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- Comment on Can a person who is a convicted felon/ rapist even get nominated for the Nobel Peace Price? Extra points if you can ELI5 that. 2 days ago:
Could he have done more than “encourage” RBG?
- Comment on Can a person who is a convicted felon/ rapist even get nominated for the Nobel Peace Price? Extra points if you can ELI5 that. 2 days ago:
They can and do take prizes off laureates if they go bad later.
- Comment on Can a person who is a convicted felon/ rapist even get nominated for the Nobel Peace Price? Extra points if you can ELI5 that. 2 days ago:
I think the point you might have missed is, a conviction shouldn’t exclude you from receiving a prize, because you may have been convicted by a corrupt court.
I’m not saying Trump was wrongly convicted, just that a conviction shouldn’t exclude you in and of itself.
- Comment on Be proud of your life choices 3 days ago:
Amazing.
- Comment on what's a good answer to placate the c-suite if you're accused of lacking motivation and being unfriendly? 6 days ago:
immediately after writing Everyone lies in interviews).
As I explained in that comment, everyone lies in interviews, but you can still select the best candidates because some don’t understand what makes someone desirable.
You made this thread asking how to lie to c-suite.
- Comment on what's a good answer to placate the c-suite if you're accused of lacking motivation and being unfriendly? 6 days ago:
Sure. It’s also what anyone who’s ever hired anyone would say.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Who knows what this guy really meant but we can probably infer some things.
He did not take the opportunity to say “You’re really amazing and interesting and smart and funny” or anything similar.
It’s also a weird thing to say.
- Comment on what's a good answer to placate the c-suite if you're accused of lacking motivation and being unfriendly? 1 week ago:
Telling on myself ? Oh no, some kid on Lemmy thinks I’m too bourgeois.
- Comment on what's a good answer to placate the c-suite if you're accused of lacking motivation and being unfriendly? 1 week ago:
You seem to be laboring under several misconceptions.
Firstly, that being a parasitic middle manager is somehow undesirable. It’s natural to dislike the people who are supervising you (but building some kind of ideology around that to justify your dislike is a bit cringe). However, as they progress through their lives most people want more money, more responsibility, more challenge, and with those things comes more authority.
Secondly, that anyone complaining about “parasitic middle managers” would actually refuse the opportunity to take such a role if they were able to do so.
I’m sure that “parasitic middle managers” do exist, but one feature of capitalism (which I’m sure you also despise) is that it’s very good at weeding out people that don’t produce any value. In the vast majority of cases, the parasitic middle managers you’re talking about are in fact well experienced and highly skilled professionals, who earned the role on merit because they can produce lots of value.
It’s the same way everyone that doesn’t own a home complains about landlords, but ultimately aspires to be one.
- Comment on what's a good answer to placate the c-suite if you're accused of lacking motivation and being unfriendly? 1 week ago:
Lol walk more dogs.
- Comment on what's a good answer to placate the c-suite if you're accused of lacking motivation and being unfriendly? 1 week ago:
That’s fair, but for this type of job management isn’t going to be asking you about your hopes and dreams.
- Comment on what's a good answer to placate the c-suite if you're accused of lacking motivation and being unfriendly? 1 week ago:
Everything you’ve said here is pretty much the opposite of your initial “minimum job requirements” comment.
- Comment on what's a good answer to placate the c-suite if you're accused of lacking motivation and being unfriendly? 1 week ago:
Everyone lies in interviews. However, a lot of people don’t understand what will make them desirable so they lie about the wrong thing.
Someone who understands the role enough to lie to make themselves seem desirable is better than someone who doesn’t.
- Comment on what's a good answer to placate the c-suite if you're accused of lacking motivation and being unfriendly? 1 week ago:
LOL. You sound like you’re ripe for restructure.
- Comment on what's a good answer to placate the c-suite if you're accused of lacking motivation and being unfriendly? 1 week ago:
I’m not assuming you’re an idiot, but I’m sure you agree that team members with some aspirations are better than those who like OP, tell you they’re only there for the money.
If you could choose, you surely wouldn’t choose the latter.
- Comment on what's a good answer to placate the c-suite if you're accused of lacking motivation and being unfriendly? 1 week ago:
I don’t really follow.
If you could select your own team from a large pool of employees, would you choose the person who said “I’m just here for the money and will do the bare minimum required per my role’s responsibilities”, or would you choose the person who said “I’m so passionate about whatever thing we do and I’m excited to be part of your team because I want to learn all I can from you”.
If you chose the first guy then you’re an idiot, sorry.
IDK why you’d tell that to team members honestly. It’s great that you want your team to be happy and relaxed and also great that you don’t want to take advantage of them. However, you need to balance that against helping them be the best they can be. Imagine joining a rowing team and your captain just saying “yeah so on this team we invest the minimum effort we can get away with while not sinking”.
If I looked back at the colleagues and supervisors that really received my best work and pushed me to be a little bit better than I really was … I didn’t like any of them at the time.
- Comment on what's a good answer to placate the c-suite if you're accused of lacking motivation and being unfriendly? 1 week ago:
The correct response is non-verbal. You have to demonstrate that you’re motivated and friendly.
Telling coworkers that you’re only there for the money is the corporate equivalent of telling your spouse you’re only with them because your asshole isn’t going to lick itself and you don’t have any better options right now.
Everyone goes to work to make money. You’re not special in this regard. No one would go if they weren’t getting paid. The real question is why you’re doing this job to earn money instead of doing some other job to earn money.
The correct answer is, “I’ve always been passionate about <fruit bats> and I dream of one day <farming fruit bats> so I’m starting out in this job <counting fruit> because <tangential relationship> and I’m looking forward to learning all I can from you guys.”
However, you need to walk this walk, saying the things isn’t enough.
I often find myself explaining this to new team members: things go so much easier if people like you. You don’t really have to be an especially likable person, just a little empathy, and avoid being a dick. It doesn’t take much to phrase things in such a way that people actually want to help you.
- Comment on Real easy 1 week ago:
Seal, seal, seal, seal, seal, seal.
- Comment on Missing banana for scale. 1 week ago:
Yeah nah.
I agree that its sloppy language but it would’ve been more descriptive in the 80s.
- Comment on Missing banana for scale. 2 weeks ago:
I just commented this somewhere else:
I think this photograph was taken in an era when the only technology available to make an image that looked like this was photography. At that time “not a real photograph” was the equivalent to the statement “a photograph of something which is not what it appears to be”.
- Comment on Missing banana for scale. 2 weeks ago:
I’m not sure if you’re being sarcastic.
Sure but I think this photograph was taken in an era when the only technology available to make an image that looked like this was photography. At that time “not a real photograph” was the equivalent to the statement “a photograph of something which is not what it appears to be”.
- Comment on Missing banana for scale. 2 weeks ago:
I thinkbots a real photo of a recreation of the ape.
- Comment on Kindergarten forced to back down after proposing to charge parents $2,200 for their own children’s art 2 weeks ago:
Yeah. Nothing like solvency issues to drag out a bit of drama is there.
Sadly, everyone involved in this fiasco is at best underpaid but more likely a volunteer.
- Comment on Kindergarten forced to back down after proposing to charge parents $2,200 for their own children’s art 2 weeks ago:
Yeah. I feel like a little bit of finesse could’ve averted this disaster.
$40k debts is pretty manageable. If that’s owed to the ATO for example, as soon as you get a payment arrangement (easy to obtain) then you’re no longer “insolvent”. Pay it off over 2 years, so you get 3x of this type of fundraiser.
Given the staff “walk out”, it’s possible that the money is owed to employees, which muddies the waters.
Instead of saying “everyone has to pay $2,200”, they should have said…
- we have this structural financial problem and to keep the centre open we need to raise $40k in the next 2 years.
- we will just give you whatever individual art works you want for your kid
- however, for $1,000 we’ll assemble a nice scrap book. You get your photo on the wall and in this pdf we’re going to email to everyone, and you can include your business details if you wish.
- finally approach local council, show that they’ve done all these things but only raised $10k this year, they need a grant of another $10k to keep the doors open for another year.
It’s still a long shot, but it’s a better chance than trying to guilt every parent into paying $2,200.
- Comment on Kindergarten forced to back down after proposing to charge parents $2,200 for their own children’s art 2 weeks ago:
Amazing.
- Comment on Kindergarten forced to back down after proposing to charge parents $2,200 for their own children’s art 2 weeks ago:
Average full time weekly wage is about $1,700 AUD before tax.
- Comment on Kindergarten forced to back down after proposing to charge parents $2,200 for their own children’s art 2 weeks ago:
Before everyone piles on, it’s probably worth understanding the context.
Yes, this was a daft idea, doomed to generate outrage, and outrage is an appropriate response.
However, as the article says, this non-profit was insolvent. This type of non-profit is not flying a CEO around in a private jet. Their entire budget for the year was $400k. Enough for rent, several staff, snacks and art supplies for kids.
The budget was very likely prepared by a volunteer, with limited skills and experience.
It’s often also unclear what an organisation’s total debts are. It’s not at all uncommon to realise an error has been made in understanding an award or something and suddenly the centre owes 5 years back pay for underpaid over time or some such.
Suddenly the centre is insolvent and is required by law to cease it’s activities.
At this point someone has had the misguided notion that the problem can be fixed by coercing parents to contribute towards the debts.
Explaining the problem to parents and asking for donations would’ve been fine, but obviously they wouldn’t have received $40k in donations so it would’ve been unsuccessful.
Tying the request to the kids “art” is just poor taste all the way up and down.
So yeah, it’s offensive, but it’s not nefarious, and while it’s really daft I can at least understand how it happened.
- Comment on proof of wormholes 2 weeks ago:
the timeline argument proves nothing
That’s what I said ?
- Comment on proof of wormholes 2 weeks ago:
The point is, the claim is that Tylenol is “linked to” autism.
This post is rebutting the claim that Tylenol “causes” autism.
Thats a classic straw man argument.
- Comment on Why can't countries with vast deserts make solar farms to power the world? 2 weeks ago:
Sure but, the critical question in this post is how to get solar energy from the desert to the market. You can’t just string up power lines because too much is lost in transmission.
In the immediate future, Japan is a target market for Australia’s Hydrogen, and that’s many thousands of kilometers from Australia’s production facilities.
Over this distance hydrogen is the least inefficient method of transport.