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Would like to see numbers/rates on if this is true or not. I did hear on the radio this week that the number of ATMs in the US is continuing to decrease, from a peak in 2019 I believe. That seems to be correlated with cash being less of a requirement nowadays, though. In my experience, self-checkout is still increasing, and I haven't seen any big issues with it yet, but I obviously have a very small sample size. As far as tellers, my credit union is out of state and I don't recall the last time I used in person services with them; but I'm sure there are use cases that require people to help navigate. --- In regards to remote work - I manage a team of data engineers, I've previously managed a team of product managers/owners, a cloud operations IT team, and also a team of project managers. Every one of those teams worked better in person. They do lose time and money commuting to work, but from an effectiveness perspective, they are clearly more effective in office. My current boss disagrees that remote work is a disadvantage, and her defense of it is that if you have a good manager of that team, they can overcome the remote work obstacles with ease using technology and mechanisms/processes. My counter is simply that the vast majority of people who say that try to replicate what it's like to be co-located with all your teammates - The simple fact that you have to put in extra effort to try and replicate what it's like to be in the office (usually with glaring gaps) means it's inherently less effective. The fact you have to 'overcome' obstacles, means it's inherently disadvantaged. Having a camera staring at you all day is not equivalent to sitting at a desk next to someone else. Being on a virtual meeting is not the same as being in a conference room. There are multiple more gates you have to cross remotely vs in person, and some people don't mind crossing those gates, but many people do and you see a fall-off in communication and an increase in assumptions. Meetings are often extremely inefficient, and you lose concentration on what you're working on, agreed. Context-switching is a productivity killer. I do try and keep engineers out of meetings, and if they simply got a list of requirements and had to build solutions in a silo that didn't depend on any other service or package or team, then yes they could probably be just as effective or more so remotely. However, in my industry, and across the varied teams I've led, this is almost never the case. Engineers perform multiple roles, just like most of us do. They do need to talk to the customer, they do need to build consensus on designs, they do need to go over to someone's else's desk to confirm their assumptions, and they just don't do that as well remotely, probably because they don't want to bother someone and can't clearly see if they're busy or not when virtual. Anyway, I'd love a 3 and 2 day split for engineers, but the 2 days should not be consecutive.

Btw, for all the Phoenix talk, the city is fine. It’s one of the best examples of a wide scale water conservation program successfully implemented. They aren’t currently in a water crunch even with the drought, they can stop the farming if absolutely necessary, and they have 100 year water reserves they can tap into if needed. The heat can be dealt with too. It’s definitely hot and getting hotter but humans are smart and 120 is dangerous, but no more so than -10… I don’t think so anyway. Also, those 7 months a year where the weather is idyllic helps quite a bit :) -Edit: 2 responses and a down vote, yet I haven't seen anything I said actually disputed... Well john gave his opinion about hot being more dangerous. But Phoenix is not in a water crunch as nobody in the city is restricted on their use. Phoenix gets water from many sources, the Colorado being one of them, but that's been getting reduced over time. 40MM people get their water from the Colorado, so trying to put the blame on Phx seems a little narrowly focused. Some other information to consider: https://e360.yale.edu/features/how-phoenix-is-preparing-for-a-future-without-colorado-river-water https://thecounter.org/could-phoenix-survive-a-water-crisis-dcp/

I don’t believe warehouse workers are forced to pee in bottles. I think that’s highly sensationalized and missing context. It’s not at all consensus among current and former employees, but because a couple people said it, we take it at face value. I’m sure there have been people treated badly out of the millions who have worked there. I’m sure there’s room for improvement. I don’t think amzn is worse than other places, in fact I think it’s better in many regards. But it’s the name that will get clicks and so context is usually left to the side.

Of course, again, without context we think this is an amzn only issue. Though when you dig a little, it’s shown that basically every delivery service experiences the same issue. USPS, ups, fedex, truck drivers. And many of them are unionized too. https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/ups-driver-pee-watter-bottles-amazon

Agree, the scioto peninsula is so exciting because it nearly completes the puzzle. However, we still need a way for visitors and locals to quickly get around the core city. Some sort of transportation between franklinton, german village, franklin park, airport, italian village, short north, campus, grandview yard, arena district, and downtown would make it more of a destination city and one that could start landing more large events - which of course adds more interest and value to those areas... Buses aren't an attractive option, nor are driverless cars. Need something permanent that entices development around it. Rail obviously would be great but it takes a long time to stand up and costs a lot. I may be missing something big here, or just a little off my rocker, but I think elevated cable cars (e.g. gondolas) would be cheap-ish to stand up, expandable based on demand, wouldn't affect existing infrastructure, and could add a uniqueness that would attract interest. I know this isn't the transportation thread, so I'll just leave it at that.

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27 letters is the strong opposition? So you get 1 facebook group riled up and proposals are all but dead? I feel like we're not looking at what the opposition actually represents and how people who want this to happen simply don't have as much impetus to voice that opinion. sigh

I thought it was a millenial tower update ?

Agreed! In the late spring, summer, and early fall Columbus looks decent with the trees adding vibrancy. In the winter, ugh! Bleakness takes over. Adding some vibrancy with buildings will go a long way in helping that.

I've spent so much on stupid purchases trying to shop away the boredom, probably atypical though. I now have killer speakers, in a small apartment, that I can't use anymore because my neighbors don't like the same music I do ?

so nothing is going into the southwest lot fronting 4th st at this point?

I think it could easily hit 23K, I'd say could get down to 19/20K if earnings season brings pain and the virus doesn't get contained. Selfishly, I'm hoping it does - would be a good entry point. But I agree for older folks, this is rough. It's why I always thought it was crazy to advocate for retirement accounts tied to markets - too much potential for catastrophe and too complicated even for well-informed people to make the right decisions consistently. You may tell people to not panic, but it's much easier said than done when your life savings is at play.

I've had boatloads of cash on the sidelines for a long time and thought I needed to stop that. So after the first 5-8% dip I put a significant amount (15-20%) in the target retirement funds without thinking much. Now I'm kind of regretting that as I feel we're just getting started with the repercussions of the virus. But I certainly can't time markets well - except AMD, which I bought at 1.80 ? - so maybe I'm just going to cost-average in if it's keeps going down. But right now, it's so manic, who knows what to do.

Thanks for update - Getting better! I think any direct flight is great, but red eyes are known for half empty planes, so just curious why that was the time chosen. I'm sure it makes sense and I'm just not in-the-know, but with the scarcity of direct flights to Columbus as is, I definitely like seeing more palatable schedules. Will be interesting to see the corona virus impact to overall air travel. My company has already guided that all non-essential air travel be avoided.

As a business traveler, that's basically a no go flight for me. As someone who's vacationing or visiting family, those are certainly options - but having the only delta flight be at that time would make me route through somewhere else. Last time I tried the Alaska daytime flight, it was completely full and I accepted a voucher to fly through Raleigh.