The intent of the statement, at least every time I heard it, was to reflect how the difference between a bad workplace and a good workplace can often be how effective your direct manager is - at shielding their reports from bullshit they shouldn't have to deal with, at not micromanaging while still consistently delivering results, so on and so forth.
Yes, people leave jobs for all sorts of reasons, but your direct manager is the one who can most influence your workplace experience while also having a fundamental power imbalance by definition, and so is often the thing people are fleeing if they leave.
I think this is true in some circumstances but I think people are usually leaving the "situation" (like 90% of the time in my experience). I don't think the statement should be used anymore for this reason.
People are, indeed, almost always leaving the situation.
But at least in my experience, it's still the case in the past few years that every time someone has told me they were "quitting this job", versus "excited about this new job", it was specifically about their direct manager's effects on the situation.
(Sample sizes for any individual small, of course.)
Either way, I still think the saying is useful for intentionally reminding people of how much influence your direct manager can have on your work experience, because I've found a lot of people, particularly new hires, don't appreciate how much your experience can vary across managers.
Economy of scale only saves you so much at small batch sizes, plus I assume the unique input setup drives up the BOM price a fair bit.
I think they did a few blogposts about having initial teething troubles getting consistent manufacturing, so they might have a significant upfront expense cost to subsidize (which probably explains why they're raising the price again...)
As other people have observed, some Switch games did this too, in part or whole, it just wasn't branded as a distinct feature like this, the games just said "you need to download a day 1 update", like in your example.
I have yet to run into a single-player or local multiplayer Switch game that is not playable offline with just the cartridge.
Some single-player games have updates, but I think you can usually play the original version while you download the update, and the update usually isn't 40GB.
At least personally, I've resigned myself to games being purely digital and most of my games aren't carts for the Switch, but I believe a number of the smaller indie games were basically just download codes in a box, or a cart that required downloading some of the core functionality. (I wanted to say it was Goat Simulator for Switch that I was thinking of, but I can't find any proof of this.)
n=small, but I've had multiple friends who did freelance technical writing and copyediting work tell me that the market died when genAI became easily available. Repeat clients no longer interested in their work, and all the new work postings not even really worth the cost even if you tried just handing back unmodified genAI output instantly.
So I find this result improbable, at best, given that I personally know several people who had to scramble to find new ways of earning money when their opportunities dried up with very little warning.
The memetic speedrun that's so common now on social media has some roots there, to be sure, but I think a lot of it was parallel evolution combined with cribbing things that were already polished from years of metaphorical rock tumbling on 4chan, in the best ifunny.com style.
The ubiquitous expectations for modern humor among younger and even middle-aged people rely a lot more on knowing not just the joke but the culture and context it evolved in, and that sort of thing very much dominated bubbles of terminally online people before many people became terminally online and there was an expectation that everyone would know what you meant if you sent an image macro as the entire reply to an email.
You can find example after example from not that long ago of people who are not so terminally online being completely perplexed, on TV and otherwise, and memes like "what the fuck is he saying" "let's get you to bed grandpa" about the cultural disconnect.
Unfortunately, this sort of attention minmaxing without enough deliberation and learning around it produces people who are uncritical of what they consume and just want the next hit.
Laying off people who you rank as "low end" on the acceptable performance scale, might mean you kill structurally important bricks that were not optimizing for being higher than "high enough" on that scale, and cannibalizes people working on anything valuable long-term but hard to justify to management short-term.
Laying off high performers means people don't want their head to be poking up, so they sabotage their own visibility to try being "good enough", while also killing people's motivations.
Laying off randomly kills people's morale directly worst of all, because that implies there's nothing they can do to change the outcome, and impotence is worse, arguably, than anything else for many people.
There wasn't, historically, the level of enormous potential negative consequences legally and practically if the universities talked back.
Universities, like many institutions, have also become more like large incumbent businesses than previously - e.g. perpetuating their own existence over having strong core values.
This is really well articulated. It's like how a company uses fiduciary responsibility to shareholders to justify a pivot away from some kind of principled stance.
Biden was considering withholding federal funds from schools over their vaccine policies[1], and tried to withhold federal funds from schools based on how they treat transgender students[2], but that was blocked by a judge. Obama did a similar thing regarding transgender students[3].
Things like this are why Hillsdale College rejects all federal funds. So they can do what they want without threat of the government revoking funding[4].
Sure, but my argument was not "the federal government has never done this", but that "colleges have usually felt secure that this would not be done to them if they defended student protests", or at least, if we're being cynical, "that they would have an opportunity to walk it back if their calculations were incorrect".
> The current administration refers to inclusion of PoC and women as "DEI", so when they talk about ending DEI, that's what they mean.
I call bullshit on them wanting to ban women and black people from colleges, that is not what they mean when they say end "DEI", you are crazy.
Can you post a single link where they even hinted at wanting to ban black people and women from colleges? That is such an egregious accusation that you need more than just that they took down a page about a black guy.
> I call bullshit on them wanting to ban women and black people from colleges
Oh I’m sure it’s not as egregious as them wanting to ‘literally’ ban them. There’s no need for something quite that drastic. But think of how much nicer the place would be (not to mention more useful for networking) if none of these poor people were ever accepted in the first place.
Probably for the same reason you can't ask in a Target whether the Wal-mart up the street has it in your size - the individual vendors are incentivized to avoid you going to another source, and hope you'll decide to go with something "good enough" rather than paying the cost of going to another place and comparing things.
That cost is much lower outside of brick and mortar travel times, but not 0, especially for people on crap internet connections or slow computers, and people tend to just want to get it done rather than shopping through N sites for the best option, so they pick "good enough".
That, plus the vendors don't want you to think they're just an Amazon frontend so they have their own UI, plus if they allow suppliers to populate the item fields, good luck getting the suppliers to provide consistent results...
Yes, people leave jobs for all sorts of reasons, but your direct manager is the one who can most influence your workplace experience while also having a fundamental power imbalance by definition, and so is often the thing people are fleeing if they leave.
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