MrCertainly

If people can't figure out what a meter is, then they should suffer in their ignorance.

Here's something I've said elsewhere, but it applies here as well, since it focuses on the attitude one must have when laboring in a late-stage American Capitalist hellscape. ------- The owners and their ~~bootlicking sycophants~~ *corporate turdwookies* do not care about you. At all. Neither does your government or courts, as they've been bought & paid for by said owners. They also own (anti)social networks & (m)ass media, using them as their personal propaganda mouthpiece. Your job search is never over. In AWA: At-Will America (99.7% of the population), you can be terminated at any time, for almost any (or no) reason, without notice, without compensation, and full loss of healthcare. ------ # Your goal is to be the CEO of your life. Your only obligation is to yourself and your loved ones, like a CEO. Your mission is to extract as much value from these soulless megacorps as you can, like a CEO. *Milk the fuckers until sand squirts out of their chafed nips.....like a CEO.* # Professional Integrity of a CEO - Do not worry about results -- "good enough" is truly good enough. - Treat your jobs as cattle, not as pets. - Work your wage. Going above and beyond is only rewarded with more work. Your name isn't above the door. You don't own the company. So stop caring as if you did own the place. - Don't work for free or do additional tasks outside of your role, as that devalues the concept of labor. - Maximize revenue at all times - pump n' dump is a valid Wall Street strategy, so why shouldn't it be your strategy too? You're the sole shareholder of your life. - Protect your time away from work. When you clock out, you turn off your phone & email until the start of your next shift. Never work when on vacation or during a sick day. - Remember, there will always be work left undone. If there wasn't, then you're overstaffed and will soon be laid off. So always leave work undone. # Self-Care of a CEO - Sleep well, never skip lunch, get enough physical activity. - Avoid drinking coffee at work for your employer's benefit, as they don't deserve your caffeinated, productivity-drugged self. - Avoid alcohol and other vices, as they steal all the happiness from tomorrow for a brief amount today. Especially when used as coping mechanisms for work-related stress. - Take sick days as needed or desired. If you died on the job, your position will be filled before your body is cold. # Executive Authority of a CEO - **Knowledge is power.** Discussing your compensation with your fellow worker is a federally protected right (for now). Employers hate transparency, as it means they can't pull their bullshit on others without consequence. - Your first job is being an actor. Endeavor to be pleasant & kind....yet unremarkable, bland, forgettable, and mediocre. Though it may feed one's ego, being a superhero or rockstar isn't suited for this hellscape. Projecting strength invites challenge. Instead, cultivate a personality that flies under the radar. - Tell no one (friends, coworkers, extended family, etc) about your employment mindset. So many people tie their identity to their employment. And jealously makes people do petty things. Never give your enemy the means to destroy you. - Recognize that lifestyle is ephemeral. Live below your means. Financial security is comfort, and not being dependent on selling your labor is true power in Capitalism. # Be a Chaos Vulture - Embrace the confusion. Does the company have non-existent onboarding? Poor management? Little direction, followup, or reviews? Constantly changing & capricious goals? These are the hallmarks of a bad company…so revel in their misery. Actively seek these places out. Never correct your enemy while they're making a mistake. - Stretch the circus out as long as possible. This gives you room to coast, to avoid being on anyone's radar, etc. Restrained mediocre effort will be considered "going above and beyond." Even if you slip, you can easily blame "the system", like everyone else at the place. Every single day, week, month of this is more money in your pocket. - 1944 official CIA guide for citizen sabotage of organizations: https://i.redd.it/7r0grz6dgsn81.png - Do not worry about "the environment you leave behind" when you depart a company. Do you think they're going to care about your personal well-being ~~if~~ when they lay you off? - Notice is a merely a courtesy, not a legal requirement (save for a few exceptions). Continuity of THEIR business operations is THEIR problem, not yours. They should have a plan if you accidentally got hit by a bus full of winning lottery tickets. Would they give you notice before laying you off? - Always be kind to your peers, but don't worry about them when you leave. If your leaving hurts their effectiveness -- that's a conversation THEY need with their manglement. The company left them hanging, not you. ------- Remember, you owe the company *NOTHING* -- if anything, they actually owe you, given how much they profited from your labor. If you feel it's some type of moral failing on your part, then you are falling for their propaganda. Because don't think for one fucking second that millionaires and billionaires aren't doing the SAME EXACT THING...or worse...to you and everyone else. Play their own game against them. *They exist to service* **us.** ---- **And lastly:** # NEVER tell them of the above. Lie, manipulate, and deceive. Let them think you're giving 110% all the time. You are passionate of their "initiatives du jour". You exist solely for them. Their shit don't stink. *…you get the picture.* And if ever called out otherwise, deny deny deny. Gaslight them, use plausible deniability, etc. But you never confirm any of the above, even if they got you dead-to-rights and are walking you out the door. Remember: *They'd do exactly the same to you.* --- # They sleep perfectly fine at night. You should too. Like a CEO.

/r/overemployed wants to chat.

It's next to impossible to hire basic functional young adults today. This generation GREW UP with a fuckin' phone surgically attached to their hands. We didn't. Fuck, I didn't get a work mobile until 2010. I didn't have a personally owned smartphone until roughly 2016ish? Maybe 2018? Those are the times before the great Covid darkness. But I digress. Hire one of these young adults, and you ask them: "Has So-and-So gotten back to you?" > Oh no! Not yet! I sent them a text and an email, but still waiting to hear back! "I said to CALL THEM. They are horrible following up with those methods of contact, they're old fashioned and prioritize a phone call." > Oh not to worry, no biggie boss! I'll try emailing them again! Me--> reviews their call logs. "Are you that fucking terrified of making a phone call? You haven't made a single call in the last three months working here! You won't be emailing them again, you're fired." Thank god for At-Will Employment. We can throw this trash out instantly.

>That’s not an IT thing that’s a life skill. This right here. Being able and willing to problem solve is a life-long skill, one that far too few people seem to be able to do. "Nope, I have no idea how to do X, let me take a look at it, figure it out, and get back to you on it."

As someone who did on-call for nearly a decade, fuck that noise. Never. fucking. again.

If you stay, you will always have a target on your back. And you WILL be let go...*on their terms*, not on yours. If money wasn't there before, it won't be there tomorrow. If you were valued before, you won't be tomorrow. ---- But never leave an opportunity behind. They might be serious. Sit down with them, and ask them to draft up a contract. Something binding where they GUARANTEE you will get X position, X role, X pay, etc. And if they should renege on this, there's Y consequences for them. In other words, you need more than a soft-promise and a "we'll see what's available in a few years". If they're serious, then you have grounds to negotiate aggressively. Put it all on the table, ask for no less than 3x more than you would've normally accepted. Remember, you're planning on leaving anyways. And they're on the clock. In the negotiating world, we call that "you got them by the balls". All they can do is turn their head and cough. And remember, if you're American, you are in an At-Will Country. Those two weeks can EASILY be turned into two minutes if they piss you off enough. Remember, you're leaving anyways! If they REALLY want you to stay, they'll be kissing your shoes.

Here's something I've said elsewhere, but it applies here as well, since it focuses on the attitude one must have when laboring in a late-stage American Capitalist hellscape. ------- The owners and their ~~bootlicking sycophants~~ *corporate turdwookies* do not care about you. At all. Neither does your government or courts, as they've been bought & paid for by said owners. They also own (anti)social networks & (m)ass media, using them as their personal propaganda mouthpiece. Your job search is never over. In AWA: At-Will America (99.7% of the population), you can be terminated at any time, for almost any (or no) reason, without notice, without compensation, and full loss of healthcare. ------ # Your goal is to be the CEO of your life. Your only obligation is to yourself and your loved ones, like a CEO. Your mission is to extract as much value from these soulless megacorps as you can, like a CEO. *Milk the fuckers until sand squirts out of their chafed nips.....like a CEO.* # Professional Integrity of a CEO - Do not worry about results -- "good enough" is truly good enough. - Treat your jobs as cattle, not as pets. - Work your wage. Going above and beyond is only rewarded with more work. Your name isn't above the door. You don't own the company. So stop caring as if you did own the place. - Don't work for free or do additional tasks outside of your role, as that devalues the concept of labor. - Maximize revenue at all times - pump n' dump is a valid Wall Street strategy, so why shouldn't it be your strategy too? You're the sole shareholder of your life. - Protect your time away from work. When you clock out, you turn off your phone & email until the start of your next shift. Never work when on vacation or during a sick day. - Remember, there will always be work left undone. If there wasn't, then you're overstaffed and will soon be laid off. So always leave work undone. # Self-Care of a CEO - Sleep well, never skip lunch, get enough physical activity. - Avoid drinking coffee at work for your employer's benefit, as they don't deserve your caffeinated, productivity-drugged self. - Avoid alcohol and other vices, as they steal all the happiness from tomorrow for a brief amount today. Especially when used as coping mechanisms for work-related stress. - Take sick days as needed or desired. If you died on the job, your position will be filled before your body is cold. # Executive Authority of a CEO - **Knowledge is power.** Discussing your compensation with your fellow worker is a federally protected right (for now). Employers hate transparency, as it means they can't pull their bullshit on others without consequence. - Your first job is being an actor. Endeavor to be pleasant & kind....yet unremarkable, bland, forgettable, and mediocre. Though it may feed one's ego, being a superhero or rockstar isn't suited for this hellscape. Projecting strength invites challenge. Instead, cultivate a personality that flies under the radar. - Tell no one (friends, coworkers, extended family, etc) about your employment mindset. So many people tie their identity to their employment. And jealously makes people do petty things. Never give your enemy the means to destroy you. - Recognize that lifestyle is ephemeral. Live below your means. Financial security is comfort, and not being dependent on selling your labor is true power in Capitalism. # Be a Chaos Vulture - Embrace the confusion. Does the company have non-existent onboarding? Poor management? Little direction, followup, or reviews? Constantly changing & capricious goals? These are the hallmarks of a bad company…so revel in their misery. Actively seek these places out. Never correct your enemy while they're making a mistake. - Stretch the circus out as long as possible. This gives you room to coast, to avoid being on anyone's radar, etc. Restrained mediocre effort will be considered "going above and beyond." Even if you slip, you can easily blame "the system", like everyone else at the place. Every single day, week, month of this is more money in your pocket. - 1944 official CIA guide for citizen sabotage of organizations: https://i.redd.it/7r0grz6dgsn81.png - Do not worry about "the environment you leave behind" when you depart a company. Do you think they're going to care about your personal well-being ~~if~~ when they lay you off? - Notice is a merely a courtesy, not a legal requirement (save for a few exceptions). Continuity of THEIR business operations is THEIR problem, not yours. They should have a plan if you accidentally got hit by a bus full of winning lottery tickets. Would they give you notice before laying you off? - Always be kind to your peers, but don't worry about them when you leave. If your leaving hurts their effectiveness -- that's a conversation THEY need with their manglement. The company left them hanging, not you. ------- Remember, you owe the company *NOTHING* -- if anything, they actually owe you, given how much they profited from your labor. If you feel it's some type of moral failing on your part, then you are falling for their propaganda. Because don't think for one fucking second that millionaires and billionaires aren't doing the SAME EXACT THING...or worse...to you and everyone else. Play their own game against them. *They exist to service* **us.** ---- **And lastly:** # NEVER tell them of the above. Lie, manipulate, and deceive. Let them think you're giving 110% all the time. You are passionate of their "initiatives du jour". You exist solely for them. Their shit don't stink. *…you get the picture.* And if ever called out otherwise, deny deny deny. Gaslight them, use plausible deniability, etc. But you never confirm any of the above, even if they got you dead-to-rights and are walking you out the door. Remember: *They'd do exactly the same to you.* --- # They sleep perfectly fine at night. You should too. Like a CEO.

Here's something I've said elsewhere, but it applies here as well, since it focuses on the attitude one must have when laboring in a late-stage American Capitalist hellscape. ------- The owners and their ~~bootlicking sycophants~~ *corporate turdwookies* do not care about you. At all. Neither does your government or courts, as they've been bought & paid for by said owners. They also own (anti)social networks & (m)ass media, using them as their personal propaganda mouthpiece. Your job search is never over. In AWA: At-Will America (99.7% of the population), you can be terminated at any time, for almost any (or no) reason, without notice, without compensation, and full loss of healthcare. ------ # Your goal is to be the CEO of your life. Your only obligation is to yourself and your loved ones, like a CEO. Your mission is to extract as much value from these soulless megacorps as you can, like a CEO. *Milk the fuckers until sand squirts out of their chafed nips.....like a CEO.* # Professional Integrity of a CEO - Do not worry about results -- "good enough" is truly good enough. - Treat your jobs as cattle, not as pets. - Work your wage. Going above and beyond is only rewarded with more work. Your name isn't above the door. You don't own the company. So stop caring as if you did own the place. - Don't work for free or do additional tasks outside of your role, as that devalues the concept of labor. - Maximize revenue at all times - pump n' dump is a valid Wall Street strategy, so why shouldn't it be your strategy too? You're the sole shareholder of your life. - Remember, there will always be work left undone. If there wasn't, then you're overstaffed and will soon be laid off. So always leave work undone. # Self-Care of a CEO - Sleep well, never skip lunch, get enough physical activity. - Avoid drinking coffee at work for your employer's benefit, as they don't deserve your caffeinated, productivity-drugged self. - Avoid alcohol and other vices, as they steal all the happiness from tomorrow for a brief amount today. Especially when used as coping mechanisms for work-related stress. # Executive Authority of a CEO - **Knowledge is power.** Discussing your compensation with your fellow worker is a federally protected right (for now). Employers hate transparency, as it means they can't pull their bullshit on others without consequence. - Your first job is being an actor. Endeavor to be pleasant & kind....yet unremarkable, bland, forgettable, and mediocre. Though it may feed one's ego, being a superhero or rockstar isn't suited for this hellscape. Projecting strength invites challenge. Instead, cultivate a personality that flies under the radar. - Tell no one (friends, coworkers, extended family, etc) about your employment mindset. So many people tie their identity to their employment. And jealously makes people do petty things. Never give your enemy the means to destroy you. - Recognize that lifestyle is ephemeral. Live below your means. Financial security is comfort, and not being dependent on selling your labor is true power in Capitalism. # Be a Chaos Vulture - Embrace the confusion. Does the company have non-existent onboarding? Poor management? Little direction, followup, or reviews? Constantly changing & capricious goals? These are the hallmarks of a bad company…so revel in their misery. Actively seek these places out. Never correct your enemy while they're making a mistake. - Stretch the circus out as long as possible. This gives you room to coast, to avoid being on anyone's radar, etc. Restrained mediocre effort will be considered "going above and beyond." Even if you slip, you can easily blame "the system", like everyone else at the place. Every single day, week, month of this is more money in your pocket. - 1944 official CIA guide for citizen sabotage of organizations: https://i.redd.it/7r0grz6dgsn81.png - Do not worry about "the environment you leave behind" when you depart a company. Do you think they're going to care about your personal well-being ~~if~~ when they lay you off? - Notice is a merely a courtesy, not a legal requirement (save for a few exceptions). Continuity of THEIR business operations is THEIR problem, not yours. They should have a plan if you accidentally got hit by a bus full of winning lottery tickets. Would they give you notice before laying you off? - Always be kind to your peers, but don't worry about them when you leave. If your leaving hurts their effectiveness -- that's a conversation THEY need with their manglement. The company left them hanging, not you. ------- Remember, you owe the company *NOTHING* -- if anything, they actually owe you, given how much they profited from your labor. If you feel it's some type of moral failing on your part, then you are falling for their propaganda. Because don't think for one fucking second that millionaires and billionaires aren't doing the SAME EXACT THING...or worse...to you and everyone else. Play their own game against them. *They exist to service* **us.** ---- **And lastly:** # NEVER tell them of the above. Lie, manipulate, and deceive. Let them think you're giving 110% all the time. You are passionate of their "initiatives du jour". You exist solely for them. Their shit don't stink. *…you get the picture.* And if ever called out otherwise, deny deny deny. Gaslight them, use plausible deniability, etc. But you never confirm any of the above, even if they got you dead-to-rights and are walking you out the door. Remember: *They'd do exactly the same to you.* --- # They sleep perfectly fine at night. You should too. Like a CEO.

Ayy-Eye isn't a product created to solve a problem. It never was meant to. Current AI is utter dogshit. It was only created to refine the technology, so that later revisions and developments can be sold off or directly used for its only intended purpose: # To reduce labor. It's designed to get people to interact with it, to train it, to reinforce it. It's free real-world development. That's why they're shoveling it down everyone's throats. It's on every device and service -- phones, Windows, Macs, in email, etc -- fuck, there's a button on the keyboard now. Even Microsoft Office is being renamed to Microsoft Copilot 365. Even things that don't use AI (like weighted test scores) are claimed to be done with AI. ---- They NEED your data. They NEED people to use it. They NEED people to become comfortable with it being everywhere, so that it's normalized. And under NO circumstances are you allowed to turn it off or disable it. # All so they can turn it from dogshit to a pink slip. ----- Repeat after me: YOU ARE THE PRODUCT. Say NO to AI for class solidarity. We are all laborers. Let's not train our replacement for free. You can't cheat your way through life. At some point, you have to put in the effort yourself.

Takes four hours to do the changes. Takes ~2 hours to roll back the changes in case it shits the bed. You (the boss) suggested a total of 8 hours (4 for rollback), which we were more than fine with having that extra margin. Nothing went wrong, ergo fargo fuckhole, be happy it only took four hours. Also, Boss, learn how to be a better leader. You insulate those working under you from bullshit like this, not expose them or blame them for it. This is a sign of a poor fuckin' leader.

Professional training -- whatever work decides I need or wants me to do, that's what gets done. I put in 10-12 hour days as it is, plus oncall plus when-shit-hits-the-fan. I'm not going to be dropping more time (on training or anything else) outside of those hours unless there's serious compensation happening.

Here's something I've said elsewhere, but it applies here as well, since it focuses on the attitude one must have when laboring in a late-stage American Capitalist hellscape. ------- The owners and their ~~bootlicking sycophants~~ *corporate turdwookies* do not care about you. At all. Neither does your government or courts, as they've been bought & paid for by said owners. They also own (anti)social networks & (m)ass media, using them as their personal propaganda mouthpiece. Your job search is never over. In AWA: At-Will America (99.7% of the population), you can be terminated at any time, for almost any (or no) reason, without notice, without compensation, and full loss of healthcare. ------ # Your goal is to be the CEO of your life. Your only obligation is to yourself and your loved ones, like a CEO. Your mission is to extract as much value from these soulless megacorps as you can, like a CEO. *Milk the fuckers until sand squirts out of their chafed nips.....like a CEO.* # Professional Integrity of a CEO - Do not worry about results -- "good enough" is truly good enough. - Treat your jobs as cattle, not as pets. - Work your wage. Going above and beyond is only rewarded with more work. Your name isn't above the door. You don't own the company. So stop caring as if you did own the place. - Don't work for free or do additional tasks outside of your role, as that devalues the concept of labor. - Maximize revenue at all times - pump n' dump is a valid Wall Street strategy, so why shouldn't it be your strategy too? You're the sole shareholder of your life. - Remember, there will always be work left undone. If there wasn't, then you're overstaffed and will soon be laid off. So always leave work undone. # Self-Care of a CEO - Sleep well, never skip lunch, get enough physical activity. - Avoid drinking coffee at work for your employer's benefit, as they don't deserve your caffeinated, productivity-drugged self. - Avoid alcohol and other vices, as they steal all the happiness from tomorrow for a brief amount today. Especially when used as coping mechanisms for work-related stress. # Executive Authority of a CEO - **Knowledge is power.** Discussing your compensation with your fellow worker is a federally protected right (for now). Employers hate transparency, as it means they can't pull their bullshit on others without consequence. - Your first job is being an actor. Endeavor to be pleasant & kind....yet unremarkable, bland, forgettable, and mediocre. Though it may feed one's ego, being a superhero or rockstar isn't suited for this hellscape. Projecting strength invites challenge. Instead, cultivate a personality that flies under the radar. - Tell no one (friends, coworkers, extended family, etc) about your employment mindset. So many people tie their identity to their employment. And jealously makes people do petty things. Never give your enemy the means to destroy you. - Recognize that lifestyle is ephemeral. Live below your means. Financial security is comfort, and not being dependent on selling your labor is true power in Capitalism. # Be a Chaos Vulture - Embrace the confusion. Does the company have non-existent onboarding? Poor management? Little direction, followup, or reviews? Constantly changing & capricious goals? These are the hallmarks of a bad company…so revel in their misery. Actively seek these places out. Never correct your enemy while they're making a mistake. - Stretch the circus out as long as possible. This gives you room to coast, to avoid being on anyone's radar, etc. Restrained mediocre effort will be considered "going above and beyond." Even if you slip, you can easily blame "the system", like everyone else at the place. Every single day, week, month of this is more money in your pocket. - 1944 official CIA guide for citizen sabotage of organizations: https://i.redd.it/7r0grz6dgsn81.png - Do not worry about "the environment you leave behind" when you depart a company. Do you think they're going to care about your personal well-being ~~if~~ when they lay you off? - Notice is a merely a courtesy, not a legal requirement (save for a few exceptions). Continuity of THEIR business operations is THEIR problem, not yours. They should have a plan if you accidentally got hit by a bus full of winning lottery tickets. Would they give you notice before laying you off? - Always be kind to your peers, but don't worry about them when you leave. If your leaving hurts their effectiveness -- that's a conversation THEY need with their manglement. The company left them hanging, not you. ------- Remember, you owe the company *NOTHING* -- if anything, they actually owe you, given how much they profited from your labor. If you feel it's some type of moral failing on your part, then you are falling for their propaganda. Because don't think for one fucking second that millionaires and billionaires aren't doing the SAME EXACT THING...or worse...to you and everyone else. Play their own game against them. *They exist to service* **us.** ---- **And lastly:** # NEVER tell them of the above. Lie, manipulate, and deceive. Let them think you're giving 110% all the time. You are passionate of their "initiatives du jour". You exist solely for them. Their shit don't stink. *…you get the picture.* And if ever called out otherwise, deny deny deny. Gaslight them, use plausible deniability, etc. But you never confirm any of the above, even if they got you dead-to-rights and are walking you out the door. Remember: *They'd do exactly the same to you.* --- # They sleep perfectly fine at night. You should too. Like a CEO.

And here I'm using a 1366x768 resolution laptop because "you need to wait four years before getting a new one". OK BOSS. I can't do X, Y, or Z internal applications, because...well, they require a minimum of 1024 vertical pixels. I literally cannot hit the OK button within them. And I screenshot the issue. Instead of getting a new laptop, they just suggest "increase my screen resolution" and say "we don't have that issue with our machine". No fuckin' shit, Poindexter! And after they finally understood what the issue was -- they still didn't requisition a new machine for me. No problem, I just worked to the speed of my tools. Some shit just didn't get done!

Ayy-Eye isn't a product created to solve a problem. It never was meant to. Current AI is utter dogshit. It was only created to refine the technology, so that later revisions and developments can be sold off or directly used for its only intended purpose: # To reduce labor. It's designed to get people to interact with it, to train it, to reinforce it. It's free real-world development. That's why they're shoveling it down everyone's throats. It's on every device and service -- phones, Windows, Macs, in email, etc -- fuck, there's a button on the keyboard now. Even Microsoft Office is being renamed to Microsoft Copilot 365. Even things that don't use AI (like weighted test scores) are claimed to be done with AI. ---- They NEED your data. They NEED people to use it. They NEED people to become comfortable with it being everywhere, so that it's normalized. And under NO circumstances are you allowed to turn it off or disable it. # All so they can turn it from dogshit to a pink slip. ----- Repeat after me: YOU ARE THE PRODUCT. Say NO to AI for class solidarity. We are all laborers. Let's not train our replacement for free. You can't cheat your way through life. At some point, you have to put in the effort yourself.

Cheaper? no. Alternative? yes. Steelcase's Leap chair. Steelcaase makes some compelling chairs, the Leap being one of their more popular options. Check them out.

Here's something I've said elsewhere, but it applies here as well, since it focuses on the attitude one must have when laboring in a late-stage American Capitalist hellscape. ------- The owners and their ~~bootlicking sycophants~~ *corporate turdwookies* do not care about you. At all. Neither does your government or courts, as they've been bought & paid for by said owners. They also own (anti)social networks & (m)ass media, using them as their personal propaganda mouthpiece. Your job search is never over. In AWA: At-Will America (99.7% of the population), you can be terminated at any time, for almost any (or no) reason, without notice, without compensation, and full loss of healthcare. ------ # Your goal is to be the CEO of your life. Your only obligation is to yourself and your loved ones, like a CEO. Your mission is to extract as much value from these soulless megacorps as you can, like a CEO. *Milk the fuckers until sand squirts out of their chafed nips.....like a CEO.* # Professional Integrity of a CEO - Do not worry about results -- "good enough" is truly good enough. - Treat your jobs as cattle, not as pets. - Work your wage. Going above and beyond is only rewarded with more work. Your name isn't above the door. You don't own the company. So stop caring as if you did own the place. - Don't work for free or do additional tasks outside of your role, as that devalues the concept of labor. - Maximize revenue at all times - pump n' dump is a valid Wall Street strategy, so why shouldn't it be your strategy too? You're the sole shareholder of your life. - Remember, there will always be work left undone. If there wasn't, then you're overstaffed and will soon be laid off. So always leave work undone. # Self-Care of a CEO - Sleep well, never skip lunch, get enough physical activity. - Avoid drinking coffee at work for your employer's benefit, as they don't deserve your caffeinated, productivity-drugged self. - Avoid alcohol and other vices, as they steal all the happiness from tomorrow for a brief amount today. Especially when used as coping mechanisms for work-related stress. # Executive Authority of a CEO - **Knowledge is power.** Discussing your compensation with your fellow worker is a federally protected right (for now). Employers hate transparency, as it means they can't pull their bullshit on others without consequence. - Your first job is being an actor. Endeavor to be pleasant & kind....yet unremarkable, bland, forgettable, and mediocre. Though it may feed one's ego, being a superhero or rockstar isn't suited for this hellscape. Projecting strength invites challenge. Instead, cultivate a personality that flies under the radar. - Tell no one (friends, coworkers, extended family, etc) about your employment mindset. So many people tie their identity to their employment. And jealously makes people do petty things. Never give your enemy the means to destroy you. - Recognize that lifestyle is ephemeral. Live below your means. Financial security is comfort, and not being dependent on selling your labor is true power in Capitalism. # Be a Chaos Vulture - Embrace the confusion. Does the company have non-existent onboarding? Poor management? Little direction, followup, or reviews? Constantly changing & capricious goals? These are the hallmarks of a bad company…so revel in their misery. Actively seek these places out. Never correct your enemy while they're making a mistake. - Stretch the circus out as long as possible. This gives you room to coast, to avoid being on anyone's radar, etc. Restrained mediocre effort will be considered "going above and beyond." Even if you slip, you can easily blame "the system", like everyone else at the place. Every single day, week, month of this is more money in your pocket. - 1944 official CIA guide for citizen sabotage of organizations: https://i.redd.it/7r0grz6dgsn81.png - Do not worry about "the environment you leave behind" when you depart a company. Do you think they're going to care about your personal well-being ~~if~~ when they lay you off? - Notice is a merely a courtesy, not a legal requirement (save for a few exceptions). Continuity of THEIR business operations is THEIR problem, not yours. They should have a plan if you accidentally got hit by a bus full of winning lottery tickets. Would they give you notice before laying you off? - Always be kind to your peers, but don't worry about them when you leave. If your leaving hurts their effectiveness -- that's a conversation THEY need with their manglement. The company left them hanging, not you. ------- Remember, you owe the company *NOTHING* -- if anything, they actually owe you, given how much they profited from your labor. If you feel it's some type of moral failing on your part, then you are falling for their propaganda. Because don't think for one fucking second that millionaires and billionaires aren't doing the SAME EXACT THING...or worse...to you and everyone else. Play their own game against them. *They exist to service* **us.** ---- **And lastly:** # NEVER tell them of the above. Lie, manipulate, and deceive. Let them think you're giving 110% all the time. You are passionate of their "initiatives du jour". You exist solely for them. Their shit don't stink. *…you get the picture.* And if ever called out otherwise, deny deny deny. Gaslight them, use plausible deniability, etc. But you never confirm any of the above, even if they got you dead-to-rights and are walking you out the door. Remember: *They'd do exactly the same to you.* --- # They sleep perfectly fine at night. You should too. Like a CEO.

Here's something I've said elsewhere, but it applies here as well, since it focuses on the attitude one must have when laboring in a late-stage American Capitalist hellscape. ------- The owners and their ~~bootlicking sycophants~~ *corporate turdwookies* do not care about you. At all. Neither does your government or courts, as they've been bought & paid for by said owners. They also own (anti)social networks & (m)ass media, using them as their personal propaganda mouthpiece. Your job search is never over. In AWA: At-Will America (99.7% of the population), you can be terminated at any time, for almost any (or no) reason, without notice, without compensation, and full loss of healthcare. ------ # Your goal is to be the CEO of your life. Your only obligation is to yourself and your loved ones, like a CEO. Your mission is to extract as much value from these soulless megacorps as you can, like a CEO. *Milk the fuckers until sand squirts out of their chafed nips.....like a CEO.* # Professional Integrity of a CEO - Do not worry about results -- "good enough" is truly good enough. - Treat your jobs as cattle, not as pets. - Work your wage. Going above and beyond is only rewarded with more work. Your name isn't above the door. You don't own the company. So stop caring as if you did own the place. - Don't work for free or do additional tasks outside of your role, as that devalues the concept of labor. - Maximize revenue at all times - pump n' dump is a valid Wall Street strategy, so why shouldn't it be your strategy too? You're the sole shareholder of your life. - Remember, there will always be work left undone. If there wasn't, then you're overstaffed and will soon be laid off. So always leave work undone. # Self-Care of a CEO - Sleep well, never skip lunch, get enough physical activity. - Avoid drinking coffee at work for your employer's benefit, as they don't deserve your caffeinated, productivity-drugged self. - Avoid alcohol and other vices, as they steal all the happiness from tomorrow for a brief amount today. Especially when used as coping mechanisms for work-related stress. # Executive Authority of a CEO - **Knowledge is power.** Discussing your compensation with your fellow worker is a federally protected right (for now). Employers hate transparency, as it means they can't pull their bullshit on others without consequence. - Your first job is being an actor. Endeavor to be pleasant & kind....yet unremarkable, bland, forgettable, and mediocre. Though it may feed one's ego, being a superhero or rockstar isn't suited for this hellscape. Projecting strength invites challenge. Instead, cultivate a personality that flies under the radar. - Tell no one (friends, coworkers, extended family, etc) about your employment mindset. So many people tie their identity to their employment. And jealously makes people do petty things. Never give your enemy the means to destroy you. - Recognize that lifestyle is ephemeral. Live below your means. Financial security is comfort, and not being dependent on selling your labor is true power in Capitalism. # Be a Chaos Vulture - Embrace the confusion. Does the company have non-existent onboarding? Poor management? Little direction, followup, or reviews? Constantly changing & capricious goals? These are the hallmarks of a bad company…so revel in their misery. Actively seek these places out. Never correct your enemy while they're making a mistake. - Stretch the circus out as long as possible. This gives you room to coast, to avoid being on anyone's radar, etc. Restrained mediocre effort will be considered "going above and beyond." Even if you slip, you can easily blame "the system", like everyone else at the place. Every single day, week, month of this is more money in your pocket. - 1944 official CIA guide for citizen sabotage of organizations: https://i.redd.it/7r0grz6dgsn81.png - Do not worry about "the environment you leave behind" when you depart a company. Do you think they're going to care about your personal well-being ~~if~~ when they lay you off? - Notice is a merely a courtesy, not a legal requirement (save for a few exceptions). Continuity of THEIR business operations is THEIR problem, not yours. They should have a plan if you accidentally got hit by a bus full of winning lottery tickets. Would they give you notice before laying you off? - Always be kind to your peers, but don't worry about them when you leave. If your leaving hurts their effectiveness -- that's a conversation THEY need with their manglement. The company left them hanging, not you. ------- Remember, you owe the company *NOTHING* -- if anything, they actually owe you, given how much they profited from your labor. If you feel it's some type of moral failing on your part, then you are falling for their propaganda. Because don't think for one fucking second that millionaires and billionaires aren't doing the SAME EXACT THING...or worse...to you and everyone else. Play their own game against them. *They exist to service* **us.** ---- **And lastly:** # NEVER tell them of the above. Lie, manipulate, and deceive. Let them think you're giving 110% all the time. You are passionate of their "initiatives du jour". You exist solely for them. Their shit don't stink. *…you get the picture.* And if ever called out otherwise, deny deny deny. Gaslight them, use plausible deniability, etc. But you never confirm any of the above, even if they got you dead-to-rights and are walking you out the door. Remember: *They'd do exactly the same to you.* --- # They sleep perfectly fine at night. You should too. Like a CEO.

Oncall 24/7 is a huge fucking red flag. I'd never agree to that, and it's wildly impractical. Unless I was getting equity in the business (aka...I'm the OWNER), I wouldn't do it. It's just unsustainable. I might try it for a year, if the pay was something stupid like $250-250k a year. But sub-six figures? They can gargle my balls.

I've had places add 10-25% back when Dumpy was elected. Hell, some of my friends were terminated in advance of these tariffs. America feels like a fuckin' unstable shithole.

Welcome to the cloud. You use someone else's service, you're at their mercy.

ok, that's so fuckin' true.

Never liked the word "app". aah-peh. Unnecessary shortening -- "application" or "software" worked perfectly fine. Sounds infantile. Did you go potty before or after putting veggies into your tum-tum, or did you have an owie when you took your selfie? Then again, nearly every mobile application is explicitly designed to be a data-mining scum sucker, gathering up all your data with a GPS tracker to report home to their corporate mothershit.

This right here. Businesses have a higher tolerance for operational costs than a penny-pinching private individual. And if they don't, then they don't. The worker doesn't get the tools to do their job effectively. That's now on them to take to their manglement and piss on the higher up's shoes.

This is why I argue that IT needs a governance authority, not unlike the bar for lawyers or the medical board for doctors. Time to take off the spurs and cowboy boots.

So...do it.

This helps keep me sane. Here's something I've said elsewhere, but it applies here as well, since it focuses on the attitude one must have when laboring in a late-stage American Capitalist hellscape. ------- The owners and their ~~bootlicking sycophants~~ *corporate turdwookies* do not care about you. At all. Neither does your government or courts, as they've been bought & paid for by said owners. They also own (anti)social networks & (m)ass media, using them as their personal propaganda mouthpiece. Your job search is never over. In AWA: At-Will America (99.7% of the population), you can be terminated at any time, for almost any (or no) reason, without notice, without compensation, and full loss of healthcare. ------ # Your goal is to be the CEO of your life. Your only obligation is to yourself and your loved ones, like a CEO. Your mission is to extract as much value from these soulless megacorps as you can, like a CEO. *Milk the fuckers until sand squirts out of their chafed nips.....like a CEO.* # Professional Integrity of a CEO - Do not worry about results -- "good enough" is truly good enough. - Treat your jobs as cattle, not as pets. - Work your wage. Going above and beyond is only rewarded with more work. Your name isn't above the door. You don't own the company. So stop caring as if you did own the place. - Don't work for free or do additional tasks outside of your role, as that devalues the concept of labor. - Maximize revenue at all times - pump n' dump is a valid Wall Street strategy, so why shouldn't it be your strategy too? You're the sole shareholder of your life. - Remember, there will always be work left undone. If there wasn't, then you're overstaffed and will soon be laid off. So always leave work undone. # Self-Care of a CEO - Sleep well, never skip lunch, get enough physical activity. - Avoid drinking coffee at work for your employer's benefit, as they don't deserve your caffeinated, productivity-drugged self. - Avoid alcohol and other vices, as they steal all the happiness from tomorrow for a brief amount today. Especially when used as coping mechanisms for work-related stress. # Executive Authority of a CEO - **Knowledge is power.** Discussing your compensation with your fellow worker is a federally protected right (for now). Employers hate transparency, as it means they can't pull their bullshit on others without consequence. - Your first job is being an actor. Endeavor to be pleasant & kind....yet unremarkable, bland, forgettable, and mediocre. Though it may feed one's ego, being a superhero or rockstar isn't suited for this hellscape. Projecting strength invites challenge. Instead, cultivate a personality that flies under the radar. - Tell no one (friends, coworkers, extended family, etc) about your employment mindset. So many people tie their identity to their employment. And jealously makes people do petty things. Never give your enemy the means to destroy you. - Recognize that lifestyle is ephemeral. Live below your means. Financial security is comfort, and not being dependent on selling your labor is true power in Capitalism. # Be a Chaos Vulture - Embrace the confusion. Does the company have non-existent onboarding? Poor management? Little direction, followup, or reviews? Constantly changing & capricious goals? These are the hallmarks of a bad company…so revel in their misery. Actively seek these places out. Never correct your enemy while they're making a mistake. - Stretch the circus out as long as possible. This gives you room to coast, to avoid being on anyone's radar, etc. Restrained mediocre effort will be considered "going above and beyond." Even if you slip, you can easily blame "the system", like everyone else at the place. Every single day, week, month of this is more money in your pocket. - 1944 official CIA guide for citizen sabotage of organizations: https://i.redd.it/7r0grz6dgsn81.png - Do not worry about "the environment you leave behind" when you depart a company. Do you think they're going to care about your personal well-being ~~if~~ when they lay you off? - Notice is a merely a courtesy, not a legal requirement (save for a few exceptions). Continuity of THEIR business operations is THEIR problem, not yours. They should have a plan if you accidentally got hit by a bus full of winning lottery tickets. Would they give you notice before laying you off? - Always be kind to your peers, but don't worry about them when you leave. If your leaving hurts their effectiveness -- that's a conversation THEY need with their manglement. The company left them hanging, not you. ------- Remember, you owe the company *NOTHING* -- if anything, they actually owe you, given how much they profited from your labor. If you feel it's some type of moral failing on your part, then you are falling for their propaganda. Because don't think for one fucking second that millionaires and billionaires aren't doing the SAME EXACT THING...or worse...to you and everyone else. Play their own game against them. *They exist to service* **us.** ---- **And lastly:** # NEVER tell them of the above. Lie, manipulate, and deceive. Let them think you're giving 110% all the time. You are passionate of their "initiatives du jour". You exist solely for them. Their shit don't stink. *…you get the picture.* And if ever called out otherwise, deny deny deny. Gaslight them, use plausible deniability, etc. But you never confirm any of the above, even if they got you dead-to-rights and are walking you out the door. Remember: *They'd do exactly the same to you.* --- # They sleep perfectly fine at night. You should too. Like a CEO.

> you know nothing about where I work Nope. All I know is what you've told us. What did you expect me to do, read your fucking mind? You talk about letting yourself be exploited, and I call it out. Now you're acting all hyper-defensively butthurt over it, playing the victim card. >it’s a global company with over 100,000 employees I don't care if it's a 100,000 person company or a 10 person company. You should only perform labor for what you're being paid to do. Work your wage. How do you stop being called? # TURN OFF YOUR PHONE. You're supposed to work in tech, do you not know these things have an off button? Really disappointing on your part, I thought someone of your experience and stature would know better.

Were you on call? Do you literally own the business? No? Then you are the problem here. You picked up the phone, you enable their behavior. You're the one working for free, devaluing the concept of labor...not only for you, but for everyone. I mean, if you were just screwing yourself over, that's one thing. Stop fucking things up for everyone else because you lack a spine.

Thin client vs thick client....another verse of that song of cycle.

Everything is a cycle. Remember mainframes? Then splitting apart the mainframe into discrete components (storage, network, compute)? Then virtualization of those parts? Then cloud? Now we're going back to onsite with converged units with all those bits in one box.

"yes"

Nah, they can get used to ~~ambiguous~~ split requests, since they give us fuckin' half-baked directives all the time. What goes around comes around, and remember...you need us more than we need you.

Perfect. You need to manipulate the system to your advantage. You're not in this for them, but yourself.

And then they pride themselves at being so smrt -- "see, I was able to resolve that with a one-word answer. They can't, and they're the "experts". My world-view + experience trumps theirs."

We're deeply anti-intellectual in the USA. It's part of our underlying fabric of society, along with racism/sexism, economic exploitation, and uncontrolled hoarder-levels of consumerism.

Don't expect a fuckin' thing since you don't have a Union. Ahem, "you're only going to get whatever you negotiate". Which you didn't, therefore nothing. And if you tried to negotiate, you'd be terminated for "no reason" since you live in an At-Will country.

lol, k.

32gb ram is base amount for 2025. If they're dealing with large data sets, they should be hitting 64 or 96gb.

This right here. I leverage tech at home to make my life easier. Some home monitoring cameras, a turn-key Synology NAS for automated TimeMachine + mobile backups + centralized storage for the whole family. Google Wifi v1 for anything I can't reasonably hardwire (tablets, handhelds, etc). It's simple, and effective. Set and forget.

I don't care about mobile phones (or TeeVees either). I don't use them all that much, and it's honestly for the best. I treat them more like an internet connected Palm Pilot. I use it for a deliberate purpose... then put it away. Unlike the majority of the population, I'm not addicted to the damn thing. It's not surgically attached to my hand. I have probably a dozen AHH-PEE-PEEs on it, at the most. I defer most of my computing needs until I get back to my laptop, unless I have no other choice. Both platforms (Android and "I-OS") are interruption-based, advert-serving, GPS trackers explicitly designed to violate your privacy, mine your data, and peddle you shit you don't need. I hate'em for what they've become, but I also recognize their utility. Therefore, I only get the most basic models. Current device is a Samsung Galaxy A51. I have a spare Samsung Galaxy A15 on standby for when this one bites the dust. Both have microSD expansion AND a headphone jack. Neither of which are on the piece of Fruit. NO ONE apparently has a swappable battery anymore (unlike the Galaxy S5 and every blackberry I've used). I get approx. 36 months out of a device, regardless if it's a flashshit model or a low-tier. I've had an "I-Phone 6S" and "I-Phone 8" in the past (work provided), and they both started getting frumpy around 30-36 months of use. Same goes with my "budget" A51, now going for around 29 months...it's starting to get a bit laggy. So why pay a dime more? Unless you're Scrooge McDuck with a giant building of money to dive into!!!

It's manglement's problem. And they'll punt it over to accounting and C-suite. Yeah, it can filter downstream to your own job, but what control do you have over it? nada. So keep your resume polished and a couple of gallons of maple syrup in reserve.

Why are you answering your work phone/work email at those times? You're the one at fault here. You're doing work for free, which devalues the concept of work not only for yourself, but for everyone. That's not *almost insulting*, it IS fuckin' insulting.

Whenever a new model of phone is released, an update to the OS is released which enshittifies older models -- just to encourage you to upgrade.

An IT person going to the gym. Lol. ok.

Here's something I've said elsewhere, but it applies here as well, since it focuses on the attitude one must have when laboring in a late-stage American Capitalist hellscape. ------- The owners and their ~~bootlicking sycophants~~ *corporate turdwookies* do not care about you. At all. Neither does your government or courts, as they've been bought & paid for by said owners. They also own (anti)social networks & (m)ass media, using them as their personal propaganda mouthpiece. Your job search is never over. In AWA: At-Will America (99.7% of the population), you can be terminated at any time, for almost any (or no) reason, without notice, without compensation, and full loss of healthcare. ------ # Your goal is to be the CEO of your life. Your only obligation is to yourself and your loved ones, like a CEO. Your mission is to extract as much value from these soulless megacorps as you can, like a CEO. *Milk the fuckers until sand squirts out of their chafed nips.....like a CEO.* # Professional Integrity of a CEO - Do not worry about results -- "good enough" is truly good enough. - Treat your jobs as cattle, not as pets. - Work your wage. Going above and beyond is only rewarded with more work. Your name isn't above the door. You don't own the company. So stop caring as if you did own the place. - Don't work for free or do additional tasks outside of your role, as that devalues the concept of labor. - Maximize revenue at all times - pump n' dump is a valid Wall Street strategy, so why shouldn't it be your strategy too? You're the sole shareholder of your life. - Remember, there will always be work left undone. If there wasn't, then you're overstaffed and will soon be laid off. So always leave work undone. # Self-Care of a CEO - Sleep well, never skip lunch, get enough physical activity. - Avoid drinking coffee at work for your employer's benefit, as they don't deserve your caffeinated, productivity-drugged self. - Avoid alcohol and other vices, as they steal all the happiness from tomorrow for a brief amount today. Especially when used as coping mechanisms for work-related stress. # Executive Authority of a CEO - **Knowledge is power.** Discussing your compensation with your fellow worker is a federally protected right (for now). Employers hate transparency, as it means they can't pull their bullshit on others without consequence. - Your first job is being an actor. Endeavor to be pleasant & kind....yet unremarkable, bland, forgettable, and mediocre. Though it may feed one's ego, being a superhero or rockstar isn't suited for this hellscape. Projecting strength invites challenge. Instead, cultivate a personality that flies under the radar. - Tell no one (friends, coworkers, extended family, etc) about your employment mindset. So many people tie their identity to their employment. And jealously makes people do petty things. Never give your enemy the means to destroy you. - Recognize that lifestyle is ephemeral. Live below your means. Financial security is comfort, and not being dependent on selling your labor is true power in Capitalism. # Be a Chaos Vulture - Embrace the confusion. Does the company have non-existent onboarding? Poor management? Little direction, followup, or reviews? Constantly changing & capricious goals? These are the hallmarks of a bad company…so revel in their misery. Actively seek these places out. Never correct your enemy while they're making a mistake. - Stretch the circus out as long as possible. This gives you room to coast, to avoid being on anyone's radar, etc. Restrained mediocre effort will be considered "going above and beyond." Even if you slip, you can easily blame "the system", like everyone else at the place. Every single day, week, month of this is more money in your pocket. - 1944 official CIA guide for citizen sabotage of organizations: https://i.redd.it/7r0grz6dgsn81.png - Do not worry about "the environment you leave behind" when you depart a company. Do you think they're going to care about your personal well-being ~~if~~ when they lay you off? - Notice is a merely a courtesy, not a legal requirement (save for a few exceptions). Continuity of THEIR business operations is THEIR problem, not yours. They should have a plan if you accidentally got hit by a bus full of winning lottery tickets. Would they give you notice before laying you off? - Always be kind to your peers, but don't worry about them when you leave. If your leaving hurts their effectiveness -- that's a conversation THEY need with their manglement. The company left them hanging, not you. ------- Remember, you owe the company *NOTHING* -- if anything, they actually owe you, given how much they profited from your labor. If you feel it's some type of moral failing on your part, then you are falling for their propaganda. Because don't think for one fucking second that millionaires and billionaires aren't doing the SAME EXACT THING...or worse...to you and everyone else. Play their own game against them. *They exist to service* **us.** ---- **And lastly:** # NEVER tell them of the above. Lie, manipulate, and deceive. Let them think you're giving 110% all the time. You are passionate of their "initiatives du jour". You exist solely for them. Their shit don't stink. *…you get the picture.* And if ever called out otherwise, deny deny deny. Gaslight them, use plausible deniability, etc. But you never confirm any of the above, even if they got you dead-to-rights and are walking you out the door. Remember: *They'd do exactly the same to you.* --- # They sleep perfectly fine at night. You should too. Like a CEO.

> Respect, empathy, and supporting your subordinates is not "nonsense". False claims that I'm doing otherwise is the only nonsense here. If someone said they needed FOUR HOURS A DAY to setup their workstation, when their peers clearly don't have any trouble...and I've spent time to work with them to right any wrongs...and they claim I'm being disrespectful, insensitive, or bullying....they'll get the full fucking force of documentation of their bullshit. So you mean to tell me it's perfectly OK for them to spend four hours navel-gazing, when their peers have no such issues? Because that's what I'm hearing you say.

> You're the one who went off babbling and ranting, and saying "if you don't like it, it's at-will employment, so leave". If they work in Montana or have a Union contract, then I'm clearly in the wrong. Otherwise, it's the honest to goodness truth. If they can't get their work done, they can leave voluntarily or be terminated with cause. Their choice. They live in an at-will country. If they can get all of their work done in four hours a day, no problem. If they're salary, then I don't care if they spend 16 hours a day fiddling around with their monitors, as long as their goals are completed. And if I'm accused of any of that nonsense, I'll show documented conversations and emails and messages of their unwillingness to work in the same conditions as literally everyone else. Like I said elsewhere, I'll come out smelling like a rose. Worst thing I'd get slapped with is "Did you hire them? Yes? How did you not see their bad attitude a mile away?"

>Do you have any idea how petulant you sound? The OP was talking about lollygagging, dragging their feet as a punitive measure to the company for FOUR HOURS PER DAY because they didn't get a private office. Who's being petulant again?

> Hotdesking in general is miserable. Full agreement. I hate it too. It's not always under our control if it's implemented. I mean, you're always welcome to Collectively Organize and request an alternative to be put into your contract (at risk of a strike). Or you can always leave. It's an At-Will country. No one does either when I pitch those solutions, so it must not be all that bad. >After all, you should never allow yourself to get stuck in a position where you're replaceable to them You're always replaceable. At least, to the bean counters and C-suite. Hate to break it to you, but the business will go on without you. Or not, and it collapses. Either way, you won't be there. You have zero employment security in America, and you should conduct yourself accordingly. >Two hours each way admittedly seems a bit excessive For a laptop and two external monitors, it 100% is. It's one of those "I'm going to be difficult to work with, "prima-donna" mentalities." I'll work with you, help you, meet you more than halfway....but you approach me with **that attitude**, you're getting shut down asap. Because you can deal with me who IS on your side and who does WANT to help you....or you can deal with another manager (my manager) who treats you like you're a perpetually under-performing metric. Because I isolate you from that shit *daily*.