Un-actionable insights about corporate absurdity — from a modern work skeptic. Ex-accountant. Google outcast. SaaS marketer. 20-yr new media iconoclast.
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Exec on the Desk retweeted
You will work using tools made to work from anywhere.
You will be able to work from everywhere and at any time.
But though you'll be expected to work at any moment, you will still be required to work from an office.
And we will watch you in every way.
teapawt.net/i/status/1889354530531…
Exec on the Desk retweeted
"When all the little ants are marching,
"Red and black antennae waving,
"They all do it the same.
They all do it the same way."
Exec on the Desk retweeted
Large organizations run in failsafe mode (to borrow on John Gall), meaning they are broken in all kinds of ways, most of which are opaque to the organization (or difficult to change).
Combine this idea with the late David Graeber's work on BS jobs and know that, at any given time, you can cut large chunks of an organization out, and it still operates just fine.
Look at what Musk did with Twitter (-80% jobs after acquisition).
Or look at any number of situations where the human body survives despite losing organs, limbs, or even half the brain.
Why you have to "cut off a leg" to heal the body (metaphorically speaking, i.e. at a corporation) may as well be an old wive's tale. And to be sure, the ones often telling leadership to make the "hard decision" are witch doctors wearing ties ... a.k.a. McKinsey consultants and MBAs.
The refrain of Amazon in their letter two days ago about the layoffs "reducing layers" and "removing bureaucracy" (they call this "staying nimble" and, yes, suggest it makes innovation happen). Remove the dead tissue.
This is all corporations in failsafe mode with lots and lots of (hidden) waste. You need a scapegoat to make cuts. Many are available, and many, many people are ready to point fingers.
Is this some kinda @LinkedInLunat1c Inmail pick-up line?
What the actual? Eff off.
Exec on the Desk retweeted
Men used to go to war. Now they announce promotions at their desk job using this photo
Linkedin's new "Starting a New Position" animation is a Rube Goldberg-inspired perpetual motion machine.
Totally nails the "🐂💩 jobs" aspect of corporate work.
@LinkedInLunat1c
Is the most common use-case for AI the further Rube-Goldberg-ification of "work"?
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All the people watching: "Good job!"
(Just kidding no one cares.)
Your mom fr: "That's cute."
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Exec on the Desk retweeted
The state of social media is to reward this kind of poast (screencapped original), just like the kinds of things it calls out, with attention. The post does a great job of a hardnosed polemic. Everyone loves it. The choir goes to church every Sunday and says, "Amen," even when it makes no sense.
You can find this post in its entirety here:
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OP posts these kinds of things every day, winning a little more engagement every step of the way. Smart strategy to win organic attention for free to sell coffee. And he's using AI to do it too.
Good for him. Good for us? Full writing analysis here: unaiify.com/un/wUOBsAYn
Exec on the Desk retweeted
As the kids say, "it's not that deep." AI detection. Slop detection. Overly rhetorical detection ... it's all the same.
Folks intuitively sense something's off. E.g., in cases like this one, a self-congratulatory note that no kid would ever write ...
And it happens to include overused rhetorical patterns used by AI and Linkedin poasters alike ... in this case, a list of 3, couched within an "It's not X. It's Y" reversal.
These things speak for themselves. There in plain-sight, no AI required (and Un•AI•ify, while coded in JavaScript with assistance from AI, uses zero AI to highlight these simple patterns and words).
P.S. People also ignore (or are blind to?) AI slop when it suits their views, as with the most recent post from @LinkedInLunat1c.
teapawt.net/LinkedInLunat1c/status…
Read the comments on it. No one says a word about the obvious rhetoric in the post, which could be written by "Cat Peers" or AI ... either way it's AI Slop Poetry. And again, the analysis is plain as day, take it or leave it. No AI black box magic required.
Exec on the Desk retweeted
The current state of LinkedIn. What appears to be an AI generated note gets turned into a handwritten letter.
So now we're forging a handwritten note from a kid that appears to be generated by AI ...
New LinkedIn achievement unlocked.
@UnAIify
🌐 unaiify.com/un/WzeO6J8V
Exec on the Desk retweeted
ServiceNow replacing "soul crushing jobs" with AI agents. CEO: "They don't need to sleep, eat lunch, or need healthcare."
Vanilla Sky (2001) offers a glimpse into what the customer experience will soon look like when things go wrong.
“We’re slowing down the hiring in jobs that are, quite frankly, soul-crushing jobs," ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott said on Bloomberg TV. He told @carolinehydetv how the company is cutting labor costs with artificial intelligence bloom.bg/454LgGC
