There’s a lot of people who are like “I don’t want to pay for someone else!”
Those people should be scooped up and sent right to therapy. And maybe some basic social studies classes. And maybe a religious teacher if their faith instructs them to be kind and charitable to others.
I’ve made this argument before, with limited success.
Voting is fairly cheap. Just abandoning that entire front in the conflict is stupid.
Seems reasonable. There’s always more that could be done, and hopefully this isn’t where the mayor stops.
And yet many people fight to keep the car first infrastructure that rots our spaces and resists community forming.
The responsible, corporate, way of being. Definitely should have done that. I just want people to feel uncomfortable when they have fucked up. Everyone’s just so polite. No one faces social consequences.
This is the same place where they don’t pay for holidays. My boss told me to stop saying things like “I don’t get paid, so it won’t be that good” when they say “have a good holiday”. If grand-boss, ghoul, and preeminent “We don’t pay for holidays” enforcer Anne was locked in a burning building, maybe I’d just say “happy holidays!” and walk away.
A guy I don’t really like at work does all sorts of AI induced PRs. I think he thinks it makes him look good. It probably does, to management.
I got reprimanded for asking if a guy’s extremely weird code was something he wrote himself. He went crying to my boss about how I’m mean on PRs. Fuck you, William. I hope your house catches fire and you pass out while asking Claude for help.
It does seem like a lot of people are lacking in imagination
It’s because management doesn’t only care about those numbers and stats you cited. They also have emotional needs. Like feeling important. Like being the boot.
They also often don’t really understand how work gets done. They do a lot of meetings and schmoozing and think that’s how a web server gets build. They’re self centered, unimaginative, idiots.
We are ruled by the worst among us.
Edit: I realized I already wrote the same kind of thing in this thread the other day. I’m an old broken record!
Working for someone else’s profit, someone who you don’t even like, is not uplifting. That’s capitalism. You spend all day building some API, the owner starts making millions, and you a few thousand in salary.
You’re not accounting for the emotional needs of management. Many of them are cruel. They put value in making their workers squirm.
We should have worker owned things instead of the petty tyranny of capitalism, but here we are.
So I recently read “dying of whiteness” after seeing someone go on about it here. There’s apparently a lot of people that would rather personally die than let black people have health insurance
My understanding is HR’s thought process is “… … … … … … … … …”
This was my first thought. Are they trying to pull some bs like that. But also the wsj is a disgrace
I didn’t know they were public. Feels like being public has mostly adverse effects on like quality of art and other benefits for the consumer.
One time in college Friend A was going to drive us someplace. She started the car and said, “You ready, baby?”
Friend B in the front seat went, “…yeah?”
Friend A snapped, “I was talking to the car”
Dunno why I still think about that sometimes. Lost touch with those friends years ago.