evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

In a previous job, the head of our department wanted to impress on the C-level executive he reported to that he was a fantastic manager.

(My reporting line went CEO, the C-level executive, this department head, team manager, me.)

He decided the best way to do this was to produce a monthly report for his boss.

So one day the department head held a meeting with all the team managers who reported into him (including my boss).

Data-driven decision-making was the future, he announced.

He tasked all of them with producing a monthly highlights report for their teams. He would select the top highlights from those reports for his report to the C-level executive.

Naturally, my boss, and everyone at that same team manager level, wanted to show the department head that they were a great manager.

So all the team managers tasked all their reports (at my level) with producing a monthly report of their own. All the key highlights and stats from everyone's month had to be documented.

Reporting became a critical task. For at least a couple of days a week, all nonessential tasks had to be paused for reporting.

So imagine: A few dozen staff at my level each producing a personal report over a couple of days each month.

Those personal reports were compiled into team reports by the team managers over a couple days each month.

This was followed by countless meetings with the department head, where each team manager pled their case for their team's achievements being included in the report to the C-level executive.

Eventually, the best highlights from those team reports were culled into the department head's monthly report to the C-level executive.

Anyway, one day the C-level executive called everyone into a Teams meeting. He announced he was leaving the organisation.

At the very end, there was a Q&A.

Someone asked him about the reports.

He said he never read any of them.

#corporations #corporate #business #management #leadership #capitalism

How is it still 30 degrees at night. Fuck all the way off with this

I ventured outside. 10pm and it's still 30+ degrees.
A surreal sight I don't think I've ever seen before: All grass is yellowed, flowers dead. Leaves that were green a few days ago are now orange/brown and so dry they crumble in your hand. It's like a wrong autumn out there.

#heatwave

No more worrying about RAM & Mac prices, this is going to save me a FORTUNE

A story about the 21st birthday gift I got my eldest daughter in the alt text

Data breaches and hacks becoming more frequent mean it's the worst possible time for governments to force their citizens to age verify by giving sensitive personal data to 3rd party providers with wildly varying security standards. It's lazy, irresponsible, and dangerous.

@Jacob_Wren

OH: L'elephant terrible

Be the elephant you wish to see in the room.

I forgot to share, yesterday on Jenny's Bench, my 3D printable microphone cube.

https://ko-fi.com/post/Youre-Nothing-In-THis-Game-Without-A-Microphone-C-X8N721Z1ZT

Support me if you can, it really makes a difference.

Oh my god, these are real, actual slides from a SoftBank presentation. Pulitzer-worthy

https://group.softbank/media/Project/sbg/sbg/pdf/ir/investors/shareholders/2026/shareholders-meeting_46_05_en.pdf

RE: https://mstdn.moimeme.ca/@EdwinG/116808008888990218

A reminder that they can tell datacenters to fuck off and use renewables to offload grid reliance instead of installing fucking gas turbines, and that there are other cooling methods available other than taking freshwater resources necessary for human life

But because techbros are skinwalkers with no soul, they're picking the cheapest alternative that passes all the problems off to the rest of the consumers.

This was last night’s Cuban “look” courtesy of Save the Children Totnes - this morning’s Green polyester courtesy of Red Cross Crediton

Liskeard library 130pm (new shirt by then)
Helston Bookshop 530pm and 7pm

management

You could have asked any landscaping expert for a comment. Respect to the reporter who went to Four Seasons Total Landscaping. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/22/trump-supporters-company-pledges-1-million-fix-white-house-lawn-after-ufc-event/