1/ I'm certainly not going to go 19yo NRx kid and argue that everything about 1300 AD was better than today, but there was one thing in the old Judeo-Christian culture which the progs have destroyed which was better and relevant here: the concept of the inherent dignity of work.https://twitter.com/amyalkon/status/1227855204269187074 …
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9/ As a tangent: people lower down in the power hierarchy are often much more prickly about doing crap tasks, and people higher up have "social status buffer" where they can do them with less status panic / fear. When I ran a company I scrubbed the toilets and took out trash.
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10/ ...because (a) I wasn't going to ask the shipping clerks to clean toilets, (b) the shipping clerks got very squirrely and resistant to taking out trash, so I just did it myself. Unloading tractor trailers didn't bother them, tho. (But even then, I lead from the front).
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11/ Yep. The code switching is real. I had one guy who was shocked beyond words when I fired him for punctuating an angry outburst by throwing a stapler across the room. I guess that's ... acceptable... when working in a restaurant kitchen?https://twitter.com/jfburrell/status/1227991452841598979 …
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12/ Anyway. Someone learned something that day, and it wasn't me.
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