I saw this on the internet and I didn’t know if this was true. Could people really be this bad at understanding fractions?
So I Googled it. Sure enough, this actually is true. Here’s the validation from the horse’s mouth, so to speak.
This is yet another reason why it’s fruitless to argue with people online.
Kevin Sorbo, American actor
Written for Linda G. Hill’s One-Liner Wednesday prompt.
Welcome once again to Fandango’s Provocative Question. Each week I will pose what I think is a provocative question for your consideration.
By provocative, I don’t mean a question that will cause annoyance or anger. Nor do I mean a question intended to arouse sexual desire or interest.
What I do mean is a question that is likely to get you to think, to be creative, and to provoke a response. Hopefully a positive response.
In the decade before I retired almost six years ago, I worked from home. I only went into the office about once a month at the most. And I loved working remotely. I had several headhunters contact me about potential job opportunities, but when I found out that they were office-based, I wasn’t interested.
I retired three years before the pandemic hit and sent a significant portion of office-based workers home. But it seems now that a growing number of employers are requiring, or are planning to require, employees to return to the “brick and mortar” offices to perform their jobs.
Companies like Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Apple, Google, and Twitter have or are trying to get employees back to working on-site. A May survey found that 76% of high up executives say in-person work is critical. And Elon Musk is demanding that Tesla workers return to the office full-time or quit.
This demand that employees head back to the office after nearly two years of working from home is a growing source of tension between employees and management. Some recent surveys show that millions of workers want to stay home and would likely quit their job rather than go back to a daily commute.
The most recent round of research from this month shows that among full-time wage and salary employees who are able to work remotely, more than three in ten said they wanted to do so five days per week. Only 16.8% of respondents said they would rather be in person pretty much all the time.
So my provocative question this week has to do with your thoughts on working from home versus going into the office everyday. If you’re retired, or if your job is one that can’t be done remotely, you might respond hypothetically, as in if you were not retired or if you had a job were you could potentially work remotely.
Have you ever worked from home as an alternative to going into a worksite to do your job? Would you prefer working from home or working from an office? If you have been able to work from home since the pandemic hit and are now being told that you have to return to showing up at the office everyday, how would you feel about that?
If you choose to participate, write a post with your response to the question. Once you are done, tag your post with #FPQ and create a pingback to this post if you are on WordPress. Or you can simply include a link to your post in the comments. But remember to check to confirm that your pingback or your link shows up in the comments.
It’s August 31, 2022. Welcome to Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (aka, FOWC). I will be posting each day’s word just after midnight Pacific Time (U.S.).
Today’s word is “update.”
Write a post using that word. It can be prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction. It can be any length. It can be just a picture or a drawing if you want. No holds barred, so to speak.
Once you are done, tag your post with #FOWC and create a pingback to this post if you are on WordPress. Please check to confirm that your pingback is there. If not, please manually add your link in the comments.
And be sure to read the posts of other bloggers who respond to this prompt. Show them some love.
“Mom, stop the car,” Adele shouted.
Concerned, Dorothy quickly pulled the car over to the side of the road. Before she could ask her daughter what was wrong, Adele had opened the car door, hopped out, and ran over to the fence at the edge of the field. Dorothy called out to her daughter, “Adele, what are you doing?”
“I want that,” Adele said, pointing to the ponies standing in the field.
“You want a pony?” Dorothy asked.
“Yes, I want the second one, the short, squatty one. It’s so cute and it has long blonde hair just like my Barbie,” Adele said.
“I’m sorry, honey,” Dorothy said, “but you can’t have a pony.”
“Why not?” Adele said, stomping her right foot on the ground. “I want it. I want it.”
“It belongs to someone and I’m sure it’s not for sale,” Dorothy said.
“But Dad always says that everything is for sale,” Adele said.
“That’s because your father is a salesman,” Dorothy said.
“I don’t care. I want that pony.”
“Well, sweetie, as The Rolling Stones sang, ‘You Can’t Always Get What You Want.’”
“The who?”
“No, not The Who, The Rolling Stones.”
“I don’t understand what you’re talking about,” Adele said. “Can I have that pony?”
“No, you cannot.”
“I hate you!”
Mothers and daughters, Dorothy thought.
Written for Sadje’s What Do You See prompt. Photo credit: Free images on Google.
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