MechanicalJester @ MechanicalJester @lemm.ee

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Mhmm so how do you pass your own " I fell for the propaganda test", and would you adjust your thinking with new information?

You haven't addressed any plain as day facts this far.

If you want everyone reading your posts to be fully convinced you're hopelessly brainwashed then don't address any specifics and just tell us to do our own research...

Yep. Architected a bunch of software to measure baselines, prove or disprove responses to demands within requested periods etc.

You don't want giant arc furnaces running full tilt in the midst of an energy crunch. It's enough compensation to cover NOT producing anything that day which the ratepayers pay for but also benefit from.

Everything had to work sub-second round-trip, fun stuff, egomaniacal boss.

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=XUKyV49P8F0&si=vLvHlccan-sJEBHt

My brain thinks of MGMT because autistic lysdexia but then I can hear Kids in my head and not that harpy and so it's not so bad

Actually, that's a Vexlers Northern Swamp Warbler- you can tell by the gorsach veining on the pin feathers.

The older I get the more I do know about birds ...but enjoy fucking with borders more.

I blame lean philosophy. Keeping spare parts and redundancy is expensive so definitely don't do it...which is just rolling the dice until it comes up snake eyes and your plant shuts down.

It's the "save 5% yearly and stop trying to avoid a daily 5% chance of disaster"

Over prepared is silly, but so is under prepared.

They were under prepared.

Well, you can aim for some level of trust, support, and mutual compassion. The corporation is an uncaring machine hellbent on stockholder value.

I'm friends with quite a few former direct reports. Even a couple I had to fire. And I am friends with several former bosses.

It's a role, and a responsibility

Some filthy folk might try to know you better to manipulate or control you so having some guard up is wise.

Personally I think of people as coworkers all the way up to the CEO. We're all human.

I hope you get to work with inspiring bosses or leaders so you can recognize them when you are shopping for a new boss.

Well, for starters I don't tend to work in places where the employees need to unionize. I did once, and I left ASAFP.

I believe more along the lines of Ouchie's Theory Z - make sure employees are living well in and out of work etc. If every hour requires micromanaging for things to get done then it's broken and I'd want no part in that. I've negotiated for higher pay than my own for some direct reports.

So, hypothetically, you tell me you want to collectively bargain and I would be fighting to let it happen. You want me to go union busting? Then my ethics are clearly not in alignment and I would be hard at work on a GTFO plan.

I've studied the hell out of wages, wage distribution and how it graphs out over the decades and it's not pretty. It's really terrible.

I've fired a 3 person team but I gave them every chance to get on board with the newer way of doing stuff and they flatly rejected it even though it was the new industry norm and it was going to improve their resumes. It was even going to improve work life balance and limit after hours intrusive stuff down to 0. All those things happened and the new folks had no idea that before I showed up the previous team was stressed out, worn out and pissed off but couldn't handle changing even if it was a win win win.

If every manager in your field of work is awful, I would suggest trying to plot a course elsewhere. Or be a manager yourself.

A good and supportive manager gets more, higher quality output from their team than managers that are micromanaging and working through threats. The delta measured between the extremely bad and extremely good is 120% meaning that a well managed smaller team gets more done and is happier than the bigger poorly managed team.

That whole storming, forming, norming, performing thing? Hard to get to performing if the team is worried about top 3 Maslow's hierarchy needs, and impossible if the team composition doesn't stay stable.

If you need to unionize then I hope you are successful. That manager is a person too. If they are a shitty person then vote with your feet. If you need to explain boundaries definitely do. If you're an autistic introvert make it clear - they might be an autistic extrovert and unaware.

Best of luck!

I could throw you to the wolves when forced to uncarringly or I could give a fuck and put in personal effort to prepare you for it, and help you survive perhaps to thrive elsewhere.

I too can be, and have been thrown carelessly.

Luckily, my moral code is stronger than your cynicism and my kindness is and will remain free.

Certainly there's a vast difference between pretending to be your friend and BEING your friend.

Perhaps the former is hard to know but the latter is ultimately best for us both. Trust should be earned but also earnable, yes?

I've no desire to darken the world we both live in.

Odinsday

Zoe Keating https://music.zoekeating.com/album/into-the-trees

Especially for someone who took an oath. We shouldn't go easier because of his service, but harder, particularly regarding insurrection and invasion of Congress. He was tip of the spear in this, and led conspiracy with as many people as he could influence.

Not if the person or persons are not in the state when providing assistance and arranging.

If I send plane tickets to a Hoosier to get high in Colorado, that's just not a crime firstly, and even if Indiana thought it was they couldn't investigate me and bring me to trial.

Nuts. Thanks though.

I'm sorry, but *fútbol. La gente de España hablan español

Well, not really. They only mentioned compressive strength, so other important qualities and measures could be worse in unacceptable ways.

Or maybe it's great. https://www.concretecentre.com/Specification/Innovative-concrete/Charcoal-Concrete.aspx

Gee, a controllable and fairly steady source of something that naturally generates methane. Better just bury it real quick because we've got fracking to do!

Mmmmmmm yes yes can I interest you in a big surprise piping hot dish of Log4J?

He was holding a handgun when they found him and he probably didn't drop it or waved it at them. I agree with you in principle.