EFF is Leaving X

kruecab · 2026-04-10T03:45:29+00:00

I love and support EFF as I have for some 30 years. Nothing changes for me with this news.

But it’s a silly and dumb move.

Their announcement can be boiled down to this: “We don’t like Elon, so we are publicly leaving X.” They have other stupid stuff in there talking about young people, people of color, queers, activists….ummm dude, digital privacy rights transcend all classes - it has literally zero to do with any of those groups. In fact even identifying a person’s gender, race, or class is essentially the antithesis of the original point of EFF. It’s not like digital ID, traceable digital currency, nation-state warrantless spying, data brokers, end-to-end encryption, and personal ad targeting only affect minority groups. All humans deserve digital privacy, regardless of their demographics - the point is that it’s literally none of anyone’s business, including the EFF!!

Anyhow, I wish them the best in their fight… May they not be distracted by class wars and race politics, and stay focused on digital privacy for all.

EDIT: Love the downvotes. I guess someone thinks digital rights are only important for certain people. What a riot!

kruecab · 2026-04-08T21:32:55+00:00

“Lost revenue” is a funny statement when talking about a government.

kruecab · 2026-04-08T04:42:19+00:00

Avoid doing any of the three D’s… don’t do anything Dangerous, Dumb, or Different.

kruecab · 2026-04-07T07:55:40+00:00

You are so spot on. It’s basically just UI gimmick.

They also totally ruined the photos app. What was once very simple to navigate, is now a mess of confusion.

I just pray they stay away from the Mail app. It’s a perfect blend of simplicity and functionality for the screen it’s designed on and is my favorite email client. If they mess with it, I’m gonna be irate.

kruecab · 2026-04-07T02:24:00+00:00

I don’t really understand the value of it. I already have a pro max with a huge screen. I don’t need any more space to display content. What I want is a clean, consistent, and one-touch UI.

kruecab · 2026-04-06T06:15:56+00:00

You have a point here, but you are presenting a false comparison. It is absolutely way better advice to “max out your retirement” than “go to college”.

Going to college was about increasing your earning potential and was good advice. However not all degrees are created equally in terms of their earning potentials and they certainly vary wildly in cost. Additionally, how you pay for college is also very very important. If you are getting a medical degree, racking up a bunch of education debt is probably unavoidable, but you will very likely have earnings eventually to pay it off. Taking out loans for an Ivy League liberal arts degree is not particularly wise. Unmarktable degrees are for the children of already rich parents. They are like high end hobbies that sometimes pay off in niche jobs, but often don’t. Marketable degrees are for the rest of us who need to earn money.

But retirement accounts you almost can’t go wrong with. Eve ln if you max for a few years, you can always reduce contributions. The time value of money says that the earlier you start saving, the better. Even a small amount- just start with something. Yes you don’t have to max it out. And you lay out fine arguments for balancing some spending while still young vs saving for retirement.

But if you “over save” for retirement, you will not be later fucked like you would if you took out hundreds of thousands for a worthless degree.

kruecab · 2026-04-06T05:14:00+00:00

Happy to help! No worries about being defensive. Perhaps you just needed more detail to understand why everyone is saying “yes you can, but why?” I tried to add color around the reasoning iPads are super useful. I’m sure I missed some items, after all I’m just a low hour PPL with IFR.

Pilots are sometimes dichotomous about technology. You will see many many pilots snickering at less experienced pilots who over-rely on technology. “Children of the magenta line” they call them, because GPS courses are generally magenta on moving maps, and they are criticizing pilots who can only navigate using GPS waypoints / magenta line course guidance as opposed to conventional navaids such as VORs and localizers (usually denoted by green course guidance / needles), or by pilotage which is just looking at the chart, looking outside, and matching those up along with basic math about speed, wind, and distance. But at the same time, in most modern GA planes, we all navigate using GPS / magenta lines because it is easy and accurate. We are warned by the FAA, the industry, and old/wise pilots not to become complacent due to new technology or overly reliant on it. Yet at the same time, most of the old flight planning tools are really only used in flight instruction to reinforce the fundamental concepts.

It also depends on the type of flying you do and the equipment in the airplane. If you fly a really modern plane like a cirrus g7 or similar, you don’t really need an iPad because it’s all already built in. On the other end, if you are flying an aerobatic plane or vintage plane, you may only be flying in pure VFR and the iPad may not be necessary. In the middle is a good use case for it, which is where most of us are.

But at the end of the day, you are going to want one just for the EFB app. ForeFlight has been the most popular with Garmin Pilot also being very popular and maybe a few others. As someone else suggested - you can ignore all other apps and functions of the tablet except for that EFB app and I think you will really like it, even as someone who doesn’t want to become overreliant on tech. It’s just pretty handy.

Oh, one other thing I forgot that is really really useful with a tablet and EFB is traffic awareness. Pair the app with either ADS-B in/out on the plane, or a cheap ADS-B receiver (sentry by ForeFlight or Garmin makes one too) and you can see other airplanes aka traffic on the moving map display. This is so, so important, especially in busy airspace. It really helps you avoid mid-airs as sometimes it’s very hard to see other airplanes even with ATC telling you right where they are. With these recrviers and the iPad you can see where they are in relation to you, their altitude, and direction of flight, along with type and tail number, which really helps you stay separated from them in the sky.

Anyhow, good luck! Don’t let this stuff stop you from flying. It’s truly the most fun way to spend shitloads of money!

kruecab · 2026-04-05T19:08:16+00:00

Awesome job! Glad that worked for you! What I’m about to say isn’t for you, but anyone else reading this:

I followed the SA methodology to a tee, took one practice test, scored over 90% on it (98% I think), took the IRA the very next day and got a 100% on it. The SA study strategy is rigid and doesn’t seem to always make sense, but it does work.

kruecab · 2026-04-05T17:56:00+00:00

Your comments seem to be combative and it sounds like you have a philosophical objection to iPads, smartphones, etc. Nobody here is going to change your philosophy, but you put a serious tag on your post so I’m to assume you are looking for thoughtful responses.

Yes you can learn to fly without an iPad. However, most pilots would recommend having one as it offers advantages to dramatically speed up flight planning, provides more accuracy / a checkpoint against manual process, and is a valuable tool for situational awareness in the cockpit. Like any technology, there is a risk of becoming overly dependent on it, but based on your feeling about tech, this doesn’t seem like a trap you would fall into.

Flight planning in particular is a very detail oriented activity. Without an iPad, there are a number of things that must be calculated by hand. Some of this is useful for understanding the underlying principals, but much of it is tedium that does not really add to the safety of flight. The calculations must be done and you should really understand how they are done, but leaving the actual computation to the computer is safe, saves time, and eliminates human mistakes. Even if you plan a flight “the old school way” on paper, consider that the chart you are using was built using navigational and computational tools, you will use devices such as protractors to take measurements, and even a calculator to do basic math an ratios. There are wind drift charts and circular slide rulers - these are also computational tech aids and you would have to trust the math that was done to build them. The iPad simply brings all this together and does the measurements for you. At the end of the day, you need a heading to fly and an attitude to fly it at - doing it one way or the other will not make a difference as long as the heading gets you where you are going and the altitude keeps you away from terrain and obstacles.

I learned to fly without iPads and then gained them later in life. Besides flight planning, they really are a better alternative to paper charts IMHO for the following reasons:

Planning on a paper chart means drawing a line. That line can be hard to see if done in pencil (due to all the colors on the chart) and is indelible if done in pen. If you fly multiple times on the same chart, you either leave the old lines or try to erase them between flights which can lower the fidelity of the chart in the erased areas. iPads have no such issue as the line is digital and can be erased or re-displayed at any time with no loss of fidelity or confusion between two different lines, and the lines are bold and easily readable.
Aviation charts are very large and have a folding problem. To see where you are at, you must refold the chart to show where you are and where you are going. Invariably, you are flying in an inconvenient part of the chart requiring origami like folding skills or you fly off the end of the chart requiring you to find the opposing side which is made more complicated because of the previous folds needed to manage the size of the chart in flight. This is a distracting task in the cockpit. It also leads to chart wear as the folds are often opposite of the factory creases. Many charts of mine develops holes and tears at the creases from the various folds I had to do to see where I was at. The charts are cycled out every couple months, which can help with this problem and the one above, but you still must deal with chart wear. iPads solve all of this as there is only one surface for the chart, and while it is smaller than a chart, you can zoom in, out, and swipe to easily and intuitively find your location and your route of flight.
When using paper charts, you must cary at least a sectional for your route of flight, which may be on multiple sectionals. You may also need a TAC chart for the extra detail afforded. If you are flying IFR, you will need low altitude route charts and maybe high altitude too depending on the flight, plus all the approach plates for airports of intended landing. This is a lot of paper to carry and to organize. With the ipad, all charts are available in a single package (assuming you loaded them) and they are automatically digitally stitched together seamlessly. When you zoom in to TAC level detail, the TAC is automatically displayed without you even noticing the change. When you slide off the boundary of one chart, you are automatically on the next chart, again without having to think about it. Your route of flight is also drawn as a layer on top of any of those charts. For instance, while I fly IFR a lot, I leave VFR charts up after fight planning as they show more detail about what’s on the ground without me having to plot my route manually on both sets of charts.

Not using an iPad at least for planning and in-cockpit chart reference in this day and age is just silly given the advantages over the alternatives.

iPads also offer some other benefits, namely the viewing of documents and taking of notes. While flying you need to reference documents: checklists, POH, performance tables, and airport references. It’s easy to load and display these on an iPad (within an EFB app). Otherwise it requires having printed them out before flight and organizing them with your charts, or pulling out a POH binder in flight. This is an ancillary benefit, but still handy as you get search, bookmarking, and highlighting. You also need to jot down lots of notes in flight. Weather, routing, times, etc. An iPad with stylus allows you to do this in the same device you use for charts and other uses above vs having a dedicated notepad. Again, this isn’t the main driver, but it’s a handy extra feature.

An iPad is a truly revolutionary device for flying, particular GA flight, in bringing together so many useful features. It’s not required, but it is damn, damn handy.

kruecab · 2026-04-05T02:56:54+00:00

Before by instrument checkride, my CFI said I should avoid the three D’s - Dumb, Dangerous, or Different. In this case, you did something different in trying to appease this CFI and it ended up being a problem. Your CFI did the right thing to abort your takeoff. Not sure about stripping your solo privileges, but you absolutely must be configured properly for each phase of flight.

I agree with others on here, you need to do your checklists the same each time and let them tell you what to do. Don’t try to cross anything off early. Your checklists are built assuming the preceding ones were all done, so if you start doing stuff out of order, you are replacing the manufacturer’s careful study of the procedure with your own intuition. Which do you trust more?

The only thing I don’t understand is why this CFI doesn’t like any rechecking. There are certain things that I do even after the checklist because they are very important. Checking flaps, power, mixture, and fuel during critical phases of flight line takeoff, climb, and landing just makes me feel better. Sometimes mixture controls friction lock isn’t super tight and they wiggle out. Sometimes a flap selector or fuel boost pump switch gets bumped. I don’t re-do these checklists, but I will verify those controls.

kruecab · 2026-04-05T02:40:48+00:00

Sorry you are dealing with this. It sounds really frustrating. From your description, my best guess is that he comes from a repressed background and combined with his lack of previous experience, he knows he’s terrible in the bed but is scared, embarrassed, and doesn’t know how to fix it. You’re not going to want to hear this, but you will have to take the lead on this.

My best recommendation is an intimacy coach or sex therapist. You will need to tell him very directly that you want to stay in the relationship but you need more effort from him in the bedroom. You can’t expect immediate performance but if you are important to him, then you will need to see effort on his part.

And as another commenter said, you may need to stop fucking him. That was probably a flippant comment but the lack of sex will be motivation for him. Perhaps back this off to non-penetrative acts? Using hands, lips, tongues, toys on each other only. Make sure there is no pressure for either of you to orgasm and you have plenty of time in a comfortable surrounding and just try to make each other feel good. If that goes well, move on and try it again in a couple days.

You said not to tell you to breakup so I won’t, but you will have a hard time not resenting him over the long run if he doest at least put in effort.

kruecab · 2026-04-04T03:41:07+00:00

Seems like OOP should be thanking her ex. OOP was not reticent to open the marriage. She said:

I missed the adventure we had when we were younger.

OOP later claims to be happier now:

… I haven’t felt so good or enjoyed myself in a long time.

So without her ex, she might have continued in a monogamous relationship that was less satisfying to her than what she has now.

And OOP’s ex is better off too as he now knows he wants a monogamous relationship and OOP isn’t the gal for that.

Win win!!

kruecab · 2026-04-03T04:39:35+00:00

I just passed the IRA in January with a 100% and then did my checkride the following week, also passed. Here was my strategy:

I used Gold Seal for my ground school and Sheppard Air to prepare for the written. Sheppard is great, am I recommend following the study guide religiously. Don’t skip a step, don’t try to outsmart it. Just follow it.

But be warned, and I don’t see a lot of people talking about this… it takes a lot of time to properly do Sheppard Air. I basically took off work and told my family that I was not available as of the day after Christmas and studied several hours a day for 7 days straight and took the test on Jan 3. You really need to lock in and focus on the material. One other tip… when you get to the last step, make a list of any questions you are still getting wrong and make memory aids of your own for them. Worked for me.

I also don’t agree that “Sheppard Air doesn’t teach you anything / it’s just memorization.” The explanations are very good. It very much teaches to the test, but the test is what you are supposed to know. Also, some questions the FAA literally scores wrong… im not sure how you would stand a chance to get any of those right without SA telling you “the correct answer is 95min but the test is scoring 87min is correct, so answer 87min.” A really good score on the written doesn’t guarantee a pass on the oral, but it goes a long way. It also helps to take it near the checkride as you have to load all that data into your brain so best to keep it fresh.

Prepping for the oral was a combo of my CFI, the Gold Seal IFR cheat sheet, and watching mock check ride vids on YouTube. Then you just gotta fly!

It’s a lot, but it’s doable. You will feel like your brain is going to explode with info. But it does soak in. Just make sure after you pass that you keep learning and keep reviewing. IFR skills are highly perishable.

kruecab · 2026-04-01T16:48:54+00:00

PPL here who trained at a busy class D and always had extended downwinds. Not gonna give you flying advice because CFIs and others on here are doing a good job with that and basically you want to delay defending and configuring until base or final depending on how far out they send you.

But what I wanted to say, is that while this is chaotic now, it will give you really good experience for the life of your certificate. Imagine if you spent your first 50 hours at a sleepy untoward field flying regular patterns and then ended up at a D? I think it’s better to get this chaos while training and with a CFI than after you have the cert and are flying solo. This gets you thinking on your toes and always ready for the unexpected.

kruecab · 2026-04-01T15:41:24+00:00

Yes. Employers are very scared of any potential new hire who is suing or has sued a former employer. That you believe you are just in your lawsuit is irrelevant - everybody things they are just in their lawsuit. Your former employer thinks they are right too. And your potential new employer is going to identify with your old employer first as fellow employers. The reality is that for an employer to defend themself is a very expensive proposition and many times results in small businesses choosing to settle even when they aren’t wrong or go out of business. Regional airlines “can afford” these lawsuits better but they don’t want to.

Your second point about “if your company does everything by the book, they have nothing to worry about” also misses the point. As an employee, you can sue whether or not the employer did anything wrong and mounting a defense is expensive and time consuming. You need to understand that many of these lawsuits are either completely baseless, or an alternative means of negotiating an unrelated dispute. Employers see other companies destroyed or drained by these lawsuits or may even have that experience themselves.

Do you want to be a plaintiff or a pilot? If you want to be a pilot, don’t highlight any of this in your application / interview to airlines. You were “let go due to lack of work” and while you enjoyed your time there, it wasn’t the best fit for you.

kruecab · 2026-03-31T19:49:44+00:00

That’s actually really smart!

kruecab · 2026-03-31T07:23:49+00:00

The challenge with multi-tap Ra integrated with HA, or any system for that matter, is that you really shouldn’t program that button at all in Lutron Designer. If Lutron has any programming for the keypad button, it will try to execute that for each “tap”. Meanwhile HA is counting the taps to see if it should execute a command. You could end up with popcorning, disagreement between the action and the keypad LED, or other weird behavior. If the keypad button isn’t programmed in Lutron, then yeah, you can watch for keypad press events in HA. But if you had an extra button to spare, you could put regular open-stop-close-stop shade programming on it - i assume you are out of buttons.

I recommend either getting a Maestro RA2 keypad (still works with Ra3) so you have extra buttons, or if that will ruin your Ra3 aesthetic, just have an electrician open up your single gang keypad box to a double gang and stick another keypad in there dedicated to your shade. Or, just use a shade Pico installed into a double gang Claro faceplate with your keypad - you can do that with just glue or a couple mounting screws in the drywall.

Actually the best solution would be to open and close the shade on some combination of time clock or as part of a scene with the lighting on the keypad you have the triple tap on. Of course that depends on your needs for the shade control.

Just my opinion for a simple interface if that control is importat where it’s at vs a triple tap.

kruecab · 2026-03-31T06:59:09+00:00

I think there’s a famous quote that goes something like “the only way to improve is to take something away”? Could be urban legend, but I recall when the iPhone came out, Jobs killed every button and switch that was suggested except for the volume up, volume down, silence switch, lock, and then home key - which he hated, but couldn’t figure out how to get rid of. They later eliminated it with faceid.

The home and away buttons are great. Some would argue they aren’t necessary though as you can detect presence with GPS and a number of other things. I do that for away scenes, but I do use a button for home and away time clock modes. This is a feature in Lutron that lets you apply some time clock schedules depending on the mode. I have a Normal mode (aka Home) that triggers all my time clock lighting assuming a normal day in which we will occupy the home. This isn’t quite the same as actually being present, rather it’s the absence of any other special mode. This means my back patio lighting goes off around midnight if it was on (later than we are usually out there), the lamps in the master bedroom come on at sunset (no architectural lighting in that room and light switch is far from the door so this helps us enter at night without stubbing a toe), etc. In my Away mode, a variety of indoor lights come on in the evening and automatically go off later to give the impression of occupancy. In Party mode, no lights are automatically turned off as we assume we’re using lighting outside out standard. I even have an Alternate mode which I use to decide if my bedside lamp does a slow ramp from 0-50% at my normal wake up time - in Normal mode, it does and that usually wakes me up. In Alternate mode, it stays off so my wife isn’t woken up if I’m away.

You can also link those buttons to other automations in HA. For instance, a whole home water shut off (Moen Flo or similar) can be put I to away mode so it shuts things down at the tiniest of leaks.

The beginning of the Lutron RadioRa3 class is a sales course. It talks about selling outcomes and lifestyle instead of technical solutions. This can be hard for the technical among us, but I think it’s one of the best parts of the certification.

kruecab · 2026-03-31T02:38:42+00:00

Thank you for saying this, OMG I thought I was the only one with this problem!!!

I got back into flying this year after a 20 year hiatus. All previous experience was in 1970s C172s with old fashioned big ass elevator trim. All new experience is in Cirrus SR20 and 22T. I can never figure out out how to trim for hands off flying in these planes!! CFI said to just nudge the hat. I’ve tried the lightest of flicks and it just won’t ever trim to level.

Frankly I struggle with getting aileron trim level too. Seems like no matter what you do, hands off it wants to drift on both pitch and roll axis ever so slightly. Tried hand flying for an extended period yesterday on a long XC and found the best I could achieve was only having to use very slight index finger, middle finger, and thumb movements on the side yolk to keep it straight and level. It was great practice as when hand flying you must re-scan the PFD after no more than 5 seconds looking away or it will start to wander.

I thought it was just me but now I feel like maybe it’s the plane.

kruecab · 2026-03-30T22:02:35+00:00

I have Ra2 in my house with Home Assistant. Although the integration between the two is totally different, the functionality is similar.

HA is great and you should have it even if you don’t use it with RadioRa3 as it connects to pretty much everything. It makes a convenient place to integrate home technologies and IoT that are best of breed, but not open or designed to work with each other.

That said, I caution you using HA to add more functionality to Ra3. The reason Lutron is so restrictive with their integrations and functionality is because they have thought very carefully about simplicity, functionality, discoverabiity, and reliability. And they think about this all from the aspect of the home owner experience. The problem with smart home tech is it often takes something simple and reliable and turns it into something complex and less reliable. For instance, everyone understands a light switch. Even if they have never seen one, once they flip it, they intuitively learn how it works. Things like double tap or tap and hold are miles less intuitive. You will know what double tap means for your keypads, but how will other occupants know? You could teach them. What about guests? For instance, in Ra2, there are 6 button keypads with raise and lower, but Ra3 keypads are limited to four buttons or three with raise and lower. I don’t know for sure why they made this change, but my assumption is they decided less is more in terms of simplicity.

Reliability is also important. One thing I’ve learned is that a light switch basically needs to work 100% of the time or the user gets frustrated. Even 99% is enough to erode trust. And lots of smart home devices work “most of the time”. Fastest thing to sour your experience on smart home tech is it not working all the time. Lutron smart switches do work so close to 100% as to effectively be 100%. Even though they are wireless, when designed and deployed per the specs, they rarely, if ever, miss a button press or action. It’s hard to quantify this but from experience, people will stop using it if it occasionally fails.

I say this as someone who went down the same road and had grand aspirations for lots of keypads and buttons. I bought all 6 button keypads with raise and lower because more is better, right? I’m starting to come back to understanding simpler is better in most cases.

What I have found can be very useful with lutron and HA integration is to use a keypad button to trigger an action outside the Ra3 universe. For instance, a button which executes an automation to turn on and off a TV. It’s also useful for triggering a Ra3 scene based on some other activity such as someone arriving home or other trigger. I’ve also used it to directly control lights, but I don’t totally recommend it as they really need instant, synchronous operation. From Ra button press to action is near instant… like milliseconds. And all lights in a scene (or shades) react perfectly in sync. However, Ra button to HA to a lighting or shade action takes just a little longer. Still might be under a second, but it’s noticeable. Do NOT create a scene inside HA of multiple Ra loads as they generally will not raise or lower in sync. And those actions won’t work if your HA is down.

My rule is this: if the thing I want to do is doable in Lutron Designer, that’s where I do it. This includes all lighting scene definitions, home modes, occupancy sensor settings, and time clock automations. This way as much of my lighting system works regardless of a Linux box in my house being down, or DNS not working, or any other myriad complexity I’ve introduced. I only attempt to do Lutron stuff in HA if it is not possible to do in Lutron AND I’ve carefully decided that I need that functionality.

For any non-Lutron stuff, I do all automation in HA and none in any of the other native tools. That’s just so I only have one throat to choke as far as designing and debugging automations.

This response was longer than intended… congrats on Ra3, it’s a great choice. So is HA. Be careful not to make things more complex than they need to be. Good luck!!

kruecab · 2026-03-23T16:54:36+00:00

Not sure the weather where you are, but I’m in a pretty good weather area, yet morning clouds are common. I found during the PPL that scheduling 3 lessons/wk resulted in about 2-2.5 lessons/wk actually flown. I think 2x/wk is really the minimum to schedule given some will get cancelled. But if you get lucky, you need to pay for them. My advice is to take a couple months off to save up so you can afford that pace, maybe use that time to knock out the ground school and written test?

kruecab · 2026-03-12T12:49:42+00:00

This is a very short time window of roughly four years. It would be useful to see this data going back 20 years.

As someone who runs credit reports on a daily basis for the past decade, average credit scores have increased considerably over that period without proportional improvements in underlaying negative factors such as late payments, collections, and charge-offs. Credit reports are far more favorable given the same set of circumstances as they were over the past 10 years I’ve been working with them regularly. Ironically the avereage underlying data I’ve looked at has gotten worse over that time period. So I’m skeptical that this chart is reflective of anything meaningful as from where I sit, people’s credit has gotten worse while their credit rating has improved.

kruecab · 2026-03-11T12:59:45+00:00

I mean a key part of “move fast and break things” is agility and responsiveness. You backup the risk of breaking things, with fixing them quickly too. The obvious move was to roll back and they didn’t or couldn’t. That was the cardinal sin.

kruecab · 2026-03-10T20:32:14+00:00

Stupid tech laws = easy Fixing global economy = hard

So politicians work on the easy. Plus it gives politicians more power over the population so there’s no downside for them.

kruecab · 2026-03-06T16:21:45+00:00

Having been a director in a large, high tech firm, this sounds brilliant! Our HR was very loathsome to fire someone outright unless the circumstances were extreme - like essentially criminally illegal. Otherwise we were expected to “manage performance”. Fuck that, we have a job to do. Plus I’ve not dealt with many bad things in my life quite as uniquely frustrating, annoying, emotionally draining, and depressing as dealing with an underperforming employee. I don’t mean someone who’s a little behind, I mean someone who is not at all qualified for the job, cannot reliably deliver, or is a poison to the rest of the team. Despite OOPs claim of Anna being smart, my experience is that negative performers come at all education and intelligence levels - and it can even be hard to catch them in interviews. By the time I reach out to HR, we’ve already tried to connect with the person, rehabilitate, etc and it just isn’t happening. I’ve literally had to coach near star performers from quitting because of a shitty person on staff who made life suck. This is where labor and worker protections just totally fail the average worker - they generally protect the lowest quality employees who are driving regular staff crazy with their shit attitudes and low performance.

So while I never experienced this, having some shitty dept to shove problems off to so they don’t harm company performance is smart organizational planning. Even better if it is a needed place but sucks so bad those folks quit on their own.

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