Make sure you’re also blocking all other outbound DNS at your firewall. Many “smart” devices (and presumably some apps, though I have no way to check this) are hard coded to use 8.8.8.8 regardless of what DCHP says to use.

Here’s a complete list of all the times someone else’s hair had any impact of any nature whatsoever on my life:

I’m a boss. My criteria for evaluating whether an employee continues to be allowed to work remotely full time is:

1. Can their job be done remotely?
2. Is the job getting done remotely?

If the answer to both is “yes”, then I’m happy to let them work just about anywhere they’d like.

We don’t often talk about this in the limelight, but it’s important. We need to understand how they got here if we want to have any hope of reducing the odds of that happening again.

“Working long hours, being responsive, blending work and life, is not anything to shy away from,” he wrote in the email.

“Pay your employees overtime for off-schedule work, and allow for flexible scheduling so they can slide their normal working hours around to match real life,” I said in reply.

I don’t mind putting in the hard work and I do believe there’s room for some amount of fuzziness between work and life. But I only get one life; I can choose another employer. If my employer runs me too hard, I’ll just find another. My employer isn’t going to take time away from my family, friends, or personal pursuits without compensating me. And there are some things I absolutely won’t miss. Datacenter is melting down during my kid’s play? You should have thought about that when you refused to hire additional support.

Saying I should be happy to put in extra work without expecting to be paid is like saying my employer should be happy to put in extra pay without expecting me to show up.

Good. I’m not familiar with their grievances, but every employee should have the right to organize and bargain collectively.

This is the Internet. You can post comprehensive, overwhelming, irrefutable proof and people will still argue.

Did the article say anything about their payment history? That looks like the only variable they didn’t mention.

How are they with temperature regulation? I think that’s a big holdback for a lot of people. A gas burner gives consistent heat output at the set level, while an electric burner cycles on and off, resulting in a wider temperature range.

ETA: Wow, WTF? Downvoted for asking a legit question. Are we Reddit now?

I have been trying.

But all my local pharmacies are out and aren’t scheduling appointments until stock is back up. It’s total hit and miss.

They do now, only because they were dragged kicking and screaming into doing so. The fact that they resisted this for so long and then acted like they were somehow “innovating” by simply disclosing what you’re actually paying instead of burying people with fine print really left a bad taste with a lot of consumers.

None of that addresses the issue with AirBnB hosts hitting you with undisclosed requirements upon arrival. In addition to paying a cleaning fee, suddenly I have to take out the trash, wash / dry / put away the linens, scrub the bathroom, and do a checklist of other tasks.

I can stay in a four-star Marriott for $200 a night where I’m earning loyalty points, have daily housekeeping, and have on-site hotel staff in case something goes sideways. For the same price, I can stay in a mediocre AirBnB where I’m charged a cleaning fee AND hit with undisclosed requirements after the fact/

I go out of my way to avoid hotels with “resort fees”. That’s one of the reasons we just don’t go to Vegas anymore.

We don’t gamble and we couldn’t care less about shows. We hate the severe overcongestion of the strip. And we’re both way past the age where we have any interest in clubbing. There are tons of great restaurants and bars and touristy things to do far away from the strip. But it seems like just about every hotel in and around the town charges resort fees now, and the ones that don’t are in bad neighborhoods or don’t have much walkable nearby or have some other deficiency. Add to that the rising costs of everything in Vegas, and it’s just not worth the trip anymore.

Vegas used to be a cheap place to go because they made up so much money in gaming. About 15 years ago prices started to creep, but it was okay because Vegas still offered a lot of value for what you were paying. Vegas is now trying to reinvent itself as “a premium destination where people will pay anything because it’s Vegas” rather than “a somewhat expensive destination, but you get a lot for your money”.

Exactly. And the hotel probably has a rewards program and an on-site employee in case any issues come up.

I like the idea of vacation rentals, but I hate the current state of the market. It’s almost always cheaper and simpler to just get a hotel.

Great! There’s no reason not to clearly disclose those fees up-front other than deception.

AirBnB is the worst at this. A vacation rental is $200 a night, so you’d assume five nights would be $1000 plus tax. But then add the cleaning fee, the service fee, the booking fee, the hosting surcharge, the surcharge fee, and a half dozen other junk fees, and suddenly it’s $375 a night. Plus tax.