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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Taking over for Gerard this time. Special thanks to him for starting this.)
Idea for another megathread: go to linkedin and post the first thing you see (that provokes a reaction). Hereās mine:
FWIW I checked a few comment threads and guy is playing this off as lighthearted/a joke, but folks here know better than that.
Of all the world wide websites on the web of this wide world LinkedIn might be the one I understand the least, for I dread to even try to understand it.
I assume itās like an online CV/rĆ©sumĆ© where you can list your job experience, which seems sensible enough. But itās also like Facebook for some reason. Well maybe itās good that someone who needs your skills can also come to you and you need some kind of messaging, call it social network type functionality for that. But also recruiters are spammy pests because obviously they are.
Also apparently some people use it as an actual social media and just post their travel photos or random thoughts there, which is wild to me. Itās like someone writing a letter to the editor of a newspaper to tell them about the pancakes they made in the weekend. How is this your medium of choice for this? And then there are the influencers posting the kind of baffling crap seen in this thread, which are already a mysterious animal by themselves, but how on earth are they doing this on the same website that somewhat normal seeming people just use to host their professional biography?
Itās like you founded a combination of an employment office and a cult temple, where the job seekers arenāt expected or required to join the cult, but the rites are still performed in the waiting room in public view. Sometimes one of my friends tells me about the funny and cringe cultist orgy they saw at the employment office. āWhy were you at the orgy cultist employment office?ā I ask them. āI didnāt know you were looking for a job.ā And they tell me they werenāt looking for a job, they just go there sometimes. Or maybe HR announces a bowling night or blood drive or whatever and the email includes a link to let everyone (cultists, job seekers and neither of the above) at the cultist employment service office know. So my colleagues do, then they crack a joke about how annoying and weird all the cult stuff in that office is and we all have a chuckle. Just another day of having a white collar job, telling about their day to their mostly non-cultist white collar job having friends at the cult temple that is also an employment agency for cultists and non-cultists alike.
Also itās hilarious to me that Windows has a built-in global keyboard shortcut for opening LinkedIn in your default web browser and itās fucking Ctrl-Alt-Shift-Super-L, proving that Windows is the true modern successor of Emacs.
chefās kiss
Why would you do this to me?
spoiler
Great leadership is born under pressure.
Anyone can perform when things are easy. Real leadership shines in moments of pressure.
Most people react. Great leaders respond.
Hereās how you can too:
ā āYou need to calm downā ā³ Why: Instantly escalates tension ā³ Instead: āIām noticing weāre both getting tense. Should we take a break?ā
ā āThis is a complete disasterā ā³ Why: Spreads panic and paralyzes action ā³ Instead: āWhatās the one thing we absolutely must get right?ā
ā āYou should have known betterā ā³ Why: Creates shame, not learning ā³ Instead: āWhat can we learn from this for next time?ā
ā āItās not my faultā ā³ Why: Signals lack of ownership ā³ Instead: āI may have contributed to this. Help me understand whereā
ā āJust figure it outā ā³ Why: Shows poor leadership ā³ Instead: āCan we clarify what success looks like for both of us?ā
ā āWhy isnāt this done yet?ā ā³ Why: Creates defensiveness ā³ Instead: āWhatās the most immediate barrier we need to address?ā
ā āThatās not my problemā ā³ Why: Destroys team cohesion ā³ Instead: āWeāre on the same team. Letās figure this out togetherā
ā āI donāt have time for thisā ā³ Why: Devalues othersā priorities ā³ Instead: āI want to give this proper attention. Can we schedule 30 minutes?ā
ā āI already told you thatā ā³ Why: Makes people shut down ā³ Instead: āLet me explain this another wayā
ā āThatās how weāve always done itā ā³ Why: Kills innovation ā³ Instead: āWhat if we tried a different approach?ā
The truth: Reputations are fragile. And rebuilding them is expensive.
P.S. Which response do you want to use more often?
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ā āWhy would you do this to me?ā ā³ Why: Instantly creates tension. ā³ Instead: āWhat did I do wrong, and how can I do better next time?ā
Just incredible that good leadership equals gaslighting yourself into an abusive relationship
A bit of a superpower, just a bit. A tiny little morsel, a sample of superpower, if you will.
If you gotta qualify it like thatā¦