By Founding Ranter · · Work
Every week the same cycle. You just started to enjoy the weekend and then Monday hits you like a brick.
Getting up early, coffee empty, traffic jam and then your computer decides it's a great time to reset your password. What is your single best "It's a typical Monday" story?
By Founding Ranter · · Left and Right
I am sick and tired of both sides. The rhetoric, the back and forth blaming, and the average person gets burned. Common sense is gone.
By Founding Ranter · · Daily Life
Why do people have input ideas into meetings that have nothing to do with the actual meeting topic?
Three years of muscle memory gone. Now I need a third-party plugin to do what used to be a single click. The help article just says "see our new recommended workflow."
By Founding Ranter · · Family
You look for holiday options, receive newsletters. Save up to X%, super offers, etc and you find awesome offers, but then they are all outside from school holidays. You look inside this timeframe and boom, prices double & triple.
Yes, demand directs price, btu this is straight forward unfair to all families. With prices racing for new high scores the people who invest in our future should be better protected!
We spent three weeks getting permission to run a two-week test. By the time the green light came, the data we needed to test against was already stale.
Prompt: What is the worst version you have seen?
We now have six tools that each half-solve what one good system would handle. Integration is on the roadmap. The roadmap is managed in a seventh tool.
I wear noise-cancelling headphones eight hours a day just to think. When someone actually needs to collaborate, they send a Slack message anyway.
Prompt: What is the worst version you have seen?
We spent three weeks getting permission to run a two-week test. By the time the green light came, the data we needed to test against was already stale.
Prompt: Name the system that causes this most often.
I found out I had a new manager when a calendar invite arrived from someone I'd never spoken to. My previous manager didn't mention it. The announcement came a week later.
Prompt: What is the worst version you have seen?
The actual meeting is for updating people who didn't read the pre-read. The pre-meeting is for people who won't prepare for the actual meeting. Nobody questions this.
Prompt: What would actually fix this?
The loudest summary wins. Quiet, high-impact work disappears unless someone influential repeats it. I spent a quarter fixing a critical system. Someone spent it writing a memo about fixing it.
Prompt: What would actually fix this?
