The person who processes it is on leave. Shouldn’t people be able to take time off work and not have to think about work while they have time off?

Ideally that department would have an extra employee so the HR rep can go on leave without affecting others. The negative is literally just getting paid not to work which isn’t really a negative and from the taxpayer perspective it’s cheaper to pay a person for a few days that they aren’t working than to have a position that remains underutilized the majority of the time.

Nobody is being forced to do work… do you know what life was like as a slave and are just being incredibly tone deaf or do you not understand what slave labor actually is.

When you have an oversight position you have to ensure there are no conflicts of interest the simplest method is to say you can’t work for another company while employed in that oversight position. The federal government tries to be even more accommodating and says you can even work at another company as long as you clear it with an ethics office. You are required to sign an employment contract where you agree to those terms if you want the original position.

In order to be free from that contract you need to process a form. It’s really not the most ridiculous thing to ask from people in charge of oversight to have just the slightest anti corruption protections that cause the minor inconvenience of getting paid money to not work…

This also wouldn’t even be a problem if the HR department was properly staffed instead of being recklessly cut as now they can’t handle a single employee taking leave which they are 100% entitled to

I’m on my phone and don’t have the effort required to make the meme but until it’s processed it’s as official as Michael Scott’s “I declare bankruptcy”.

Until the resignation is processed they are an employee hence the paycheck. It’s an anti corruption regulation otherwise a person could get a job at a pharma company and on their last day at the fda try and push a bunch of approvals through. That type of corruption is reserved for members of congress, president, Supreme Court, and of course the special government employee

If the job is in an industry regulated by the fda it can be considered a conflict of interest and normal government employees would need to have that approved by an ethics committee

Grenell is following the will of the admin. Him not taking direct credit gives him plausible deniability for not being associated with a sex traffickers while his base can give him credit so it’s a win win for him

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly22wdedqeo

When asked about the Tates at the White House on Thursday, President Trump said: “I know nothing about that.”

But the brothers have been the subject of recent high-level discussions between the US and Romania.

Romanian officials say US counterparts brought up the brothers’ case with the Romanian government earlier this month, a story first reported by the Financial Times.

And Trump special envoy Richard Grenell [raised the issue again at a security conference in Munich.

Hurezeanu said the Tates were mentioned during that conversation, but denied being pressured to release the pair.

I hear plenty of zoomers say it but I also don’t interact with gen alpha so have no idea if it started with them

They currently don’t affect digital goods but there is no actual reason they couldn’t make one that does we are in some truly interesting times

Just about everyone can use help with sentence structure, like can you convey your point without help? Sure, but your point can be conveyed clearer and with less effort on your part.

It’s like the benefit of autocorrect you can reread your whole email a few times and double check a few questionable words to make sure everything is spelled perfectly or we can have this integrated tool that highlights words that should be fixed and lets you quickly fix those words.

For bullshit corporate emails I personally see very little negative in using a chatbot to make your words sound more professional besides just more of a brain rot

“AI” or as they were called for the longest time machine learning algorithms can do things like spell check and help with grammar.

The more modern algorithms that they started really calling AI can help format your ideas, can fix sentence structure, and can even translate into foreign languages

Email is probably the most useful place for AI as most of the ones we talk about today are really good at language formatting but don’t really have any intelligence

For example you can write an email cursing out your boss saying “as I fucking told you yesterday” and then ask the AI to rewrite your email in a professional tone so that it says “per my previous email” like sure you can obviously do that yourself but it’s a lot faster to word vomit your thoughts into a computer especially when it’s trivial work related garbage and save your mental energy for your personal time

It doesn’t matter if it’s data, tariffs are meant to be protectionist so you could easily say that since Nintendo is headquartered in Japan or because the majority of their workers are in Japan or because their name sounds vaguely Japanese that all sales of their product in insert country here has to pay an additional 10% tax

Nintendo is one of the last game companies that actually release a finished product that’s not filled with micro transactions and your mad that they add an extra $20 to the price of something you will likely put hundreds of hours in as prices of everything have increased. Would you rather they release it for $60 but you have to pay an extra $5 for each character/vehicle/map like all the American companies are doing it