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Also in the public sector and when I started, project managers were required to include everyone under the sun for pointless update meetings every two weeks for the PM to read out the reports everyone gave them so nobody missed anything. By the time they were done everyone wanted to bail, including me. They were meetings that could be an email, and if there were issues then additional meetings were scheduled.

Over time I have been promoted up through PM and now get to define the best practices for projects including meetings. My meetings are productive and people actually want to show up as they are discussions where work might be canceled or put off so people don’t get overloaded. I make sure everyone is included without putting anyone on the spot. The departments we work with to create web apps like us more since we started giving reasons for saying no instead of working devs to death in overtime because PMs were not allowed to say no.

I do have one project that is an albatross I can’t kill because of the sunk cost fallacy, but at least it is one small project that gets raised every few months to get put on the backburner while the largest and most complex project is now running smoothly. Other PMs have also improved their interactions when they were given examples in how to more clearly communicate their challenges, although a few don’t want to give up the ‘do everything asked’ approach.

We have also had 5 developers who left for the private sector come back over the last 10 years because of the work culture. The grass wasn’t greener, but they did come back with new skills and a better appreciation for the improved communication and overtime is almost entirely voluntary!

“Please see the agenda for our topics.”

Cube rule is a tongue in cheek comedy bit that exaggerates the topic to a hilarious point by focusing in the inconsistency of food names. It quickly descends into madness, and the images helps.

Salad theory tries too hard to take the subject seriously and drags it out for far too long, undermining the potential humor.

Cube rule is Spaceballs. Salad theory is Meet the Spartans.

I do understand and it does not matter how you phrase it for those types of people. Pretending that it could have been said the ‘right’ way is a waste of time because, as you said, they consider even asking to be facilitating conflict.

There are also good managers out there, they just aren’t as memorable as the ones who make everything into drama. The good ones also tend to be driven to other jobs because of the jerk managers…

What about a burger on toasted bread slices?

Discount cube rule.

Also Republicans as a whole since they were beating the drum for a border wall well before Trump ever joined their party.

“What is the purpose of this meeting and why do I need to be included” is a perfectly polite series of words to use. The wording matters far less than the tone of voice.

I vastly prefer clear and direct questions over the reply that sounds passive aggressive from the very beginning.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Gaiman

Check out the Sexual assault and misconduct allegations section for an overview. With how hard it is to get convictions, believing multiple accusers who have allegations across a long period of time has to be good enough. Especially when they are willing to be identified, knowing they will get punished for speaking up.

Move fast and break things!

Rules were made to be broken!

Musk’s entire business model is getting government welfare to support his flagrant violations of safety regulations.

“No, it’s drinking slang like boofing and the devil’s triangle!”

-Kavanaugh, who cried his way onto the US Supreme Court

Missouri kept the right for abortion at the state level and then elect politicians like Trump who want to overturn the right for all states.

Republican voters are morons.

They will complain all day but will absolutely pass the bill on party line with cuts to medicaid and services their voters rely on.

Rural areas tend to vote republican.

So leopards eating faces and all that jazz.

In addition to the condensation, I have also used coasters for under hot drinks like coffee as they can discolor or even deform some surfaces.

If all you drink is room temp liquids you don’t need coasters.

Bat shit is pretty toxic, and while individual poo is small, bat colonies are absolutely massive and the shit literally piles up as up to millions of bats poop in the same place night after night.

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Self aware observation is self aware.

Sometimes we have to acknowledge our prejudices.