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... except abilitate either doesn't work or isn't used. It's... not a word. Seriously, go definition hunting, the thing's not showing up. Conceptually it should follow like that, but it doesn't. Maybe it's archaic as all hell? I'unno.

... no, that's probably one of the worst ways to measure work burnout. A lot of people don't realize that's actually what's going on, more would not admit it, and still more would not admit it over the phone. So on and so forth.

Surveys/interviews can definitely be part of the means of assessment, but as things go it's often a pretty terrible way to track stuff like this, especially if you're just asking them if they feel burnt out. Humans are often quite bad at self-identifying problems and worse at reporting or acknowledging them to other people. Would be even more so in fields where work burnout is likely, since the people in them are under significant pressure and generally have a great deal of incentive (not the least of which is continuing to function at-least-minimally while burnt out, which can be the difference between, y'know, being able to eat or not) to not admit the issue exists to anyone, even -- especially, often enough -- themselves.

E: And the fun thing is, just as under reporting is a significant problem, so is over reporting by people primed by the question to respond in ways that give false positives. So your calling and asking is very much likely to throw out all sorts of bad data. You really want to rely primarily on statistics and behavior tracking for something like this, not direct interviewing. The latter can get really bloody unreliable on certain subjects.

Every season is spring in regards to human intimacy, tack. There's no escape.
E:
There's no escape,
you cannot run.
The kids are humping,
upon the sun.

Really, you'd just want to look through the folks that ran this. Couple of centuries of producing real life supervillians, that company managed. Nation(s) would be britain and associated colonies and whatnot, from the 1600s through the 1800s. Or just use the company itself as an example -- it's significantly easier to find organizations that count collectively as a supervillain than individuals.

Why is "Kidz Bop" even a thing? It's just covers of popular songs done with stupid sound replacements and children singing. Do little kids actually like that better or is it just something to convince parents that they need?

Yes. Both. Though I think it may not be better so much as just as well. Also OW's point, I suppose.

No, it means you fire the current staff, and hire more desperate people who will kill themselves to outperform their predecessors while probably being paid less. It's like thinking with portals, except instead of portals it's the crushed souls and flesh of the underclass.

Unless it cost you two paid meals to get, or something else along those lines. Plenty of room to complain when you get free meals, ha.

Eehhh, unless things get interesting after I stopped reading (part way through the second chapter, shortly after the little sister finished doing salacious things with her brother's shirt and then doing the whole by-the-numbers tsundere abuse thing to him for walking in), it's really kinda' boring. Main conceit is the sister possessing a cat, after which the author uses the whole feline erogenous zone thing to play up the fanservice angle. Which is something that comes up with relatively regularity when feline shapeshifter equivalents (which this is) are involved. Nothing new, basic diddly-bit hiding stuff, standard incest/pedo baiting. Like said, boring.