This supports the notion that the issues with quality are due to overextended teams. It sounds like yet another workplace where upstairs decisions are made without consulting the people who will actually do the work, and so the rank and file have to constantly scramble to make up for that. I feel like LTT leadership decided a velocity of content to support certain goals rather than what their resources can actually do.

... And it also seems like they have not outgrown the "early joiners can do whatever they want to whomever they want" problem that plagues companies like this.

A higher up at my company recently derisively said one of the major reasons people didn't want to return to office was because they saved money working from home... as if that's a ridiculous reason. Some of these executives are so out of touch with their inflated salaries.

I'm a tad jealous of people who got to do this. My work just got busier. It was like normal except people were dying and I had all my groceries delivered.

Reading that article is a serious indictment of economic literacy in the United States. People don't understand what role the president plays in the economy, what causes inflation, or how and why interest rates change. They draw really superficial causal links and don't think about it after that; it's fact to them.

It's reasons like this education may be the single most critical issue, since we can't make progress on the climate or anything else if the population is incapable of critical thinking. I hate to say it like this because it feels patronizing, but Jesus fucking Christ.

Illegally manufacturing expensive cancer drugs under patent and selling them on the black market cheaper would be a very interesting reimagining of BB.

It was a phenomenal visual device for the medium of film.

Part of good writing is being able to have characters say things that match their personality. This is quintessential Cass.

It's a very accurate description of the Northeast. People will help you dig your car out of the snow while passively aggressively exhaling very loudly to emphasize how much of a pain it is. But then they'll just walk away not even expecting a thank you.

I don't think this hypothetical is about winning so much as never having to worry about your needs being met again. The calculus changes completely for a lot of people (not optimistic enough to say most) if that's not part of the equation.

Not that I disagree with your premise, but that's an "at will" law area, not "right to work" (can't be forced to join a union/pay union dues in a unionized workplace).

To add, some argue at will is fair because it goes both ways, but it definitely doesn't. If your employer fires you suddenly for no reason, there's no real consequences. If you quit suddenly for no reason, you can get blackballed.

Most of the complaints about bugs in this game seemed overblown, but this is unforgivable.

I know someone who has a similar outlook (climate change is real but science will solve it, so we don't need to change anything). Basically anything science produces toward that end they will move the goalpost and say it's not worth pursuing because science will fix it.

It is essentially their way of making climate change denialism seem reasonable and open-minded. I think if somebody came up with a miracle device to magically reverse everything, they'd complain it's too costly at any price.

I mean, if you're googling that without even providing a model number, I can excuse the AI choosing to show it. It's not a mind reader.

I don't get how people can watch this and not be embarrassed. It's such transparent sycophantism. Nothing ever good has come out of the richest people in a country showering the political leader with excessive praise like this.

I would love if my spouse had a weird-ass nickname for me like that.

It's even better when these metrics explicitly become your yearly goals. Or department-wide metrics you have very little influence over. I sure hope all these people I don't manage happen to achieve a specific error rate this year so I get a good bonus.

It's interesting that these people God talks to like this are only ever told they've been chosen. I never hear someone saying, "Well, God spoke to me last night. It turns out I should just chill the fuck out and mind my own business."

I don't think this individual understands what a hobby is. Your job by definition is not a hobby.

Always worth posting this classic.

Cubicles are terrible until your office gets converted into an open concept, and then they seem amazing. Home office is best though.