You know.. it's funny and sad at the same time.. that in this industry you have to either play the office politics game.. or at a minimum not play by the rules and deviate to your own advantage.. because if you play by the rules, 1) That limits your progress tremendously and 2) lets you be controlled by others, including your career

Yup.

It wasn't until I met my current boss that I started noticing people uttering the phrase 'Does that make sense?'.

Boss does that a lot. ...mostly after saying something that doesn't.

@jestdotty To justify his bullshit logic.

...or as I like to call it '!logic'.

@jestdotty Yeah. Same for the 'Please && thank you.' when they ask you something retarded, but think that they're the polite ones.

I used to say that the way they want things done was bad / idiotic, tried explaining. Provided good reasons.

Boss wouldn't listen... knows best.

Now I just tell him 'Yes' because apparently I have a shred of self-preservation, knowing that if I press too much, I'll get fired.

All in all, complying for now w/ boss' bullshit, until I find something better.

Also, yes - these people tend to never admit their mistakes. They'll just shift the blame on you either way.

Which is hilarious, given the pay is supposed to be adequate to the responsibility of a person.

When that person takes no such responsibility, the high pay they're receiving is no longer justified.

@D-4got10-01 That fucking phrase makes me pull my hair out.

@jestdotty I don't think I have met more than one person in my life who questions metaphysics in relation to reality. Interesting... determinism vs. chaos.

Will your actions ripple the fabric of metaphysics? Will one input equate to another output?

And so.. hm.. I think complying then may be you doing the wrong actions that don't compute with your presence in this universe and so it will cause chaos, but that would mean there is certain determinism to your actions. It would be better understood in a model.

I would say, try the other inputs.

Morpheus: "Do you believe in fate, Neo?"

Neo: "No."

Morpheus: "Why not?"

Neo: "Because I don't like the idea that I'm not in control of my life"

@jestdotty We had metaphysics in college and I found it profoundly interesting. We talked about Newton, Leibniz, Pascal, Descartes and how they view reality. Newton would identify as being among the universe and things being physical references, Descartes would identify existence as being a conscious thinker "I think therefore I am". All very interesting.

You refer to 'self', hm, but it can depend on the context, metaphorically or not.

The difficulty with metaphysics is that they build upon tons of abstractions on top of each other and for that you will have to learn every axiom from the ground up. lmao

Oh, the concept of good and bad.. it came back in our Sociology lectures, 'good and bad' being mental safety nets that don't exist. That's also a challenging thought.

@jestdotty Goodness, that is a fucked up situation you described there. Sad people in indeed, but I applaud you for stepping forth in your sense of self. I see that context was needed.

Those people who don't believe in you having a will can go fuck themselves. I have free will and I don't work well in environments that expect me to be a good little robot. I'm a strategist and idea-creator, not a drone. These people are very wrong about you.

Compliance-requirerers are indeed narrow-minded.