Linus as a Boss would Hate Linus as an Employee

How should companies avoid “Ivory Towers” and detached decision making?
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[@Will-yy7cg]

"Cemeteries are full of people who had the right of way" - my driving instructor many years ago

[@OERYV]

Mind explain it in a plainer term? Is "right of way" mean "people full of themselves in the mind" alternatively ?

[@imya234]

@@OERYV They mean that even though they were correct in the situation, they still ended up in a crash. Even if you have right of way when driving you always have to assume that some dickheads gonna speed through the roundabout without looking, or run a red light.

[@flamingscar5263]

@@OERYV in this context it means being in the legal right in the case of traffic laws, like crossing the street when the cars have a stop sign, legally the cars have to stop, but that does not mean they will, so this comment is saying there are many dead people who were in the legal right, they cross the street without looking because the car has to stop at the stop sign, but then the person in the car committed vehicular manslaughter, the person was in the legal right, the person in the car didn't stop for the stop sign, but that doesn't change the fact they are now dead

[@terminallyonline5296]

@@OERYV Right of way is a traffic legal/civil concept. In the case of a traffic incident, right of way impacts who is at fault.

[@HUEHUEUHEPony]

Imagine not realizing car dependency is the problem

[@Armputator]

In germany we have a saying "Auf seinem Grab stand ich hatte recht" which about translates to "his gravestone read i was in my rights" to remind people that being right does not outweigh the consequences of taking advantage of ones right sometimes

[@custos3249]

And when you think about German history, hits a bit wrong

[@hamarticdownfall9919]

Definitely gonna use this phrase somewhere Very metal

[@Mathewson1G]

wot

[@vk6832]

As per the crosswalk, I was told basically the same thing - 'There's right of way, and right of weight'

[@SamPhoenix_]

In a manual car I do it to give myself more time to take off smoother (because my feet are already where they need to be to react to the engine) But my new car is an EV with auto hold so even if I do take my foot off the break I don't move.

[@Soul-Burn]

In collision between a person and a car, the car always wins.

[@dominikbeitat4450]

I look both ways before I cross a one-way street.

[@aaronlarson4358]

That’s essentially how it is at airports. If you’re driving around in a truck, you yield to the planes, because the planes can’t yield to you. It’s a lot easier to stop a 7,000lbs truck than a sometimes close to 1,000,000lbs plane.

[@grants7390]

@@dominikbeitat4450 i remember when i was a kid (~10) my mom got pulled over and it turned out she was going 15mph over and going the wrong way in a school zone. there are no limits to the stupidity/recklessness drivers can have.

[@sparton4747]

The flashing your lights/beeping your horn on blind turns is pretty common behaviour in the UK, same with going over steep bridges/hills.

[@nielagi5029]

"Here lies the body of William Jay, Who died maintaining his right of way- He was right, dead right, as he sped along, But he’s just as dead as if he were wrong."- Dale Carnegie, How To Win Friends and Influence People

[@johnsherby9130]

Is that book worth the read? I recently heard it’s pretty good from a family member

[@CubesAndPortals]

​@@johnsherby9130 yes, it's a bit dated but I quite enjoyed the read & have applied some of it to great results.

[@nielagi5029]

@@johnsherby9130 not dated at all. People don't change. Definitely has a few good ideas that you can use in your daily life, more than similar books. One of the most effective ones is complementing someone so they have to live up to that expectation. For example if you want someone to donate to a good cause: "You look a generous person" "thanks" "Do you want to donate?" Now they have to deny the donation but also reject that they are a generous person which they have already mentally accepted.

[@machzel08]

One of the best expense/petty cash policies I ever experienced was at a 150 person company. If you can justify it to your boss and they can justify it to theirs then it’s approved. The logic was that if the people who directly oversee your work think it’s a good idea then it doesn’t need to go further. This worked after the fact too. You buy a $50 part because you KNOW your boss will see the value.

[@scrawnyclownsnatch9656]

Man I wish "If I can argue/defend my decision, its fine" worked by me. Somtimes one of my boss's just says "because I said so" and I feel like I'm 5 again.

[@rando5673]

Get a new job

[@flamingscar5263]

@@rando5673 easier said then done, I applied for like 10 different jobs in my area, only heard back from 1, I live in a small town area so its not that viable for me to work long distance with current gas prices

[@rigid_]

Fuck 👏 that 👏 job

[@ModestestRUST]

@@flamingscar5263yikes if you aren’t making 50-100 an hr you need to learn to do residential window cleaning brother..

[@TheOddStranger]

Your boss is 5

[@SamPhoenix_]

Flashing beams is a common thing on narrow, blind corners (usually country roads) in the UK. As they're usually national speed limit (60mph) and not very wide, you usually flash your lights to make it clear that if there is someone on the other side they need to slow down and make sure there is enough space for both cars to pass.

[@dallysinghson5569]

Funny how those roads have among the highest speed limit considering how many die on them.

[@t1m3f0x]

Who the hell takes a blind corner at 60mph? Flashing your lights can't save you from plowing into a stopped vehicle at 60mph, UK drivers are clearly just in denial about being suicidal. The Schuylkill expressway (I-76) is an Interstate highway and traffic always backs up around the Conshohocken curve because everyone always slows down, because you can't see around the bend, and no one wants to risk plowing into a traffic jam or something at 50mph.

[@PrograError]

@@t1m3f0x no reduce speed signs from 2 miles before? no 40mph sign around that corner?

[@daleykun]

@@PrograError Nope, but just because the speed 'limit' on that section of road is 60mph doesn't mean people actually drive round those bends at that speed - it is a 'limit' not minimum after all. With how narrow the roads are, you instinctively will slow to sub 30 or even 20mph to take a lot of the bends. It's the same reason people will drive dangerously quickly on American stroads - people drive as fast as the road design allows. Limits do shit all for safety if the road conditions encourage people to drive faster

[@PrograError]

@@daleykun sure, but it's also a gold mine for enforcement action. Plus, it's the interstate… How dissuasive do you want a danger corner on the Interstate to be… They could go with the illusion paints, but that ain't gonna do much if everyone's at 90mph on that corner… If the majority on that corner is going at minium 40mph, it's basically a moving road block for the speeders…

[@RobinDeur1980]

Was in a company where at one point 4 100 euro an hour people were printing labels on an a$ piece of paper, cutting them out and glue them on a presentation baord. I asked why we didn't have a label writer for that and I was told we need to ask the boss, we never did and we don;t have a good reason. I got up from my chair walked to the computer store and got one for 100 bucks right at that moment. The secretary was not happy about it. I told her "if the boss didnt want to spend that money, consider it a gift from me to the company". The next day the boss was at the office and was told what I did and he was "why the hell didn't we already have one of those in the first place !" It was just thinking like a 30 person company. 100 bucks is nothing for a company and it will save money in about 30 minutes, where 100 bucks could be a lot for a single person. Pretty sure I did buy some stuff for the company I might not have been allowed too according to my contract, but it has never been any issue., but it has never been more then maybe a few 100 bucks.

[@dallysinghson5569]

Maybe the employers enjoyed getting paid for plastering with labels

[@RobinDeur1980]

@@dallysinghson5569 could be, not very cost effective though

[@DizzyBusy]

​@@dallysinghson5569I don't believe that to be a fulfilling job. Meditative, for sure, but not fulfilling. Flipping burgers is also meditative, but it it feeds people. Cutting labels though?

[@nemesi8800]

@@RobinDeur1980 They're getting paid 100 an hour to do that manually, I don't think they wanted the process sped up to be fair. If they're salaried it's a different story

[@rightwingsafetysquad9872]

I had a coworker in the car with me the other day. After about 20 minutes he asked me why I usually wait a few seconds after a light turns green even though I'm clearly looking right at it. It was unsettling to me how surprised he was to hear that the light turning green is no guarantee that cross-traffic will stop. Riding a motorcycle makes you a lot more aware of all the possible ways to die on the road.

[@snesguy9176]

I do the same but have never ridden a motorcycle. I've just had enough near misses that I've become a very cautious driver.

[@rando5673]

No no no, this is sooooo much more dangerous. We get people in our clinic all the time who are rear ended for this reason. Instead, while you are stopped, watch the flow of traffic. You briefly look left and right before proceeding straight - literally half a second. Then you go. Every driving instructor I've ever spoken to says the same thing, including the motorcycle instructor I hired to help me get my license

[@rightwingsafetysquad9872]

@rando5673 I'd much rather take the risk of the person behind me at the light starting too soon and hitting me at 5mph than the cross traffic hitting me at 20 mph, or God forbid 60 mph. It's the difference between needing a neck brace for a couple weeks and needing a coffin. Besides, how long do you think I'm staying stopped, it's never more than 3 seconds. People frequently stay stopped at a red light far longer than I'm suggesting checking their phone or changing the radio, and I've never seen anyone get rear-ended doing it. The small handful of riding instructors I've listened to on YT say the same thing I just said, DanDanTheFireman is one. The only instructor I ever dealt with IRL was saying some other obviously wrong stuff, so I kinda tuned her out for most of the session. Also, if you've spoken to more than 1 or 2 driving instructors in your life, you probably either have a very odd friend group or you're a terrible driver and your opinion on the matter should be discounted.

[@sdlion7287]

@@rando5673 but did they die? Because that's the whole point from the very OP comment from Linus.

[@Timeward76]

I don't wait to start accelerating, but I start going very slowly while moving my eye to cross traffic. That way Im not just sitting there, but also have time to be aware.

[@FlyingCIRCU175]

I imagine the feeling would be mutual, even if the admiration never goes away.

[@Pmoze99]

For petty cash decisions; some of the best companies I've worked for allowed employees the ability to make 500 dollar petty cash decisions, Managers got $5000, and the C-suite folks got either $25,000 or 50,000. Everything was audited, of course, you had to turn in receipts and a report that could be 25 words or more for why you spent it, but our bosses found that pretty much no one was making ill intentioned purchases and while a few were found to be unnecessary in some way (Buying a replacement when the original is lost only to find the original after an hour or two) normally the saved time made the costs for the purchase vs the costs for delayed productivity to be negligible. The only repeat issue we had was in the beginning of implementing this and primarily involved new hires sometimes grabbing software licenses on their own.

[@jwstewart94]

My wife used to work in the food industry, and servers are told to shout "Corner" when rounding a turn in the restaurant. I was confused by this until my wife explained that its to prevent accidents, especially when someone is carrying a tray of food or something. Which now makes complete sense to me, and I've actually implemented it into my day to day just to not bump into people accidentally.

[@accidentalmeme5327]

Behind, hot, and knife are also common callouts.

[@kappatalism6969]

Place I spent years at would have the most turnover on dishwashers. It was a constant effort getting them in the habit of shouting behind anytime they made pickups from the kitchen line.

[@the_mastermage]

fucking hell I have a Scar because Waiters didnt used to do that in Germany when I was little and i ran into a Plate with my head.

[@VenomShotYou]

Linus applies for a job. He gets it. That job decides to upload videos to KZbin. They make Linus the face of it. He gains popularity under his employers account. He parts ways. Fights for the account. Gets it. Here we are. From a job app and a love of tech to millions. Timing is just as important if not more so than passion.

[@FuckYoutubeHandles]

Honking on blind corners is a great idea, that's something I learned from driving a forklift.

[@DroogyParade]

Not cars, but in the restaurant industry you always have to call out when you're walking behind someone or going around a corner. There's knives and hot items everywhere and it takes one accident for someone to end up in the emergency room. Seen a guy get bumped, which caused a knife to fall straight down through his foot.

[@JJFlores197]

I worked at a local dried fruit company in IT. When I had to go in the production plant, I always heard the honking of the forklifts for that reason

[@kiddy1992]

The forklift thing is a requirement you need to do. Not just because you like to be safe. Same for honking when you're backing up.

[@KanecicqSTUDIOS]

@@DroogyParade Back in college when I worked in restaurant, we'd loudly call "Back!" when running with stuff behind coworker. Otherwise accidents are really waiting.

[@seemlesslies]

Reminds me of rally drivers honestly.

[@iAmPerflexed]

It's a trick commonly used by people driving in less than legal ways, but can be a useful trick in general, particularly in the UK where there are narrow roads only 1 car wide that have quite high speed limits through country areas. Essentially, you flick your headlights off very momentarily, as you approach a blind corner, and if you still see a beam of light then you know there is someone approaching the corner from the other side. Not a replacement for slowing down for those corners, but can help to know for certain whether there is another driver. Country roads have NO streetlamps so if nobody is coming then it will be pitch black.

[@TheAechBomb]

we have unlit roads too, but we have 2- and 4-way stop signs on them to prevent collisions. do you not?

[@iAmPerflexed]

@@TheAechBomb These aren't junctions I'm talking about, these are just very narrow roads with windy corners. As for stop signs, they are generally quite uncommon in the UK and we mostly rely on give-way signs and road markings.

[@babybluesky9238]

Linus explaining his green light philosophy is pretty on point because I do the same, but if you're reasonably good at driving, as I imagine Linus is, most of that "processing" is "automatic" and you're not doing it consciously

[@hazerdoescrap]

"I could be dead right.... or I can be right and have a massive lawsuit payout.... either way my Student Loan is dealt with....."

[@saiberfun]

About the train thing. At least here in Germany, as far as I know, trains always have to honk/signal when they are getting close to a crossing and other "dangerous" parts of the tracks.

[@minecraftbuilderify]

I use to work for a very small business. He went on holiday & i got fed up of tripping over boxes. So i went & brought racking with my own money. He paid me back

[@jensenraylight8011]

Dang, young Linus looks like Onizuka from GTO

[@ilikestuff8218]

😂

[@egarcia1360]

For the shoulder checking thing (8:21), a couple of 2~3-inch blind spot mirrors cost about 10 bucks and are absolute game changers.

[@TheAechBomb]

my car even comes with a blindspot mirror on the driver side (probably the passenger side too, but by the time I got it it had a junkyard motor and a replacdment passenger mirroe)

[@syncrossus]

My dad said something when I was a kid which was similar to what Linus' mom said, and also in the context of car traffic: "C'est lui qui a tort, mais c'est moi qui suis mort". It directly translates as "He may be wrong but I'm the one dead", but it has a more poetic cadence and rhymes. It wasn't even done on purpose, but that always stuck in my head.

[@rmo9808]

Guy was walking in the middle of the freeway the other day because a part had fallen off his motorcycle. I saw him with plenty of time but was definitely not expecting a person to be there.

[@sxndwich3395]

Yep. I taught myself the flash brights or honk going around blind turns just because of anxiety.

[@zakbarbezat]

flashing lights/beeping lowkey a requirement in my city (bad combo of crazy drivers, lots of old small roads, and shitty parking that causes blind spots)

[@Tier539]

Here lies the body of William Jay, Who died maintaining his right of way- He was right, dead right, as he sped along, But he’s just as dead as if he were wrong.

[@Drenwickification]

6:55 that’s exactly what horns are there for

[@draskuul]

When I first got my pickup I had a close call due to the pillar once going through a parking lot. A pedestrian just happened to be walking at exactly the right speed the entire time that they were covered by it. Ever since I got extra paranoid about moving myself around to look around the pillar.

[@xxJoeCraftxx]

As per the stopping, I have had the honks for when I wait at a stop sign because i don't trust the other cars signals or speeds. But I've even had cars who's turn was like 3 cars next in this 4 way intersection go because I guess they assumed me ACTUALLY stopping (not rolling) as a "hey you go first buddy"

[@clarkeysam]

At my previous employer it used to take 3-4 days for a PO to be processed. I needed equipment ordering immediately or the project would be delayed (and we'd lose ~£15k a day). I hired the equipment on my personal credit card. It cost more than my months take home pay. I was pulled in for a meeting after this where officially my Director gave me a telling off, however he unofficially thanked me for my selfless actions to support the business, but did ask that I didn't do it again.

[@majorfallacy5926]

what made you try to make up for a management failure?

[@lordaleksandre]

​@@majorfallacy5926 He was trying to avoid his work being delayed. He said that.

[@twentylush]

The shock to me was the company I work for appreciating the willingness to smooth things over like that, flip to dressing us down and making us sit there and wait while collecting money. The change came when we were bought out by a large corporation Then would blame us when s##t fell behind schedule!!! When they only allowed us to use timelines derived from when we could grease the processes...

[@clarkeysam]

@@majorfallacy5926 it wasn't really anyone's fault. An unforeseeable issue occurred and we needed equipment to overcome it (nothing particularly high tech, just a lot of it). In order to minimise disruptions, errors, and duplications, the "engines" (computer process) was only run once a day. The people the equipment needed to be ordered from were not an approved supplier so getting them on the system would have taken at least 2 days, plus a day for the "engines" to run, then at least a day for procurement to pull their finger out and do something about it. Or I could stick it on my credit card, be done in 20min, and save a lot of people a lot of work.

[@clarkeysam]

@@twentylush big companies are a lot less agile than smaller companies. I used to work in a relatively highly regulated industry (different industry and company to what I was talking about above). We had processes that needed to be followed, but if we didn't want to I could write a paragraph to explain why I want to deviate, walk up to a Director (with no previous discussion or meeting planned) given them the explanation and they'd sign it to agree, then we could crack on. The bigger players in that industry would take months to agree a deviation, costing millions, and therefore they basically never deviated from their rule book.

[@dhanushs4713]

Honking your horns in a blind corner is a very good move that I use often. I don't care how I come off as to others as long as I don't come off with a body at the front of my car. Same goes for flashing your brights on a corner. Another trick I employ while driving off country is, I dim my lights before taking a corner that way I can identify any oncoming vehicle from their headlights.

[@AndrewWells527]

4:30 My saying is "Would you rather be right or would you rather be safe?"

[@lonewolfsstuck]

I work for a pizza company as a delivery driver. In the training they specified that if need be to make the customer happy we are authorized up to $15 in approved compensation for "out of pocket" expenses. Like say i forget a 2 liter of soda that was on their order and the store is 15min one way. I can stop at a grocery store and pay out of pocket for the item and keep the receipt and they will compensate me for it as long as i can prove the cause of the expense.

[@SteveRowe]

I would love to have employees that took the initiative to buy a thing that is needed, even if it isn't the best possible deal.

[@citypavement]

I'm the asshole who lets off the brake before it turns green to save a tenth of a second. It's irrational but I can't stop.

[@davidflores909]

I mean so long as you don't actually go while it's red that's not being an asshole. I always go as soon as it's green, but I'm aware of the issue discussed here. I've had close calls too. Of course I don't just floor it. Maybe I'm overconfident but I trust my reflexes. If it's a car coming fast from out of view it doesn't matter that much if you go immediately or wait a single second. You will not see it coming. I feel like most intersections give enough visibility to react on time to some asshole trying to run a "pink" light even if you let off the brake immediately on green.

[@GrimoireOfTheSage]

@@davidflores909 I mean at a typical 4 way intersection there is a brief moment where all lights are red. The traffic engineers know there are going to be people who try and make that yellow. As long as you are watching pre-emptively eyeing traffic approaching the intersection you should be able to tell who is slowing down to stop before your light goes green. And if you can't it is probably because they are planning to blast through to make the yellow or just because they aren't paying attention or don't give a damn or something like that. So I have done the wait at a green for a brief instance, but it is because approaching traffic either enjoy much harder stops than I do, or they weren't paying attention and slammed the brakes at the last minute. Either way I there are times where I have been shocked a car didn't go through because of how fast they stopped. So the general advice of not entering the intersection if you aren't sure the cross traffic is actually stopped/going to stop is something I follow, I just check before my light actually goes green during their yellow/the brief moment all are red.

[@shaunlavoie6183]

I drive a full size pickup for work and i have had the A pillar/passenger side mirror assembly completely cover cars from my view.

[@ADHDad]

At 11 years old I was hit by a speeding car while cycling on a children's crossing in front of my school. I learned early getting where you want to go safely is completely up to you, there's no rules that can protect you from careless people making bad decisions.

[@christianmerchant4979]

He's talking about empowering employees to make decisions and convey intent. David Marquet wrote an excellent book about this topic covering the same topic called "Turn the Ship Around"

[@hummel6364]

Where I live the horn and high beams are actually embedded into law as warning symbols for such occasions. They also instruct you how to drive down tight mountain roads. 1. Lower your windows. 2. Do not brake, use the engine to slow you down by shifting to 1st or 2nd gear. 3. Listen carefully, and honk every single time you turn/approach a corner. They also used to teach "It doesn't matter who is right, just let the bus or lorry pass in front of you. A 2 ton car is always gonna lose against a 15 ton lorry." and many other such things. A big one was also that if you are in a foreign country you should always, even more so than at home, let someone cut you off. Your life isn't worth it, neither is spending time in a foreign prison during your vacation. Many of these really good rules to live by. My driving instructor once asked me why I was going only 25kph even though I just entered a 50, so I told him "That transporter has it's hazard lights running, I can't see inside it, I do not know what he will do, he could open the door and just jump out or worse." to which my instructor was actually quite impressed. He also said I always go too fast... Well I do drive a little fast but I do it in areas where I can verify that it is safe. I often go below the speed limit, like 30 in a 50, for safety reasons. All this was to say... why did your driving instructors never teach you to use the horn and lights the way you are supposed to do it?

[@Chickeeenz]

I drive an e-bike and the path I take is usually pretty deserted. I always check over my shoulder before turning or passing a parked car. If I share a road with cars, I’ll give them all the space I can. I might be soft and legally protected, but that doesn’t mean jack if I’m actually plowed down.

[@Rizartha]

I got my ass chewed over an old extension cord that had been chewed up by dogs, had swaths of exposed copper. Not only did I refuse to use it, I refused to let anyone else use it and threw it away.

[@reptarien]

As a pedestrian 90% of the time myself, my rule of thumb is to just NEVER cross a crosswalk when there are cars there period (unless it's obviously impossible, like in a busy intersection, where I am just very cautious of my surroundings.) In my neighborhood, if I need to cross the street, and a car is coming up, I put myself out of the intersection so that they go first always. I've only had the occasional car get mad that I'm not responding to their waves for me to go first, but I am not putting myself in front of a several ton vehicle.

[@BrandonWestfall]

I'm a fairly defensive driver as well...too bad it can't prevent being rear ended while stationary at a light. My neck and shoulder has been hurting for the last month lol

[@vburke1]

My driveway is just above a BAD high speed blind curve, whenever I back out during the day, I roll my window down and listen for any cars coming.

[@ClioSport2016v]

In Croatia we have insurance for car insurance. It is few € per year, if you hit anyone your insurance will not go up. Basicly Carmageddon licence :D

[@MRi-iq5wf]

I started getting back and tech and refreshing everything about 4 years ago. you guys were a big part of it. Thanks it's awesome I've learned a lot

[@ampere_man]

On zoning out while driving: once I was driving for a long time and of course it was like on autopilot. Soon after entering the city the car in front was slowing down to make a right turn and I was right behind it, realizing that I need to brake almost too late, or it seemed that way. Then I watched the dashcam footage of that moment and not only was I applying just enough brake force to stow down on time without locking up the wheels (no abs), but also paused the music while braking, which I don't recall. It's like 'unconscious' driving is precise af due to lack of emotional response or something

[@theElemDragon]

1) I, too, don't stomp on it as soon as the light turns green. A number of years ago, that paid off big time. Sitting at a light in the city, light turned green, and I hesitated. More than usual. Next thing I know, like 2-3 seconds after the light turned green, a car goes flying through their red light across the lanes. Thankfully, I wasn't the only "First in line" person who didn't gun it. 2) That's a WHOLE DIFFERENT WORLD of "in the zone" if you don't notice a TRAIN coming. They're not exactly quiet, not exactly small, and most times if you're doing something stupid like oh... i dunno... about to walk in front of it.... they sure as hell let you know.

[@nickallain]

Being right and people not understanding that you're right is awful. Even in executive management, this has ended two jobs for me. It's actually a personality trait that comes out in every single assessment that I take and as much as I try to educate people on both the things I'm right about and why they need to read my personality assessment, I end up getting to watch from unemployment as someone else has things play out exactly as I expected.

[@funbucket09]

If you worded it like this post I would have sacked you too. Something you should try and work on. Your wording above sounds very arrogant and self righteous.

[@nickallain]

@@funbucket09 Well you're just a bucket of fun, aren't you? And no, I wouldn't word it like that.

[@strix3055]

​@@nickallain Wow dude. You get genuine advice from someone and you jump to prove them, that it's not just the wording. Maybe think about that.

[@BrowncoatInABox]

In trucking there is a conspect called "G.O.A.L" Get Out And Look. It is meant for reversing, before reversing, get out and look at where you are not just intending to back into, but the surrounding area, so that you don't hit anything or anyone. When in doubt, GOAL, as you are backing up but something seems or feels off, GOAL. If people are pissed that you are constantly stopping your rig and climbing out to make sure that you are not hitting anything, or what have you, let them be mad, when you go "you know what, they are mad, last time I was good, I wont get out" That is when you hit something. CYA

[@rando5673]

In regards to the train thing: this often happens because we assume trains are slow. In cities, they're restricted to ~40mph. In rural or remote areas, trains are often going 65mph. The "will I make it" calculation in your head assumes a wildly inaccurate speed because it's all you know

[@billedwardz]

That looking both ways thing before a green is like a manual car driver thing, I think. Manuals are slow at greens if you're just puttering around so it gives you extra time to look around. That's how I developed that habit anyways. I know you drove that manual civic for a while too.

[@ImHeadshotSniper]

Linus talking about waiting to go through a green is a breath of fresh air. while i have to worry less about specifically the left right traffic since i live in a low traffic area, my dad will constantly complain about me going too slow, and literally every day that i drive with him i will have to use the analogy that "we're getting to the same red light as if we were speeding", because this actually happens a lot. someone will pass me going a good bit faster than me who is already going the legal 10km margin of error over the speed limit, only for me to catch up to them at the red light. so was it worth the risk of speeding? i actually have started pointing out every car that does this in front of him so that he has less fuel to bitch at me with. he says i drive like i'm blind or like a noob, and even when i explain to him exactly the way that i am making sure that other cars are not doing something unexpected, he simply doesn't understand. it's funny cause he gets in a lot of close calls, pulling out in front of people because if he waited any longer he would have had to wait for the small amount of traffic to pass type thing. when i bring up his close calls to him, he says "but i've never been in an accident" as if close calls mean nothing. when i tell him that i never allow myself to be in a position for close calls, he actually agrees, but reverts back to the "because you're a noob/drive like you're blind" thing. dude is 59 anyway so he's definitely geezing out, but it pisses me off cause there are people well older than him that aren't that idiotic.

[@Feynt]

I count seconds for traffic signals and go when it's about to be green so my foot is on the accelerator when it actually changes. It gets me through intersections before people in the other side even start crossing the braking line/crosswalk. Naturally I'm watching for people not stopping at the cross road, but that's seldom a problem considering the traffic. I also drive the speed limit, and boy is that ever more dangerous than driving recklessly. Ever been not just brake checked, but forcibly stopped on the highway because someone didn't like that you weren't going 30 over the limit like they were? Like, hard braked in front of me down to under 40km/h for over 5km to try and force me to get off the highway I'm guessing. They sped off real fast when they realised I was on the phone with 911 about them...

[@Oblivion_94]

I can deal with people going the speed limit, it's the dumbos who go under the speed limit for no good reason in the fast lane that upsets me...

[@Feynt]

@@Oblivion_94 Well that's the thing. In Ontario at least (I imagine the wordage is the same elsewhere) there is no "fast lane". It is "advised" that you pass "slow moving vehicles" on the left where possible. In know in the US almost all interstate highways are 2 lanes, and so the left lane is for passing, but I imagine the law is still the law there and speed limits are meant to be obeyed. Here, a "slow moving vehicle" is explicitly defined as vehicles unable to maintain the speed limit (which, absolutely, they should keep right, which is also spelled out in the law. Especially for farm equipment). So aside from an advisory to pass slow moving vehicles on the left, and a mandate that slow moving vehicles (anything that can't maintain road speeds, like a slow moving transport truck going 90 or less on a 100km/h highway) keep to the right, there's no specific laws against driving in any lane you want. Highway 401 is largely 3+ lanes (collectively 16 in Toronto), so there's ample room to drive. I tend to stay far left until I near my destination because the far right lane has traffic with every turn off/on, and the middle lane has people swerving to avoid the slow traffic. And since the law also specifically states that only emergency service vehicles in the course of their duty can exceed the speed limit, I'm obeying the law by going 100km/h. Meanwhile, almost everyone else is going 120-130km/h and the police do nothing, despite heavy fines for exceeding the speed limit and reckless driving (weaving through traffic, which the 130km/h folk do all the time).

[@bjornparkercaldersparr2058]

Linus, your habit of not driving straight away on green is super! As an ambulance driver we often drive through red in a snails pace and if the cars is still we can do that more safe. Thank you.

[@Aura-Of-Syrinx]

UPS teaches their drives to do a rapid beeping when going around blind corners, just like when they back up

[@robertk1701]

Reminded me something in a business class, business ethics I think. Teacher, also a lawyer, was going off on a tangent and said that when dealing with cops the person with the gun is right. You can argue later in court, but right now, they're right.

[@ianmastin]

I am also a "just do it and answer for it later" type of employee but I also earned that level of trust over years of responsible decision making

[@BHFFS]

Knew I was getting old when I pulled a muscle doing a routine shoulder check. Was sore for like 2 months.

[@yeti4269]

4:16 yeah this definitely screwed me in my last job, although you'd think that's the point of a manager position

[@karkanrey1463]

Damn so Linus is one of those people that just sits at green lights

[@freescape08]

On Linus' driving habits, I get it, but that seems excessive. My mom (I was in the car, but she was driving had her bumper crunched by a semi driver who didn't see a red light, her only cue to stop was that the bus in the lane to our left stopped suddenly and then 3 seconds later a wheel (tread up to eye level) ran by inches from the bumper, and the curved intersection (Calgary has had very poor traffic planning) meant that his back wheels on the trailer crunched our bumper off and jarred the vehicle (write-off). My mom has tinnitus that started that day, and yet I pride myself in how quickly I can get a start on most other vehicles. I keep awareness of anything to the sides and do check both ways (before and as I start off) but my rule is that if I'm about to roll into your bumper, I stop and honk briefly (most cases people are in a daze, I get it, I've been tired too, but sometimes I can see they're looking at their phone) My pet peeve though, is when you're making a right turn into a dedicated lane, and you stop... This should never happen. I honk at people who do this because in the intersections I've seen, this can put me a minute or two behind on an 8 minute drive. It's ridiculous. That and traffic circles when someone is missing a half circle (or more) gap. It wastes everyone's time.

[@erinw6120]

May be an apocryphal tale, but in early days of the automobile, some American states required operators of "non-horse" vehicles to stop 100ft from a blind intersection and fire a gun to warn others of their approach.

[@hummel6364]

Also Luke... A lorry can hide behind that pillar. ALWAYS check. It's probably the deadliest dead angle in any car.

[@TriMMA-ux2ug]

I once got fired for having a few private phone calls on my office phone from a partner who was undergoing cancer treatment Got dressed down, and contract ended I even explained why, and told them would pay for the phone bill. Had no idea it wasn't allowed. No joke

[@Illuminationsfromtheattic]

Regarding pedestrians behind car pillars, I had a similar experience to Luke recently. Visibility is a real problem with modern vehicles due to windows becoming increasingly smaller and pillars growing in size. I would much rather have larger windows and give up some roof strength than increase the chance that I might not see a pedestrian.

[@Cal94]

tbf, while the [skateboard] engineering style of newer EVs means rollovers [should] be less common... if by the grace of god you did manage to roll an R1S, or an EV9, there could be thousands of pounds more weight on the roof than with an old school SUV. and the prevalence of SUVs nowadays has meant rollovers are a much more common phenomenon in general. All that said, the limitations of human sight were a primary reason I've tried to replace all our old cars for newer ones with radar based forward collision assist systems. the parents are getting older, my sis works 12 hr shifts as a nurse, we're always going to be a higher risk family for collisions, I'll trade vehicle long term reliability for the latest safety nannies.

[@Illuminationsfromtheattic]

@@Cal94 I believe that the increasing weight and reliance on electronics is also a mistake. I've come to the conclusion that I wouldn't want to own an EV, at least until battery tech massively improves so that batteries last longer, have greater capacity, charge faster, are much lighter, cheaper, and are significantly more environmentally friendly to produce. Also, gasoline powered cars have also increased ludicrously in size and weight - it was a mistake for the industry to abandon wagons for SUVs! I also definitely don't want electronic safety systems, and in fact my feeling is that aside from having a display of no more than 7 inches with Android Auto, I don't want more electronics than were found in cars from the early 2000s. As far as I'm concerned, car design has been mostly downhill for the past 15 years. In fact, my next car will probably be something used from 2000-2008, not for monetary reasons, but because I very much prefer cars from that era.

[@John_1920]

08:26 If by "pillar" you mean the beam of the frame that goes along the side of the front window, then yeah, people don't realize how obstructive those pillars can be, especially when in motion or making a turn. I've experienced an entire bicycle and bicyclist crossing a crosswalk on my right get completely hidden by that beam because, just as I was making my right turn, they started crossing the cross walk at the same time, matching the speed required to stay hidden behind the beam the entire time. Had to slam on my brakes once I finally saw the bicyclist out the front window when I almost ran into them. Another time, in the same intersection, the same thing happened only then it was a baby carriage and a mom crossing the crosswalk, completely hidden by the pillar.

[@lo1bo2]

In my car the problem is the rear view mirror. I have it moved as high as possible, but it's still too low and blocks stuff. Yes, I'm tall. I've learned to be extra careful.

[@katieforget5892]

If I do something at work, that I did not have authority to do, I make sure to inform whoever would have the authority to make that decision. "This is what happened, this was the action I took, I'm not looking to overstep, but I felt at the time this was the best decision, if you would have preferred I handle that differently, please let me know what I can do, should I run into a similar problem in the future." They're hearing it from me, they're hearing it early, and I'm acknowledging I acted with the best intentions. It has ALMOST always benefited my career, but on occasion I have had trouble.

[@brandonbrodbeck6688]

I looked down and got honked at for a green light and I start to go and Mack truck runs the red light and I knew someone was watching after me I was maybe 3 feet away. If I gone just a little sooner I would've been dead

[@Jack-qs6gh]

I don't get why people are in such a rush to get to the next traffic light because the faster and riskier you go the less chance you have of getting to your destination. You will unalive someone or yourself so you can get to work on time, like what's the point?

[@CasepbX]

8:20 THIS for real with me. Once I hit 35 I started getting motion sickness super easy in a car. So turning my head in a car makes me feel a little dizzy now and pretty much made me want to not drive anymore. I didn't even know what motion sickness was until my 30s... Discovering that feeling was... not very fun.

[@JohnHagenis_awesome]

I lived in a student apartment complex with a parking garage. I will say most student drivers are bad drivers. There were many of accidents in that parking garage. I would flash my high beams around every corner because otherwise people would fly around corners completely blind.

[@massimoguasti1366]

You'll know how important is to double or triple look if you were crossing in Italy

[@jameslarson7452]

There’s “Requirement Driven Decision Making” within the “Decision-Making Framework” philosophy

[@mohedaicebear]

make sure the cars already red is most definitely the best joke and timed joke I've ever heard on KZbin 😭

[@t1m3f0x]

The only way anyone can ever be hit by a train and not be an idiot is if the crossing had no gates, lights, or bells. Or they had failed and the railroad was negligent and didn't have all trains stop and have a crew member get out and stop traffic before the train proceeded thru the crossing. And if they weren't in a crossing when they were hit then the only excuse other then being an idiot is being deaf, because trains are required to ring their bell when they are in the only places where you are allowed to be in a position to be hit by a train. No wait there is one other way you can be hit by a train without being an idiot, if you didn't know the driver was an idiot when you got into the vehicle.

[@Fidgets808]

As with honking, I’ll do it on side roads at night. I’ve noticed it helps with deer

[@CAIDMASTEROFPYRO]

Perhaps All the people that could ever be in a position where they may need to make a petty cash decision could be given a company card with a low limit say $500 and be given basically the instruction you said, if you can defend the purchase put it on the card. No questions asked unless someone seems like they may be abusing it

[@dumbkoffcrow974]

I think that the drama regarding a former employee involved the lack of explicit permission regarding acquistion of supplies. Tho it may be petty to hassle someone over $20 worth of items that is directly related to a person's workflow, it can be helpful to have that action to be explicitly recorded.

[@kevinsadowy5602]

Oh man... Since I turned about 40, I pretty much need those convex mirrors and backup cameras. 😅

[@JustinNelsonsProjects]

You can be right, or you can be dead right. Best quote ever

[@shaboinger333]

With the talk on indication on the road i think cars should’ve not get quieter cause ur taking away another aspect for another person to sense

[@flavoredwaters]

I work at a dealership. Everyone honks when rounding corners

[@lordmetzgermeister]

I feel like Linus shouldn't be driving a car if he's that scared of incoming traffic. Driving does come with some pretty bad risks and the best way to minimize them is to not do anything weird and drive as infrequently as possible. FYI waiting couple seconds on green light does count as weird - you could get a pass once for being "the asshole that doesn't pay attention" but doing it every time would just make other drivers angry and more prone to crash into you.

[@choppergirl]

Maybe you guys need to just slow the phrack down on blind corners. Watching oceans of motorcycle accidents, I came to the conclusion 90% of them could of been prevented if the motorcycle driver had just been going slower. The faster you go, the smaller your window time to react to something unexpected happens, and the longer your braking distance becomes. Expand your distance between you and other moving and other objects as much as possible while you are at it. What is safe follow distance in a car, is no where near sufficient in a motorcycle.

[@somedude5353]

Only DoA over $50. We have DoA from under $10k through to $10M+

[@hazrod13]

I think it says a lot about the place that cars take in our societies. The danger is seen as inevitable, why is that ? We know the pedestrian crossing is in the right, and yet, he should have looked.

[@jamez6398]

You have to do that in North America because people there drive like maniacs. Where I live, people don't run red lights. You can safely cross the road if the man is green or cross the intersection when the light is green. Then again people got more time to stop at the light here because we don't have 4 lane wide essentially highways in the middle of urban centres. The roads here are incredibly narrow with parked cars on both sides, you have to go slowly to get past oncoming traffic in some streets you have to actively stop in between parked cars to let oncoming traffic pass before you can safely proceed. You can't go more than 20 mph here even if there wasn't a speed limit because you would quickly crash until you leave the city and enter the motorway. Here some places you will struggle to find a parking space near your home if you live on a road rather than in a cul-de-sac and you got no driveway people will just park in front of your house you might end up having to park up to a 10 minute walk away which sucks if you need to carry very large, heavy, bulky stuff to or from your house and you got nobody with you who can quickly hop in or out whilst you're stopped in the middle of the road and then dash to find a parking space or take the thing somewhere.

[@askme7777777]

worked with a guy who *aggressively* insisted on his right of way in crosswalks. dude wouldn't even look. having almost been T-boned multiple times by people who just blew through stop signs, i even hesitate at green lights now. lights and signs aren't a barricade. if they show no signs of slowing, i'm going to wait until they do.

[@lilmagi]

Maybe he was suicidal. I know when I was at low point in my life, I didn't look when crossing crosswalks.

[@provideddeath1017]

Beeping on those types of cornors are part of uk driving theory (I'm sure it's the reason why cars have horns) , Flashing lights is not as it can blind/dazzle on comers.

[@QuinnKallisti]

many companies use the idea that anyone can have $50 dollars to fix a problem... then they have tiered system, based on the level of their employment in the org... $50 $500 $5000 $50,000 Having theses amounts available, to fix a problem, no questions asked. The employee solving the problem then reports the expenditure, and the case is reviewed.

[@byohzzrd]

A $30 prop holding up hundreds or thousands of dollars of shooting time is nuts. Do the directors/producers not have discretionary budgets? Who's in charge of setting up the shoot? Sorry y'all, but the days of staking out in an empty office with a camera and ripping out an hour of ad-libbed content are looooong gone.

[@Metal_Maxine]

Colin seems to be in charge of props. If there isn't a form for him to fill in, how can he tell anyone he needs the money? (Lore: Colin *never* talks but mimes)

[@samuelsmith9582]

The fact that companies spend so much effort to track money they often spend more money preventing good things from getting done than they would just letting people get on with their work.

[@mistertrackk]

When driving its always safer to assume no one on the road knows wtf theyre doing.

[@yellingintothewind]

People get hit by trains. People run into the _sides_ of trains.

[@itsoctotv]

"Do as I say, not as I do" that's where that comes from

[@a-aron2276]

I highly doubt he was calm about it...which he absolutely needs the reality check every now and again, a good right hook humbling from Luke or Yvonne would be pleasing to watch😂 I believe anyone in his position would require that, hopefully only once but you know that's up to said person.

[@toger_k5]

Have you considered matrix based solutions? For a tech orientated company it could make sense to just host matrix yourself.

[@brardshepp]

Linus dropping knowledge abt safe driving