Dealing with homeless folk in business settings is always a challenge. We're not at a stage where we offer charity, however money is the great equaliser. All paying customers are conveyed a degree of dignity above and beyond other pedestrians. For now. Lock and load that roachspray!
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/commented/ Same old rule for many years, right? I seem to remember this being the case when it was 1999. The talent management challenge is not to pick the strongest individual in the affirmative action program, but to pick the best AA candidate based on the team formation. Yell if you want coaching on this.
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- traced and mapped two mystery wires
- tested one emergency light
- disassembled one water heater
- identified a pipe union for replacement
- traced and mapped wiring for two appliances
- secured two tables to wall
- secured three tables to tables
- replaced one faulty switch
- updated documentation
- reattached a loose hose
- upgraded staff understanding of pasta
- coached coffee calibration
Almost feels like we're caught up, but not yet. Outstanding are the air conditioner tests, and electronics R&D for automation. But first, a front of house shift...
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/captain's log :p /
:warning: thanks for your hard work. Night shift was a bit busy, so I helped a bit with dishes.
:red_circle: we are looking at about 70% traffic capacity for this size of team; there are some problems we must fix now, or there will be chaos when it gets to 100%
:red_circle: BAR and KITCHEN should always have at most ONE FULL SINK each; OTHER SINKS should be EMPTY, for minute-to-minute emergencies
:red_circle: do not stack dishes where they can fall
:red_circle: plastic stirrers need a red basket for the dishwasher, otherwise handwash
:red_circle: we should not be entertaining outselves behind the bar when there are dirty plates, messy tables, messy table mats, customers who have not placed orders and who have not received free drinks
:red_circle: example of emergency; while I was helping to clear this up, heavy rain fell, and FOH was busy and could not attend to tables outside, so i helped there; but if we are all working at full speed, and tidiness this problem will not happen when it is only 70% traffic
Again thanks for listening. I have been up 30 hours, and will soon expire. Tata!
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Notre dame: Standing by for the outrage on "you didn't donate anything when X burned down."
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Awake. What needs doing? Is it a day for taking life or for encouraging it? Ho hum.
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Dear woman of Instagram: I understand composition, lighting, colouration, and fashion, but I don't care about your photos, your content, or your audience. So if you want good photography from me for free, in ten seconds, you need to act like a CD and plan your shoots properly. :D
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18-hours up, first twelve hours on one meal and two cups of coffee. Not ideal, but that was a tactical consideration.
Given the objective of packing in the maximum amount of work before death, the definition of a good-for-nothing is someone who tells you to work less.
How shall it end? Tralala...
Next, a third meal, then off to farther errands. Recycling, pipe thread compound, cups... but first, documentation of today's work so-far.
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6 inches water column =
0.217 pound-force per square inch
Also the nominal requirement for a low-pressure LGG regulator.
N Pi i S ti C d St d d d E i i P ti
Codes and Standards
o Piping Section Codes, Standards and Engineering Practice
1. All Sections Gas Supply Act 1993
Gas Supply Regulations 1997
2. Main Pipelines
and Stations
ASME B31.8: 2003 – Gas Transmission and
Distribution Pipgy in S stems
3. LPG Storage MS830: 2003 - Code Of Practice For The
Storage, Handling And Transportation Of
Li fi d P t l G Liquefied Petroleum Gases
4. Internal Piping MS930: 1986 - Code Of Practice For The
Installation Of Fuel Gas
Piping Systems And Appliances
Guidelines on Domestic Gas Piping System
(Energy Commission)
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Ok. Next menu update we are going full ha*** ba*. Catch you on the flipside, May be.
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/commented/ Morals are my favourite form of fiction.
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Blue-collar jobs like plumbing pay $90,000 without a college degree, and it's driving more workers to trade schoolFor this to happen in Malaysia, an overhaul of the regulatory framework is required. It will upend a hundred thousand handymen and force them to seek certification. Does Harapan have the guts to lay out a plan, and put it into action? Or should Malaysia continue laissez faire with non-standard work in every craft arena? Kementerian Tenaga, Sains, Teknologi, Alam Sekitar dan Perubahan Iklim (MESTECC) Kementerian Sumber Manusia Kementerian Pendidikan Malaysia Kementerian Perumahan Dan Kerajaan Tempatan
businessinsider.com
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Napped. Up for a spot of work.
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"Are you autistic?"
"Maybe, what about you?"
"Eh? Really? Ahahah... so you admit that you're autistic? Haha!"
"Let me put it this way... the whole lot of you people who can't turn your feelings on and off on a whim... seem pretty autistic, to me... are we going to go nitpicking on definitions of whose variance counts as a handicap, and whose becomes the master race?"
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Considering making my staff very nervous by changing the password to malaysiaissoboring / doyoureallyneedit / whyareyouaskingme / okdarling. (commented).
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I was thinking about competitive fund raising, and why I don't prioritise it very highly. Fundamental to the nature of that enterprise is an enthusiasm to convince, and in that category I am too easily underwhelmed... by how easy it is to convince people by hacking their senses of empathy, with hope, and cheer, and comfort. It motivates me very much instead to feign disinterest, while at my core I am closer to apathetic. Hate is always a stronger lever than like, as hate (we all know, now from pop culture) stems from fear, which is a stronger lever than love. Sheer terror is vastly more marketable than amusement, and that is why beauty, and wellbeing, are lovely industries to play in. Anticompetitive, anticharismatic, anticool - I never thought I'd see that alliteration, but those are the scripts I have developed, and those are the things I do. It does amuse me, in general, to watch others striving to raise their spirits. How do you do?
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Correct me if I am wrong. But young chefs cooking foreign cuisine and hoping to win a Michelin star have missed the point of the program... Lol...
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"Your friend said Malaysians don't appreciate craft."
"There's a very fundamental reason for that - the book is xenophobic. We have a xenophobic master narrative woven from the executive implementation of the constitution. Because we place less value on human traits per se, we place less value on craft. The human element is the essential trait of craft, it's an antiautomation thing. Conversely we place more value on specific racial cultures. So you know, there's this meme where if the nasi is cooked by this race, you can charge 50sen more, and if you pray on it, you can charge 50sen more again, and if it has a thousand prayers, you can charge another 50sen... it's literally the consumer pattern which competes with craft's trendiness in general."
"Wish I didn't have to be in a country with these stupid people..."
"Oh, it's the same everywhere. People who value craft are just as stupid... they just have a different religion."
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I used to make enough and lived frugally to the effect of having five hundred Ringgit of discretionery income per business day (t=1d), to give away, to spend on beer, or prostitutes, or whatever it is that people do with money. But you see, I don't like the effects of alcohol, and I prefer learning about women over coffee, so I managed to save most of it and spent it later all at once on a large project which I am still working on. My risk appetite is pretty much the same as it has always been - I have few ambitions in the dimensions that most plebes care about, and I focus instead on abstracts like civilisation over the details of personal achievement. Nowadays as an executive, I agonise about spending five hundred Ringgit on tools, per quarter (90d), because it's not my money, mostly, and regardless of whether people trust my judgment, I remain responsible for decision making. A company should be more complex than an individual, no less mortal, and certainly not less organised. Ah well, each sheep to their own heap of dung, I suppose.
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I used to make enough and lived frugally to the effect of having five hundred Ringgit of discretionery income per business day (t=1d), to give away, to spend on beer, or prostitutes, or whatever it is that people do with money. But you see, I don't like the effects of alcohol, and I prefer learning about women over coffee, so I managed to save most of it and spent it later all at once on a large project which I am still working on. My risk appetite is pretty much the same as it has always been - I have few ambitions in the dimensions that most plebes care about, and I focus instead on abstracts like civilisation over the details of personal achievement. Nowadays as an executive, I agonise about spending five hundred Ringgit on tools, per quarter (90d), because it's not my money, mostly, and regardless of whether people trust my judgment, I remain responsible for decision making. A company should be more complex than an individual, no less mortal, and certainly not less organised. Ah well, each sheep to their own heap of dung, I suppose.
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/comment/ We need regulated job tracks for all blue collar work. That is how you force the upper and middle classes to increase consumption, and redistribute that wealth as upward mobility for less educated people.
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Nothing like a petty face, to get you through the night.
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/comment/ The health ministry laws apparently do not allow animals in any restaurant. However, the public seems to have all sorts of varied opinions about what the law says. I wish the ministries would have better infrastructure for the public to reference laws on any item. In general this is something that MDEC should really be helping with. It is just a matter of using technology, to supplement short-comings in the past meat-and-paper processes.
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On the rule of law:
Well it's a damn fine thing we all know how to change laws (legislative branch of government), choose when to ignore them (executive branch), and reinterpret them (judicial branch). Tqvm...
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Two step back, three steps forward :P
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How often do you change your mind? How often do you "become a different person," - no longer associating your present views with the views that once inhabited your body? I tend to abstractly say that I stopped growing when I was fourteen, about 21 years ago. I retain a similar worldview, have discovered no new fundamental knowledge, and continue to work on projects that stem from work I was doing at that time. Some people treat their minds like deleted notes - mine seems to be somewhat version-controlled, each future instance being merely a folded copy of the past... Damascus brain, perhaps. My life is littered with people who have walked their way in, and then out of it, perhaps after they learnt enough about me to orientate from like to dislike. I tend to love my muses forever (to-date), unlike folks who love a thing today, and hate it tomorrow - they are like ants, and that is probably a view that is valueless to them, but it helps me to imagine that perhaps that is what it is like to become a different person so easily. One more has left today. A short, farewell..
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Forcing myself to slow down for conservation of energy for emergencies. Here's my plan for the next 48 hours.
1. Clean sewers.
2. Rest.
3. Run the bar for 10.5 hours.
4. Rest.
5. Run the bar for 4.0 hours.
6. Rest.
7. Attempt to replace a fridge compressor.
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Report: 3. Turned into "and do groceries," while 5. turned into "check bugs on earlier work; do more groceries; implement QA and retraining for staff" and 6. 7. still have not happened.
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/comment on vaccines being foreign substances/ We eat foreign substances daily, and breathe in millions of organisms per minute. Would it hurt to add one more that is actually regulated and designed by a billion dollar team? (I know, they're not always organisms.)
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Fishing for information by dropping false statements and waiting for rebuttals - not sure who does it better: gossip aunties, or the Special Branch? Ask me directly lah, it's just my love life. Why so serious?
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Is it not common knowledge that movie posters disclose plot devices?
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Checking out Tamarind Square. Looks like someone did a copy-paste-50x on YTL's work with Seksan lol.
[Oh.. The dev is the EMKAY group of Empire Damansara. Figures.]
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On masculinity camps: It would be nice to have camps that train people to be apathetic and brutal regardless of gender!
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More incoming bogeys woohoo
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A curious observation about how business functions are regarded by people. Each C-level executive essentially manages the supply-chain for a variety of currency. However, some currencies are regarded as being more fundamental than others, but those would be biased views.
Update: People know how to count money, but are no so good a quantifying humans, or information, or processes, for example.
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It's been a messy year for sex. Work has been an avalaunch of nonsense due to internal weaknesses born of fear and trembling (not mine), since 18 months ago. My best friend fell sick, and I played nurse for the better part of two quarters. We do not touch each other, any more, in certain ways; we are still in love. Other partners have simply been displaced by their higher priorities - some wishing to fuck on occassion, would usually have found me unprepared - I do not have the luxury of keeping fit, and generally perform mucccch better when there is a plan on the calendar. Also, the past four months have required me to ingest an intuition for Rankine cycles, and it has been intellectually exhausting, given that the environment for this study has been an infant business in operation under loaded conditions. Sometimes I wonder if I have forgotten how to plumb a woman. Then maybe I spend a little time trying to remember how to plumb myself. I do seem to miss worshiping at the clit of a beautiful encounteress, but these are ordinary thoughts and feelings I suppose. I am married to work, and there is not much time for cheating...
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Off to three hours of dishwashing....
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In the universe of pussies, there is a simple hierarchy:
clits > cats > zits > cowards
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Heavy rain. Off to war...
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Troubled. Much to do. Plus, I have to talk to morons with different priorities who don't shut up about wanting me to have their priorities... #eyeroll
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Back to work. Administrative duties, supply chain, and R&D....
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It always disturbs me when humanists and unitarians distance their ethics from those of theists, on account of a supposedly superior epistemology. Attempting to take the moral high ground, by taking the intellectual high ground, so to speak. This is what defines the category of intellectual virtue signallers, per se. Whereas the whole time I just disgusted by the arbitrariness of their notions that animal life, or human consciousness, should be regarded with special rights just on account of its existence. Oh well, it seems that we are all doomed to be perpetually disgusted with ourselves or each other.
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Following up on my previous comment that male/female categories should be obsoleted, I believe the future of sporting categories will be denominated not in genders, or sexes, but in technically specified degrees of biochemical implementation - just like we currently do with race cars!
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Regression!
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Apparently #protonmailgossipaunty is a thing...
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Moving on already, so who gets to kill Arya?
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Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur why are there landscapers standing on the fast lane of Mahameru/Tun Razak near Jalan Ipoh heading into KL... wearing green camo instead of safety vests?!
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Showered. End of 36 hour day. Happy.
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"Cigarette break?"
"Sure."
"Do you smoke?"
"Nah, I just take cigarette breaks with the cute ones. Speaking of which, my favourite crush is over there, behind you."
"Not bad."
"I don't talk to the quiet ones anymore. It's safer for business. Keep the motor mouth to himself."
"I don't get creeped out. I'm used to it."
"I was counting on that."
"How can you tell, is it on our faces?"
"Speech pattern."
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I have had the misfortune of working with some of the most annoying people in my time. Those of you who prioritise being polite over delivering on mandates need to stop reproducing.
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Got stuck entertaining housemates, tow truck agents, and cops. Decided to go for a homerun and talked to my office crush as well.
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/commented on dropshipping/ I think the key point is the economic role of the startup: its comparative advantage in the business environment is to help all those dumb shits who enjoy being chirpy cashiers to not have to think about anything besides customer entertainment. If you dig into that a little more, you'll find that this sort of backend-as-a-service role exists in all sorts of areas. It's pretty much the only long-term target I have in F&B... lol. Too many people want to run horeca businesses, but everyone reinvents the backend.
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Being a polymath is hard. Yesterday I was reading up on thermodynamics and fluid cycles, when some drunk person totalled my stationary car, so then I had to swap in my knowledge of how to engage police reports, tow truck touts, and insurance claims, in the process of doing so, I had to swap in again my knowledge of hosting and entertaining neighbours and strangers over food and beverage; then I got a bit of sleep, and took over floor operations for a restaurant for a few hours, including coffee calibrations (more swapping), while preparing documentation on the earlier events (swapped in slide layout and legal copywriting), and calibrating our refrigeration systems (more swapping); then I had to shop for the shop (swapped in procurement management); then I had to entertain my best friend whom I had borrowed a car from (more swapping - usually we are talking about sex, and counselling other people); then a nap; I still hadn't managed to get back to to thinking about air conditioner design, when I had the opportunity to chat up a new match (swap in the usual rigamarole of dating interview technique - what are your concerns, rules, sensitivities - do you touch yourself, do you enjoy touching others, blah blah); then I was thinking about something I had read on ontic vs epistemic vs ethics concerns, when I reflected on how first/second/third-person syntax is just a way to notate cardinality of minds (one mind, one mind aware of other minds, one mind aware of other minds aware of other minds). Fuck, and now that I had made these notes... there's now an increased probability that I will again, have to engage with the political rhetoric of commenters requesting that I add resources to restructure my modus operandi, when structuring my MO is literally the core of my MO. Oh well, on we go... having taken the time to document the past day, I have decided to to now eat and nap some more before work.
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Up for the next scary day.
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Basic day:
- wake, wash, feed
- seek vendors for engagement
- go to office
- check meat, adjust meat; check metal, adjust metal; check vegetables, adjust vegetables (staff / machines / product)
- documentation
- haven't started on anything new yet :P
