I hate stupid memes like this.

America was also damn near the only industrialized country that didn’t have its manufacturing capabilities blown to shit. That might have had a wee bit of effect.

I’ve always wondered how much the Iranian brass actually liked the guy. He never struck me as a particularly nice guy, but maybe it’d be different if I was part of the cult.

It’s easy to tell which managers were promoted from within and which were external hires with no hands on experience.

I don’t think hands on experience is necessary, but you need to have a comprehensive understanding of the work being done by people you oversee. That becomes increasingly difficult as your position moves you from the front line, which I think is one reason upper management and executives often seem like aliens compared to the rank and file and lower management.

Replayed Blasphemous and Blasphemous 2 for the fourth time since Blasphemous 2 just got a pretty good “legally distinct Castlevania” DLC for free recently.

Blasphemous 2 is still pretty far up on the list of greatest metroidvanias and can be had pretty cheap these days.

Typical Redditor mentality.

Because your coworkers have to work harder in your absence? Stop being such a selfish prick.

This kinda shit only gets written and spread by people who either have never been management or are really shitty management.

There’s way too many nuances to being a “good boss” to sum up in one dumb tweet.

You’d get fired pretty fast from a lot of places for that behavior. That made up scenario just reeks of Reddit.

You’re not as hard to replace as you think you are.

Few American employers provide actual sick days. Instead you can pull from your pool of paid time off (which doubles as vacation for many jobs, although some do have a separate vacation pool that can only be used for scheduled time off) or just have an unpaid absence.

Within policy does a lot of heavy lifting.

It’s generally very simple (by intent) for the employer to deny PTO requests “within policy.”

Have you never been in a position of management? You think absences should never be noted or logged?

You might need to reconsider this.

Overtime solves this issue pretty effortlessly. They call you and offer a shift of overtime to cover someone that’s unexpectedly absent. If you’re willing to sacrifice your normal time off, you get time and a half in exchange. If you’re not, then either another person will or the manager/foreman on salary handles it. That is, after all, one of the reasons they’re paid more (and on salary.)

There’s also a real limit to how many staff a given schedule can support. You don’t hire people that don’t have any work that they’re needed to perform.

Put yourself in the shoes of that example person. You were hired but as long as everyone else is healthy and functional, you’re always superfluous. Your hours will be cut repeatedly to avoid wasting labor costs, but you’ll still be expected to be available. If you’re instead on call, you will be expected to be available for all days you agreed to be on call for - you can’t work a different job or get wrapped up in personal things that you can’t set down or pause.

There’s a difference between a full staff and a skeleton crew staff. But in both cases, a sudden unplanned absence like illness or injury will require someone to work extra hours or the business will have to do without that person. A fully staffed property, like a hotel for example, might have two desk agents that typically work together for the same shift to ensure customers never have to wait too long for service. The job can be done with just one person, at cost of customer experience, and that’s what you’ll see from places running a skeleton crew.

What you won’t see, however, is there being a third staff member who is there purely to cover for one of the other two. That’s already handled by the supervisor (if one exists) or manager.

You need to stop thinking in twitter posts and start thinking in terms of reality.

Okay, cool. What happens while you’re training that new human? Trainees will operate at substantially less efficiency than expected while learning and may for a while afterwards too, depending on complexity of the work. What happens if one of those humans gets hurt or sick?

Dude really was a moron, wasn’t he?

I’m glad to hear it. I’m always skeptical of claims coming from Twitter or memes, so it’s good to know the isn’t just a one-time gimmick.

Fucking weird to see how much different responsible government operates.

So basically the amount given to the city is within what would be fairly normal for that sort of thing? It would be sustainable if needed?

Didn’t Mamdani require a substantial input from the state government to balance the budget? Will it require those in the future or was it a one-time need?

Both of those take basically the same amount of time. It’s very fast on Windows if you pin the folder you want to that list you’re talking about skipping.

Almost like that’s intended or something. Weird!

Give it credit for trying to expand the Amnesia format. Hopefully the reactive monster is a bit more developed than in Alien Isolation, where the xenomorph largely just started camping when it knew the player was nearby.

Fail states for these kinds of games are really tricky to get right. The game quickly becomes frustrating instead of frightening if the monster is too difficult to avoid or evade, but a monster that’s just glorified set dressing also ain’t very scary.