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  1. 8 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

    Saw that the other day. Highly considering making a trip for our son's bday. They spent something like 2 billion making this thing. I'm shocked they would close it after. Year. 

    I read it was Bob chapek’s idea and Iger thought/thinks it’s stupid and old CEO is gone so why keep it running at a huge loss?

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  2. 9 minutes ago, conVINCEd said:

    I will never have a daily commute ever again.  You want to get the team together every now and then?  Sure.  But expecting me to waste 1-1.5 hrs per day in my car when I can do the exact same thing from home is no longer acceptable.  I have a somewhat specialized skill set, completely by accident, but if the current gig demanded that I come into the office everyday, I could be working for someone else within a week who would be fine with me being remote.

    “That’s called WFH privilege and you should be humble about it or risk triggering me” -probably a millennial somewhere

  3. 10 minutes ago, Homercles said:

    You’re making some pretty broad assumptions about one of the most commonly earned graduate degrees out there.  

    Personally I blame senior executives (SVP and up) more than MBAs, with Bain a close second…the shameless pursuit of quarterly profits and associated impact for their shares/bonuses (often 50%+ of annual compensation) leads to serious short sightedness.  

    Granted the last few years have pissed me off in the big tech world.  It was plain that Covid was going to spur a spike in client PC/mobile sales, stuff like Zoom and associated cloud infra as things decentralized to a WFH-oriented world.  Everyone was high fiving each other.  Watching firms go nuts competing for talent, it was obvious there’d be a saturation point…but it didn’t stop massive profit taking across many industries while breathlessly trying to expand.  

    Now there’s endless doom about a recession that hasn’t happened yet, RIFs all over the place and now Phase 2 trying to force more natural contraction via making life harder for employees.  We are back to crying about ‘market forces’ when a lot of the FTE expense was unnecessary fluff they themselves created.  

    Airlines are the perfect example…retire old (but still useful) equipment, furlough/retire a slew of pilots, over incentivize customers during a pandemic.  Now they’re crying about not having enough metal and people, so tickets are stupid expensive and frequent flyer programs have become almost useless to those of us who don’t spend $20k+ a year traveling in F/J.  

    I’m also convinced a significant portion of inflation was simply firms gouging people while they had excuses.  Pile on C-suite compensation that is unbelievably stupidly high…and I’m pretty jaded that they’re all raving to force people back into cubicle farms with zero privacy or facilities for ‘culture’.  

    He's talking about the IB's, PE's, and McK, BCG and Bain's when he uses shorthand of "MBA's". He's not talking about our nephew who got a University of Texas A&M- Commerce MBA or whatever. He's not even talking about a McCombs MBA, for the most part, though those do exist in the vampire realm he hates.

  4. 1 hour ago, Captainant said:

    Eh I would if they weren't driving inflation by the explosion in profit taking and margins, while cutting labor with layoffs and pay freezes left and right. 

    To be fair: having an MBA doesn't mean you're an idiot, in fact they're pretty smart. Only problem is, they're smart at how to reduce employment and a career down to a number on a page, and a number to be reduced at that. Their primary goal isn't to help employees or customers or create a better product. Their main concern is shareholders. Their goal is to create fatter profit margins. Sometimes, miraculously, they manage to actually create a better product - but in my experience they're robber-barons. 

    You have a problem with the system (shareholder capitalism). As one once said, "Don't hate the player, hate the game".

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  5. 15 minutes ago, Macanudo said:

    No, they can't.

     

    58 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    I really feel like it's a balance. If it's creative, collaborative work then being in person is a massive help and borderline required. But if you're chasing a problem or going heads-down to power through a document, then it's hard to beat the lack of context switching that WFH enables. 

     

    Ultimately, a one size fits all solution creates more problems than it's meant to solve. Not every job or role NEEDS to be in the office, and not role is WFH suitable. But I do think there's much more WFH efficiencies to be gained that idiot MBAs will stridently keep society away from

    We are all having a great discussion; can we stop with the othering and bias and prejudice against consultants, consultancies and MBA's at large?

  6. On 5/18/2023 at 9:21 AM, Captainant said:

    It's not the case with big contracting firms like TCS or Accenture, etc etc. They have a bucket of people they can throw at your project, and they'll work during their timezone.

    A buddy of mine does a bunch of sales engineering for a Poland-based company, and he shifts his time to Poland time so he can actually contribute to the normal business cycle. If he didn't he would be losing out on a ton of opportunities too. 

    The big consulting firms don't need to chase opportunities - they have an army of MBA holding zombies steering the business and following the orders of McKenzie to outsource and contract their labor, rather than nurture and grow your own workforce.

    1) Your phone autocorrected McKinsey and doxed your significant other, might want to edit that, because I know you aren't ill-informed

    2) Yes, the TWITCH firms have extremely deep benches and can put bodies in any timezone, but the case team lead or project manager will still have to manage them closely. Like someone else said, they are great at the tactical and wrench-turning but need to be spoon-fed the strategy. ACN can do strategic work, though.

    3) Pre-COVID I rarely was in an office. I worked from home, but more aptly I worked from a Courtyard by Marriott, the airport, and client's office in that order. In fact, when I was home, which was Fri-Sun, I didn't work at all.

    Now it's WFH, all the time, and I find myself working from 9am to midnight 6 days a week.

    Mostly this is because I refuse to schedule anything before 9a and most days I take this gringo's version of a "siesta" which is just a mid-day break from like 2:30-9p, and then hop on from 9-12midnight to complete any administrative items like building decks, farting around with spreadsheets, scheduling, following up on emails, etc. I'm mostly in control of my calendar and can schedule as such.

    I enjoy having the afternoon with the family, etc. and the kids were super young pre-covid and now are growing spoiled to this engaged and present dad all the time. That is awesome.

    All that to say and I forgot to add, so I'm editing to add:

    WFH for most back office functions and non-customer facing or non-revenue roles does make sense for productivity purposes and the people who fall in that bucket I feel like are like my kids who don't remember or don't want to go back to pre-covid working norms and have been spoiled by the convenience.

    Also, I never turn on my camera anymore, for anyone or anything. I still go onsite to clients quite a bit and have to wear semi-formal and formal attire, so you can catch me then if you want to get eyes on me. Otherwise I'm in a t-shirt with unmade hair and gymshorts.

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  7. 1 hour ago, mdmost said:

    Protip, there's some great restaurants and bars in the Swan which is right next to where you're staying. Just walk across the bridge and you're there. 

    Dude what? There is a Shula's steakhouse and a sushi/fish restaurant that are impossible to get into usually. Everything else is hot garbage.

  8. On 5/17/2023 at 7:49 PM, cactusflinthead said:

    We don't have a debt ceiling default brinkmanship thread.

    Throwing it here.

    Stick to your guns.

    The markets are liking and pricing in that a deal gets done here shortly. Not sure what's going on politically, but the business folks seem to be clued in and like the direction.

  9. 2 minutes ago, Deej said:

    They don't need Ted any longer. He, through the sheer force of his personality, has almost completely corrected the dysfunction from the top of the organization, all the way to the bottom. 

    He moves back to the States and takes on his toughest job yet...head coach of the Fighting Texum Bulldogs, a job which finally breaks him, and he disappears, never to be seen or heard from again.

    My work here is done. Catch you on the dark side of the moon.

    John Goodman — drug dealer, hero of “Flight” | Movie Nation

  10. 6 minutes ago, skittlebrau said:

    Didn't I read that they shot all this in December? Interesting to think about the crew not knowing Jan 6 was going to happen when this episode was produced.

    You think this was shot in December of 2020?

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  11. 21 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

    This thread reminds me I need to cancel one of the following. 

    YTTV, Prime, Hulu, Netflix, Disney+, AppleTV

    If it wasn't for football and wife's shows, I would cancel YTTV. We get Prime with package delivery, so not Prime. AppleTV is cranking out some good shit.

    I'm leaning towards Hulu

    Disney+ and Hulu are merging, right? I.e. Hulu will be available on Disney+ platform?

  12. 11 minutes ago, shadow_operative said:

    they filmed, edited, and scored this episode as if it were the most powerful and important piece of film ever made. but then none of it was actually about Ted Lasso, or even AFC Richmond, aka the things we were set up to care about/what this show is ostensibly about. the "powerful" music and editing juxtaposed with subject matter like nate and his problems or keeley and her business just made it a very strange episode to watch. why do i care about nate? why do i care about keely's business? why did they separate those characters from the club and then decide to give them all of the focus? so many questions.

    this show has definitely become for me just another in a long line of shoes that started off great and then for whatever reason went totally away from made the show great in the first place. and just like game of thrones, rick and morty, the office, modern family, or shameless, i'm going to ride out this show because i still like a bunch of the characters. i just wish they'd actually focus on those characters (ted, beard, and the layers), especially when we now have episodes that are over an hour long. there's really no logical reason to lengthen the episodes while mostly ignoring the main characters.

    At least we are spared the psychologist from season 2. Worst. Character. Ever.

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