16 Replies to “Another Scary Story”

  2. Employees making demands of their supervisors? Frankly, I’m not surprised. I had to put up with that horse puckey for several years while I was teaching at Armpit College, thanks to the “student as customer” ideology the institution had adopted.

  3. If you hire one of these fuckups you deserve every terrible thing that happens to your company. Ditto if you listen to anything they say.

    1. I’m reminded of the title of a book I read about 40 years ago: If Things Don’t Improve Soon, I May Ask You To Fire Me. That title was, as I recall, inspired by an actual incident the author had with a young employee.

  4. It’s been three generations since ‘Atlas Shrugged’ was first published. Does anyone have good suggestions on more modern ways to ‘go Galt?

    2. Yes. It’s called running out of fucks. My fucks have been on back order for about a year now. It’s very liberating.

    3. “There’s a really crappy book by Ayn Rand called Atlas Shrugged. It’s a snoozer but I was really bored one time on an exercise and struggled all the way through that fucker. The basic premise, though, was simple. A guy who built a widget that was very important to, well, everything it turned out, decided to quit. The guys who took over building the widget didn’t build it as well and society fell apart.

      Societies are dynamic complex systems. It is not easy to break a society or an economy. You can’t do it by missing any one widget. If the guys making the widget, now, don’t make it well enough someone will come along who does. And probably better than the original widget maker. That’s the whole point of a free-market. Command economy? Maybe. But then the KGB will come break down the widget maker’s door and explain that he’d better get back to making widgets or he’s never going to see his daughter again.” ~ John Ringo ‘The Last Centurion’

  5. According to our government and human rights commissions you can discriminate against people for their chosen beliefs and principles; so fire them.

  6. It’s what you get hiring Gender Studies graduates for your HR and Marketing departments. You cannot fix stupid.

  7. I made the mistake of hiring a university educated (liberal arts) guy who wanted to transition to our trade. Biggest pain in ass EVER. I was glad to see the back end of that one. Never again.

    1. In a different perspective on the subject, I spent my undergrad summers working in an oil refinery/gas plant. My second time there, I was with the maintenance crews. There were several other university students there at the same time and I’m sure some of the tradesmen were skeptical about whether we’d measure up. One was in pre-med at the time, another wanted to enter the ministry, and there were 3 who were studying engineering, including me.

      As it turned out, it was the university students who proved to be the among the best new hires that summer. We packed our share of gear, worked where it was hot and, often, dangerous, and were willing to work overtime. For one thing, we needed the money, but, I’m sure, we also wanted to make a point about our abilities. I’m sure that we earned the respect of some of those same tradesmen.

      By comparison, we’d see a few new faces once in a while. I had no idea about their backgrounds and I never had a chance to find out as, frequently, they appeared one day but they disappeared, often before the week was over.

  8. “Gen Z workers are terrifying millennial bosses with woke demands”
    Serves you right assholes, “For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.”

  9. It may behoove HR and management personnel to develop a method of interviewing to suss out Woke Cultists, as they will make workplaces highly toxic and unproductive.

    It is better to head them off at an interview, rather than hiring them and finding out too late about their ideology.

  10. They’re perfectly suited for the Public Service where doing nothing is the master plan.

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