MyBrainHurts

Gonna age myself but I was growing up as they were coming out. So for many birthday parties you could expect whomever to get the newest one (and then the argument over who would borrow it first would break out.)

Never seen the term apicalypse and just had to say it’s fantastic.

That was my fediverse cohort too.

Oh fully agree. I’m in a similar spot though I’m an okay-ish manager, I don’t like it and much prefer my actual job.

I’m not sure how common my experience is as I work in a large non profit and while union, my union group is pretty free wheeling (fewer protections but fewer restrictions.) Anyway, we’ve gotten around the problem by just adding words to or changing words in my title.

This has had the effect of allowing me to do my job, get raises as basically deserved and look like I’m advancing. Admittedly, my manager etc are very understanding and most of the senior leadership knows me, so take from that what you will.

I wouldn’t want the hardest worker to be the automatic promotion. We’ve all worked with someone who means well, works hard but is dumb as a brick. God help us if they get promoted.

Edit: Okay, I guess I’m the only one who has ever been managed by a hard working, well meaning idiot?

It’s free and using it means I don’t have to support American tech companies.

Ahhh, thank you! I didn’t look particularly closely. Neat that Lemmy has that system, wonder if it always did.

Did you mean to screenshot the post?

Or if this is a “but you participate in society…” Comment, cool. I like spreading the word about piefed so folks know there is a system where you can note users and thus moderate your responses before expending good faith effort etc.

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Admittedly, the .ml works too. I just hate tarring everyone with the same brush but damned if y’all don’t keep reinforcing the stereotype.

(No idea how a note only I can see is social credit but hey, what are facts to a fool?)

Lemmy didn’t have a system like that when I was using it. But yeah, it’s super useful.

Posts like these make me so happy for piefed’s note system so I now know never to engage with your ignorant ass.

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My conservative uncle does this instinctively for community and strangers.

For strangers, he’s always the first to rush out and help folks.

I rember when we were at a lakefront cottage he’ll rent for the family to come visit and he saw folks struggling to get a boat out of increasingly bad weather and immediately loaded us into the truck to go help for the next hour.

He also seemingly knows the name of every employee he encounters. When he go to that cabin, he’ll bring bottles of wine to give to the check in folks, the cleaning staff (and a thing of cider for one person who years ago said they don’t like wine.) When we shop for the food for the weekend, it takes twice as long because he stops and has a conversation with seemingly everyone in the gigantic store and knows their names, their kids and they know him and what he’s been up to.

In a lot of ways, he’s a damned admirable man, even if I find his politics repellant.

This book is full of them

The author also had a few great TED talks on the subject:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVimVzgtD6w

There is something so on point about this. Mostly the fact that the goofs couldn’t spell believing.

Not a real response, but this is a very nice comment and I think it’s the type of thing that makes the fediverse a better place.

I got one a few months ago that is my abslolute favourite, not sure if it counts. Important context, I’m 40 but still play soccer with folks as young as 20. So, one game I’m defending against a young fast kid and beat him to the ball (barely!) a few times in a row on long ball chases. After the third or fourth time he looks over after the race and says “You’re really fast for an… uhhh uh uh, you’re really fast!”

He meant so well and it was adorable watching him realize mid sentence that I probably didn’t want to be called an old man.