My boss had the worst employee satisfaction result ever seen in our group for his department. No surprise, he had oversold himself to get the job and when his idiotic project of redoing everything from the ground up started to be way delayed compared to the unrealistic promises he had made to the board, he asked everyone to go into "crunch mode" for "a short time", work late, Saturdays, and so on. A "short time" became months...

Anyhoo, he asked us, what we could do about his shitty results because the board actually got worried. I reminded him, the work life balance sucked, people were overworked and they didn't see any end to "the crunch" and it had to stop before any other action.

He dismissed my idea and he settled on a team lunch. But since he didn't want to waste work time for "the crunch", he decided to have it on a Sunday and fuck up the only off day for most of the people.

I've never seen a floor of people so angry than the day they got the email about that team lunch.

I told him, he dismissed it again.

That's about when I went into quiet quitting and patiently waited to be fired while pretending to be out on meeting and actually going for walks in the park.

It will be called switch U but the controller will be a tandem unicycle.

I feel this. I just saw a second hand pool table at a charity store last week and my wife said no :D

I bought a Segway/ninebot e300se. It has a range of wltc ~85km (or ~130 with a 3rd battery) and a top speed of 100km/h and it cost as much as an high end electric bicycle.

https://eu-en.segway.com/products/segway-escooter-e300se

Note, apparently, that former US brand doesn't sell in the US. .

Not really, trams are only good if you need more capacity than a bus can provide on a fixed line which is not the case. What we need is exactly the opposite, a small capacity and a flexible route.

The thing that has the most chance to work in the near future, from a practicality and cost point of view is, imho, a fleet of on demand self driving electric minibus that can serve all the township around.

Note, we already have on-demand minibus, it's basically a bus with fixed stop in all the local towns that only come if requested and available, It's just not very available due to a shortage of drivers.

What we do have at a walking/biking distance is a bakery, a pharmacy, a coffee shop, an antique store, two art galleries.

Anything else such as food, school, work, train station, doctor, veterinary, you name it, is 15k away.

Those stats are a bit misleading. For example, I live in a "urban" environnement, aka a town, but the closest anything is still 15km away.

It's hard to tell, because it's hard to imagine that anyone would desire to be in the situation of the people in the second picture. Unless you take it specifically to rub yourself against other people obviously.