Oh damn maybe we’re related. Wing?

High lake dish berry mulch

Class action lawsuit for contract violations

I’m Happy to see more competition for jira. Jira has been around for 20 years but honestly it looks and acts the same as it did 20 years ago, except slower if you had the sense to provision it well on bare metal back then. The jira in the cloud experience at many companies has been less than stellar.

Nah.FBI tricked criminals into using a network they could monitor.

I was wrong. More like 10 seconds

NoteGPT says:

Summary🔍 The FBI ran the largest criminal social network, resulting in worldwide takedowns of criminal syndicates involved in drug trafficking and other illicit activities. #### Highlights- 💻 ExpressVPN is a trusted VPN service that protects your IP address and hides your online activities from prying sources.- 🌐 End-to-end encryption ensures secure messaging between individuals, but it can be used for both good and bad purposes.- 🕵️‍♂️ The FBI created a company called Anom and sold encrypted devices to criminals, infiltrating over 300 criminal syndicates operating in more than 100 countries.- 📲 Anom’s smartphones, with military-grade encryption, were promoted as a safe and confidential platform by criminal influencers worldwide.- 🚀 Criminals unknowingly sent encrypted messages that were also forwarded to an FBI server, resulting in the cataloging of 27 million incriminating messages.- 🚓 The operation led to 800 arrests, seizure of tons of drugs, firearms, and millions of dollars in currencies, along with dismantling 50 drug labs.- ⚠️ The FBI’s sting operation showcased the dangers and limitations of encrypted platforms being used by criminals for illegal activities.

I bet a LLM AI could summarize it down to half a minute of reading

Well, you can aim for some level of trust, support, and mutual compassion. The corporation is an uncaring machine hellbent on stockholder value.

I’m friends with quite a few former direct reports. Even a couple I had to fire. And I am friends with several former bosses.

It’s a role, and a responsibility

Some filthy folk might try to know you better to manipulate or control you so having some guard up is wise.

Personally I think of people as coworkers all the way up to the CEO. We’re all human.

I hope you get to work with inspiring bosses or leaders so you can recognize them when you are shopping for a new boss.

Well, for starters I don’t tend to work in places where the employees need to unionize. I did once, and I left ASAFP.

I believe more along the lines of Ouchie’s Theory Z - make sure employees are living well in and out of work etc. If every hour requires micromanaging for things to get done then it’s broken and I’d want no part in that. I’ve negotiated for higher pay than my own for some direct reports.

So, hypothetically, you tell me you want to collectively bargain and I would be fighting to let it happen. You want me to go union busting? Then my ethics are clearly not in alignment and I would be hard at work on a GTFO plan.

I’ve studied the hell out of wages, wage distribution and how it graphs out over the decades and it’s not pretty. It’s really terrible.

I’ve fired a 3 person team but I gave them every chance to get on board with the newer way of doing stuff and they flatly rejected it even though it was the new industry norm and it was going to improve their resumes. It was even going to improve work life balance and limit after hours intrusive stuff down to 0. All those things happened and the new folks had no idea that before I showed up the previous team was stressed out, worn out and pissed off but couldn’t handle changing even if it was a win win win.

If every manager in your field of work is awful, I would suggest trying to plot a course elsewhere. Or be a manager yourself.

A good and supportive manager gets more, higher quality output from their team than managers that are micromanaging and working through threats. The delta measured between the extremely bad and extremely good is 120% meaning that a well managed smaller team gets more done and is happier than the bigger poorly managed team.

That whole storming, forming, norming, performing thing? Hard to get to performing if the team is worried about top 3 Maslow’s hierarchy needs, and impossible if the team composition doesn’t stay stable.

If you need to unionize then I hope you are successful. That manager is a person too. If they are a shitty person then vote with your feet. If you need to explain boundaries definitely do. If you’re an autistic introvert make it clear - they might be an autistic extrovert and unaware.

Best of luck!

I could throw you to the wolves when forced to uncarringly or I could give a fuck and put in personal effort to prepare you for it, and help you survive perhaps to thrive elsewhere.

I too can be, and have been thrown carelessly.

Luckily, my moral code is stronger than your cynicism and my kindness is and will remain free.

Certainly there’s a vast difference between pretending to be your friend and BEING your friend.

Perhaps the former is hard to know but the latter is ultimately best for us both. Trust should be earned but also earnable, yes?

I’ve no desire to darken the world we both live in.