicon Valley and beyond — Wall Street risks becoming more of a boy’s club, rather than less of one. On Wall Street as elsewhere, reactions to #MeToo can smack of paranoia, particularly given the industry’s history of protecting its biggest revenue generators. There are as many or more men who are responding in quite different ways. One, an investment adviser who manages about 100 employees, said he landed on the solution: “Just try not to be an asshole.”

Submission + - It's Constitutional to Seize a Car for Driving 5 MPH Over the Speed Limit (reason.com)

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: Civil asset forfeiture is such a farce that it took Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer only about 100 words to twist Indiana's solicitor general into admitting that his state could have the power to seize cars over something as insubstantial as driving 5 miles-per-hour over the speed limit.

Thankfully, it seems like none of the nine justices were willing to buy Indiana's argument (and more than a few were willing to openly laugh it, based on the transcript). But the exchange between Breyer and Fisher shows just how absurd the government's asset forfeiture powers are—and why the outcome of the Timbs case could be so significant.

With both the court's left and right wings making a mockery of Fisher's(Indiana's solicitor general) argument, the big question after Wednesday's oral argument is not whether Timbs will prevail at the Supreme Court, but how far the justices may be willing to go in restricting forfeiture under the 8th Amendment.

Comment Re:I avoid loud restaurants (Score 2) 233

by moehoward (#57720804) Attached to: How Restaurants Got So Loud
Exactly. I never have a problem when Don Draper or Pete Campbell take me out. They know all the right places for a quiet conversation, four bottles of Scotch, and a carton or two of cigarettes. It is quiet, but I always end up spending a couple of million buying advertising that I didn't really want.

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