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Grant Slater<p>Wikipedia Admins open hostility against articles on African content is draining. Again having to fight to keep an article from being deleted by a single admin. Hey dude pre-internet 1992 events are difficult to source, Africa doesn't have reams of online archives (eg: magazine, newpaper, local Hansard) from the period. <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wikipedia</span></a> <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/whybother" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>whybother</span></a></p>
skua<p>2/3<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AustralianValues" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AustralianValues</span></a></p><p>Back to Option C. "no one wanting to visit them".</p><p>Folk sought to increase communication between Fam&amp;Friends and Aged Care residents.<br>Made an app.<br>Technically a success.<br>But it appeared to them that Fam&amp;Friends actually didn't want to communicate with the elderly person in care.</p><p>Am asking, "In purely selfish things, what do you get for you out of interacting with geriatric / frail / senile / institutionalised aged folk?"</p><p>Anything at all?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AgedCare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AgedCare</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WhyBother" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhyBother</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Values" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Values</span></a></p>
Wulfric<p>Management: "You missed a critical feature when you designed this. Fix it immediately."</p><p>Me: *fixes issue*</p><p>Management: "Why did you fix it that way? It would be better if done like this."</p><p>Me: "That's how it was setup in the first place and you insisted I change it."</p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/WhyBother" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhyBother</span></a></p>
Milcom Miasma<p>"I owe my soul to the company store."<br>--Merle Travis</p><p>My best friend just got his six year anniversary award from his employer.</p><p>It's a $5.00 gift coupon for the company's cafe on campus. 🙄 🤦‍♂️ </p><p>No really, they shouldn't have.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/WhyBother" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhyBother</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/WorkSucks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WorkSucks</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Indentured" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Indentured</span></a></p>
Liz<p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/cleaning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cleaning</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/whybother" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>whybother</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/why" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>why</span></a> Delightful young lady is coming this morning to help me with the house cleaning. The other half is vacuuming ready for her arrival! 🤷‍♀️</p>