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  • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.catoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldkya
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    20 hours ago

    I always find it funny when somebody with blinding headlights is driving towards me and I flash them, only for there to be some barely discernible change in their lights that I soon realize was them flashing me back

    not that I could fucking tell a difference








  • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.catomemes@lemmy.worldget shreked
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    for a couple years I was in a management position, doing half of a manager’s job (we didn’t have somebody for that position so it was half me and half my boss who is the owner)

    anyways I always treated people like adults from the start, and my best two employees are the juniors I brought up from basically no experience. except for knowledge, they’re honestly better than a couple of my seniors (and they’re both intermediate now because of their reliability). I hate that I actually have to treat some of my seniors as children because otherwise they miss stuff / don’t know what to do. like dude you have ten years in the industry, you should know if you change [this] then you need to recheck [that]

    and part of treating people like adults was judging them on results, not time at desk. which was made quite a bit more necessary due to the fact that I was managing an in-office team remotely haha

    crazy how treating competent people like adults will get you great results, though. almost like if they care, they’ll do good work. unfortunately it seems the company has outgrown that now



  • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.catomemes@lemmy.worldget shreked
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    2 days ago

    my grind wasn’t for fu money, but early retirement / being comfortable with the mortgage

    separating from my partner ruined the early retirement plan, but at least I could keep the house and still afford a decent enough lifestyle without too much worry

    I knowingly traded an extra 10 hours a week for half a decade so I could be financially stable, and for most of that time, I enjoyed the work, so it was worth it. but I’m there now, and it’s time to cut back. don’t have fuck you money. don’t have early retirement. but I’m stable and happy enough.


  • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.catomemes@lemmy.worldget shreked
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    2 days ago

    sometimes the problem is finding competent people

    there’s stuff I can do in eight hours of OT that would take some of my peers the better part of a week

    I used to bust my ass to do that stuff, back when I was fairly compensated for it. I’m not anymore, so I don’t, and that stuff now doesn’t get done on the schedule desired by people above. not my problem