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This is how they get us where I work, there is no escape

This is why we can't have nice things.

I think that's true if you clearly have someone who has shown leadership during those 6 months and has what it takes to manage. What workers often don't realize is that managing a team isn't just about knowing how to do the work of that team. You have to be able to manage your team's funding under strict guidelines, handle your staffing issues and discipline when necessary, and work with the Executive team in a positive and effective manner. We've promoted staff to management because they swore that they were ready for it and then just completely tanked because they really didn't have the skills and had trouble developing them even with training and coaching.

In the software world I used to work in, it went more like this. How long will this take? 5 developers 1 year. OK, we will give you 3 developers and do it in 6 months. 11 months in, and it clear that the project is way behind (note developers tend to overestimate the speed they can do things in, not underestimate it). "Solution" give two more developers to "speed it up". At least two of the current developers have to spend most of their time bring the new developers up to speed. Their new "solution", "add more developers" that need to be trained and slow things down more. End result? If the project ever gets done it ends up with 10 developers working for two years.

"The beatings will continue until morale improves" ~ I dunno, but it wasn't me

Only need 60-80 million more people doing this before companies will start to respond.

People who cannot do the few clicks to disable onedrive or have the files local and in the cloud, are usually the very same never doing backups.

Even if you shut them off forever. Next day...I recommend using an external hard drive because no matter how hard you kneecap them, they just will not go away.

Oh I feel this!

When I retired from teaching, I was often asked if I was going to sign up to be a substitute teacher. Folks, if I still wanted to show up here, I wouldn't be retiring.

I always welcomed meetings because they were the best place to expose and stop bad ideas as a group. Our principal could ignore one department head, but he was too much of a coward to face us all down.

Cheap companies who won't pay for Zoom have a countdown timer.

My boss asked for "detailed daily reports".

"Do you have trouble with anything specific that takes you more time?"

I used to occasionally watch a UK TV series called "The Money Programme" because it was the best evidence that there are extraterrestrials among us. E.G., when a law was passed making it illegal for most organisations to force an employee to work >48 hours/week, they interviewed an estate agent (realtor) who seemed genuinely surprised that anyone would want to work <60 hours/week.

This should be higher.

My manager would always say stuff like this and once I got fed up and replied 'so that we end up like you?' and maybe it was something in my tone that he didn't reply.

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And they're having a problem because most of them weren't buried (it's mostly ice and rocks), and because of global warming, they're beginning to decompose.

Not even close.

Also known as a sabbatical in most countries...

We need to encourage kids to have a gap year. If only I would have known... I wouldn't have went straight into working and college.

Quarterlife crisis.

I, on the other hand, often do. But then I use a real word processor - WordPerfect.

As a writer and editor, I can tell you this is not always true. If you’re using a template, you can really fvck things up by keeping the original formatting.

I once made a impulsive joke about a coworker, that implied they used tactics similar to Hitler 🤦‍♀️ Thank gods they saw some humor in it, because even I was taken aback by the audacity 😅

Was your joke funny enough, hr wanted to hear it? ;)

Human copy, AI copy and populate spreadsheet copy.

Shhhhh...don't tell Elon. He'll Social Securitize it.

do your job well. Just don't be too good when covering for others

The other option is giving them weeks of training that will not help you much. That is what the purpose of college is: it prepares you to spend a lot of time learning things that are - at best - tangential to any real-world tasks you might be faced with.