Throw them back into the trenches.
The problem there is that eventually you don't have trenches any more.
What happens while you’re training that new human?
My managers always had a simple solution to this problem: pretend that new programmers fresh out of college require no on-the-job training at all. Or for bonus points, pretend that they're even better than the guys who have been doing this for decades and pay them more.
I'm a school bus driver in the US (Teamsters union). Our monthly dues are about $90 and we're finding it difficult to get new drivers to join because of that. Our district is surrounded by non-unionized districts where they make about $8 less an hour and get none of the benefits we get, which include subsidized health insurance and a pension after ten years. We're OK for now but if our union membership ever drops below 50% of the drivers our contract will be voided and then we'll find out how shitty it is to not be represented by a union. But I can't get the new drivers to understand this; the anti-union propaganda for the last fifty years hear (really, for a lot longer than that) has just been too overwhelming.
I'm a school bus driver in the US. Not only do we not get unlimited PTO, even for our paid holidays we don't get paid for them unless we show up for the workdays before and after the paid holidays. This is so that we don't attempt to stretch the long weekend that a Friday or Monday holiday provides by taking extra sick days before or after. I was a programmer most of my working life and I never encountered any time-off like this, but the other drivers say this is common in "blue-collar" jobs.
TBF our bosses have absolutely no flexibility in terms of the work that has to be done. A bus route needs to be covered or else 100 kids don't make it to school. We have standby drivers but not an unlimited number of them. The day after the Philadelphia Eagles won the Super Bowl, about a third of our drivers called in "sick" and the transportation director had no choice but to cancel multiple routes. I was more pissed at our drivers than she was -- we're almost all in our 60s and 70s (and a few are in their 80s) and have no business drinking ourselves into massive hangovers. I'm actually surprised nobody died.
It's like Requiem for a Dream. Great movie, would recommend it to anyone except my elderly mother, am not gonna fuckin ever watch it a second time.
Thiel and his crew have talked about wanting the US to have a population of 100 million. They don't want a permanent underclass of unemployed people, they want a permanent underclass of dead people.
I've been feeding my local crows unsalted shelled peanuts for more than five years. They know me and fly into the tree above my driveway and caw when they see me. They're still not at all comfortable around me and won't come down for the nuts until I go back inside. They've never given me any kind of gift unless you count the bird shit on my car.
They're like a Marvel movie in terms of power comparison. If a hawk shows up, they will chase it away. Meanwhile, a single bluejay a tenth their size will chase off five crows by itself. And the crows will just stand there glumly watching a squirrel eat all their peanuts.
It's wilder that we don't use gasoline in our barbecue grills.
I used to take Amtrak between Philly and DC. It took about 2 hours which is a bit shorter than driving if you're lucky enough to not hit major traffic. The problem was that if it rained you had water pouring into the car from multiple spots in the ceiling. Just an amazing thing to see in 200-year-old technology. Even Amish buggies don't leak like that.
I thought about taking the Acela on that route once. Cost 4X as much and shaved a whopping 10 minutes off the time.
The family behind LIDL is the richest in Germany…
I shop at LiDL here in the US. It's interesting that they're doing so well when they have much lower prices and pay their employees better than other grocery stores in the area, yet these other stores claim to be barely scraping by or even losing money.
I'm a school bus driver. A few years ago I was about to switch to a different route, and was riding in the seats with my elementary school kids while the driver who was taking over drove and learned the route. This was towards the end of COVID and I had always worn a mask while driving. The kids said "we've never seen you without a mask. Would you take it off?" I said sure why not and took it off. A second-grade girl said "wow, you're really cute, would you marry me?" The entire rest of the bus, sixty-some kids in perfect unison, went "EWWWWWWW!"
The extra-amusing thing is that I look like David Letterman in his "meth Santa" phase, complete with a foot-long snow-white beard and bald head. I'm still worried about that little girl.
Yeah, we love our own freedom, not freedom for other people.