Brevity by Dan Thompson for April 23, 2022

Control yourself

The trick is to find a job you can really click with.

You " control" your own destiny…

He didn’t have the remotest clue what he was applying for.

Is this cartoon even remotely funny?

I work at, er, a large international financial services institution that recently called its employees back to the office…and they just admitted in an all-hands call that a good bit of the attrition this year was due to people leaving to take fully remote jobs at other companies.

If you don’t stop talking, the boss is going to press mute.

He got his signals crossed…again

not even remotely funny

It is really hard to change a business paradigm, even when it has been shown to not work all that well. What will all the ‘middle’ managers do if they can’t peer over workers’ shoulders to make sure they are working; if they can’t spend time revising dress codes, work schedules, and company policies on break times and parking spaces; or demand interminable formal briefings on topics they don’t ever bother to learn about (ever tried giving weekly updates about the development of a financial investment analysis program to a manager who has trouble balancing his checkbook?) What will the corporate paradigm be without middle managers — how can they possibly select people to become upper management if they haven’t ‘served their time’?

Elvis worked there briefly. It inspired a famous song, “press one for the money, two for the show..”

Not to be picky but two large, seemingly Caucasian men building remotes is far too unbelievable.

i’ve worked remotely most of my life and my co-workers have always been glad of it…

If you want to file a complaint, you need to go through the proper channels.