Posts by aj@gts.sadauskas.id.au
 (DIR) Post #B4QfoYLqfDvWqxK7WK by aj@gts.sadauskas.id.au
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       @dave @plaindocs @jaredwhite "The funding news has been strategically shared the week after Bluesky CEO Jay Graber announced she was stepping down from the lead role and transitioning to become chief innovation officer. The move had signaled both Graber’s desire to return to building and the need for the company to hire a chief executive who could drive Bluesky forward to commercial success."I strongly doubt the timing of Jay's departure was a coincidence.
       
 (DIR) Post #B59U86uTwc2wCTHMUS by aj@gts.sadauskas.id.au
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       Columnist: I'm standing up for what I believe in! Protecting women's sport! And I'll keep standing up for it, no matter how much those snowflakes try to silence me and my right to free speech!Citizen: That's fantastic! You know, female athletes have to put up with so much vicious misogyny and abuse, especially on social media. Some men really can be snowflakes when it comes to women's sport.Columnist: No! I'm raising the big issue in women's sport, and I'm being /attacked/ for it!Citizen: Really?! People are attacking you for saying female athletes deserve equal pay for equal work?Columnist: Not that one! I'm talking about something far more serious, affecting the health and wellbeing of female athletes. And even the very integrity of women's sport itself!Citizen: Do you mean how sports science focuses almost exclusively on male athletes, leading to women suffering anterior cruciate ligament injuries at six times the rate of men (citation: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/magazine/acl-tear-women-girl-sports.html )?Citizen: Or do you mean how elite women's sport is routinely relegated to worse venues and TV coverage, with less sponsorship and promotion?Columnist: No! I'm talking about protecting women's sport from the scourge of men transitioning for the sole purpose of winning at women's sport!Citizen: Why would a professional male athlete who's not trans want to go through all the challenges and discrimination of transitioning for less pay, less TV coverage, fewer sponsorships, smaller crowds, less promotion, higher injury risk, worse venue, online abuse, and rampant misogyny, just to win at women's sport?Columnist: Because *winning*!Citizen: Can you give an example of where this has actually happened?Columnist: ...Citizen: And what do you propose to do about it?Columnist: Totally dismantle democracy, install a totalitarian dictatorship, arrest or kill anyone who disagrees with said despot, and deport ethnic minorities en masse. Also we'll use it to justify rolling back all healthcare and civil rights to trans people, establishing that human rights exist at the arbitrary will of our overload, which the despot will use arbitrarily against all women and any other individuals or groups he disagrees with.Citizen: That seems a bit... extreme.Columnist: It's all to protect women's sport.Citizen: And what will you do about the other issues I raised?Columnist: Well, if any of them, such as research into sports medicine for women or facilities for women's sport, require public funding, then we'll cut the funding and give the money back to rich supporters of our despot as a tax cut.Citizen: I see. Say, just out of curiosity, who do you think will win the grand final in the AFLW this year?Columnist: I honestly don't care. I'm not into women's sport, sorry.#AFLW #womenssport #transrights #auspol #ukpol #uspol #politics #feminism #terf #terfs #trans
       
 (DIR) Post #B7hstBYaMcNe96U0kC by aj@gts.sadauskas.id.au
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       In a previous job, the head of our department wanted to impress on the C-level executive he reported to that he was a fantastic manager.(My reporting line went CEO, the C-level executive, this department head, team manager, me.)He decided the best way to do this was to produce a monthly report for his boss.So one day the department head held a meeting with all the team managers who reported into him (including my boss).Data-driven decision-making was the future, he announced.He tasked all of them with producing a monthly highlights report for their teams. He would select the top highlights from those reports for his report to the C-level executive.Naturally, my boss, and everyone at that same team manager level, wanted to show the department head that they were a great manager.So all the team managers tasked all their reports (at my level) with producing a monthly report of their own. All the key highlights and stats from everyone's month had to be documented.Reporting became a critical task. For at least a couple of days a week, all nonessential tasks had to be paused for reporting.So imagine: A few dozen staff at my level each producing a personal report over a couple of days each month.Those personal reports were compiled into team reports by the team managers over a couple days each month.This was followed by countless meetings with the department head, where each team manager pled their case for their team's achievements being included in the report to the C-level executive.Eventually, the best highlights from those team reports were culled into the department head's monthly report to the C-level executive.Anyway, one day the C-level executive called everyone into a Teams meeting. He announced he was leaving the organisation.At the very end, there was a Q&A.Someone asked him about the reports.He said he never read any of them.#corporations #corporate #business #management #leadership #capitalism