In my experience, the Peter Principle is rooted in the culture of most companies. Promotions happen only by shifting people from production to management and the best and most productive workers are also often the worst manager.
We decided that we're better off by creating an "expert" promotion line for our technical workers where their promotion path keeps them in the technical area and away from management, their line leading to them shifting from everyday jobs to being the (now also official) go-to guys for problem or internal consultants.
That way we keep them in their technical line, can benefit from their advanced and often unique knowledge, keep them from turning from brilliant engineers to mediocre managers, and they have a career line ahead of them that isn't a dead end because they're "only" productive instead of managing.
Say it like it is, management very rarely knows what their workers are actually really doing, or how much time a given task really takes. If they did, they could easily gauge which workers work and which slack.
Since most managers have no clue what they're managing, their only way to at least have an idea whether the people are working is whether they're staring at a screen.
Fire the manager, get one that knows what you're doing and let your workers telecommute.
Good idea. What are we going to replace the various religions with that keep telling us the end of the world is near (the world ended twice so far this year, but I think there's room for a third coming)?
There is this problem that people live in areas that will feel the heat (literally so) quite soon. And they will want to go where you are now. With no alternative, get in or die trying.
In other words, you'll soon have to decide whether you want to share or shoot.
Yes, and as long as you don't put bodies into the environment that generate heat (like, say, human bodies while alive), you can keep that room at that temperature provided insulation is perfect.
Then again, IF insulation is perfect AND you put bodies producing heat into the environment... well, the second law of thermodynamics tells me that at some point the room will have approximately 37 degrees Celsius.
You know, that's one of the things I really wonder, what people from the ancient past would say if they could see how we interpret their belongings. Imagine a caveman going
"Burial rites? Huh? Oh, because there were deer bones around the ones of Uncle Urgkh? That's not a burial mound, that's our garbage pit you idiot!"
And why is it brown, that's racist! Associating dark color with something generally considered unpleasant and willfully flushed at the first opportunity, how is this possible in 2017?
They forgot to reverse-photoshop them. My guess is they trained the algorithm using various fashion- and lifestyle magazines that consist of nothing but photoshopped pictures of people stripped of any and all personality.
Median still means jack shit if you offer no deviation. The median income in some countries looks nice until you notice that you basically have a group of fantastically rich and a group of incredibly poor with little in between. Quite a few places in the middle east are looking that way and it looks like China is preparing to go that way too.
But I guess as long as you find an excuse to call me stupid, it matters little to you, right?
Let's try that, shall we? I keep hearing the story of the falling sky if we abolish spam and ads and that the internet will cease to exist for it depends on both, but let's try it.
Hey, wait, I remember a time when it actually WAS that way. Odd. How did webpages exist in the pre-dot-com time, one has to wonder. I know. They were made by people who wanted to actually say something, and even needed to have the brain cells to slap together a webpage to do so, which had the nice side effect of improving the signal-to-noise ratio.
I can't help it, but you're not really making a good point FOR ads if you say that the junk we have today will go away and we'll return to the pre-2000 internet without them.
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Well, to be fair, I don't even notice that Windows Store exists on Win10.
In my experience, the Peter Principle is rooted in the culture of most companies. Promotions happen only by shifting people from production to management and the best and most productive workers are also often the worst manager.
We decided that we're better off by creating an "expert" promotion line for our technical workers where their promotion path keeps them in the technical area and away from management, their line leading to them shifting from everyday jobs to being the (now also official) go-to guys for problem or internal consultants.
That way we keep them in their technical line, can benefit from their advanced and often unique knowledge, keep them from turning from brilliant engineers to mediocre managers, and they have a career line ahead of them that isn't a dead end because they're "only" productive instead of managing.
Say it like it is, management very rarely knows what their workers are actually really doing, or how much time a given task really takes. If they did, they could easily gauge which workers work and which slack.
Since most managers have no clue what they're managing, their only way to at least have an idea whether the people are working is whether they're staring at a screen.
Fire the manager, get one that knows what you're doing and let your workers telecommute.
You know, a scientist fairy dies every time you mistake a hypothesis for a theory.
You have to admit, they're really hard to tell apart.
Good idea. What are we going to replace the various religions with that keep telling us the end of the world is near (the world ended twice so far this year, but I think there's room for a third coming)?
The numbers are bullshit. Over here we learned that years ago, voting for the populist is like jacking off. Everyone does it, nobody admits he does.
Never stopped religious cults from announcing the end of the world, why not learn from the experienced con artists?
There is this problem that people live in areas that will feel the heat (literally so) quite soon. And they will want to go where you are now. With no alternative, get in or die trying.
In other words, you'll soon have to decide whether you want to share or shoot.
Yes, and as long as you don't put bodies into the environment that generate heat (like, say, human bodies while alive), you can keep that room at that temperature provided insulation is perfect.
Then again, IF insulation is perfect AND you put bodies producing heat into the environment... well, the second law of thermodynamics tells me that at some point the room will have approximately 37 degrees Celsius.
You know, that's one of the things I really wonder, what people from the ancient past would say if they could see how we interpret their belongings. Imagine a caveman going
"Burial rites? Huh? Oh, because there were deer bones around the ones of Uncle Urgkh? That's not a burial mound, that's our garbage pit you idiot!"
No, they were more busy pondering what kind of crap we waste money on when there are people who have actual problems.
And why is it brown, that's racist! Associating dark color with something generally considered unpleasant and willfully flushed at the first opportunity, how is this possible in 2017?
Poe's Law, it's not just for religion anymore...
Hint: When you want to buy the election, buy both sides. This isn't roulette after all, you CAN put your money on blue AND red.
What? They banned Theresa May?
Finally.
Well, extremely stupid is still extreme.
I am not paranoid!
Because if you are, THEY notice!
Oh please, all the cool dictatorships do it today.
That's excusable, as an European I can't even tell them apart.
This guy has a great future in the horror genre of movies. He just redefined "creepy".
They forgot to reverse-photoshop them. My guess is they trained the algorithm using various fashion- and lifestyle magazines that consist of nothing but photoshopped pictures of people stripped of any and all personality.
Nah. Looks just as fake as the photoshopped crap in various magazines.
Maybe it looks "realistic" to people whose primary source for people's faces is said magazines. Get out of your mom's basement!
Median still means jack shit if you offer no deviation. The median income in some countries looks nice until you notice that you basically have a group of fantastically rich and a group of incredibly poor with little in between. Quite a few places in the middle east are looking that way and it looks like China is preparing to go that way too.
But I guess as long as you find an excuse to call me stupid, it matters little to you, right?
Let's try that, shall we? I keep hearing the story of the falling sky if we abolish spam and ads and that the internet will cease to exist for it depends on both, but let's try it.
Hey, wait, I remember a time when it actually WAS that way. Odd. How did webpages exist in the pre-dot-com time, one has to wonder. I know. They were made by people who wanted to actually say something, and even needed to have the brain cells to slap together a webpage to do so, which had the nice side effect of improving the signal-to-noise ratio.
I can't help it, but you're not really making a good point FOR ads if you say that the junk we have today will go away and we'll return to the pre-2000 internet without them.