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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • The point isn’t efficiency, the point is greed. Efficiency doesn’t make money, it’s idealistic. Office managers literally need people and an office in order to do anything. What are they going to do all day when no one needs pens or snacks or in-person administration? Assistants have nothing to schedule (except zoom calls) when people aren’t travelling or going to in-person meetings. Amazon has already spent millions on building huge offices all over the world and has to justify it’s use or else they sit empty and don’t generate any revenue or business. Middle managers and project managers can still be remote since much of what they do is just email, but some of those guys need to see people working in office in order to have their power trips. The real reason these middle managers are demanding RTO so hard is specifically because people are actually MORE productive at home, which means that their jobs are on the line since there’s no whip to crack. Who needs a slave driver when the slaves all hit their metrics?








  • You aren’t stupid, you’re naive at best, and that’s something you can build from. You can’t teach someone how to have a good heart. So don’t take this as a huge blow (emotionally, financially it’s ok to feel like this was a huge blow if you couldn’t really afford it) and just take this as a lesson in learning to filter out those who genuinely need help and those who don’t. If you really couldn’t afford it, yeah file a police report. Not sure if you’ll get your money back, but it might stop the scammers from doing it again to some other nice people.

    When I was a younger person, I was broke as all hell. But I managed to have an extra $5 that I was going to use for a nice lunch. (The first time I hadn’t skipped lunch in ages!) At the gas station, a guy approached me and pulled on the heartstrings. I even said, “this is my last $5.” He had absolutely no qualms about ripping out of my hand and driving away in his car that CLEARLY had enough gas in it for him to get away and wasn’t completely empty as he had told me minutes before. Lesson learned.

    Good people in genuine dire straits, don’t personally ask a stranger online for money. That’s why places like GoFundMe exist. If you want to make your local community better, walk around with an extra sandwich in your lunch box and give it to a different homeless person everyday. Pretty much never ever give money and only offer food and company.