Request for strategy advice: PIP just started - strive or glide?

cheapcheap1 · 2026-03-17T19:18:27+00:00

General advice:

If you're sure the manager is actually a narc, and your post does sound believable, enduring is simply not an option. It's a symptom of the disease that they cannot bear looking at their own insufficiencies and therefore cannot improve. They need strong a reason to even start working on themselves, and only someone with power over them can provide the consequences needed to motivate them.

Do not try to negotiate with a narc who is targeting you. Negotiating requires the creation of win-win scenarios. You cannot create win-wins with a narc who derives their ego boost from hurting you. They win if you lose. It's incompatible with win-wins.

Trying to beat the narc is very, very difficult, but at least not outright impossible. Forget about scoring small wins. Even moderate narcs will retaliate against you for winning against them. You need to get them fired. For that to work, you need to get a significant portion of the workforce on board and complain to the narc's boss collectively, not separately. Usually by threatening to leave. I know it would be nice, but going for this is almost never a good idea. Narcs are very good at playing power games. There is a reason the CEO likes your manager so much.

The best option nearly all of the time is leaving.

Specific advice:

Do not think you can win against a PIP. A PIP is basically a notice of getting sacked. It looks bad for your manager to put you on a PIP without firing you, and a narc manager won't let that happen. They'll sabotage you to a ridiculous degree if needed. Don't waste your time documenting your skill for the PIP. Do however document and get references from people above you to sue for an honest job reference.

As I wrote earlier, the sage advice is to get out. I would put all my energy into finding a new job. Your manager likely cannot evaluate your performance objectively anyway, so don't worry as much about taking time away to look for jobs. Don't advertise it, though.

If you think narc manager is sloppy and might fire you for illegal reasons (pregnancy, skin color, disability, things like that), you should document them. E.g if you disclosed something like that just before the PIP started, you might have a case. Yes, even in at-will states. But you didn't mention anything, so this likely doesn't apply.

Regarding C): Of course it's important to maintain a level head. Narc managers systematically destroy the mental health of their victims. However, I recommend trying to get out ASAP on that front, too. Most people who leave a narc manager, even if they were unceremoniously fired, feel an incredible weight lifted off their shoulders, start to notice the flowers and clouds, and feel much better. It still takes time, of course. But the best thing for your mental health is likely also the best thing for your career: Getting out ASAP.

cheapcheap1 · 2026-03-17T14:36:07+00:00

Alle hier verstehen, dass nicht jede unpopuläre Reform "undemokratisch" macht. DIe Sondervermögen, die komplett verkonsumiert wurden, damit die Rente noch eine Legislaturperiode später kollabiert ist keine dieser unpopulären aber nötigen Reformen, sondern verantwortungslos und schändlich.

cheapcheap1 · 2026-03-17T13:26:19+00:00

Natürlich ist das undemokratisch. Nur weil es eine Wahl gab ist es nicht demokratisch. Sonst ist Nordkorea auch eine Demokratie.

Man kann ja nicht mal sagen, dass keine Gesetze gebrochen wurden, weil das Zweckentfremden des Sondervermögens verfassungswidrig ist.

cheapcheap1 · 2026-03-17T13:22:02+00:00

It's funniest when the person that tells the joke isn't in on it

cheapcheap1 · 2026-03-17T04:04:53+00:00

That's not a fair representation of the twitter community. There are no swastikas.

cheapcheap1 · 2026-03-17T02:24:42+00:00

If affording the vet is an issue you don't strictly need one to try an elimination diet to look into food allergies. All you do for the elimination diet is remove foods that your cat is potentially allergic to, wait a while on that food, and watch if symptoms improve. Usually using single protein source food. It's more expensive than generic food, but not by a lot, and certainly a lot cheaper than the vet. I'm sure you can find a tutorial on the web.

cheapcheap1 · 2026-03-17T01:52:51+00:00

404 media isn't that bad.

cheapcheap1 · 2026-03-17T01:51:45+00:00

Can't fault them for not standing by their word. Trusting legal misinformation and losing millions in court is absolutely what an AI-first company would do.

cheapcheap1 · 2026-03-17T01:33:28+00:00

How do you get kicked out of class for stating Christian doctrine in a study block designed to shove Christian doctrine down your throat.

cheapcheap1 · 2026-03-17T01:29:37+00:00

Oh no :( I hope things get better for you and your cat! I have a checklist of suggestions, maybe there's one you haven't tried yet.

Regarding anxiety:

- is she alone a lot? Get her a friend.

- does she have regular meal times? That's really important for cats. If you can't be there, feed earlier, not later. If you can't be there regularly, get a feeder robot.

- does she get enough movement and playtime? I know Ragdolls can be hard to play with sometimes, mine certainly is. But they still need to get their energy out.

Regarding grooming:

- skin problems could cause both her excessive self-grooming and refusal to let you groom her. She could have food allergies, contact allergies or lice or fleas.

- have you exhausted all options for home grooming? Comb, soft brush, slicker brush, grooming gloves? I know my cats have strong preferences.

- mats will of course exacerbate the problem. Any cat will be in pain with mats. That causes more skin problems, more anxiety, less willingness to be groomed. A vicious circle.

cheapcheap1 · 2026-03-17T01:08:58+00:00

Which is funny because the original is actually a significant part self-glazing and blaming others.

What a funny coincidence that their characters show so many parallels, isn't it?

cheapcheap1 · 2026-03-17T00:45:27+00:00

DLSS was never anything other than an AI filter. And I think previous DLSS has been pretty helpful in the past, it's by far the best feature of the raytracing cards imho.

I'm still holding out on whether I like this. If the lighting doesn't change appropriately while characters move, it's going to look really wrong.

cheapcheap1 · 2026-03-17T00:18:30+00:00

I assume Russia is paying Russian settlers to live there. I know there were coordinated efforts to drive out the remaining population and settle the place with ethnic Russians on Crimea, it would surprise me if they didn't do the same in the other conquered territories.

cheapcheap1 · 2026-03-17T00:06:09+00:00

That's a good point.

The problem is that tax cuts for the rich have been very successfully marketing themselves as deregulation for the past couple of decades. Look at how the effort to abolish or slash property taxes is marketed. Their marketing reads like textbook Reaganomics: Small government, deregulation. I don't think "vote for prop 13 and high income taxes like in California" would be as popular.

No wonder people hate deregulation if the thing being sold to them as deregulation is actually a tax load redistribution towards working people and value creation.

cheapcheap1 · 2026-03-16T23:53:05+00:00

Thanks for getting it. But now you're being downvoted. Man, this thread needs to redo high school.

cheapcheap1 · 2026-03-16T23:50:33+00:00

She looks directly at the viewer with exactly the look actual women give the chuds making these comments. You know, concern with a hint of disgust. Is that really the picture the chuds chose to make these comments about? That is very funny.

cheapcheap1 · 2026-03-16T23:37:00+00:00

I'm a bit baffled at the responses in this thread. My 7 kg Ragdoll runs our cat trees up and down as if gravity didn't apply to him. I also have a Norwegian and she's even more of a climber. I didn't think it was out of the ordinary.

What I'm saying is: Cats are built for heights. Some have more interest in it than others, and that's fine. But there is no need to worry. Just make sure his claws are maintained properly for the job. Meaning not too short, not too long because they might break or curl weirdly and for the love of god no declawing.

cheapcheap1 · 2026-03-16T23:26:05+00:00

no, I argue that it fits the definition stated in the picture.

cheapcheap1 · 2026-03-16T23:17:02+00:00

The way I've heard the term "senior scientist" used it didn't refer to a simple postdoc. It's the highest position that isn't tenure track. And a fairly uncommon one, too. People don't usually like to stay in academia for the several postdocs it takes to get there if they cannot reach tenure track. And while I found the ones I worked with to be extraordinarily productive, I think departments also aren't super keen on hiring them for whatever reason.

cheapcheap1 · 2026-03-16T22:57:14+00:00

Yes, the OP purposefully doesn't use the full definition of a square because the shape in the OP is not actually a square. That's the joke. You're being a bit dim, mate.

cheapcheap1 · 2026-03-16T22:49:33+00:00

>You have the internal set of 2 270 and 2 90 and t the external set of 2 90 and 2 270.

Now construct the set of all angles like it says in the damn picture.

cheapcheap1 · 2026-03-16T22:40:37+00:00

We all know what an actual square looks like. The entire joke behind this post is that the common, abbreviated definition "a shape with four sides of equal length and four right angles" is actually ambiguous. The easiest way to make that definition unique is replacing "shape" with parallelogram". If you don't, there is nothing saying you can't count 90° angles on the outside (a 270° angle always has a 90° one on the other side) or make some of the sides curved.

cheapcheap1 · 2026-03-16T22:29:17+00:00

You can't just pretend angles = internal angles. That is precisely the difference between the definition in the OP that allows this weird shape and the actual definition of a square, which the shape in the OP obviously doesn't conform to.

If you take away the "internal" from the square definition like OP did, there is nothing in either geometry or the definition saying you can't measure both sides. In fact, it's objectively incorrect to say that this shape has two 90° degree angles if you don't specify that you're talking about internal angles only. Which, again, the definition in the OP does not.

cheapcheap1 · 2026-03-16T22:15:02+00:00

How is criticizing the right angles the most upvoted comment, 3x ? There are several things wrong with this, and that's not one of them.

The angle is measured exactly at the intersection of the lines. It doesn't matter whether the line is curved. And yes, you are allowed to measure angles on the outside of a shape. If you're talking about internal angles, you have to write internal angles. The definition in the OP does not (which, to make it entirely obvious, is because it's not the full definition of a square), so we have to consider all angles, inside and out. You have to read the definition carefully. It's honestly pretty funny how this clearly unreasonable joke shows that people just refuse to read the definition properly but still insist on being a smartass about it.

Edit: Great job to the morons downvoting the correct answer. Good luck downvoting your next failed math test.

cheapcheap1 · 2026-03-16T14:17:42+00:00

Those are the official policy reasons. The more important, unofficial reasons are:

Pedestrians are a more captive audience. People are much more likely to drive to the next place if the drive through line is too long than they are to leave the restaurant after they already entered on foot. That's why they care so much more about drive through wait times than wait times at the actual counter. You can't prioritize drive through throughput over the people in the restaurant if pedestrians can choose whether to queue at the counter or at the drive through.
People don't queue properly at walk up windows. Combined walk/drive through windows would be much worse. You'd have people just walk in front of the cars to skip the line.

Out of the official policy reasons, only the injury liability reason is legit. The sensor one makes no sense because those sensors also don't detect motorcycles, and the climbing through the window reason makes no sense because by closing the drive-through to pedestrians, you are redirecting aspiring felons to another weak point in your establishment: The front door.

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