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Unlike the novel’s wealthy, married heiress, or the animated film’s sinister, skulking puppy-napper, Close’s Cruella is a glamorous fashion magnate. She’s snobbish, independent and incredibly successful. And, for the first time, the true star of the film.
… Stone’s Cruella is the youngest — and most sympathetic — take on the character yet. Sure, she lies, steals and hot-wires a luxury car, but she has a clear motive: Revenge. And, as a lower middle-class girl who becomes a rising fashion star by cleaning bathrooms and scrubbing floors, weirdly relatable.
Daily Word Challenge
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In this lesson, you will explore why workers are quitting their jobs, how the pandemic is changing attitudes about the nature of employment and what this all means for the future of the workplace. In Going Further activities, we invite you to share your own work goals and experiences and to interview and profile someone else about their work.
Warm-Up
Have you ever had a job? If so, what was the experience like? Was it fulfilling? Well paid? Boring? Did you ever think of quitting? Or do you generally think it’s more important to stick it out, even if a situation is not always perfect?
With a partner or in a small group, brainstorm two lists based on your own experiences and those you have heard about from family and friends. Title the first list Reasons to Stay in a Job. Title the second one Reasons to Quit a Job. Come up with as many reasons for each list as you can. When you’re done, share your lists with the class, and together, compile a common list of ideas.
Then, before you read the article, discuss one additional question as a group: Why do you think so many people are quitting their jobs now? What do you think is causing a “great resignation” at this moment in history?
1. Why does the article start with the story of Justin Hoffman, who worked as a marketing director at an orthopedic practice in Ohio? What does it illustrate about current trends in the U.S. economy and labor force?
2. What are some reasons American workers have been quitting their jobs in the last year, according to the article? How do these reasons compare with the list you created in the warm-up? What new reasons could you add to your list?
3. What role has the coronavirus pandemic played in the rise of resignations across the country?
4. How have employers responded to this rash of resignations and the growing labor shortage?
5. Why did Matt Gisin, 24, quit his job as a graphic designer at a health and wellness company? What does it reveal about how workers are rethinking their priorities about work, life and purpose?
6. What’s your reaction to the article? What story, quotation or statistic stood out to you? Does it make you change or question your perspective on your own work and future career?
7. What are the implications of the “Great Resignation” on the future of work? Do you think it’s a temporary phenomenon or do you think it is part of a lasting shift in people’s expectations about work? Make a prediction: How will work look different in 2030? 2050?
Going Further
Option 1: Share your thoughts, experiences and opinions about work:
If you are interested in joining a conversation with other teenagers about work and its meaning in your life and in American society in general, please share your thoughts in the comments section.
Option 2: Interview someone about their work experiences
Imagine you have been hired by The Times to write an article on the experiences of American workers. Whom would you profile and why? What questions would you ask? How might these experiences inform and engage readers of The Times?
You can choose to spotlight a person who loves or hates his or her job; a person receiving a minimum wage or a six-figure salary; a young person just starting out in the world of work; or a 50-year career veteran.
Brainstorm a list of questions you could ask to learn about the person’s experiences. For instance, you might ask: What do you like most about work? The least? How has the pandemic affected your work life? Have you ever quit a job? What would make work better for you — and other people at your job? What life lessons have you learned from working? What advice would you give to young people as they think about and imagine their future work and career?
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Even with the surge in new air-conditioners, the Seattle metro in 2019 still had the lowest rate among metros tracked in the American Housing Survey, ahead of San Francisco, where 47 percent reported having units. In Portland, 79 percent had air-conditioning. Other large cities where 90-degree temperatures are more common, such as Houston, had air-conditioning in more than 99 percent of households.
… Mr. Bond, who has lived in Seattle since 1980, recalled that during the 2009 heat wave, he went to bed with the indoor temperature above 90 degrees and woke up after a miserable night of fitful sleep to find the indoor temperatures still in the mid- to upper 80s.
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The world’s long-suffering workers have finally gained some measure of leverage over their bosses, and their new power is a glorious thing to behold.
In South Korea this week, tens of thousands of union members staged a one-day strike to demand better benefits and protections for temporary and contract workers. In Britain, where Brexit has contributed to severe shortages of goods and labor, Boris Johnson, the prime minister, has been taking dubious credit for what he calls a new era of higher pay.
And in the United States, a record nearly 4.3 million people quit their jobs in August, according to the Labor Department, and more than 10 million positions were vacant — slightly down from July, when about 11 million jobs needed filling. The shortage of workers has led to a growth in wages that has surpassed many economists’ expectations, and seems to have discombobulated bosses who are used to employees leaping at their every demand.
There are many potential reasons for workers’ reluctance to work terrible jobs. People who are flush with unemployment assistance and stimulus money might be holding out for better jobs to come along. Workers who spent the last year and half on the front lines of dangerous jobs in thankless industries — for instance, enforcing mask rules for belligerent customers in shops and restaurants — could be burned out by the experience. And many workers continue to fear for their health in an ongoing pandemic, while a lack of child and elder care has added costs and complications that have rendered many jobs just not worth the trouble.
All of this makes sense. But there might also be something deeper afoot. In its sudden rearrangement of daily life, the pandemic might have prompted many people to entertain a wonderfully un-American new possibility — that our society is entirely too obsessed with work, that employment is not the only avenue through which to derive meaning in life and that sometimes no job is better than a bad job.
“The pandemic gave us a kind of forced separation from work and a rare critical distance from the daily grind,” Kathi Weeks, a professor of gender, sexuality and feminist studies at Duke University, told me. “I think what you’re seeing with people refusing to go back is a kind of yearning for freedom.”
Weeks, the author of “The Problem With Work,” is among a handful of scholars who have been pushing for a wholesale reappraisal of the role that work plays in wealthy societies. Their ideas have been dubbed “post-work” or “antiwork,” and although they share goals with other players in the labor market — among them labor unions and advocates for higher minimum wages and a stronger social safety net — these scholars are calling for something even grander than improved benefits.
They’re questioning some of the bedrock ideas in modern life, especially life in America: What if paid work is not the only worthwhile use of one’s time? What if crushing it in your career is not the only way to attain status and significance in society? What if electing to live a life that is not driven by the neuroses and obsessions of paid employment is considered a perfectly fine and reasonable way to live?
What is a turkey? Well, besides a bird, I think most of us think of a bad product or service or in our case, system or solution. And yes, you are totally correct. For me, I toss in some terms that need to go or be stopped in their tracks before confusion does more to hurt than help.
While the 2020 Awards did not occur, 2021 brings it all back. It started in 2018, then in 2019. It has been a reader favorite and yes, a few vendors have been, uh, extremely unhappy.
I get it. I eat a plant-based diet, and plant-based turkey is pretty fowl (ha, get it?). Tofurkey, isn’t much better, unless your taste buds enjoy, uh, tofurkey.
Categories
The other day, I learned what is in a turkey hot dog, actually all types of hot dogs. It’s called trimmings, and I will leave it at that.
It has no correlation to the categories, rather, just something to ponder the next time you eat a grilled frank. You are welcome!
Worst Learning System – A lot of good ones err bad ones out there. This is totally based on the similar criteria I have for the top learning systems. Okay, some differences. Ever heard of Scrapple? Yep, like that. For 2021, I’ve expanded this to include, well, you will find out.
A term that has to go – It has to be one that either has taken hold in 2021 or is still around, being pushed as a narrative by vendors, who in most cases, are either ignorant or unaware of what the term really means.
Functionality that is out of date, and either vendor are removing it OR needs a serious update via UI and UX.
Normally, you have to wait to find out the worst learning system – to the very end, but this year, one of the worst awards will be viewed shortly, and then the bigger of the two, will be at the end of the post, okay towards the end.
Most Baffling Learning System
This is geared towards a learning system that while it has some of features and components that are doable for the system itself, is either going in the wrong direction OR seem stuck in neutral. It totally baffles me. And maybe you as well.
Nominees
HowNow – I’ve seen this system up close and personal, and I’m baffled. There are features it lacks, but hey, many systems have this challenge, but the way they get their skills tied to job roles information creates this confusion. They rely heavily on job boards. This means the people who post jobs, which may or may not have applicable information – even if they (HN) scours and strip out nonsensical. Other vendors who include job boards as part of their data for skills and job roles, do so, at less than 10% (in the majority of the cases). I have yet to find a vendor, besides HowNow, that uses it as a primary. The system itself, well, there are far better ones out there.
Workday Learning – Workday’s whole push from the beginning was leveraging learning around the Workday HCM for the whole push and pull data. Okay, got it. Then they started to notice Workday customers, not buying WL, because they – the customer wanted their learning for customer learning (aka education aka training).
Workday Learning said, okay, we can fix that. We will create a separate instance that can be used for your customers. Only problem? The key narrative of why you want WL in the first place just went out the window. Oh, and the option for going this route – it’s an additional cost. On top of all that, WL still has an issue with pulling in data from learners who are on Linkedin Learning. This should probably be on LL, but at the same time, WL equally should be heavily focused on resolving this. Call it the blame game! I call it, nominee.
Odilo– First off, I want to say, I like this system – for the most part. The front end of the whole content, including audiobooks and ebooks and the publishers involved, and updates, etc – is fantastic. They have more assets than any vendor out there (uh, won’t say whom, but you need to change your marketing on that). Oh, and the system is not an ecosystem, IMO.
What baffles me is an area within the platform around learning experiences. It’s dated, not rich and luxurious and the information is just bleah. I have to admit, I was stunned by what I saw. It is as though, two different people from two different times in history created this. Once you see Odilo, you will see how amazing it is, seriously, but that other part – baffling. Just as baffling as to why Willy Wonka never paid any taxes on his chocolate factory.
And the Winner is
Gobble..Gobble.. (think drum roll but in a turkey voice)
HowNow!
The Term(s) that has/have to GO
Wow, there are so many out there. I looked at the terminology that does not either reflect what it really is, or is totally outdated (and as noted still used). Terms are relevant because this is what people – buyers in L&D and Training and HR and wherever rely on to make an informed decision. Vendors have a bad habit of spinning – thru marketing various terms to mean something totally different than what it was defined to mean. Then, the public just buys into it.
Nominees
Extended Enterprise – The absolute worst. It is hard to even fathom how outdated this term is, and how so many vendors are holding on and using this terminology as though, it is really a golden ticket that will allow them to meet Willy Wonka. Come to think of it, it might be as old as Willy.
Anyway. I’ve written a lot on extended enterprise, which unless you are were into legacy (another old-school tech term) it won’t be a term that just rolls off the tongue.
Extended Enterprise means a multi-tenant platform and is geared towards customer learning (a new term which means customer education which replaced another term, customer training). This is in reference first and foremost to B2B, and for others B2C or a combo of B2B/B2C. Partner training slides in here. And to me, associations tend to go customer learning, whereas the customer is the member.
I rarely hear this term, unless it comes out of a vendor’s mouth, or the person mentioning it worked at a company back in the day (many moons ago) that had a system that espoused the EE term.
I know, you are already thinking, this has to be the winner. Perhaps or not.
Micro-Learning.Vendors write it as micro learning, forgetting the hyphen. Micro-Learning has been around since 2000. That is right, since the year 2000. As in 21 years. I had it in my learning system. Micro just means short. It doesn’t mean better courses or content. It doesn’t mean better quality. On top of all that, self-paced learning, is about learning at your own pace. So if micro is all about duration, what takes you five minutes, may take me an hour, because I am heavily focused on a specific page or pages or video screen. I’ve never been a fan of duration, it defeats the purpose of WBT (aka online learning, which is now spun as elearning or eLearning, which is actually spelled e-learning).
Mobile First. Congrats it means absolutely nothing. It reminds me of mobile learning, which only meant that you could access the vendor’s system via your mobile browser. It never meant that the learning system had a mobile app, let alone on/off synch. Oh, mobile responsive? Yeah, everyone can do that. Remember that mobile browser thing? Some vendors have a completely different look for their mobile app, others squish.
Mobile-first is just buzz. Vendors who push this term are saying that their system first and foremost is all about accessing via a mobile device. And yet, I find vendors who do not have a mobile app. Wait. I find a few that have a mobile app, but lack on/off synch, which you want. Mobile responsive they say. Mobile capabilities they say. Yeah, so does everyone else. If you are reading this blog or accessing it as a newsletter via your email, and are reading it on a mobile device, congrats – it’s mobile-first, responsive, and provides a mobile learning experience.
And the Winner is
Gobble…Gobble…
– Extended Enterprise. Tell me, have you ever visited a processing plant?
Functionality that is out of date and/or needs a serious update to reflect 2021 and soon 2022
Nominees
Discussion boards – EdTech (K-12, Higher Ed) love them. I mean, they really love them. I’ve seen them in EdTech systems going back to 1999. They have the same UI and UX design as they did in 1999. Actually, that’s not fully accurate. I had one on my website (teacher job site) in 1994. With the exact same look and design.
Forums? Ditto. Text Chat? Ditto.
I could easily add those two functions as separate nominees, but when it comes to discussion boards, it seems to be a trifecta – DB, Forums, and Chat – text chat. I’m not referring to text chat you can do it via a virtual classroom or webinar or web meeting. I’m referring to an actual chat room, with text. You see these threebies in many corporate-focused systems. I get that plenty of buyers love them, but you could do an update here. Add a voice capability, so rather than typing in the text, it is voice-audio files. Add some emojis or .GIF animation. What about the video within the video? There are a lot of ways to go here. Yet, that seems like a challenge for so many vendors. There are vendors who have totally removed forums or chat off their systems. Let me repeat that – removed forums and/or chat. Unheard of, i.e. removing some functionality.
Built-in Authoring Tools – Upward trajectory in systems, a return to the old days, early learning systems that had them, then it fell out of favor, and now it is back and full throttle. I support and embrace a built-in authoring tool, due to a) the 20% market, b) the end of corporate instructional designers, c)the push to push out content quickly (albeit not a fan of it), and d) savings. Vendors should either build their own, or go third-party with a cloud-based commercial system, which will allow a deep integration AND offer both beginners and folks who have a background in ID or e-learning development to use the tool to take it to its full power of interactive and engaging.
What is occurring nowadays as it relates to the vendor building their own authoring tool, is that they look the same, generally speaking. Either using “Slides” – yuck – when did you become PowerPoint? OR the WYSWYG approach (What you see is what you get). Even the UX looks dated.
There are few vendors spinning it as content lite or a content editor, which nobody with an instructional design background would think, “This rocks!”.
The spin is just spin, it’s a built-in authoring tool.
Anyway, if I have a built-in authoring tool, I will make sure to include (at no additional charge)
Templates geared towards my target verticals/industries. If it is healthcare only – then healthcare only. If Life Sciences and Consumer goods, then LS and consumer goods. If you focus on customer learning, then templates for products, and services, and so on. Not, three templates. At least 10. 20 ideal. And add engagement capabilities.
Digital Assets – Freebies here. I’ve seen a few vendors who use Shutterstock or similar royalty-free sites, which always produce higher images than say, someone taking a pic, that you can use for free. One vendor has direct links to all the sites that offer 100% free images – which is really nice. Add some engagement capabilities – as assets, perhaps some video or audio files. Strike a deal with this 3rd party vendor. There are a lot of ways to help folks here, invest a bit to do it.
How to build a course session – You, the vendor spend three hours – split over a period of time, and help someone build an effective online learning course. If you yourself are unsure, find someone – there are plenty out there, who knows effective instructional design – perhaps, you know, an actual ID person. When people gripe about a system, support is #1 why they hate their system, but second is the content. Think about that, the next time, the 20% audience is using your authoring tool to create a course.
This category really is about these two above items. I could easily add two more, but why, when it will come down to these two.
And the Winner is
Gobble…Gobble..
Discussion Boards/Forums/Text Chat. Feel free to use your discussion board to discuss whether this is a good idea or not. Make sure to use Netscape Navigator as your browser, and stopover on WebCrawler, your official number one search engine.
Worst Learning System for 2021
The Turkey Award of them all. The biggest prize. Like finding out your turkey is pre-cooked, smoked even, and you bring it over to your in-laws or family, and are “Tada. King or Queen for the day”. Yes, it is that level of impressiveness.
Nominees
Anyone who has read my previous turkey awards knows there is one system that has achieved immortal status, like a turkey. The weird thing is that they are owned by an entity that has the $$$$$$$ to upgrade it, to be so much better than it is – when it comes to learning, but for whatever reason, doesn’t. This same entity has another system, which is light years ahead in terms of UI/UX and just overall learning and training-focused capabilities.
I do know that in the past, they (the entity) have told people who have very large enterprises, that the other system isn’t designed for that audience (not true), and thus this system is.
Who is this you might ask?
SuccessFactors. Owned by SAP. Fun fact – when you now are looking at either SF or SAP Litmos (the far better system), your call will include an SAP rep along with your system rep (i.e. SF or Litmos), even if you have zero interest in SAP. Does this make any sense? Absolutely not.
Workday Learning. Not to build on to the previous, but how about a major upgrade here? Skills Cloud is available to any Workday customer, regardless of whether you have WL or not. Where they get their skills data is not clear – WL told me it came from public and private sources. When I tried to find out who exactly? Crickets.
The initial system was built on MediaCore a vendor they acquired, and while there have been updates to that, the system still seems dated. Again, the money is there, where if they really wanted to, they could turn WL into an elite system, with enough functionality and features to attract. The challenge though, which I totally understand, is that you have to Workday HCM (at least a module). Yet, the separate instance, they sell, tells me, that they could go totally separate here if they so choose to. Oh and for the record, for those of you, who have Workday (but not WL), most learning systems will API connect or connect with Workday and will work just fine with it. Thus the idea of having to stay in the family to be more effective and efficient with push and pull data no longer is applicable.
Rise– Pitched as a training system reminds me more of a cloud-based authoring tool that goes LMS lite (and I mean super lite) which I used to refer to as a hybrid. They are not the only vendor, it is from Articulate to do this, and no it is not the same as Rise 360, so confusion is included here. The key to this system is authoring, either via built-in or via Articulate 360 (as the focus). The metrics are super basic. Add some learners. Send invites. Have them take your content. Here is some data. I ran some numbers on their pricing with the infamous “up to”. Let’s see how this compares with a significantly better learning system, called KREDO.
Rise (up to 1,000 people) – 1999 per month. Total Cost you pay for one year – $23,988 (for the Rise system). If you do not have 1,000 active total users, and say, you have 700 – congrats you still pay $23,988.
KREDO (up to 1,000 people) – $1.95 per user/per month. Which is $23.40. The total cost you pay for year one? $23,400. Let’s say you have only 700. Total Cost – $16,380.
And yes, they accept SCORM and other course standards. This means they accept courses that are built-in Articulate 360.
And the Winner is…
Gobble….Gobble…GOBBLE
Workday Learning. A stunning upset. Wow. This is like the time, The Artist won the Best Picture, whereas nobody saw it, and nobody could figure out the plotline. It’s like when Heaven’s Gate (actually not a bad movie) totally failed at the box office and caused the implosion of a major movie studio – United Artists. The cost to make it, bankrupted the studio after it failed spectacularly.
I’d ask Bert Parks to present this award, but sadly he passed away.
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Green Bay is huge on football and cheese. I love the culture there, and the people. Everyone there is great people, and we all love the same things, and end up creating a great community in the town. I miss my hometown, and I’m excited every time I visit there.
As a person who grew up in Philadelphia, the city of Brotherly Love, I am extremely proud of where I’m from. From its rich history to its delicious cheesesteak, there are many things to be proud of. The thing I personally love the most about Philadelphia is its American history. It is known to be one of the original thirteen colonies; and where the Declaration of Independence was written and signed. All of these facts make me understand the importance of Philadelphia, and how special it is to America’s history.
For me I am proud of where I’m from and my home country, I’m proud to be a Filipina. To some others when they think of the Philippines the words poor or litter. But to me, I think of home, a country that has a place in my heart. Besides the cons of the Philippines there’s actually so much beauty there. The nature and wildlife such as the white sand beaches, luscious green jungles and forests, islands and the beautiful waterfalls. Not to mention the delicious food, treats and snacks they have to offer. Some of my favorites being pork sisig, shrimp sinigang, halo halo, taho, puto, piattos, canton, sampalok, pastillas and yema. The mangos that grow there are nothing to laugh at either. The fun activities you can do there like island hopping, swimming with whale-sharks and canyoneering etc. And if you visit at the right times you can even witness and experience the sinulog, a type of parade they have in the Philippines. The vibrant colors of the costumes, the smiles, the music, the vibe all in all is just addictive; you can’t help but have fun …
I’m from Chicago and yes, I am proud of where I come from. I’m proud of my city. We’re known for having better pizza than New York, Blues music, Hot dogs, Michael Jordan, and hating Aaron Rodgers. We celebrate all types of cultures and are welcoming to all. We’re famous for Michael Jordan, Abe Lincoln, winning the 2016 world series, and much more. PIZZA, deep-dish pizza is where it’s at.
My hometown of Miami Beach is infamous for what we would call in Spanish “pachanga”. It is hard to directly translate into English, but it roughly aligns with a carefree spirit that always parties. We are a city known for our pristine beaches, which attract a fair share of visitors year-round. We are a city where tourism is thought to be our lifeline, with swanky condominiums lining up the shores of the Atlantic along South Beach. We are a city where our most pressing political issues is whether to ban alcohol sales at 2 AM in the morning or not. Perhaps most notably, we are the city that makes national headlines once every year during the same week in an exhausting cycle: spring break. Every spring break, this reputation attracts adults to our nightclubs, beaches, and our streets where cases of violence occur yearly. They see Miami Beach as a city unlike any other, a city where the mentality is not on law, order, and productivity, but rather one of relaxation and a frightening sense of anarchy. This is not the Miami Beach I see. I see a Miami Beach where our constituents are tired and alarmed at the parties in South Beach and the resulting chaos. It is no wonder why our recent referendum on a 2 AM alcohol sales ban passed– our people are hardworking Americans who want safe communities, despite what far too many see our city as. Though I love my city and would not trade its beauty for any other amenity in other cities, it is time to take our city seriously.
The Texas Rose Festival sounds really fun to me. It is a time where everyone gets together and celebrate, party, and have fun. I think it’s very unique and quite related to our Lavender Farm in Kula, Maui. Our Lavender Farm is just like the Rose Festival but with lavender. You can get lavender scones, lavender oils, lavender drinks, and lavender in general …
I’m proud of where I am from. I think that it’s very important to take pride in where you are from. My neighborhood isn’t really famous for anything, but it’s a very friendly place with a good environment. There are lots of friendly faces, and everybody knows each other. In my neighborhood, you can stop by the café for a cup of coffee, shop at the grocery store, or hang out with friends at the park. If I could choose something that my neighborhood should be known for, I think it would be our friendliness. My neighborhood is also very accepting of different people, cultures, etc.
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For women in conducting, there are reasons to be optimistic. Administrators at major ensembles in cities like Atlanta, Minneapolis and Cincinnati, as well as Baltimore, are vowing to ensure that women are serious contenders.
Search committees are looking at a mix of artists and rising stars, according to interviews with 20 committee members, administrators, players and conductors.
