I roller-skated and skateboarded as a teenager, and was a clumsy accident waiting to happen every time I got onto those wheels. I have no doubt that, if I tried either of those activities today, it would end quickly, and painfully.
I wouldn’t want PTO as my perk, because back before I retired, I had so much work I wasn’t able to take the PTO I already had banked. I’m with @Dr.Drake . I’ll take the perk of never having to have another performance evaluation again.
I think I could still rollerskate (and I iceskated – thanks for reminding me @thorny_locust – and I was fairly decent), but my arthritic knees would make it a dangerous propostion now, indeed.
Its funny- the pollster dated themselves- when I was a kid, there was no such thing as “skateboards” around my neighborhood- your dad just took and old pair of skates, attached them to a plank, then put a wood box with handles on the front. Sometimes called “Crate Scooters”…
I found I really like working from home, and I even get mnore work done.
F that. I’ve always taken every minute of PTO I had coming, every single year. The work can wait until I get back, or get done by someone else. I’ve never fooled myself into thinking I’m so indispensable that I can’t take a vacation.
In fact, I’m so fond of PTO, it’s what I chose in the poll.
At least I got paid for it when I retired. We only got paid for 25% of our sicktime, so I wasn’t stingy about using that in my last few years.
A “reboot” of a cell phone is just turning it off and back on again, right?
I didn’t vote in the poll. Mine gets rebooted every time I use it, but that’s not every day. I turn it on when I’m going somewhere, but I don’t leave home every day. When I come home I turn it off until the next time I need it.
My PTO is contractually capped and I’ve been maxed out for years now. In fact I have to take 4-6 hours of leave every week to stay under the cap or I lose it (I’m not allowed to go over my number).
I went with more work from home. That’s worth way more to me than the typical annual 3-5% raise.
I go out of my way to reboot my phone every couple of weeks. I reboot my iPad weekly.
The choice I needed on my phone reboot was “when I think of it” as well as when my phone malfunctions. I used to have a phone that reminded me every month. That was handy.
If there’s nothing malfunctioning, what’s the advantage of rebooting?
(Not just a question to kayaker, but to the masses.)
ETA: I reboot only when forced to because something’s not working
Preemptive rebooting in the case of my iPhone. I reboot my iPad on a regular basis because otherwise a few apps become a little slow.
Just to be clear, from a tech POV a reboot is a full power cycle of a phone. Generally some flavor of pressing and holding the power button until you have a prompt to Power off or restart. Just pressing the power button to shut off the screen is it sleeping.
I used to be good about doing it every week, but that’s probably unneeded, so recently it’s more like biweekly. I am much more religious about closing open apps though, which is often more of a performance issue.
I still advise to do it at least once a month, but YMMV, and the board is something of an outlier on smartphone use overall.
Again, I’m sure most people here have an understanding of sleep vs. reboot, but I’m sure there’s a few that were afraid to ask or didn’t care enough to look it up!
I’ll take the salary boost. I already have five weeks’ PTO every year. It takes effort to spend it down.
I already have a reduced work load.
I already work mostly remote.
Yeah I’m living the good life.
I push the walk button and usually wait, but if there’s no traffic, that button ain’t the boss of me!
I usually cross mid-block. Crosswalks are too crazy for me.
Good call. A lot fewer people there.
Crosswalks are safer.
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Heh, I’ll accept the added risk. I scoot across when I can.
Sometimes I push the button, sometimes I don’t. Depends on how much of a hurry I’m in, whether I think traffic will clear enough for me to cross without bothering with the button, how complicated the intersection is, and probably other factors affecting my mood.
If traffic does clear before the light changes, I’ll probably cross, but that also depends on various factors, one but not the only one of which is how complicated the intersection is (which affects my being able to judge whether the traffic actually has cleared enough for me to cross.)
Didn’t vote.
I note I have seen too many pedestrians, wearing all black, at nite with a hoodie over their head and half their face, with the rest of the face staring at a phone, blithely walk across a street.
But of course, it is the drivers fault.