project ruby-throat, a hummingbird banding + conservation project, trapped and banded this albino ruby-throated hummingbird. often, white hummingbirds (which are rare to begin with) have paler plumage due to leucism - a true albino like this one is incredibly hard to find, especially in adulthood.
I clicked on the article to see why an albino hummingbird has black feathers (they donāt know but maybe something about structural coloration) and im completely charmed by how much the writer lost their shit over how pretty the bird is
What if started going by Avery (my middle name) instead of Molly (nickname of my first name) when i start grad school… I already have the inconvenience of not going by my legal name but also the inconvenience of sounding adorable (replies welcome)
living in the suburbs is like mall. Movies. Mall again. Go to target. Go to gamestop. Back to the mall. Barnes and noble. Back to the mall. Chiliās. Back to the mall. Eat hot chip. Lie. And Iām SICK of it!!!!!
Iām sorry god please forgive me I would give anything to go to Barnes and noble and then dinner at Chiliās with a lava mountain cake please lord take me back Iāll never complain again
This just in; managers are useless and CEOās and executives are useless fuckin parasites, and literally any entry-level front line employee knows vastly more about the job than the dipshit sitting in meetings with other dipshits in a giant dipshit circle jerk.
I mean this is true, the most shocking thing to me is that it seems to only now be reaching public consciousness
True. I mean, lots of us have been saying it for literal years.
When I put in my two weeksā notice at Target, the managers flipped their shit because I was the only person who knew how to staff the front end, where all of the important documents were kept, how to document the safe when we needed to cash out to registers, who to contact at the armored truck service and the bank, and how to count out and document the safe.
THE STORE AND HR MANAGERS WERE RELYING ON AN HOURLY NON-MANAGER WHO WORKED TWENTY-EIGHT HOURS A WEEK FOR ACTUAL FINANCIAL DOCUMENTATION.
They also relied onĀ āteam leadsā (read: supervisors in all but pay and benefits) to handle all of the interpersonal situations among their staff, and I was receiving calls from Target management up to two weeks after my final day because they didnāt know where shit was in their own office or why there was a sudden meltdown between three of the front-end departments after I left.
lol management means fuck all.
What most executives actually spend their days doing is sitting in
meetings, filling in forms and communicating information. In other
words, they are bureaucrats. But being a bureaucrat is not particularly
exciting. It also doesnāt look very good on your business card. To make
their roles seem more important and exciting than they actually are,
corporate executives become leadership addicts. They read leadership
books. They give lengthy talks to yawning subordinates about leadership.
But most importantly they attend many courses, seminars and meetings
with āleadershipā somewhere in the title. The content of many of these
leadership-development courses would not be out of place in a
kindergarten or a New Age commune. There are leadership-development
courses where participants are asked to lead a horse around a yard, use
colouring-in books, or build Lego ā all in the name of developing them
as leaders.
At least $14 billion gets spent every year on leadership development in the US alone yet, according to researchers
such as Jeffrey Pfeffer at Stanford, it has virtually no impact on
improving the quality of leaders. In our own research, we found that
most employees in knowledge-intensive firms didnāt need much leadership.
People working at the coalface were self-motivated and often knew their
jobs much better than their bosses did. Their superiorsā cack-handed
attempts to be leaders were often seen as a pointless distraction from
the real work. George, a manager in a high-tech engineering firm, told
us he saw himself as a very āopenā. When we asked his subordinates what
he actually did, they told us that he provides breakfast in the morning
and runs an annual beer-tasting.
WHOOP there it is.
Working in a stupefied firm often means blinding others with bullshit. A
very effective way to get out of doing anything real is to rely on a
flurry of management jargon. Develop strategies, generate business
models, engage in thought leadership. This will get you off the hook of
doing any actual work. It will also make you seem like you are at the
cutting edge. When things go wrong, you can blame the fashionable
management idea.
WHOOP THERE IT IS
And finally, from the comments, my man Dan here knocks it outta the park
Anyway eat all executives 2k20.
Anyone who knows what a ceo does should have always realized it may as well be retirement. They do no hard work. They donāt have special talents they utilize. Itās a joyride that seizes most of the money earned by the real workers, it always has been.
