What made me happy today?

[Homer Potvin]

I don't know if it makes me happy exactly, but nobody in my company is willing to take my job, and one candidate they interviewed was like, that's three different jobs you're looking for... I'll do one of them for the same amount of money. Fucking owners, man. They don't get it. I've worked for one or two that had done the real work previously and understand what it all meant, but they were the rare exceptions.

 

[Louanne Learning]

I don't know if it makes me happy exactly,

validated?

 

[Homer Potvin]

validated?

Sort of. Not exactly. Close enough.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

Vindicated?

 

[Set2Stun]

At my former workplace, they stopped promoting people to management a few years ago. So, no more managers who had actually performed the various levels of jobs of the workers below them and who understood what such work entailed.

Instead, they started doing outside hires (friends, friends of friends) with MBAs who have no concept of anything about the reality of the business. It hasn't gone well. Maybe they will pay a consulting firm $500K to try and find out why.

 

[Amontillado]

Sharing YouTube videos is degenerate, I get it, but this one is either the exception or I've got a seriously malfunctioning sense of humor.

Or both. One must keep an open mind.

The Grammarian vs The Errorist

 

[Rad Scribbler]

At my former workplace, they stopped promoting people to management a few years ago. So, no more managers who had actually performed the various levels of jobs of the workers below them and who understood what such work entailed.

Instead, they started doing outside hires (friends, friends of friends) with MBAs who have no concept of anything about the reality of the business. It hasn't gone well. Maybe they will pay a consulting firm $500K to try and find out why.

Unfortunately that's par for the course with a lot of companies. A lot of good people get overlooked for external hires.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

Sharing YouTube videos is degenerate, I get it, but this one is either the exception or I've got a seriously malfunctioning sense of humor.

Or both. One must keep an open mind.

The Grammarian vs The Errorist

Elle Cordova is a freaking genius. I will happily watch any video she produces. Her rendition of Peggy Seeger's I'm Gonna Be an Engineer would no doubt be approved by Peggy.

 

[Homer Potvin]

Maybe they will pay a consulting firm $500K to try and find out why.

Haha. Yup. My owners do similar shit all the time. We didn't have a marketing director for a few years once because we "don't need one, Homer." Then they had a bunch of marketing problems, but didn't want to pay $85K to hire somebody so they did the next logical thing: outsource for $12K a month, paying $144K for somebody who doesn't work for you, who you can't supervise directly, who sits in some other office and assures you they are "working hard everyday so you get your money's worth."

I laugh, and I laugh, and I laugh some more.

 

[big soft moose]

At my former workplace, they stopped promoting people to management a few years ago. So, no more managers who had actually performed the various levels of jobs of the workers below them and who understood what such work entailed.

Instead, they started doing outside hires (friends, friends of friends) with MBAs who have no concept of anything about the reality of the business. It hasn't gone well. Maybe they will pay a consulting firm $500K to try and find out why.

Where I work we’ve gone the opposite direction and promoted a bunch of people who should never have been promoted under the guise of “ growing our own “. Then watched productivity go down the toilet because they now have a bunch of fuckwits in first tier management roles who arent capable of managing a trip to the bag wash

 

[CatrionaGrace]

Thank you for reminding me how wonderful it is to be retired from my day jobs.

 

[Tallyfire]

Today, a gin and tonic with a really nice Japanese gin is making me happy.

I have a bottle of Gordon’s gathering dust on my shelf because all I taste when I drink it is the life of a skint student surrounded by bars that only serve G&Ts with Gordon’s gin.

 

[Set2Stun]

Sharing YouTube videos is degenerate, I get it, but this one is either the exception or I've got a seriously malfunctioning sense of humor.

Or both. One must keep an open mind.

The Grammarian vs The Errorist

I like the short raps that she does. This is the first clip I saw of hers, and it was an instant subscribe.

 

[Pik]

For me it's few beers tonight, I like the effect of vodka but when I'm in contemplative mood.

 

[Louanne Learning]

I used to drink tequila but I switched to vodka since I heard it's a healthier alternative

 

[Homer Potvin]

I used to drink tequila but I switched to vodka since I heard it's a healthier alternative

Yeah, like light cigarettes.

 

[Naomasa298]

Haven't been able to drink clear spirits of any kind since I got very drunk as a student on quadruple vodkas and cokes. Gin, vodka, tequila are all out.

 

[Homer Potvin]

Haven't been able to drink clear spirits of any kind since I got very drunk as a student on quadruple vodkas and cokes. Gin, vodka, tequila are all out.

Drink reposado or anejo tequila. Problem solved!

 

[Louanne Learning]

Yeah, like light cigarettes.

Thank you for getting my joke!

 

[Pik]

Today was the last day of one of my parents' work, they are officially retired now. I was used to them having career and me borrowing money and struggling with my life choices, now it could be the other way around. Luckily I have a job in the next year or so.