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I’ve always read it that action must be taken, above and beyond speech.
Legally, a Conspiracy exists when 2 or more persons join together and form an agreement to violate the law, and then act on that agreement.
I could argue that these users collaborated to break the law and did so, but I don’t see that being argued. Fuck I know, INAL.
My boss sometimes calls my personal cell. But only to get my attention on a thing that needs attention, or something I need to know right then. I always answer because I know it’s important, never bullshit. And that’s how it should be. Also, he takes action when needed, never lets anything sit and fester.
He moves fast and expects his team to do the same, when need be. Fair enough. We also have fewer meetings than any other department. Because we move. I can sit on my ass all day (read: nap), but when it’s time to move, I move. Love the guy. When I started working for him last month, “I do not micromanage my people. If you find yourself being micromanaged, I’m already looking for your replacement.” Getting my feet back on the ground after being micromanaged for 4-years. :)
Kinda disagree on email communications. We use Slack effectively. Mostly. Problem is, many of us, me included, allow it to distract us. People tend to expect instant response from a DM. I don’t check email often, and I’m sure that annoys some people. But you’re 100% right on tracking the conversation. OTOH, you can track conversations in Slack almost as well. Email for external customers. DMs for internal. Works for me.
Learning to turn Slack off for a period of time, or block my calendar. Boss encourages this! “HR wants our personal reviews in this week. Block out an hour or three on your calendar and do it.”
Was on a team trying to kick this around, figure out some kinda policy. Never really got agreement or traction. Seems it boils down to social skills. I know the VP isn’t approving my purchases until early evening. Gotta poke her if I need action. I know $manager isn’t looking at his DMs, but he is looking at group channels. I know $dev is not going to answer me for a day if I Slack him.
All over the place on this post. Guess we just have to learn how we each work, roll with it. 🤷🏻♂️
I cannot believe lemmy didn’t drag you out in the alley and beat your ass for that comment. Any notion that, gasp, meeting people in person can be useful is anathema 'round here.
Our teams meet at the main office about once a year. I hate flying and being away for a week, but it’s still pretty fun. Free drinks and food! And no one will touch the Keystone I leave in the office fridge.
We learn about each other, makes us closer as a team. Plus, we meet the others who wander in and out the office. Sometime people come in just to meet us.
I think they did it quarterly, but I started right before COVID, not sure. But every 3-months is too damned disruptive for too little benefit.
You got my gears turning. LOL, for good or for evil.
What if we had a paid service that worked like torrenting? DEEP discount, but you opt to share upload costs? (Best for last, bear with me.)
Company like Spotify coordinates it all, takes their skim off the top for running the servers, devs, payroll, workman’s comp, unemployment insurance, managers, janitors, tech support, typical business stuff. Might not be $BIG% profitable, but 0.001% is hella money in this game.
We could even have upload tiers. How much you want to upload back? More = cheaper. Unlimited download no matter the tier, but you gotta “pay back” the system to for low rates. Wanna mooch? No problem! Top tier pricing for you! Go over? No problem! We got a grace period. Hell, we’ll let your MB’s roll over if you don’t use 'em! Keep pushing your down vs. up, and sorry, we gotta tack a bit on next month. Would you like to go up a tier and maybe save?
And we only try to sell that offer to people our algorithm shows it will truly help. Had a vendor do that to me last week! “Don’t take the standard offer. You’re already doing $X, so $Y costs nothing more in your case.” Wish I could remember the deal, but it was great to have a rep shoot me straight!
We’d almost have to start with an existing company. They got the infrastructure, contracts, and such, but they also got stubborn inertia. Some billionaire needs to get me onboard with this!
Any yes y’all, I understand the DevOps, Dev, infrastructure, payroll, management, etc., spend would be astronomical from scratch. Hell, ever considered the company needs a UI expert for $150/yr. at a minimum? Double that with taxes and benefits. And throw in the AWS bill. shudder
It would be a massive clusterfuck to get going. But what if we could get “Spotify” for $1-$10/mo. depending on your contribution?
Best: What if it was a federated/socialist sort of thing? I like country and rap (seriously), so I opt into servers that mainly have that content. Saves me and my fellow fans upload, because we’re uploading to each other and not costing the service anything but a few pennies to the artist!
I know this has 12 holes in it, but am I straight nuts?
And they are free to do so! Why do I want small-time, bitchy customers who won’t, or can’t, pay? Let someone else coming up in the world take them on. I did my time, they can do theirs.
Pick one:
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A restaurant that charges $10 per burger, at a cost of $3 per burger.
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A restaurant that charges $5 per burger, at a cost of $3 per burger.
Capitalism is common sense!
CAVEAT: When decoupled from a sense of the greater good. Which is sometimes called morality.
Meh, might not hurt them, obviously their suits don’t think so.
What they’re trying to do is convert or lose low-value customers and make high-value customers and save bandwidth at the same time. Fewer high-value customers also has an impact on support costs.
I did the same with my little computer support business. Doubled prices and kept the solid customers.
I straight steal my media, so I don’t have a dog in this fight. Actually, I’m a little stunned that anyone pays for this bullshit in the first place.
I honestly can’t understand people bitching about getting screwed by subscriptions, or the number of them they have.
I got Amazon Prime because I started buying most of my shit that way during the pandemic. (Guess who’s never caught COVID!) But all I care about is the discounted shipping. I still steal their videos and put them on my NAS.
The job I was talking about was IT at a payroll company. Running payroll can be surprisingly complex, so most small businesses farm it out to a employee leasing place, let them hassle with the regulations. Lot’s more to it than multiplying hours by pay rate.
But it sounds like they were farming it out? Sending hours and pay rates to an accountant?
We’re a software dev, and despite the low turnover, we’re constantly growing and hiring. Not easy to pull in solid devs because it’s such a competitive field. HR earns their money in my outfit. We’ve needed a new security person in DevOps for 2-months, haven’t heard a peep from the boss about candidates.
But yeah, I feel you on the useless HR people. When I say our director was so dumb and useless, I really meant we thought she had blackmail on the owner. We were not joking, it was the only explanation that made sense.
But OP was experience hiring both sorts of candidates and found non-FAANG employees to work out better.
And no, one shouldn’t judge completely on a former company’s culture, but some people do indeed drag that shit with them. My old boss would be great for some roles in my new company, but she has absolutely poisonous management skills stemming from her environment.
20% of the company!? My last company had useless HR like that. Only 3 of them for 35 of us, but they did nothing and that was 2 too many. The “Director”, with all of two people under her, was so wildly incompetent we all thought she had something on the owner.
They couldn’t even handle their core job of bringing us solid candidates. Had no one under me but was still treated a management (IT) and finally put my foot down. Made it crystal clear, with many examples, that the people HR was bringing in didn’t have the most basic office related PC skills, and that I could tell on day-1 who was and wasn’t going to make it. Changes were made, success was had.
So ask yourself, how the hell is the IT guy a better judge of candidates than a “professional” HR team?!
I should add, my current company’s HR is rock and roll. It’s really nice working with them and I’m still good friends with one that left last year.
Can you tell me more about reencoding to save space?