That management and leadership are smart, visionary, people without whom everything would fall apart.
It doesn’t matter what my line of work is. Management is mostly out of touch idiots everywhere.
“We need to redesign the web page to be more modern! Get me a big hero image and an image carousel!”
“Customers are complaining about how they can’t save their search settings. Maybe we should do something about that?”
“No that’s not a priority”
bike lanes are often viewed by these folks as “liberal bullshit”, and blame them for displacing car lanes and parking.
I don’t understand how “traveling using your muscles” became less “manly” than “sitting on your ass”.
Someone who rides up a big hill on a bike? Fit. Impressive. Admirable.
Someone who drives a car? Boring. Passé. Dull.
This should be obvious to anyone paying any attention, but a lot of maga hats live in a world of lies, and a lot of people live in a world of shallow media. All those “did biden drop out?” searches right before the last election are haunting.
Cuomo is not a good candidate.
My parents, who thankfully can’t vote in the NYC election, don’t really like Zohran. One because she’s terrified of “communism” (whatever that means to her). The other is skeptical, but I feel like could be convinced. I think that’s a lot of older people.
Conservatives typically don’t want to talk about blame because it is their fault.
I eat lunch mostly alone. Dinners maybe about half or 2/3rds with someone. But I’m well older than 18-24 :(
At my local bars, I tell them I’m (still) unemployed and then ask for the saddest, cheapest, beer. Usually it’s High Life or a sad little green can I can’t remember the name of. $4 or $5. One of them’s a local enough bar that I know most of the bartenders now, at least.
The whole “return to office” thing is a cocktail of like… “Feelings Driven Leadership” and “The Cruelty is the Point”. Oh, and “I’m incompetent so everyone else must be incompetent in the same way, too.”
Many managers make decisions based purely on feelings. You can show them data but they don’t care. They feel like being in-office is better. And maybe, maybe, it is, on some metrics. Are those metrics better for workers? Probably not.
And the cruelty? Well, as others have said, some people get off on having power over others.
The last point, there are some people who just can’t manage themselves so they seem to think no one else can, either. Like someone the other day was saying he can’t work from home because he’ll just play xbox. To which I respond, from the depths of my soul, fuck off. Grow up and stop making everyone else around you suffer because you’re an incompetent, unmedicated, shit. You can go into the office if you have to. Don’t make everyone else suffer a pay cut too because you’re trash tier at self control.
Online meetings are largely useless
Oh! Oh! This is where people say “skill issue”, isn’t it?
If you can’t run a productive meeting over zoom you probably can’t do one in person, either.
Because people keep asking like LLMs are a magical solution to every problem. This is an effective way to show that that’s false
Companies demanding return to office is such a twist of the knife. It’s a pay cut, making someone spend an hour or two commuting without paying them for it. But the boss doesn’t care
People aren’t paid enough. The rich have too large a portion of the resources.
Eat the rich. Bury their collaborators.
Don’t want “ai” here.
I also wouldn’t really want fake shirts made with Photoshop by hand. AI is worse though.
Feeling like that Star wars “you were the chosen one!!” meme
They’re stupid and corrupt.
Google still has a chat embedded in Gmail, but because Google is grotesquely incompetent they’ve never succeeded in making a good messaging service. I think they’ve had like 15, but they are too fucked up to just make one work.
One of the things I bring up if someone says “we should run the government like a business”
Running games has definitely helped me run meetings.
Americans are just stupid, and it’s easy to whip us into a moral panic.
I’m having a thought. It’s easy to write them off as stupid, and they may be, but there’s also like… If they have really bad information, the decisions they make given that info as true make more sense. If you really believed that Harris was eating babies, or “she’s a communist that’s going to put the christians in a labor camp”, it would make sense to vote for the “lesser” evil.
Just need to figure out why they believe such falsehoods. it’s probably fox news et al.
I see how people might think that.
Personally I think power is… Let me quote from classic web comic the order of the stick:
Thinking you’re powerful because you have a big car is foolish