thewileyone

Lazada and Shopee, online marketplaces, are also reporting double-digit percentage layoffs. For one of them, more than 50% of the C-suite was let go.

Management by accounting ... cost of paying death settlement is cheaper than building a proper airplane.

Rolling Stone said it best

1. Commuting. This is a life-suck and no amount of great furniture and food makes up for sitting in traffic for 2 hours a day.

2. Meetings. When you're in the office, there's just no escaping the "Do you have a minute?" conversations. I've had weeks were I had to work 12 hour days because I was in scheduled and unscheduled meetings for 8 hours, leaving me 4 hours to work on deliverables.

3. Shitty people. There's just some people in the office that you just don't want to talk to or see if you can avoid them.

Things I like about NOT working in the office:

1. Picking up my kid from school. I pick her up and we talk on the way home one-on-one and we learn and understand more about each other. NOTHING you can give in the office will replace that.

2. Taking breaks. Lean back, stare off into the distance, have a cup of coffee without someone commenting, "Working hard or hardly working? chuckle"

3. Not working at home. Sometimes it's nice to sit al fresco at a cafe and reply emails while enjoying a beverage.

Again, no amount of snacks, coffee, feng shui aligned furniture can make up for these points.

Yeah, he's good but he's not great as the reviewer pointed out: he's just popular because his videos showing the reactions are uplifting. Just like Thomas Kinkade paintings were good, but not substantial, and he was so popular you could buy his paintings in the mall in the 90's.

Subway Portrait Guy siccing his fans on the reviewer is just thin-skinned.

In contrast, the French Revolution was led by intellectuals and demagogues against cruel and unjust power held by the aristocracy and the rich; the poor masses joined willingly.

This is why when the French are unhappy, they protest and riot because they feel empowered. Meanwhile, Americans wait for someone to lead them.

Still means the CIA interfered in democratic elections in sovereign nations.

What is rarely ever pointed out is that as Brahmins reach higher and higher levels of management, they surround themselves with other Brahmins exclusively; they only hire or promote other Brahmins for higher management posts. Non-Brahmins AND non-Indians are pushed aside to make way.

If you think this caste issue doesn't affect you, it already does or it will in the future.

Not all CEOs are built the same. Only a minority are able to cross industries successfully, the majority fail miserably. This is because elements that drives success are different between industries. Most of the time, if the CEO is successful one way in one industry, he/she would pursue the same path in another industry, without acknowledging that the second industry is different. What's worse if when they bring their previously successful team. Now you've got a bunch of people doing more the wrong things at the same time.

I also saw this during hiring when Brahmin managers would be rude and condescending to all other castes and non-Indians during interviews but fawning when it was other Brahmins. So it affects non-Hindus when a Brahmin is at the top.

The caste system not only impacts Hindus but also non-Hindus and should be banned and exterminated in a modern professional environment. It should kept to places of worship and personal homes and lives.

Buy the best you can for the amount you can afford and you won't feel bad about it. If you could only afford something really cheap and it dies in 2-3 years, you won't feel too bad about it and if you can afford something else, rinse and repeat. If not, try to get it fixed.

Same colleague sends a chat request. Ignore it cause I'm focused.

Same colleague sends a text message. Ignore it cause I'm focused.

Same colleague actually calls. Ignore it cause I'm focused.

Same colleague walks over to tell you about the email and the chat and the text and the call. But when he gets to your desk, he realizes that he figured out the solution, so breaks your focus to apologize for breaking your focus.

Ass.