"If you never want to be criticized, for goodness’ sake don’t do anything new." - Jeff Bezos

"You obviously don't know what you're talking about. Leave and don't come back until you find someone who does."

- Jeff Bezos if you don't have your shit together in a meeting

@SortOfTested leave until you get FULFILLMENT. Because FULFILLMENT! FIND SOMEONE WITH FULFILLMENT

@SortOfTested He has a point. Kind of an asshole way of saying it, though.

I mean he's not wrong here

So Bezos should be OK with all the criticism of his personal life seeing as he fancied trying something new there

@Root
As the value of your time asymptotically approaches infinity, the luxury of politeness approaches 0 for people wasting it.

@SortOfTested Because politeness has its LIMITS as value goes to infinite. My terrible math joke for tonight

@SortOfTested People waste my time continually. Does this mean I should stop putting up with it?

@Root
Maaaaybe 😉

@Root uh oh you need another sensitivity webinar workshop. Afterwards another meeting to discuss additional screwdriver features and how we can take it to the NEXT LEVEL

@d-fanelli I hate sensitivity. Don’t get me wrong, I’m friendly and social and enjoy chitchat with coworkers. But some people...

If someone is a fragile, icy cage of emotions, they should go take care of that, not expect me to telepathically know just what to say and how to act to not illicit a sudden emotional overreaction.

I just want to get my work done, not play some emotional dance. I barely even have them.

@d-fanelli and oh gods, there is absolutely going to be some meetings on taking that fucking screwdriver to the next level. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Well hopefully those sensitivity meetings are optional. I never had crap like that except for online modules which I failed bc their multiple choice questions weren’t thought out (as are most things produced by corporate boneheads with iqs slightly above mentally deranged orangutangs)

@Root Ideally yes. But there's very few who can freely do that with zero repercussions.

One might expect the further you move up the career ladder, the more free you are to exert such authority. In practice though, I've found the more you move up, the more people *higher up than you* like to waste your time - and tell the wrong one of them to bugger off, and you're out of a job. (I've seen it happen.)

On the plus side, you do get to tell the ancillary departments where to shove it more often. HR in particular, when your CTO complains that we're under resourced, and you politely point out that 3 of your newest team members have had half their working days for the last fortnight filled with mandatory diversity and fire exit training.