Lubuntu 14.10 Virtualbox VNC

I am playing around with Lubuntu 14.10 as a guest OS in virtualbox. I like Ubuntu but wanted to try something lighter. But of course when I first run Lubuntu after install  I am limited to a crap screen resolution. This is also headless which no doubt limits the OS to decide a minimal default. Here is more or less what I ended up doing.

1. apt-get install dkms
2. Install guest addition. In this case I had the vm guest mount the iso directly. Then I ran VBoxLinuxAdditions.run from the /media directory mounted.
3. I was still having issues at this stage until I found this post. http://askubuntu.com/a/450626/350726

• xdiagnose and ticked all 3 debug options
• restart
• additional drivers and reticked the "using x86 virtualisation solution guest adition module and applied the changes.
• restart

Now it can dynamically resize the resolution. Note that the maximum size of the guest window in the host affects the resolution that a VNC client to the guest can see.

Killing Motivation 18: Decreasing Benfits

Now we all know that its not mandatory for a company to provide medical or dental benefits. They are useful tools to maintain a happy and healthy workforce. They are useful to entice employees to join your workforce and retain existing employees.

Therefore, it would stand to reason that if you wanted to get rid of employees without paying a costly severance you would want to reduce or remove those things that keep them in your buildings. Benefits is one of those things that you can reduce to entice employee to leave. Think of it as constructive dismissal but on a large scale. Other than make their lives a living hell day by day, benefit reduction is a clear signal that employees are unimportant to you, and clutter the halls.

In fact, you can investigate what your employees use the most from benefits in previous years, and specifically reduce them. Lets say you have an aging workforce. It stands to reason that they need things like Chiropractic, massage therapy, and perhaps acupuncture to help their aches and pains and prevent larger issues. So you can decrease those, but, then to add insult to injury, you can increase something they don't use. To twist the knife, state to them that you are re-balancing the benefits package to better suite "most" employees. They will all know it a lie. But your little re-balancing line will be to laugh in their faces and say "fuck you".

They know they have little choice. 

Killing Motivation #17: The Employee Survey Reprise

So we have already talked about the employee survey. But there are more twists and turns than a Andes mountain road, so lets cover one of the more insipid mechanisms.

Say you have a team that responds to the survey. This team is a fun and vivacious team. They are also competent. And they love their team - or so their survey responses indicate.

But they hate the company they work for. Team Yay! Company boo!

Kudos to the manager of that team for making an exciting and engaging work environment for that team. The management chain should celebrate that manager for making a happy team against all odds.

Really?!

No, you should not celebrate that manager. You MUST punish that manager.

Clearly, he or she missed the memo on making your employees miserable. Clearly that manager is going against the carefully thought out plan of mind numbing pointless procedure and air gasping morose.

You must summon that manager to a management meeting and verbally spank that manager in front of their peers.

How else will you demotivate the whole chain.