This is a difference in degree, not a difference in kind. They could easily increase their operating budget and pay the workers more and still have enough of an endowment left to maintain its current size. Indeed, the fact that the endowment has grown at all proves this; if it was only big enough to maintain its size,… Read more
Having lunch with the workers is “divisive” but hearing management’s side is “within the guidelines of section programming.” Cool, got it. Read more
I certainly DON’T envy the number of times these folks will hear their spouse say “Nice technique loading the dishwasher, GENIUS” the rest of their lives. Read more
I will never understand why people are so eager to give monetary rewards to artists and writers who already have demonstrated that they can support themselves financially. Why not give out $62,500 awards to 10 times as many people who don’t yet have firm financial footing, MacArthur? Read more
The one with the books behind her is especially galling. I mean, if you’re such a genius, why do you need a stack of books? Shouldn’t you, like, know that stuff? Read more
Cubs fans, blindly backing abhorrent losers since 1908.
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Honestly, it’s an injustice that people like Ari Fleischer are able to show their faces in public. Read more
It’s journalistic quicksand for a moderator at a debate to step in and try to right every wrong or correct every comment. Read more
At my corporation, I find that about 1/2 or 1/3 managers/directors actually do real work and are good at their jobs. The rest are not. Read more
As someone in management, I feel like my first job is to make those under me happy and productive but I end up spending most of my time following up on bullshit mistakes made by home office. Accurate and timely paychecks used to be a given but now with cost cutting Jackie at HO has to draw up all checks by hand on a… Read more
I work for a legal publishing company and this article could not be more true. +1 Read more
Countepoint: Middle managers exist to apologize for your shit when you do your job to the specs you were given, not to the specs as they existed in senior management’s mind. Read more
Managers are those persons willing to put money over humanity. That is their only qualification and role. They are the street enforcers for the mob bosses at the top (the executives).
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Totally, I’ve worked for top heavy orgs and now am in a company that’s probably closer to 15-1 for workers to management, and it’s amazing. But the Amazing might also be connected to the old job being publicly traded and the new one being privately held... Read more
I work for a publishing company. Our CEO started a speech, “If you don’t write stories or don’t sell ads, you’re overhead.” He was also building a mult-million dollar house in a market where most of our employees couldn’t afford the rent, and had neither written a story, nor sold an ad, ever. I was 34, and this is… Read more