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Open borders cosmopolitan globalist. Immigrant twice over. Mutualism, Sentientism, Social Ecology. linktr.ee/theendismeh Posts deleted/unboosted regularly.
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BKtheendismeh.bsky.social

Yeah, I've heard so many awful stories about working at Amazon, both blue and white collar workers. You are owned by the company. 10 PM email from the boss? Better answer it right away. And you're also correct about contract work often being so precarious. 😬

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Funny thing how NYT knows these words, and not afraid to use them when talking about the Democrats. Even if they're ridiculous in the context.

NYT: In Michigan, Walz Assails Trump’s Record on Manufacturing
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In 2021, @zitron.bsky.socialwww.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Remote work lays bare many brutal inefficiencies and problems that executives don’t want to deal with because they reflect poorly on leaders and those they’ve hired. Remote work empowers those who produce and disempowers those who have succeeded by being excellent diplomats and poor workers, along with those who have succeeded by always finding someone to blame for their failures. It removes the ability to seem productive (by sitting at your desk looking stressed or always being on the phone), and also, crucially, may reveal how many bosses and managers simply don’t contribute to the bottom line.
The reason working from home is so nightmarish for many managers and executives is that a great deal of modern business has been built on the substrate of in-person work. As a society, we tend to consider management a title rather than a skill, something to promote people to, as well as a way in which you can abstract yourself from the work product. When you remove the physical office space—the place where people are yelled at in private offices or singled out in meetings—it becomes a lot harder to spook people as a type of management. In fact, your position at a company becomes more difficult to justify if all you do is delegate and nag people.
When we are all in the same physical space, we are oftentimes evaluated not on our execution of our role but on our diplomacy—by which I mean our ability to kiss up to the right people rather than actually being a decent person. I have known so many people within my industry (and in others) who have built careers on “playing nice” rather than on producing something. I have seen examples within companies I’ve worked with of people who have clearly stuck around because they’re well liked versus productive, and many, many people have responded to my newsletters on the topic of remote work with similar stories. I've also known truly terrible managers who have built empires, gaining VP and C-level positions, by stealing other people’s work and presenting it as their own, something that, according to research, is the No. 1 way to destroy employee trust.
These petty fiefdoms are far harder to maintain when everyone is remote. Although you may be able to get away with multiple passive-aggressive comments to colleagues in private meetings or calls, it’s much harder to be a jerk over Slack, email, and text when someone can screenshot it and send it to HR (or to a journalist). Similarly, if your entire work product is boxing up other people’s production and sending it to the CEO, that becomes significantly harder to prove as your own in a fully digital environment—the producer in question can simply send it along themselves. Remote work makes who does and doesn’t actually do work way more obvious.
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As others have said, footnotes are for elaborating, endnotes are for hiding.

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Be Kind, Please Unwind 🐝 🦋 Ⓥ
@theendismeh.bsky.social
Open borders cosmopolitan globalist. Immigrant twice over. Mutualism, Sentientism, Social Ecology. linktr.ee/theendismeh Posts deleted/unboosted regularly.
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