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I find when I'm around parents - not even with their kids - that the talk often turns to kids and what they watch and what stuff they're doing and on and on and on. I mean it shouldn't surprise me, but it can be awful dull.

I always thought it was being alone but wishing you weren't I'm kinda the opposite, it's when I'm with people, then I wish I wasn't

I am not sure why I started reading this thing about the recently deceased Elizabeth Wurtzel, but it turned into a meditation on something I'm very interested in; how my generation rejected, rebelled against and basically shat upon the idea of steady jobs & mortgages/housing estate life - and...

Yeah, I guess.

brb making tea

My mate's Dad is deaf and he only imagines things, he says he doesn't have an inner voice. Like when I say in my head "I think I've deserved a cup of tea!" He just thinks of walking to the kitchen and making tea. What if you're deaf and have aphantasia?

You think someone's your type and then you scroll through nothing but baby photos on their Instagram.

If someone grows up in a family of professionals that work in an organisation, and is exposed to the culture of that organisation and the day-to-day requirements of that profession, and have a someone within the organisation to act as a mentor, then I think that is a whole pile of positives. All...

I just don't think that it's the same as hiring of relatives, which is often a good thing No one else seems to have that impression, or make that distinction

These things seem to contradict each other. He's either claiming it or he's not (he is)

No I get that nepotism can be a bad thing. I questioned what's to be done about it. And suggested a ban on hiring of relatives as being obvious overkill.

2-3%? As evidence of a wider practice? This guy has written a long and thoroughly researched piece with 32 footnotes, and could find 6 examples in hundreds of positions. You'd have to think if he found more examples he'd have referenced them. It doesn't, for me, make the case of a wider...

When he says "if not outright nepotism" his meaning is "it's basically nepotism". It's why he uses the word nepotism. He wants you to regard it as such. His meaning is certainly not "A family introduction is not nepotism.". It is essentially the opposite of that. if not outright nepotism...

In an organisation with 20,000+ employees? I dunno. We have 300 or so in here and I'd say at least 6 people are relatives. I wouldn't call the practice widespread for us. But I don't know where we sit on the scale of things.

Are these Americans?

Just heavily implies it What this personnel snapshot reveals is an organization structured upon an almost hermetically sealed class system where, if not outright nepotism, certainly a family introduction seems to advance careers,

I should add that I don't really give a toss about the BBC :-)

But that's the aspect we're talking about. They're anecdotal without hard evidence of wider practice.

Hardly. For any number of reasons, they can often be the best people for the job, depending on the circumstances. Nepotism is not the same thing as hiring relatives. It just overlaps.

A cherry-picked example of a few jobs. Which happens everywhere. Sometimes it's bad and sometimes it's not. If he's going to make the case, he needs more than anecdotal evidence and he probably needs to tie it to actual harm done.