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High-masking ADHD people, please forward me your skin care routine.

I don’t work at Amazon, but we have a similar system. I’ve gone all-in on a couple of subordinates saying they deserved a 4/5 for this or that work. And because they were new-hires, I eventually got the grades punched through after a bunch of hemming and hawing.

Also advocated for my own higher-than-average marks on a few occasions. And just arguing the case gave me the grade as often as not. If everyone in the department had been as stubborn and insistent, I don’t know that they’d have given the whole floor these grades. But the squeaky wheel…

I’ve got a few friends who work at Amazon, and while the story certainly sounds embellished and a bit too “just-so”, the corporate attitude of make-work to justify a promotion even when its a waste of time and resources rings true as a bell.

Did this guy actually oversee a fully transition to a new service and waste a bunch of internal time and money for a system that’s sub-optimal by any conceivable measure? Idk, maybe. If he’d just written “Twitter” instead of “Amazon”, I’d have taken it at face value no problem.

Did this guy author an overly-complex plan as part of his promotional material, get it vetted and reviewed and rubber stamped by a bunch of friendly higher-ups because they wanted to justify his promotion, and then stuck on a shelf marked “Maybe we’ll do this in 2029 if we’re not busy with something else”? Equally likely.

Does Amazon have a bunch of bread and butter break-fix work they could be dedicating staff to, rather than chasing the next digital White Whale so they can feel cutting edge? Yeah, no shit. Absolutely.

Except the Far-Right bends back along the Z-axis to Cis again, I… think that’s right.

Cis <–> Trans

Stalin is a… polarizing figure for a lot of reasons. Not the least of which being his comic inability to extend revolutionary Marxism into Europe when it was at its most popular and most necessary.

Like, the liberals kicking and screaming about his successors - largely a bunch of socialist softies who were happy with detente and primarily interested in economic growth - are absolutely reactionary shits more invested in reinventing the 1950s through third world extraction than any kind of global standard for civil rights or ecological preservation. But Stalin’s paranoia, his intractability, and the toxic consequences of the cult of personality that kept him in office long past his expiration date did horrible things to 1930s Soviet Era domestic policy.

There’s a reason numbskull Russian fascists venerate Stalin far more than Lenin or Khrushchev. Its the same reason Americans put Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill.

“tankie fucks deserve to get their heads bashed in.”

It’s so funny to see liberals whine about authoritarian communism and then come out with “my solution is to be even more authoritarian than the evil leftists that live in my head”.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, the perfect idea of a liberal candidate is just this guy

“The farther you are away from my opinion (the neoliberal center), the closer you are to me labeling you authoritarian” is absolutely what western liberals believe.

I love how this has 80 downvotes.

Famously, there is no relationship between the chief executives of big business and the politicians in high office

I mean, Admiral Ackbar, pretty much by definition

The perfect libertarian doesn’t exi-

needlessly oversimplifying to imply that all or only western governments work with authoritarian leaders

What else do you call it when a multi-trillion dollar corporate enterprise sells surveillance data to every racist sheriff’s office and royal secret police and aspiring military dictator from South Dakota to Siam?

I wish we were oversimplifying things.

Han Solo was a Tankie

My company recently acquired another firm that tried to outsource the entire IT department and proceeded to shit itself to death.

Go ahead cowards. Replace me with a computer. I will become more powerful than you could ever imagine.

Nowadays they are maybe one tier above fast food workers.

:-/

Having worked both jobs, I could point to a few differences

25 states have enacted these laws, but they only represent a quarter of the overall US population.