• Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Corporate job, terrible decisions, change of management, extra work for most people for the same money. Everyone is outraged and not happy.

    So management organizes a company-wide zoom meeting to introduce new roadmap, changes, new management teams, etc.

    HR is running an anonymous question board throughout the meeting, where everyone can send in questions and feedback through a web application link/QR code (Slido) for the Q&A section at the end.

    Some questions are still praising management, “looking forward to working with xyz”, “great opportunity”, fucking toxic positivity like what you can see these days on LinkedIn. So of course management only answers/discussing these pretentious shitty questions and not dealing with more serious stuff.

    So well done idiots, nobody knows who the ass kissers are, so it was pointless.

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      10 months ago

      So well done idiots, nobody knows who the ass kissers are, so it was pointless.

      It was HR or management. Nobody does a truly anonymous Q&A session like that without having a few safe, canned questions to fall back on.

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        10 months ago

        Yes, this is the first thing everyone thought, but also these questions were ranked by likes through the same system so unless HR hacked the Slido page to put on extra likes might not be the case.

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          Have you used the other side of slido? I ask because some sites may very well have those sort of options available to them. I know guilded has an option for mods to give free xp toward levels. Xp and Levels are usually just gained by interacting so being able to give them for free defeats the purpose.

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      10 months ago

      I got banned from reddit for a year for commenting the word “good” under the announcement that the Queen was dead.

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      10 months ago

      As an American, I’ve never really thought about that before… That’s a different perspective. What was it like?

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    10 months ago

    Someone in a school I worked in changed from saying ‘specific’ to ‘pacific’ just because the deputy head said it that way.

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    10 months ago

    most commonly:

    1. people working extra hard with hopes of rising the ranks
    2. workers trying to capture more executive style roles as assistants to make bosses work easier
  • Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    In the two decades I’ve lived, I can’t begin to tell you how many times I’ve seen people flock to the wrong people, often at the expense of innocent people caught in the crossfire, and then brush off whatever looks like it could challenge their familial/platonic/etc. standing. It played into one past question of mine that ultimately got misunderstood in some ways. I see it in the bureaucratic world, I see it in the personal world, everyone just thinks strangers must suffer the one third of a two thirds compromise. It’s all formulaic (well, except for the time a CPS leader my old community says they hate ended up running for mayor and winning).

    • CashewNut 🏴󠁢󠁥󠁧󠁿@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      That reply was right. Very wordy post.

      In school/college you’re trained to hit a certain word count. So you get into the habit of using long-winded language.

      Try to break this habit as soon as you leave education.

      Not to be a cunt btw! I left uni 20yrs ago and still have to fight the habit.