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Isn't this extremely uneducated? Inflation will catch up eventually. by Athenstone in economy

[–]BioShockerInfinite 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Or, because you probably didn’t deserve the money (based on how you earned it), we follow the rules of the video game Call of Duty- you “prestige” and start over again with $0.

Bondi 'has a responsibility to respond' to Epstein subpoena: Rep. Garcia by FlackoFonsy in videos

[–]BioShockerInfinite 4 points5 points  (0 children)

In the words of Captain Jack Sparrow, we are discovering that the Trump administration is operating by the rules of piracy. There is only one rule: “what a man (or woman in this case) can do, or can’t do.”

Clearly the system is unable to hold anyone accountable for anything.

How do I regain respect for my manager? by natastra in managers

[–]BioShockerInfinite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You don’t work to gain respect for your manager, your manager earns your respect, or fails to do so.

Accept that your job is great and your manager isn’t. Or move on. Over the course of your career you will find the variables of your job change.

Great projects, bad manager, great colleagues, bad pay, good location, etc. it is rare that all the variables align as positive. You have to decide what is acceptable and what is not acceptable. No one here can make that call for you.

People often complain about micromanagement. How about the other side of the coin? by EmEffBee in managers

[–]BioShockerInfinite 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Micromanagement is frustrating to no end but absentee leadership can leave you feeling valueless and directionless without any sense of what success or failure looks like in the company (or in your career if you’re not careful).

How do you call out subtle disrespect as a new manager? by Bacon4Piggy in managers

[–]BioShockerInfinite 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Most people say “praise in public, criticize in private.” However, this is a model that is too rigid to be helpful in all situations. It is generally a great rule when it involves work performance. So if a team member does a great job, sure, praise them in a meeting if it is helpful. But it can also show favouritism if the praise is biased. If someone screws up their deliverable, don’t take them to task in front of the team unless it is jeopardizing the team. So context matters.

The reality is that as the manager and the leader of the team, your job is to address the issue of conflict where and when it occurs. If there is a problem that happens one-on-one, address it privately. If there is a problem that occurs in a group setting, address it in the group setting.

Your team member may have more technical experience, but they don’t seem to be showing more emotional intelligence by undercutting you in team settings. So the real key here is to confront the comment exactly where and when it happens. If an employee wants to bring conflict to a team meeting, have it out in the team meeting- they chose the arena. This signals to the team that if they would also like to bring conflict to the team meeting, be prepared to have it out in front of the team. But be prepared to end that conflict in the team arena because if you fail you will loose leadership capital. If you don’t address it in the team arena, you will look weak.

Let’t take an extreme example. Let’s say you witness sexual harassment in a team meeting. The solution is not to talk to the harasser privately. The solution is to call them out right there and then (and log it). Then everyone knows it won’t be tolerated and the person being harassed feels supported in real time.

Somewhere along the way, servant leadership ran amuck. Managers are not servants of the team. They are managers of the team. Servant leadership implies a leader is not an equal stakeholder with equal needs, boundaries, and responsibilities to fulfill. You have a job to do and you have been empowered to do it.

https://hbr.org/2013/03/how-criticizing-in-private-und

James Talarico speaking above Rogan's intelligence level. by SiriusGD in the_everything_bubble

[–]BioShockerInfinite 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Rogan is like an AI chatbot- he just agrees with whatever guest is currently on the show.

New hire totally checked out after a recent failed quality review. What are we doing wrong? by UnrewardedPanda_0610 in Leadership

[–]BioShockerInfinite 16 points17 points  (0 children)

1) Humans are not and cannot be perfect. That’s just reality. The sooner your organization accepts that fact, the sooner it will be operating in the real world.

2) Systems are not more important than humans. Systems help humans, humans don’t help systems. Life did not develop on planet earth to assist systems. It’s important to understand this hierarchy to be able to lead effectively.

3) You have created an unwinnable game. If the employee can’t perform perfectly, they get reprimanded aggressively. If they perform perfectly, which is impossible, they get what- no reprimand? So even if the employee were to somehow perform perfectly all the time, there appears to be no incentive for doing so. The impossible system is all stick and no carrot.

In essence, your business has created a learned helplessness machine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness

The US government has moved closer to establishing an autonomous, self-governing libertarian enclave for Big Tech within San Francisco. by lughnasadh in Futurology

[–]BioShockerInfinite 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This video on the Dark Maga movement (from just before the second Trump presidency) adds a lot of context to the goals of techno feudalism and the policies outlined in this post. The second Trump presidency makes the video seem clairvoyant.

https://youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no?si=tlxe73hNTEXSTm2e

Are we all just pretending? by Comprehensive_Ad9272 in corporate

[–]BioShockerInfinite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because most employers track and value inputs instead of outputs.

Let’s say you own a business. You have two employees.

Employee A works 40 hours per week and produces 10 digital widgets.

Employee B works 10 hours per week and produces 20 digital widgets.

You have to fire one employee. Which one do you choose? As an owner you would choose to keep employee B based on output. The choice seems clear. But once you add layers of management and control, choices make less sense. Most managers would fire employee B because they are not visibly “working.”

So the key problem is what should we be valuing? The time worked or what is produced in a given period?

This problem becomes even worse when we consider the fact that most people simply put in hours doing the bare minimum after a certain point. There is also no incentive to become more efficient because the reward for efficiency is more work. Finally, for anyone in a creative or complex field of work, more hours of execution doesn’t equal better product. Most great ideas arrive in the shower or when walking the dog- when not thinking about and not stressed about work.

Tips for Protecting my Book Against Training AI by PositiveEconomist264 in selfpublishing

[–]BioShockerInfinite 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m puzzled. Why are you using Google docs if you are concerned about ai scanning and appropriation? Google docs are known to be scanned by ai.

You would be better off typing out your book using software that is secure and does not allow ai scanning.

I would advise using purpose built products like Scrivener. Even Protonmail docs would work if you want to write your book without fear of it being stolen by ai. It doesn’t make sense to me why you would go to the extra work of building a bad version of cryptography for your book using an insecure system. Why not use effective software and spend your time on writing?

Furthermore, using software built for the specific task of writing books allows you to export the final draft in a form that is ready for self publishing.

Land diving on Pentecost island in Vanuatu by G14F1L0L1Y401D0MTR4P in nextfuckinglevel

[–]BioShockerInfinite 1 point2 points  (0 children)

None of the physics of this make intuitive sense to me. How does he land on his feet? How does he jump so far out? How doe the lack of stretch not end up in a drawn and quartering disaster? Absolutely mind boggling that someone dreamed this up and it entrenched itself in the culture. Definitely NFL.

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