The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:
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Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.
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Updates to let us know how you are doing. This provides valuable feedback on past advice / encouragement and will hopefully make people feel a little more motivated to follow through. If you want to be reminded to post your update, see the post titled 'update reminders', below.
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Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.
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Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).
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Getting paid by the hour is fakery no matter what, unless you literally keep pace with an assembly line or man a human-to-human interaction post for the entirety of your workday. I try to fulfill my obligations exactingly, putting in the hours specified and the effort to match...but what exactly is the expected level of effort? Nobody quantifies it. It's a nebulous "so long as deadlines are met, you did your part, and if not, then it's down to the quality of your excuses". Does it matter whether I do it in 4 hours or in 8? Does it matter whether I'm available to my co-workers for 8 hours a day? Does it matter whether I put effort in at a constant rate, or can it vary over the course of a day so long as the overall effort matches expectations? And again, how to quantify it? Are my colleagues shirking, faking their hours, when they do small-talk in the office? Am I shirking when I lean back, look outside the window and daydream? Are we all shirking when we take circuitous routes through the building to get a little exercise? OTOH, am I putting in overtime when I think about work in the shower, while driving, or in bed?
In the end, getting paid by the hour is a gross oversimplification, albeit perhaps a necessary one, and the only thing that matters is whether your superior is satisfied with your performance.
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