"sales" is my trigger word. Fucking leeches getting high praise and compensation for selling products that don't exist. Oh they brought in $50,000 in revenue today! No they fucking did not. I brought in that revenue by writing their fantasy bullshit into existence with no warning on an insanely truncated timeline. Not that I'm still bitter or anything.
You hit on a key point there: the mid level folks are the ones who can (ostensibly) do both the work and manage the people doing the work. Without them, you further the disconnect between senior execs who know how to manage things, but can't get widgets out the door, and the front line folks who can get product moving.
Mid-level and line managers are often the shit shields as well. Even if they don't know the work that needs to get done, they often shelter the team from a deluge of shit that would otherwise destroy their productivity. Constant streams of questioning, justification for budgets, status updates, "where is our roadmap", etc. They're on the line for the team's performance, and I've seen, and had, great managers that took the senior level to task for the team.
I think the heart of it is always the tension between this conundrum: you NEED good employees to work at your business, but human beings represent the largest liability (in terms of salary and mistakes they can make) on the balance sheet. So you want to have your labour cost as low as possible, excepting that you get what you pay for. And if you pay a premium, you still may not have the right person for the job. I can understand why the rush to automate - because you only buy the machine once, and you know exactly what it will do every minute of the hour - and also the knee-jerk reaction to just never re-hire any of the managers you laid off because, hey, we ran fine without them. What that turns the company into in five years, though, is the open question.
Sales departments suck because on the surface they provide the most tangible quantitative benefit to the company and everyone else has to fight to prove they aren’t at a minimum costing the company anything. My last company’s owner fawned over them but at least realized he could invest their proceed in other departments to make them run more efficiently. Current owner is a penny pincher that doesn’t cuff the sales team because they provide x million in revenue. Everyone else has to pull teeth to get 500$ expenditures.
I like to think I'm cynical enough that nothing surprises me anymore, but this one got me. Completely insane even by the "they should be locked up in an asylum" standards I apply as a baseline. https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/1453522027273408515
I've watched the Babbitt video enough times to say with confidence the officer only fired once. Why does this trailer seem to suggest otherwise?
How does this surprise you? He’s a bad person, that’s what they do. This episode was being prepared since Jan 7th.
Sinema cannot be fucking serious wearing that outfit. While in session. On TV. You cannot convince me she isn’t trying to destroy her party from the inside at this point, what a fucking embarrassment she is. Next time you trap her in a bathroom, I suggest drown her in the toilet.
Honestly, criticizing female politicians for what they wear is ridiculous and problematic, irrelevant at best. Her job isn't to look a certain way, it's to legislate. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/10/27/kyrsten-sinema-ambition-loyalty-517224 TLDR: Independent liberal figures out that once elected, Republicans are easier to get money from and will keep you in your job longer.... This shit made me laugh out loud, though.... "A local dance crew calling itself the Moderate Pixie Dream Girls, whose members dress in pink tutus and purple party wigs, perform on local street corners to protest the Arizona senator’s opposition to increasing the minimum wage or her resistance to immigration reform."....a dance protest! That'll show em! Remember how the Republicans protested by infiltrating and disrupting a session of fucking Congress, or how the American legal system is fixated on the Rittenhouse case where he shot and killed protesters....good times, dance away.... "Stickers at the hipster coffee shop anchoring the neighborhood feature her face on a milk carton reading “Missing: Last seen defending the Jim Crow filibuster.” This is so futile, I can't even comment. The weight of the uselessness is too much to overcome.... At the national level, though, Sinema’s brand isn’t so much progressive betrayal as raw confusion. When Saturday Night Liveparodied Sinema as one of two Democrats opposing President Joe Biden’s domestic agenda, the writers knew how to have fun with her biographical details — “as a wine-drinking bisexual triathlete, I know what the average American wants” — and her fashion sense (“all the Scooby Doo characters at the same time”).
It's not new for female politicians. How is that any different than Bill Clinton being mocked for his short running shorts, Trump for being fat, Obama's big ears, news segments about George Bush's blue ties? There is a long history of discussing politicians looking a certain way, usually driven by the media.
For me, I don’t see an issue criticizing her denim vest. She’s going out of her way to show everyone she gives less than a shit about actually doing her job. She wants a bunch of attention, but then get super bitchy once she actually gets it. She’s basically a bitchy teenage girl. She wore a ring that said fuck off on it. She has nothing but contempt for her constituents. She wanted to be the quirky and fun senator but all she ended up being was a pain in the ass. I don’t even care that she’s not the liberal messiah people were hoping she would be. She doesn’t even indicate what she wants. “I have nothing for you.” is not an acceptable response to “What do you want to see in this bill?” I can’t tell if this is just how she is, or if it’s like some kind of professional wrestling personality thing. Or if it’s just a mental thing.
This kind of histrionics is why progressivism is just not very popular nationwide, and why Joe Biden was nominated instead of Sanders or Warren. Saying that she's defending Jim Crow and confronting her while she's trying to take a shit or whatever is not going to win her over. With inflation and supply chain becoming a serious issue, there are few worse times to jack up the corporate tax rate.
It's more that I didn't think we were at the point where the most "mainstream" of the right wing networks was willing to be like "yeah, we're just airing totally mask-off propaganda encouraging political violence and we're not going to couch it in any way." There's no pretense of journalism left on this one. There's no fig leaf that allows advertisers to maintain some kind of plausible deniability. This is something you used to only find on the depths of youtube or linked to by stormfront.
In case you were wondering if Noam Chomsky and Bill Kristol ever agreed on something: https://www.thebulwark.com/an-open-..._vPdSjBK_SyHyyuiULA-GGHu_amz1yg6IAOcNnYu0Mv7k
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/30/lincoln-project-glenn-youngkin-virginia-event "Oh no, we're not white supremacists, really...we're just white Republican men showing up to a campaign rally for a Repbulican governor in a southern state carrying tiki torches....Yes, I see how that could be confusing." If the editors of the news had any balls, the headline would have "pose" in quotation marks.
Women and black men are clearly white supremacists...isn't that what the 3/5 Compromise is all about, anyway? Seriously, I didn't look at the pic closely, I stand corrected.