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[–] [email protected] 50 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Corporate job, terrible decisions, change of management, extra work for most people for the same money. Everyone is outraged and not happy.

So management organizes a company-wide zoom meeting to introduce new roadmap, changes, new management teams, etc.

HR is running an anonymous question board throughout the meeting, where everyone can send in questions and feedback through a web application link/QR code (Slido) for the Q&A section at the end.

Some questions are still praising management, "looking forward to working with xyz", "great opportunity", fucking toxic positivity like what you can see these days on LinkedIn. So of course management only answers/discussing these pretentious shitty questions and not dealing with more serious stuff.

So well done idiots, nobody knows who the ass kissers are, so it was pointless.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'd put a buck or two on those questions being written by management.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

😮🫢 put 'em on blast!

[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So well done idiots, nobody knows who the ass kissers are, so it was pointless.

It was HR or management. Nobody does a truly anonymous Q&A session like that without having a few safe, canned questions to fall back on.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yes, this is the first thing everyone thought, but also these questions were ranked by likes through the same system so unless HR hacked the Slido page to put on extra likes might not be the case.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Have you used the other side of slido? I ask because some sites may very well have those sort of options available to them. I know guilded has an option for mods to give free xp toward levels. Xp and Levels are usually just gained by interacting so being able to give them for free defeats the purpose.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Someone in a school I worked in changed from saying 'specific' to 'pacific' just because the deputy head said it that way.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Somewhat related: someone at my work started saying the word "metapoint" a while back in some meetings and now a bunch of people are constantly slipping the word into their regular speech. I personally find this particularly confusing considering that metapoint is not a real word and I have no idea how so many people managed to incorporate it into their vocabulary nor what this word means to each of them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Metapoint: a point that is everywhere all at once.

It's an antonym of singularity.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Just start saying metapod

[–] pastermil 4 points 9 months ago

And they're supposed to educate people 🙄

[–] [email protected] 31 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

In person? My first job was pretty sweet, pretty much everyone understood worker solidarity, even most of the management was good people. One day i warned my friend that i was probably not going to show up the next day, you know just giving him a heads up. Well this new hire overheard and apparently went to management over it! I got chewed out by the only guy in management that acted like managing a shitty big box store in the middle of bumfuck nowhere was a holy calling worthy of power and respect.

Ending unrelated to the boot licking; after that, this prick has the audacity to act like i was his buddy he could be a bigot with. don't know why he thought i was his guy there (i was white and the most heteronormative looking man in tht department, but even then i openly hated him and was super close with the openly and obviously not cishet guy) but i got him fired over it.

I should be a little grateful though, he taught me that not every homosapien is a real person.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Quite a lot of the UK population during the last coronation. Vomit-inducing stuff.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I got banned from reddit for a year for commenting the word "good" under the announcement that the Queen was dead.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

You can be anti-monarchist without being an insensitive arse about it. I'd like the institution to die, I'm not celebrating when an old lady died.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

As an American, I've never really thought about that before.. That's a different perspective. What was it like?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago (2 children)

There was this one time. I saw a guy. He picked up a boot, and licked it.

“Woah.” I said to myself.

“That,” I went on, in my interior voice, “is an egregious example of boot-licking.”

That’s it. That’s my story. Subscribe and hit the ‘like’ button.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Your story moved me and touched me. I shed a tear, just like every person in a story that Donald Trump tells, that's how much you touched me. You are an inspiration to us all!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

Where did I touch you? Can you prove it court? Otherwise I’m going to have to sue you for defamation for $100.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Hey everybody!

How, are, you, doing?

This is you boii Stoy comming at you from the comments, and it is time for another reaction comment!

🤪

This time we have Tristaniopsis in a Lemmy thread about bootlicking, I have never heard about bootlicking before, so this will be a freash reaction!

Now everybody, please remember to hit that save link on this comment, and lets go!

There was this one time.

🤨

I saw a guy.

😲

He picked up a boot, and licked it.

😱

"Woah" I said to myself.

😬

"That" I went on, in my interior voice, "is an egregious example of boot-licking."

😆

That's it.That's my story.Subscribe and hit the 'like' button.

Well that was really a reaction! Thank you so much for reading and I'll see you next time!

[–] Ironfist 23 points 9 months ago

Every post on linkedin. Bunch of fake ass people kissing corporate asses.

[–] sentient_loom 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

My cat literally licking my boot.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] sentient_loom 9 points 9 months ago

I still haven't recovered.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Specifically, Tim Scott telling Trump he loves him was particularly sickening.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

I've heard about those temporary embarrassed billionaires that will someday whoop them poor ass once they get out of their situation.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The GOP in regards to Putin

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

And don't forget Chris Christie in regards to Trump. Or almost anyone really.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Utah, I was going to say "pretty much everyone in Trump's orbit."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Anyone that stays there at least, yeah:-).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Fans of a game trying to defendd it from constructive criticism on the Steam forums.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

This applies to everything from football teams to politics, but video games are a great example of how we humans hate thinking that we might have made a bad investment. I bought this thing because I am clever and I make good decisions, but these people are saying bad things about it! Could I have made a bad decision? No, it's the children who are wrong!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

In the two decades I've lived, I can't begin to tell you how many times I've seen people flock to the wrong people, often at the expense of innocent people caught in the crossfire, and then brush off whatever looks like it could challenge their familial/platonic/etc. standing. It played into one past question of mine that ultimately got misunderstood in some ways. I see it in the bureaucratic world, I see it in the personal world, everyone just thinks strangers must suffer the one third of a two thirds compromise. It's all formulaic (well, except for the time a CPS leader my old community says they hate ended up running for mayor and winning).

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That reply was right. Very wordy post.

In school/college you're trained to hit a certain word count. So you get into the habit of using long-winded language.

Try to break this habit as soon as you leave education.

Not to be a cunt btw! I left uni 20yrs ago and still have to fight the habit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

cries in suffers from hypergraphia

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Which of these is an example of bootlicking?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Both. The last one should stun anyone.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I’m anyone and I’m not stunned. You write quite a bit and get absolutely nowhere while attacking anyone who calls that out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Who said I was attacking anyone over that? I only disagree with the emphasis being on that is all.

I would've definitely expected it to be stunning that peoples like I describe are able to maneuver politics so easily.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

most commonly:

  1. people working extra hard with hopes of rising the ranks
  2. workers trying to capture more executive style roles as assistants to make bosses work easier