The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
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The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7hr ago
· Edited 6hr ago
Doubt isn't an argument. It's part of American culture, and has been for a long time now, that a man interested in interacting with kids other than his own (and sometimes his own too) is probably up to no good.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
8hr ago
I lead people and if there is a time for promotion discussion, what is supposed to be an argument for promotion?
There's only one real argument, and in most parts of corporate culture, it's verboten to state it outright: "If you don't promote me, I can do better somewhere else, and this company will be better off paying me more than losing me." Nobody likes that argument (except salespeople, who will come right out and say it), so there's layers of corporate BS coming up with proxies for various reasons. For instance, corporations will often have a policy there's a certain number of promotion slots available, at which point the argument becomes "I'm better than all those other candidates for this slot". But the policy is generally more a guideline than a rule; slots will be left open if the company thinks it can get away with it, and slots will be pulled out of the air if needed to retain an employee.
But this is not the case for regular positions such as IT admin or accountant etc. There are some unspoken rules: if you are accountant, it is implicitly understood, that there will be more work around quarterly earning reports or when taxes are due. If you are in IT, it is understood that you need to put more when a new system is being implemented or when some security crisis happens. This is compensated by less work on regular workday in summer let's say.
This is true, but there are plenty of companies and managers who will make this one-sided as well, demanding you put in the extra time when it's needed but bitching if you show up late or leave early during the slow times.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
8hr ago
What it comes down to is childbirth and pregnancy are things men cannot do. So if you're weighing dangers or difficulties of men and women, you can assign an arbitrarily high coefficient to them and make the equation come out to "women suffer more and men are coddled" and men can do nothing about that. Checkmate, mistake theorists.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
8hr ago
I suspect they simply hadn't trained, aside perhaps from target shooting. They only fired 11 rounds, and only one hit.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
9hr ago
Doesn't matter. As was similarly true for Kyle Rittenhouse, "They shouldn't have been there, and Trump sent them there" will resonate just fine with the large portion of the public attuned with the mainstream media.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
I would expect ICE to be shot at, especially during active operations: but the National Guard? They're literally doing nothing but stand around. They're dads and uncles pulling overtime shifts away from their real jobs, not stormtroopers. I'm highly suspecting some sort of mental illness or dumb radicalization, but I'll refrain on coming to conclusions for now.
You know how anti-Muslim radicals attack Sikhs sometimes? Same thing; the kinds of people willing to engage in violent #resistance are probably not especially discerning about their targets.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Sure. People are reluctant to teach women that they need to hold up their end even when their husbands sin against them.
Or that they need to hold up their end at all. Or that they even have an "end" to hold up.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
In their defense, that's all the countries which border them except Belarus (which is already aligned). Maybe also excepting Norway.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
I think that’s key. The church needs to teach men to do their part, even when women sin against them, and it needs to teach women to do their part, even when men sin against them. But it’s fine for a parachurch ministry, or a church’s men’s or women’s ministry, to focus on just one of these at a time.
Maybe. But not if all such are focusing on the same one; then you're just teaching that half to be chumps. And contrary to the GPs insinuation, it's mostly not men who are demanding perks without responsibilities, and insinuating that when talking about a group specifically called the "Promise Keepers" is especially bad.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
MS products (other than their OS I suppose)
But aside from that, Mrs. Lincoln....
They had a decent word processor for a while. Excel just embraced-extended-and-extinguished Lotus, though.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
We've had two quarters of negative GDP growth since then. We've gone about 10 years without a recession in the past (1991-2001 and 2009-2019) and we're only 5 years into the current growth period. The doom-and-gloom seems unshakable though. As I said, some of it might be manipulation, either market or political. Holiday travel is way up this year, which seems to me to be an indicator of positive sentiment. Holiday shopping has been predicted to be below-trend this year. If that plays out we probably are headed for recession. If it doesn't, I smell a rat.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Microsoft have embraced H1-B visas and Infinity Indians with open arms... and look at what's happened to their products.
Nothing. Microsoft products have always been that way.
If you were to kill of the H-1B visa, companies who use shitty tech H-1Bs would at first just offshore more. Since shitty overseas workers suck even more than shitty H-1Bs (and companies have found this out the hard way multiple times), this might eventually result in mediocre American tech workers getting boring business jobs again. That's a win. However, the H-1Bs who are actually any good can't be replaced by Americans, because there aren't any to replace them (they're already employed). Which means tech companies will do more hiring overseas in countries more favorable to skilled immigration, like Canada. That's a loss. Not sure about health care but health care is so messed up that you'd likely get higher prices and poorer service if you got rid of the H-1Bs.
Losing immigrant construction and farm labor (whether legal or illegal) is definitely a loss for employers, and they're not going to believe you if you try to spin it as a win any more than I do.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
If you haven't read Parkinson's Law, you should. The more common law is "Work expands to fill all available time". Less pithy but relevant to your point is
"The number of workers within public administration, bureaucracy or officialdom tends to grow, regardless of the amount of work to be done. This was attributed mainly to two factors: that officials want subordinates, not rivals, and that officials make work for each other."
The book itself is filled with stuff like this.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
The TPS report is alive and well. Corporations love to institute procedure, and procedure that generates paperwork. The TPS report is electronic and doesn't have a cover any more, so instead they'll get on your case for not properly handling the irrelevant questions on the report template.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Agreed. Something odd is going on as well, where under Trump financial analysts are talking about "rising unemployment" when unemployment is lower than it literally ever was under Obama. Unemployment has only very rarely been lower than it currently is.
True. It is, however, rising. And as far as I can tell, every other slight rise of unemployment has been followed by a sharp rise (and recession) -- 2007, 2001, 1979, 1974, maybe 1960. That's technical analysis and technical analysis is BS, but it's tempting. I also suspect some of the doom and gloom talk has been attempts at stock market manipulation; e.g. talk of AI bubble and how we were in a recession if you didn't count AI was reaching a crescendo and then NVidia reported great earnings (entirely predictable since even if there is a bubble it manifestly hasn't popped yet).
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Find a picture of an engineering office in the 1950s. Replace drafting tables with desks with monitors on them, voila, 2020s software company office.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
A stable alliance between the business segment of the GOP and the anti-immigrant chuds is entirely possible in the near to medium term, if it dawns upon the business segment of the GOP that a large portion of immigration is dysgenic—whether it be through legal or illegal immigrants and their Birthright Citizenship children—and could compromise the ability of Big Line Go Up Forever. Or if even Big Line Go Up for Now: Pocket Go Evermore Thin Fivever as more of take-home pay gets chomped by NPV of net-tax transfers.
I think to get such an alliance you'd have to offer the business segment something in exchange for losing some of their workforce -- relaxed labor, environmental, and building regulations. Problem is, that's not only outside the Overton window, it's not what the anti-immigrant chuds want. They're basically like 80s Democrats, only anti-immigrant.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
I made a TPS report joke in a status meeting recently and my (Millennial) first line manager pointed out nobody got that reference any more. I told him it must be time for a remake.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
I don't think it's unemployment; unemployment in the late '90s was low, in the early '90s it was high and people were no less cynical. In fact, Office Space was a bit unrealistic when it came out (as I recall noting at the time) because of that; it was a boom time and if you could spell computer (or at least get close) you could get a programming job; nobody at Initech would need to worry about being laid off.
Both Office Space and Dilbert were about tech, and speaking specifically about tech, I think what changed is the rise of the profession. In the early to mid '90s, software was just another white collar job. Then came first the dot-com boom, when people realized you could get stupid rich in software. Then following the dot-com crash, the rise of Google, stock options and much higher salaries in established companies, and a new wave of startups getting people rich. Now software was a prestige job, up there with doctor or lawyer or at least stockbroker. Not the kind of thing associated with the grind. Google, earlier on, made some attempt not to feel like Dilbert's company. And the startups... well, you might be doing a death march, but probably not a steady endless grind. But all things come to an end; the big software companies have become fully corporate and the final startup wave seems to have completed. Salaries are still high, and full cynicism hasn't yet returned, but it probably will. The only thing permanently gone is the cubicles; cost-cutting, you know, it's all open desks now.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
The difference is the popular opinion of neoclassical economics doesn't affect how well neoclassical economics works; it only affects how well your country works. Whereas if our resident Jew-posters get their opinions enshrined in law it very much affects the Jews.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
It's already illegal in many areas to discriminate against people on the basis of race or ethnicity.
De jure, but not de facto. De facto it's legal to discriminate against whites and Asian in college admissions.
What would change this would be a purging of the entire Harvard staff, which would defeat the point of Harvard as a place for the rich and powerful to rub shoulders and make connections.
If so, OK. Note that's staff and not faculty -- it's the latter you need to keep Harvard elite. It's probably not even necessary, though; purge the regulatory agencies, have the replacements make some threats, and follow through on a few of them, and the Harvard Corporation will get their admissions department aligned. Same for a lot of other schools. The problem is keeping it up long enough that they realize you're serious.
In America, the whole "Hispanic" identity was an invention they created out of whole cloth to make it easier to manage. This was then used to make people racist both for and against the umbrella of people they had filed under the Hispanic identity.
The category is invented (and somewhat incoherent) but it's persisted because it labels (if imperfectly) a real phenomenon. People had no problem with being racist against Mexicans before it was invented, even "Mexicans" who happened to be from Guatemala or something. And the Mexicans had no problem supporting other Mexicans (though not "Mexicans", as indeed they do not today)
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
The exact mirroring is eerie, though. Some of Jack Smith's cases against Trump got dismissed because his appointment was considered unlawful by the District Judge (and Clarence Thomas).
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
I'm not asking to make a human free of bias. I'm asking to make the law not discriminate against young white men. This is a much smaller request.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
It appears the senders aren't deliberately funding the terrorist groups, but rather the terrorist groups are getting a cut.
I think this story represents an overall change in the cultural climate, where this sort of information is finally becoming more popular to discuss.
It's just political, with a Republican administration willing and even eager to offend a local Democratic power center.
Nobody tolerates liability unless they can insure it away, and that means accepting the constraints the insurance companies put in to prevent actually having to pay a claim.
Yes, because you have a reason in mind (in general terms, that men, in some way, suck), which is wrong, but is the only reason within the Overton window.
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