Waldowal @ Waldowal @lemmy.world

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I was about 8 or 9 years old. Sitting in the bleachers at my older brother's baseball game. I was bored and daydreaming about: What if the batter hit a foul ball right into the light above the bleachers and smashed it to pieces. About 3 seconds later, that exact thing happened - exactly as I imagined it. I thought that was pretty weird.

It's telling that you think this is a real thing people take seriously.

That's literally what this whole thread is about: Companies trying to constantly motivate with things other than money - but only for the lowly workers. You keep trying to shift the argument to corporate duties, or talking about WHAT you do instead of WHY you do it. You're being childishly frustrating on purpose.

I'm glad you're motivated by your job, and by pizza parties, and pats on the back. Good for you. Be sure to tell HR tomorrow they can give your pay to the CEO instead. You're so self-fulfilled and all.

Lol, you're cherry picking a sentence and then addressing it totally out of context. I think you might be insane, but here's one last try: Why does the CEO go to work? Why do you go to work? Why do you do the tasks that are required of you in your job? Why does anyone? MONEY! Would you go to work if they didn't pay you? Would the CEO? How about for pizza parties and pats on the back? Fuck NO! Why is that such a difficult fucking concept? Like I said before, this shouldn't even be a discussion. The propaganda is so powerful, it has created corporate bootlickers, like I'm worried you are, whose brains glitch out when you try to claim CEOs work for money.

I think you've veered off the subject man. You're making points no one is talking about.

Not sure of your point. You think the CEO does that out of the goodness of their heart? Or because they just love obtaining funding? No one works for any reason but to make money for themselves. CEOs included. Yet it's debated like it might not be true - which is a ridiculous notion.

Edit: My comment was not trying to educate people on the corporate duties of the CEO

This is the power of propaganda. Not even the CEO cares about making money for shareholders. They care because it makes them more money.

But corporations will pay money to "think tanks" who provide "studies" that show people are really motivated by pizza parties. Then they publish those "studies" in industry magazines, newsletters, etc. Then the widestream media picks it up and reports it as truth. Other companies like what it says and start to parrot it.

And then we have conversations about it like there is ANY validity to it at all. We shouldn't even be talking about this.

Which is French for "the boob".

The idea of agile is great, and easy to sell at a company in my experience. The problem is that the ideas in the manifesto can only be attained if the business stakeholders feet are in the fire as much as IT. That HAS to have top down support from leaders that understand software. But, in every agile company I've ever seen (I was a consultant for 15 years, so I saw a bunch), eventually a project goes south, and the business stakeholders throw tech under the bus by saying: "We're not in IT. We didn't know we should be thinking about what we want (and not just waiting until the end to demand more and more and more)!", and they fucking get away with it. Boomers in senior leadership, who don't know how to work their car stereo, say "Yea, that makes sense. IT, why do you suck!?". And then "agile" is dead. Tech learns to cover their ass, and demand clear requirements up front and get signoff.

If you remember when this happened, his parents were in interviews trying to turn it into a "This is how the libs come for your guns!" situation. The kid was also reported to have said he hoped "Biden gets impeached due to my shooting". He was 15 at the time of the shooting.

This is a prime example of people being radicalized by the rhetoric from right-wingers. The parents first, then they brainwashed this kid into thinking he'd somehow be a hero for doing this. Sad all around.

He means they don't make baked goods, or have a cocktail waiting for you after getting home from a hard day's work.

New policy from the corporate office: If you are working in a public place, like a coffee shop, please scream while typing your login password.

It's to shame her for having sex at least once.

He could have just said he had to go real bad, but instead he says this?!:

Blakeslee's defense? He said he didn't target anyone but had a habit of putting his feces in Pringles cans and randomly throwing them from his car. He claimed he pulled the Pringles prank at least 10 times that year.

This part seems a little over dramatic:

For those of you impacted by the recent catastrophe, we hope you and your family are safe. We are here to help you and your family return to normal.

They have "Enterprise" features that don't appear to be "open source". It's "Open Source", but only the simple parts we didn't think were big money makers?

Hear me out: Ernest Saves Christmas

Been quoting lines from this movie for years:

• Every time we see Santa at the mall: (lean it to the wife) "His real name is 'Santos'"
• Everytime we see a sleigh decoration: "'Slay'! Not 'Sleigh'"
• "Call it a fifth sense. Call it extra sensory perspiration."
• "Right as rain sugar. Pork's my meat!"
• "It's all dem movie people want. Poison!"
• "Having walked from the airport, I'll be dead soon"
• ... and much much more

Once they fired the old CEO that partnered with Warner Brothers and had a streaming-first mindset, the service has gone way down hill. Most of the new content is dumb shit like syndicated reality shows.

I may tune back in for the occasional series releases like Rightous Gemstones, but then I'm out.

It's fallen out of popularity over the years, but reading programming books. The big ones. There is an expectation that a book will contain every bit of info about a technology, and you can learn it, in depth, in one place. Online articles, videos, etc., often just skim the surface. You don't get that deep learning and facts that the books would have. I find even "Official documentation" online is sparse and often doesn't include examples to gain understanding.

Unfortunately, the pace of change, especially in cloud services, cause books to be out of date too quickly, so I don't see it making a comeback.

Glad the roof is not monitors

With this type of publicity over his racist and misogynistic comments, he's decided on a presidential run instead.