MonkeMischief

Delta-P: "When it's got you, it's got you."

They probably figure if they treat a camel like they've been treating the rest of the world and the people in it, it might prove they've got a chance! Lol

22“Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’ 23“And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS.’

Matthew 7:22-23

I shudder to think of how these types have deluded themselves. To think they'd meet their Creator and say something like:

"Look, Lord, I know we locked the homeless out during a blizzard and used desperate peoples' resources to buy a private jet, and undermined the Gospel's perception across the entire world at every turn....but we raised so much money...for YOU!"

I worked with the public. I was constantly stressed out and kept away from my coworkers I actually got along with. I always felt "alone in a crowd."

I'd lie if I said thoughts of self-termination never crossed my mind. Only one or two of those coworkers actually kept up with me when I left, too.

I get a little lonely at home now, but I'm with people I love, and I make time to talk to people by choice.

Quality over quantity, I'd say.

Experimental solution proposal:

• Fire all management. They're expensive and exponentially less productive. Their stupid large offices and pricey desks also waste space.

• (Office) workers collectively do the thing they do without being micro managed and stuffed into pointless meetings.

• ???

• Probably profit, actually. But then how would the "in-club" kids reap all the rewards without working? :( :( :(

Don't forget giant slammed parking lots! :D

The spyware part. Agh!!

A big motivator for keeping my early-2000's car with almost 215,000 miles on it is just how CREEPY modern cars are.

Mozilla's "Privacy Not Included" column really highlighted this. It's terrible and it's currently all legal and you can never really trust you've circumvented it.

Sucks too, because those "Canoo lifestyle vehicles" or the new VW bus EV look so cool....but they have crap like face-monitoring cameras and app-connectivity in them. What the heck.

Yeah, I think he was explaining that EVs ARE more efficient, but like everything with industrial capitalism, the idea is that they're solving for:

"How can we increase efficiency, while keeping inefficient traffic jams and pointless office commutes?"

When, if they actually cared for the environment, reducing office commutes in the first place has proven to work wonders in dropping pollution. There's just no psychopathic control and exponential corporate real estate profits involved.

An EV is more efficient than an ICE, but industry wants never-ending constantly-exponentially-growing production and purchasing of EVs, so they can enjoy a future of EV-majority traffic jams, instead of gas and diesel traffic jams.

We'll then get emotional-piano commercials about how they saved the planet by mass producing a product that was mass consumed.

But we could simply not have traffic jams, and everybody knows it. That would make people too happy though, and give them time to think. Like 2020, it would once again be difficult to find people who will put up with corporate nonsense.

Solving problems by putting dents in demand also has a way of making quarterly projections inconvenient. :p

They literally said to work with your hands in your pockets so that you wouldn't be tempted to take over and get distracted

Yeah this is my experience with managers, alright. When they weren't around, the actual work to be done always seemed to go just fine! Happy worker anarchy!

My supervisor's role in various jobs I've had was usually to hang out in their back office or chat up other management -level staff all day. Occasionally opening Excel and punching in some numbers once a week. Not to mention the hard labor of scheming up something they could neg you about so you'd feel pushed to make them look better.

That manager probably started off doing the job you were doing and got promoted by kissing ass or being a toxic worker

This. The company will promote its "true believers" who think shift-managing a MickeyD's is their life's plateau, who will take the company line as sacred gospel and punish any whiff of potential heresy.

Provide what their workers need? Maybe it was this way at one point. I feel the role of manager now is the job of an idiot task-master, to convince their employees to work harder without what they need.

Yeah it really doesn't help when everyone is driving worn out, pissed off, and/or fearing of retribution from being late due to things out of their control, like traffic, accidents, and sudden construction.

I have terrible time-blindness, so I'd frequently be one of those stressed out trying to make my commute. More often than not, I'd make it to the clock within 5 minutes or less!

There was a few times I felt pushed to make a risky turn where you're allowed to go but yield to oncoming traffic (who were also speeding to not get yelled at or fired, surely!)..., so I could clock in on time...then I thought...

"I refuse to die on my way to work. That would be so pathetically stupid."

Thankfully I quit when they wanted to get on people for being literally sixty seconds late.

Their answer is always "Just leave earlier?" If they had it their way you'd just be wasting hours of your life unpaid in the parking lot just for them. As if they're remotely worth it.

How many deaths are caused by a ridiculous obsession with punitive punctuality, which is hampered by forced office commute traffic, which encourages panicked angry driving?

I too, miss "covid traffic." Roads actually made sense then...

Cigarette is stomped.

Stickies fall from kanban board.

Backdoor dishonor.

I'm still crazy salty about when I invested ~$250 to get the Substance Painter + Designer suite, and got the "We'Re JoInInG tHe AdObE fAMiLy wooo!" Email....

Followed by the "Don't worry we'll still let you get indie licenses" email...

Followed by the "It's gonna be subscription only but you can still keep the never-will-be-upgraded indie version we're discontinuing."

How can the likes of Adobe and Autodesk be so garbage and yet everything they taint with their miasmal existence is or becomes "InDuStRy StAnDaRd"? At this point I refuse to touch Adobe stuff partly because their membership is harder to quit than a gym, and the rest is just out of sheer spite.

I just refuse to use commercial creative software at this point. The blatant rug pulling is just expected now.