Is it social norm to apologize to your coworkers for being sick and missing work due to your sickness?
No. That's weird. If someone I worked with apologized to me for being sick from work, that would be similar to someone apologizing for their relative dying or your car broke down. Stuff happens. Nobody cares anyway. Especially if you're contagious, I'd appreciate you not coming to work and making me sick. I guess it's a cultural thing. Has anybody ever apogized to you for being sick from work? If not, then I guess I wouldn't mention it.
What’s wrong with being a workaholic? The current social norm seems to paint villains of those who work hard.
Workaholism is different from working hard.A strong work ethic is regarded highly in the culture I grew up in, and seems to be valued in other cultures as well. In the US in particular, working hard is a moral pursuit.Workaholism is working beyond one’s capacity to the detriment of one’s health and, ultimately, productivity. Workaholism is not valued but it is tolerated and sometimes encouraged in unhealthy environments.
How can I change my work's norm of women being left out of networking events on the golf course?
I think you ought to find out if women in your office enjoy golf first. If so, you can casually bring this up around someone with influence on the matter.
Is it the norm for Germans to go out with colleagues after work? Do they prefer to return home?
For office workers it’s quite uncommon to go out with colleagues after work. Those who do, do it only every few weeks or so. People value being able to mentally close the office door after them and only open it the next morning.Socialising in the lunch break is much more common.Socialising after work used to be more common a few generations ago, when (male) office workers often went for a beer to wind down before joining their family. Social norms have changed to mandate men spending more of the evening with their families.
I need a list of social norms?
Depending on where you live… Watch a blank tv, cheer when your team scores. Ask a stranger for money. Get into elevator and stand facing backward, talk to people in elevator like you know them, push close door button. Stand too close to someone when talking to them, after eating onions or drinking coffee. go to restaurant, pay with pennies eat with your hands in a restaurant. wear clothes backwards, guys could wear girls garments, wear shoes on wrong feet, don't shower, girls shave legs in public bathroom, or brush your teeth in public bathroom, use bathroom with stall door open. farting, picking your nose, scratching body parts, same sex holding hands cutting in line at bank take groceries from other peoples shopping carts saying hello, genuine manners go to coffee shop and sit down with random people and talk to them about your health or sex life or do this in an office, act like you belong there and you know the people stand while eating in a restaurant, or eat on floor, or under the table. Pretend to be crazy, order food at a restaurant for you and your imaginary friend, talk to your friend, ask waitress for doggie bag for food your imaginary didn’t finish eating. walk around the mall with an open umbrella wear a sombrero have a picnic in the middle of the classroom Hug a stranger. Go to the beach in your winter clothes, play beach volley ball with an imaginary volley ball. Wear a wedding dress to someone else’s wedding.
Why do you think formula feeding became the norm?
I am not bashing formula feeding mommies, it's a personal choice and as long as your baby is healthy and happy that's all that really matters. But i was just wondering, i think it's because of the formula companies pushing it on people and because so many mothers work outside of the home now and it's just become so acceptable now, that it's expected. I don't hide the fact that i breastfeed, i am very open about it, when it's brought up at work. I had one lady look at me, why don't you go on WIC so you don't have to waste your time pumping? It's just funny, the way society view the two, why do you think that formula seems to be more accepted?
What's the difference between "get out of work" vs "get off work"?
get out of work: suggests using some form of deceit or specious excuse to avoid working. to get off work: means to leave work, to legitimately get a day or some other time off from work.
What if being attracted to the same sex was the norm? How would reproduction work?
If homosexuality was more prevalent than heterosexuality, then I imagine one of two things would have to happen within human society in order for reproduction to occur.Gay couples enlist the services of other gay people of the opposite gender for the purpose of bearing children. Thus, two differing views of intercourse would develop; the purely pleasurable kind, homosexual sex, and the interactions designed for the purpose of reproduction, which would be businesslike and entirely devoid of pleasure. This service could also become a business, meaning that prostitution, at least of that nature, wouldn’t be as heavily stigmatized, and that having a kid would be far more expensive, discouraging more from having them and thereby reducing the rate of population growth. Under this system, the world population would probably be somewhere around 5–6 billion today instead of 7 billion.The minority straight population, in addition to any other orientation that includes attraction to the opposite or all genders, would be used as the backbone of society, engaging in reproduction so that the majority gay population doesn’t have to worry about the dangers of it and can live their lives content. These groups would likely be legally required to marry someone of the opposite gender at around 18, and forbidden to engage in sexual activity with anyone, especially gay people, before that. The women would have to give birth maybe every 3 years or so, and give up their children to the state as soon as they’re stable and able to be moved. Thus, these groups would be forbidden to have children of their own, and would basically live as second class citizens to a similar or perhaps even greater degree than how those in the LGBT+ community live now in our own society. Also, these groups would pretty much be the only people to have STDs, and as with before, reproductive sex would be stigmatized and pleasurable sex would be seen as a natural part of life and not worthy of stigmatization.Hope this answered your question.
What is the toughest part of working at a consultancy firm such as McKinsey, BCG or Bain?
Here’s the thing: IF you want to make maximum wealth fast and don’t have a lot of capital and don’t rely on luck AND you have the qualities and credentials to get an MBB gig you can probably get a Financial Services/ I Banking gig that will get you more money faster (not perhaps quite as true as 20 to 30 years ago but…). Both jobs will make you addicted to material success and “career achievement” and both will see you missing out on vast wonderful things that other humans enjoy. So MBB = similar pain and less gain. As a consolation the people will be nicer and more interesting on balance perhaps, and the experience will be super valuable for virtually anything you do “afterwards”.As a quick aside you probably make even more money on a risk and probability weighted basis buying or starting your own “real” (ie scalable with real goods or services) business…but folk who have the credentials for MBB tend not to want that early career “risk”.NOW if you aren’t in it for money you can’t be in it for lifestyle (although I do know some chums who are 100% born for a life of planes, power points, restaurants and self importance). So why are you slaving away at MBB? If you are conscientious it will be stressful, but true you learn a huge amount and work with some fun interesting people. Sooner or later however the pros and cons don’t stack up and you think - if I am going to destroy my only life for money and prestige this is the slow lane, and if I really want to make the most of my life “in the round” then why would I put myself (and importantly all the keen and talented junior folk who actually look up to me and seek my guidance) through this late 20th century/ early 21st weirdness?