It's a popular drug all over the Pacific islands. I read it's the fourth most consumed drug in the world after booze, smokes and coffee. I can see why, after trying a few more. It's not strong enough to wipe you out the way that "serious" drugs do, but it gives a slight and pleasant buzz that makes a bad day less bad. I'm not sure i'll buy it again, though, because it is a bit messy. I suppose it's not really more messy than cigarettes - especially because it doesn't stink up a room the way smoke does - but it's a bit more expensive and has less of an immediate "kick", so not sure if it's worth switching.
When a company starts to have the mentality that pleasing shareholders/future shareholders comes before the work of the people who make the company succeed and before the product quality is when they have lost their way.
People at the top think that those below them on the corporate structure must be told what to do and launch their pet projects which are often of zero value to end users and interrupt important work being done every day.
A tough week is never good. I am glad you got outside this weekend.
I worked at Nintendo of America for ten years. The first five were amazing. Best place I ever worked, the people were great, our jobs were to get the consumer back up and running and playing games. Our job was to literally make you happy by any way shape or form. We had a "department mission" plaque that basically said that.
I left the company for a year, and when I came back, our mission plaque had all been changed to literally say "assist the consumer with minimal cost to the shareholders." And from that moment on, I saw it was a changed place. I was there another few years before I left cause we were just another harried put-upon department being told to keep the money in the company at the expense of the consumer.
"The kid was interrupted by the pronouncement that the whole feature should work differently, disregarding the efforts of two managers and a bunch of engineers, analysts and support people who spent the last month designing and building a shippable product. Since i am allegedly running the project it fell on me to explain why we chose the solution we did, but great-grandboss did not care about our reasoning and i was overruled
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Ugh that sucks. It's so frustrating when you are going the extra mile at work and not only do you not get acknowledged for it but you get shat on instead.
I wonder sometimes if it would just be better to deliberately underachieve at work, to spend every effort to fly under the radar, never get singled out for anything, just quietly do your job, collect a paycheck and go home. But for some reason even in companies where i start out trying to do that, i find that i can't. I take too much pride in my work. I can't do it half-assed. Of course when management sees that, then they also see that you are someone they can use to drive their own pet projects forward... which usually just leaves you working harder for no extra credit, and then you risk burn out while the manager moves on.
I remember when achievement was rewarded, and my time at Nintendo told me that times had changed. Now the "quiet quitting" (or doing your job and nothing else) is the way to go because not only is achievement not rewarded, it's super exploited.
I don't like doing it. But I have started doing it. I have better thing to pour energy into.
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I've heard of betel nut so interesting to read your take on it. Let us know about any further experiments!
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I feel like everyone I know is either A) looking for work or B) in a shitty work situation and worried they are going to get fired.
Terrible!
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When a company starts to have the mentality that pleasing shareholders/future shareholders comes before the work of the people who make the company succeed and before the product quality is when they have lost their way.
People at the top think that those below them on the corporate structure must be told what to do and launch their pet projects which are often of zero value to end users and interrupt important work being done every day.
A tough week is never good. I am glad you got outside this weekend.
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I left the company for a year, and when I came back, our mission plaque had all been changed to literally say "assist the consumer with minimal cost to the shareholders." And from that moment on, I saw it was a changed place. I was there another few years before I left cause we were just another harried put-upon department being told to keep the money in the company at the expense of the consumer.
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I wonder sometimes if it would just be better to deliberately underachieve at work, to spend every effort to fly under the radar, never get singled out for anything, just quietly do your job, collect a paycheck and go home. But for some reason even in companies where i start out trying to do that, i find that i can't. I take too much pride in my work. I can't do it half-assed. Of course when management sees that, then they also see that you are someone they can use to drive their own pet projects forward... which usually just leaves you working harder for no extra credit, and then you risk burn out while the manager moves on.
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I don't like doing it. But I have started doing it. I have better thing to pour energy into.
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