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A Random Wednesday Conversation Starter
A Random Wednesday Conversation Starter
What’s your preferred work schedule? Do you respond best to Monday-Friday, 9 to 5? Do you like a mix of days, nights? Is working weekends OK or godawful?
The last restaurant company I worked for, not long before I left, rolled out an interesting approach to the management schedule (that has since been abandoned, I believe). Their original approach had been to have managers work five consecutive days, and then always have back-to-back days off (which is always nice; split days off can be a pain), with one extra day off each month. But then they tried this, which I thought worked really nicely for the short time I was there: managers worked four consecutive days and then had their two days off. Obviously, this means that your days off change each week: one week you’re off Wednesday-Thursday, then you’re off Tuesday-Wednesday, and so on. I liked this because it meant that every five weeks, you would have consecutive Sundays off (Sunday being the busiest day at that restaurant, this was nice), and that every six weeks you would have a weekend off. In restaurants, weekends off are really hard to come by. They can happen, but you’d better be prepared to work a lot of days up to and after the weekend off.
Anyway, what do you like to work?
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What would you rather have named after you: a military maneuver (“The Picard Maneuver”), or a breakthrough medical procedure (“Tommy John surgery”)?
(I’ll assume nobody wants to have a disease named for them.)
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You’re sitting down to watch your favorite movie. On your lap is a big bowl of _____, and at your side is a tall glass of _____. Fill in the blanks! (With a snack and beverage. This ain’t Mad-Libs and you’re not going to do the 10-year-old thing of putting ‘poop’ in all the blanks. I’m watching you, people!)
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I read this article with some interest:
What the tropical nation of Costa Rica lacks in size, it more than makes up for in a wealth of biodiversity. Despite occupying just 0.03% of the planet’s surface, the region’s lush forests are home to an incredible 500 thousand unique organisms — representing over 4% of all the known species on Earth. For the hundreds of animals held captive in the country’s zoos, however, that hotbed of life had been replaced by the cold bars of a cage.
But now, in a remarkable push to restore natural order for all its animal inhabitants, the Costa Rican government has announced plans to close its zoos, freeing creatures from their long captivity.
“We are getting rid of the cages and reinforcing the idea of interacting with biodiversity in botanical parks in a natural way,” said Environment Minister René Castro. “We don’t want animals in captivity or enclosed in any way unless it is to rescue or save them.”
I like zoos, but I find my feelings are more and more mixed, the older I get. Plenty of zoos work hard to approximate their animals’ native living conditions as best they can, which is certainly a vast improvement over the “big cage with walls painted to look like Africa” kind of thing I remember from when I was a kid. But now I’m wondering if even that is too much by way of captivity. (Places like Seaworld and Marineland? Fuhgeddaboudit.)
And what about aquariums? I doubt I’ll ever lose my fascination with those, and I’m already really excited about a new, glittering aquarium that is set to open in Toronto later this year.
So…zoos? Aquariums? What are your thoughts on them?