Well he’s not wrong, nowadays people take very little accountability in what they do. Maybe because there are very little to no consequences for incompetence. And the worst is that it seems proportional to the amount of responsibility required for the job. Take CEOs/Politicians, they can fuck up massively and not even a small fine whilst a cleaner who forgets to clean a surface can get fired on the spot. This “laissez faire” and lack of leadership by example puts democracies at risk. It turns populist/extremist political parties into very attractive options with their promises to “clean the swamp” which seems to keep on growing…
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Wanderer@lemm.ee 1 day ago
I was once in (doesn’t matter what shithole country it was) and we was struggling to get on a flight because the queue was disorganised and staff wasn’t moving us fast enough.
This was the breaking point for a guy I was with and he said “I wish one fucking person in the country gave a shit about anything”
And sometimes it does feel like that.
Also worked with another guy that was very quite and kept to himself and was pretty calm. But he used to say whenever we had an issue “people just got to come in and do there job” (implying the fuck up was due to people not doing their basic job)
courval@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
I guess I’m going to complain about work to strangers now.
Yesterday a colleague in another area of the organization emailed me about something that is a matter of legal concern within our purview, but not directly within our scope that they had only accidentally learned about. Seeing the project, the names of the players, and knowing their dispositions and general quality of work, as well as the importance of what they were fucking with, I responded, looping in all the possible stakeholders, explaining the concern, and requesting input. The Director of the area that initiated the changes responded with a long email that basically said they weren’t going to consider any concerns other than their own - not even legal compliance that didn’t impact the nuts and bolts of the work they do - despite my offer to facilitate the compliance and policymaking that needs to happen.
Privately, I messaged my boss, and the colleague who brought the issue to me - a manager - to say that I think the response was not considerate of the broader organizational needs and that we needed to probably intervene more directly, given the severity of the situation that’s brewing.
My boss: Well, if they don’t want to do it that way, they don’t want to do it that way.Motherfucker. I am the responsible party. If their stupid fucking project gets us sued, this shit falls on my lap. I’m telling you, they can say what they want, but the buck stops with me.
But no. Let’s just shrug and claim helplessness because it’s not in the vibe to tell someone they are stepping on my toes. Zero fucking responsibility. No wonder I’m constantly teetering on the brink of burnout.
rbos@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
If I do an amazing job and the company ships another 10k widgets, I don’t see an extra dime.
migo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
One time at one very busy Airport in the center of Europe, all flights cancelled due to snow, everyone queuing for miles to get accommodation and new flights. As soon as 11pm struck, people attending stopped working, hundreds of people still queuing. They just said, sleep at the airport, tomorrow we’ll open again.
blazeknave@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This was me in a southern European airport after a weeks long exhausting adventure (aka 2 wk hangover) and we still had two days of travel home. I think I started actually crying as I kept muttering “I just want to go home now”
IndiBrony@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Speaking of queues, I just want to rant for a second:
Queuing in Britain is one of our greatest strengths. Everyone stays chill, nobody cuts in, everyone knows that everyone gets seen in due time.
But what the fuck are we doing in bars and pubs now? Who the hell started the idea that it was socially acceptable to queue at a bar?
It’s one of the few places where the organised chaos of just piling in reigns supreme.
You squeeze in, find a space at the bar when it appears, and the innate understanding between bartender and client turns what looks like abject chaos into a beautiful drunken ballet.
Fuck queuing at bars. Fucking stop it.
ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk 1 day ago
The only time the “crush” at a bar has been acceptable to me is in small pubs. Anything bigger than a neighbourhood/village scale battle and it’s oppressive.
Long live the queue.
Wanderer@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Queuing at the bar is fucking stupid.
It makes sense at times. Like at a stadium or if you got outside seating and there just one get with a barrel outside.
But a proper pub. Never been that way what the fuck is going on.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m not British, but I’ve been a bartender (in a queueing place) and I’m almost certain they’re glad about the queues. I currently work at a bakery that tends to queue, but when it falls apart, people get unnecessarily pissy with me, as though I should remember who got to the twenty person clump first. I have to imagine it’s worse when everyone is drinking. The reaction to people jumping the queue certainly is.
marquisalex@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Kicked in during COVID, and is (like COVID) hanging around unpleasantly.
It’s a fairly good barometer of what kind of pub you’ve walked into. Pubs with a decent regular crowd will wait at the bar as in the beforetimes, with the bar staff working their way through the meta-queue - and the staff will encourage this behaviour. Pubs with a crowd of casuals or tourists seem to tend towards queueing which the barstaff do nothing to correct, and should generally be avoided for any serious drinking.
tetris11@feddit.uk 1 day ago
I have to admit it surprises me too, but somehow I find myself still queuing up alongside the bar.
It’s nuts and yet makes perfect sense, but I can vouch that no one -no one- was doing it ten years ago.