Weird ways to get fired at work

TCABM said:
And don’t forget that Florida and Texas both are subject to two different time zones within their state boundaries.
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Years back Alaska had 4 time zones. Imagine being in the western most time zone in Alaska and trying to figure out when to call someone in New York...

And why does Alaska do DST.??
 
TCABM said:
And don’t forget that Florida and Texas both are subject to two different time zones within their state boundaries.
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Idaho does as well. And it's a north/south division, so while northern Idaho is on Pacific time and southern Idaho is on Mountain time, they are both on essentially the same solar time.

I went skiing last week at Lookout Pass, which straddles the continental divide, and so also straddles the Idaho/Montana border. One run lets you alternate turns in Idaho/Montana/Idaho/Montana... And sure enough, the phone and smart watch kept switching time zones depending on where on the mountain I was.
 
GaryM said:
Idaho does as well. And it's a north/south division, so while northern Idaho is on Pacific time and southern Idaho is on Mountain time, they are both on essentially the same solar time.

I went skiing last week at Lookout Pass, which straddles the continental divide, and so also straddles the Idaho/Montana border. One run lets you alternate turns in Idaho/Montana/Idaho/Montana... And sure enough, the phone and smart watch kept switching time zones depending on where on the mountain I was.
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I’ll have to try that mountain.
 
Bob Noel said:
check out Cheers, S3.E21 The Executive's Executioner
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Nobody ever bought me a beer first. (Although, in retrospect, getting fired from a job that I knew I was doing well was a blessing in disguise. I went to a job where I worked for non-idiots, and they eventually went bankrupt.)
 
moparrob66 said:
Even if a pot smoker is stone sober while on the clock, for many employers its a trust issue. Everyone knows cannabis is illegal on a federal level, yet pot smokers go to great lengths to justify its recreational use. Until it is decriminalized, its still a crime that criminals intentionally, knowingly and repeatedly spend money time and effort to commit. If you demonstrate that you cant be trusted to follow that law, how far outside the circle of trust do your personal standards put you?
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Meh.

The state I live in regulates THC, but doesnt ban it. I don't use, and this is not an opinion as to whether or not THC is healthy, or SHOULD be legal, regulated, or banned.

It's a two-way trust issue, not black and white. The feds COULD ban THC, but they never have. What they did was backdoor a prohibition. (You need a tax stamp that they decline to provide.)

Under several state constitutions courts in those states would say the substance wasn't banned, in others like mine the courts say it isn't in violation of federal law because of the manner in which the feds regulate it.
 
Pinecone said:
That is not how it works.

The state can pass laws to make DST full time. Arizona and Hawaii are full time Standard Time. The tail of Indiana also is.

To get it changed at the Federal level is a while different process. And the Governor is not involved. It is up the Senator(s) or Congressmen to start the process.
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Under Federal law the states can not make DST full time by passing a law. They can decide to observe standard time full time. The Uniform Time Act states that only Congress or the Secretary of Transportation can authorize a state to observe a different time or change the dates that they change from DST to Standard Time and back. Florida has passed a law to observe DST year round but the federal government has not given them the authorization to do it.


Why are we changing our clocks if the law was approved by the Florida Legislature?

Even though the law was passed by all of the Florida lawmakers, it still needs to get congressional approval before it becomes law. Federal law prohibits a state from changing time zones without a statute passed by Congress or the secretary of transportation issuing regulations.

States are allowed to opt out of observing daylight saving time and remain on standard time without Congressional approval. Which is why states like Hawaii and Arizona do not change their time. They are actually staying on standard time.

Florida, like many other states, are trying to change their standard time and stay permanently on Daylight Savings time, which would change the time zone. And since it requires Congress to amend the Uniform Time Act to allow the change, we have to wait.
 
Living on the leading edge of a time zone, I would prefer to observe DST year-round because most of my free time is late in the day and I need light for almost everything that I do with that time. At the trailing edge, I might not care as much, but would still prefer it.

EDIT: It just occurred to me which thread this is. The drift could take one on a round-the-world tour. I'm so proud of us.
 
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I do a few arbitrations that involve Puerto Rico (I'm in Charlotte, NC). Every year at the DST switchover, FINRA reminds us that the AST (which doesn't have DST) is shifting with respect to us. AST=EDT but is an ahead of EST.

Of course, this has little to do with whether we are in an office or not. Even when I worked in an office, I frequently had calls with people in different time zones... sometimes drastically different (like dealing with Australians).
 
Stevel said:
EDIT: It just occurred to me which thread this is. The drift could take one on a round-the-world tour. I'm so proud of us.
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We haven't been on-topic for a little while now. Squirrel!!
 
This didn't happen to me, but the story fits the bill.

My BIL was a supervisor in a parts warehouse for a major Japanese automobile manufacturer, and many of the people that worked there (or at least were there from time to time) were from the mother ship back in Japan. The manufacturer, as per their practice here in the US, hired on a "temp to hire" basis - you worked for a temp agency for 90 days, and if they were happy with the performance of the temp, you got hired after the 90 day period.

New temp shows up, wearing a t-shirt with a mushroom cloud on it with the words "Made in the USA, Tested in Japan" on it.

He was immediately shown the door.
 
Pre-2020, we were issued laptops and we would VPN to a virtual machine; company policy allowed personal use of the laptop for approved purposes, such as professional development or education.

Had a co-worker that was on a no-work layoff notice with a one year severance. During the notice period he was using the laptop to surf only fans.

Company found out on a random IT audit of the box; he was terminated for cause about two weeks before the layoff would have been effective.
 
Had a couple of state workers in a teacher's classroom in a school doing repairs. It was after the students had left but the teacher was in & out of the room during this time. When the teacher noticed their smart phone was missing the security folks were called and the cameras showed both men leaving the room but no way to know which one had the phone. Pinging the phone found it on the seat of one of the workers vehicles.

School officials even tried to let the worker off by asking them if it were possible that when picking up their tools the phone was inadvertently gathered up also. The way out was missed or the worker decided to tell the truth and they were sent packing shortly thereafter ...
 
TCABM said:
Pre-2020, we were issued laptops and we would VPN to a virtual machine; company policy allowed personal use of the laptop for approved purposes, such as professional development or education.

Had a co-worker that was on a no-work layoff notice with a one year severance. During the notice period he was using the laptop to surf only fans.

Company found out on a random IT audit of the box; he was terminated for cause about two weeks before the layoff would have been effective.
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I wonder how much a years severance works out to in cost per minute :rolleyes:
 
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