Listen, ketamine billionaires goin around distributing presidency is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not some farcical ignorant ceremony.
Ew gross, you are going to the US, on purpose!? 🤣
All these things haven't suddenly become woke, YOU JUST BECAME A RACIST BIGOTED XENOPHOBIC ASSHOLE!!! AKA MAGA.
You know, I'm starting to wonder if Hitler and the Holocaust are not good things and maybe we should stop him.
Yeah, fair. But also, you can't convince me that every single MAGA just don't know what's going on. We are all telling them, showing them, showing up with receipts and history books, proving their premises wrong at every turn, proving Trump a liar at every turn, proving all the horrible things true at every turn. And they always just go "whatever, I voted for this!"
At some point it isn't just propaganda and ignorance, but willfully and knowingly.
They have permission to be racist, hateful, assholes and bullies and abusers and they love it. And they love that he is doing it all for them and they can just sit back and watch.
At this point the 37% he has reflects less on his incompetence and idiocy and more on their intelligence and racism.
But yeah, that's insanely high for how bad and racist he is.
Wonder what Hitler or Stalin polled at during different points.
They play your favorite song, but the tuba is right in your face and the band is off key.
All we gotta do is trick convince some company to hire us as CEO. Get paid millions more than the employees and do nothing! Sounds like my kind of gig.
And that's different from now, how exactly?
Yeah, honestly once a month isn't that bad. Annoying because you MUST do it, but like you said, not so bad. I've done once a week and it feels ok ish. Like, I can't get ANYTHING done in the office anymore. It's too distracting, too many meetings, and as opposed to being at home, I now have to commute, get lunch, etc. And when in meetings in person you can't really keep working, but a zoom call, yeah I can get half my work done while sitting through all the meetings all day, but not now and I'm not about to go into unpaid overtime to make up their awful decision. And I'm not going to log on early or stay late either. Done with all that. You get your 8 hours, no more now. So I'm sorta looking forward to sitting around in meetings all day discussing all the things we could be working on.
That would be hilarious if you took PTO that 1 day every month. Amazing. Come in like, one time per year just to make a point that you didn't skip them ALL. Hahaha.
Honestly though, if your pay isn't that great keep looking and bail asap.
I've been WFH since Covid forced it, but then a year ago the promised us WFH full time was here to stay and only those that needed or wanted to be in the office could. They downsized buildings and everything. Nice!
They just told us we all had to be back in the office in a month. There isn't enough offices, not enough parking, we've blown away all the productivity metrics at home, half the company is out of state. But, uh, REASONS! We must have butts in THIS specific chair or work doesn't count.
There is literally no valid reason to force it. I think it's all about control and power. They really don't care about productivity or employee satisfaction at all, they just want to force everyone to comply. If they wanted either of those other things we've proved what works.
I hate it. It feels like the dumb "open office" fad all over again. Let's cram 200 people into a single giant open noisy room. Employees HATED it. Managers all gloated how innovative they were. Then it faded away again as they all slowly accepted that no one gets anything done in that chaotic environment.
So too with office vs home. We live in a digital age. The computer age. The internet age. Long gone is the age of work being done by shaking hands and looking at a binder of papers. It's an email, zoom call and a pdf now. Accept it.
In a weird way I'm actually looking forward to my company all going back with 0 coherent plan and not enough parking or desks and then I'll giggle as productivity and morale absolutely tanks.
It's also very likely they know a certain % will quit over it and do it on purpose to lay off without having to. The only problem is that all the most experienced and qualified people leave first.
Companies have had 5 years to accept reality, sell off the MASSIVELY expensive offices and stay fully remote where possible, but no, I think they want control over profits. They want to FEEL like they are managing instead of actually managing.
This also isn't some new thing, there are a lot of subtle and not so subtle things like this all the time with religion. Always have, always will. It's just a tool for control and agendas.
I tried every combo and magic trick I could find and mine will not. Sadge.
89 of 155, holy shit my dude.
Yeah, forget what I said, you are committed now. Sorry, but you gotta finish it. LMAO
If it helps, read the first one and if you don't like it, you don't have to finish it or the series. It stands alone decently well. I know that's obvious, but I often don't do things because I feel like starting something mean I have to finish it. Books, games, movies, etc
I reread 1984, Animal Farm and Farenheight 451 recently, for no particular reason, but they are more accurate and depressing than ever about current events.
Highly recommended. But be prepared to be angry or depressed.
I completed the Wheel of Time last year and liked the Sanderson style of the latter books and am now on book 3 of Stormlight Archive and love it so far. It took me a good half the first book to "get it" or "get into it" rather, but now I see the vision and am enjoying it all. Planning on the other Cosmere series and books after.
Sanderson is definitely one of the better sci-fi/fantasy writers I've read.
Learning about the history and timeline of things sped my deconstruction considerably. Namely the Council of Nicea (sp?) where a group of men decided what to add or remove or change. The King James stuff. And I forget the names, but there were other places where they have found copies of the original or older manuscripts and it paints an interesting story that is NOT what is presented in present day as "the unchanging truth that has always been", but it paints more of a "men made all this up or there was some original story that maybe did happen and it has been changed a million times through the ages like a game of telephone to the point that not much remains of the truth." Sorta story.
Also, an epistle is the wife of an apostle. 🤣