I’d rather deal with Newark than JFK or LGA. Admittedly, shit sandwich vs. shit stew vs. shit on a shingle, but I like shit sandwiches the best of the three.

When was the last time you sat in a conference room full of men (literally, 16+ to your one), and had to stand up for what was right and call bullshit?  She ain’t a superhero, but for fucks sake she stands for every goddamn one of us that was in that position and COULD NOT stand up because it would have been the end…

We gotta improve things there, not everyone has the luxury of being able to move and even if they could, it would just increase the asshole ratio after they left. The place won’t get better without people working there to improve it.

“You live in the longest stretch of peace in human history. Innovation virtually slaps you across the face every morning you wake up with yet another improvement to make your life easier. Green energy and electric infrastructure use is exploding, people are more environmentally conscious. There is more vegetarians and…

Thats very easy to say if you are in a place where you have lots of options for jobs. Not everyone has the luxury and just do what they have to do.

there is NO web broadcast or communications of any kind offered

If everyone is working remotely, that means that if flights get expensive enough the company will make more effort to have people they need spread out in the right places. Either through hiring more or encouraging relocation. The fact that we have so many companies so reliant on air travel is part of the problem that…

I find it funny the number of people who think what your suggesting is doing something like violating fundamental laws of physics or something. People adapt. Technology changes things as it evolves. These are solvable problems. We’re not trying to counteract gravity here. This is just social norms.  Those change ALL…

how many times does it need to be pointed out that the authors of these articles dont choose what ads to air? the site’s owners do that.

“everyone is consuming more than they should, so why should I scale back?” is a bad argument.

His smirking, leering start to that interview. “Well, we’ve certainly seen a lot of you recently..” made me want to set him on fire.

Whenever I think of Matt Lauer, I am reminded of the interview he did with Anne Hathaway years ago. Scummy paps took upskirt picks of her getting out of a car, and Lauer had the audacity to ask her what lesson she learned from the experience.  As though it was her fault.  Dude has always been a creepy and arrogant…

Writing: balancing what you want to write with realities of what it takes to publish it.

In fairness, I doubt it was just NBC in the news biz. I’m in a different biz and the big harassers are similarly whispered about and well known. The problem comes for women - young and older - who take jobs from outside that network. They are seldom on the grapevine and get harassed before they get warned (sometimes).…

Yeah as much as I don’t mind Hoda and Savannah Guthrie, I’m sort of not buying they were “shocked” by the allegations, at the very least they thought he was a complete dog and were shocked by rape allegations but I think it’s somewhere in between that, that said I don’t think they even really had the power to do…

Or, not sure of your career, but a lot of companies might be encouraged to send people on less trips and conduct more business remotely. It’s easy to just send people on trips when the price is cheap, when it gets higher you really have to evaluate whether the business they’re conducting can only be done in person.

Do a bit of both, in my opinion. Hit those private jets with taxes and landing fees (that commercial airports charge, but General Aviation ones generally do not).

Counter-Counter-point: Why not do both? Commercial airports charge landing fees, while most General Aviation ones do not. Leave long-range flights alone and gently tax shorter ones. You could hit those capitalist pigs right in the wallet, while leaving regular folks relatively unharmed.

... which will maybe make your company re-evaluate sending you on all those flights, which is the point. I don’t know about your job, but at mine a lot of the flying people do is for purposes that could pretty easily be done over videoconferencing.