There a new influx in the user migration as well, as some subreddits started pinning lemmy and kbin.social instances on their subs. Also if you go on protest subreddits (such as ModCoord and Save3rdPartyApps) almost every post has a thread/comment redirecting people to the fediverse.
Don’t underestimate how much resistance to change stops people from looking beyond the status quo. Moving away from Reddit is a clear example. I suspect a lot of lurkers from Reddit are actually from the category of Late Majority or Laggards
https://www.betterup.com/blog/resistance-to-change
https://www.liveabout.com/what-is-resistance-to-change-1918240
https://ondigitalmarketing.com/learn/odm/foundations/5-customer-segments-technology-adoption/
Star Trek moved over as well
On the other hand YSK if you need to gain weight fast (for example before an operation, or if you’re having health issues) adding protein shakes into your regular diet does the trick. If you don’t have any protein powder on hand you can use slimming shakes since most of them have a high protein and vitamin concentration, since they are meant to replace meals. If instead of replacing meals you supplement them with those shakes it is a fast way to gain weight. Twice I needed to gain weight fast: once before a surgery, once due to extreme weight loss caused by an ED, and both times I used shakes to supplement meals (doctor’s approval) with success.
She was. She cost the company so much money during those 4 weeks when production was closed down that even her bosses loyalty couldn’t save her at that point. Hundreds, if not thousands of orders to clients not delivered, clients pulling back and finding other suppliers for their businesses, carriers refusing to deal with her directly, those were all things that couldn’t be covered anymore
I tried it, put in the link to the community (one of the main Support ones) and nothing happened… tried with another, again nothing. I thought I was using the wrong link, went from the web app, searched for it, copied the link from the search results, went back to Mlemm, pasted it and again nothing…. :(
Posting this again, as for some reason it got posted as a reply…
I’m playing about. I am on IOS so I saved the web app on the home screen as well and I find myself using it to find new communities/ comment/ post. I like Memmy as I enjoy the look and feel, I just feel it’s lacking a bit of functionality (such as receiving notifications, or searching for communities), but it easier to block communities on it. Mlem is nice as well, but again lacking a bit functionality wise (does not have search, cannot see post history, cannot receive notifications). At the moment I am switching between them depending on my needs at the moment and I will decide on one depending on their development in the future. I don’t mind testing new stuff and I enjoy discovering updates as they are coming on each of them
I’m playing about. I am on IOS so I saved the web app on the home screen as well and I find myself using it to find new communities/ comment/ post. I like Memmy as I enjoy the look and feel, I just feel it’s lacking a bit of functionality (such as receiving notifications, or searching for communities), but it easier to block communities on it. Mlem is nice as well, but again lacking a bit functionality wise (does not have search, cannot see post history, cannot receive notifications). At the moment I am switching between them depending on my needs at the moment and I will decide on one depending on their development in the future. I don’t mind testing new stuff and I enjoy discovering updates as they are coming on each of them
Edit: sorry, don’t know why it posted as reply, I thought I was replying to the main thread
Couldn’t do that, I tried, but being a large open space office with almost 40 people in there. So everyone was in everyone’s business.
My manager didn’t trusted anyone. Had the highest turnover rate in the company. In my position they had 7 buyers within 2 and a half years. Her bosses were aware there were issues within our team, but trusted her more than even numbers on papers as she was their first employee and felt loyalty towards her after 20 years working together
Me after joining Lemmy
An image tagged you know i am somewhat a scientist myself
![You know, I am somewhat a scientist myself](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/af31b0f0-8857-4266-9fe5-a739fd875d89.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
https://imgflip.com/i/7pkkx0
I never used to post on Reddit, but with the move to Lemmy I feel like part of the community and I want to help grow it :)
I did when I went back in the next day to pick up my stuff. The younger ones were shocked while the older ones thought I exaggerated by quitting. They agreed with the fact that I was cheating saying that I was raising the standard to a point where they couldn’t compete. I still remember our accountant “if everybody did what you did, then the older ones like me wouldn’t have a place to work because you younger people and your computers took away our chance to work”. I do get being afraid for your future and having a resistance to change and low adaptability, so for ones over 50 I really do understand where they were coming from. They were barely learning how to use Facebook at that point…
15 years ago that was quite accurate: notebooks and pens. That company hated anything digital
Oh hell no, I had already relocated to another city in the meantime. Plus the HR manager was present when I tendered in my resignation and said nothing. So no way I would return there
I had porn blocked on my reddit. I once tried to go without any filters in All and I was shocked by the number of NSFW posts.
I haven’t seen any trolls yet, so for at least a short while at least we can enjoy Lemmy in peace.
But we must remember to help grow the communities we have here. I have posted more on Lemmy in 3 days than I did on Reddit in 12 years. It is on us to grow the communities we want to have.
Admin work matters!
To understand the context: this happened around 15 years ago, when automation was still somewhat new.
I was working as a sales representative. My teams consisted of 2 people: me and C. We had a competition with other teams across the business and I was determined to win as the price was quite a nice bonus. Our job: who had the most sales won. There was a second price of who reached the most customers.
I was determined to win so I thought what I could do best to make sure me and C were most efficient and came up with some simple automation solutions (simple excel macros) and templates, that would decrease our time to type and generate a customer offer from around 15 minutes / offer to 2 minutes. Also I realised I was better at admin stuff and C was better at talking with people. So for 6 months we were amazing. C was taking order after order from new and established clients, I was processing them. I was finding new potential clients and passing over the list to C to contact them. I was still taking orders myself but only from established clients as I had no time to create rapport with new ones. We were taking and processing around 25 orders/ day between ourselves. We were the best team by far.
But we didn’t win. We were disqualified due to my automations because they considered them cheating. C got mad at me and told me that my automations caused us to loose, and he could achieve the same high number even without them. So I decided to stop using my automations, and to stop processing both of our orders. I was doing about 7 orders/ day now, C was doing around 9. I was leaving work at 5, C would work overtime until half 7.
After 2 months of this I was pulled in a meeting by the Sales Director to discuss my teams decrease in productivity and motivation. I told him it is caused by me not using my automations. His reply was that young people are always looking at a screen thinking it could solve their issues. He also reprimanded me when for not having team spirit and not working overtime (unpaid) to help C. Hearing that, I started laughing hysterically and couldn’t stop. It got so bad that the Sales Director got a panicked looked on his face and started scrambling for a glass of water hoping the cold water would help calm me down. It didn’t. I gave my immediate resignation and left out the company building still laughing. The receptionist couldn’t understand what was going on with me leaving and laughing and later told me I looked like a crazy person in that moment.
I blame the stress of that situation…
I still don’t know why she didn’t even think for a second there could be an error in the system.
Unless maybe she was hiding something, maybe stealing funds and hiding them as overstock?
How to close down Production 101
A few years ago I was working as an international buyer for a manufacturing company.
My boss was a difficult woman to work with as she would jump to insults and would make you feel small and insignificant, but the pay and the benefits were good compared to the rest of the market.
It was a large company that could forecast their orders with at least 3 months in advance. When the orders got processed, they were being sent out to the Production Planning Team and to the Buying Team. My job was to make sure the Production Dept was constantly supplied with the necessary materials so they could continue their work. My orders were stable with very few fluctuations in them so it was mostly the same order repeated to the supplier each month.
The conflict started when I noticed in our warehousing software goods from my suppliers appearing on overstock, a 8 months worth of overstock, millions of euros, which should’ve been impossible. I tried flagging it with my boss who concluded that it was my job to manually check the stock in the warehouse. I did, for 3 days, manually checked box by box. The pieces weren’t there. I tried flagging it with my boss again, trying to explain that it has to be a bug in the system. She called me a dumb cow who can’t count. She sent me again in the warehouse to manually count everything, but since I was a stupid cow who couldn’t count, I was given a helper. We each started to count from different sides of the warehouse, box by box. Checked the numbers after: our counts were off by one box. We both went to my manager to tell her that the materials weren’t in the warehouse and it was an error in the system.
She went mental, pulled me in a HR meeting, and started complaining about me. I signed my resignation, but they asked for a 2 weeks notice so I agreed.
First day:
My boss had me cancel all future orders from our suppliers and to cite us having an overstock as being the issue.
Made a stuffy manual for my replacement
Second day:
Called all carriers and told them to hold the goods they had in their warehouse due to be delivered for as many weeks as they can (and to invoice my company for warehousing), since with 8 months overstock they couldn’t possibly fit anything else in their warehouse, right?
Called all my internal contacts and told them what happened. Called the helper I received to count the materials and told him to have his count ready to be sent out to the Financial Director at a message notice.
Third day:
Got my replacement trained in everything. My stuffy manual had 250 pages. She was “trained” in most of it that one day and had the manual for the rest. My replacement got also warned by my colleagues regarding my manager’s tendencies to yell and insult. She was expected to start the next day and do everything on her own from start. She resigned at the end of the day.
Fourth day:
My manager got straddled with my responsibilities since my replacement bailed. I spent my time writing a nice report for the Financial Director.
At the end of the day my boss came over and told me since she has been doing all the work herself then she doesn’t want to see my face around the office anymore. I wished her well and on my way out sent out my report to the Financial Director and my colleague sent in his counting paperwork.
I wish I was a fly on the wall the following Monday when they realised they had zero material for the week to work with, or for the following week, or the one before. They also got high snow for a week or so and the trucks couldn’t reach them.
I got a phone call a few months later from a higher up manager to discuss with me the possibility to return to work for them. I asked them what happened and I found out my boss got sacked.
After I left, the following Monday Production flagged the lack of materials with my boss. She tried contacting the suppliers but she was told that the orders had been cancelled due to us having an overstock. She tried contacting the suppliers, and they told her they had no empty truck to deliver since all of our orders have been put on hold, so they got re-assigned. The factory was shut for a month due to weather events and lack of goods, they lost customers so the upper management decided to call in an investigation. My report, my colleague’s, the testimonials from colleagues and suppliers, together with my (erased by boss but recovered by sys admin) email proved there was a leadership issue within the team.
Thank you for everything you have been doing! I am loving it here so far! I enjoy the pinned posts. I might be missing a regular update post when I am working but with the pinned posts I don’t feel like I am missing anything. I love the transparency of it all
Can’t figure how to edit from the mlem app :)
I just wanted to add - don’t forcefully blow either. Try to blow your nose the same way as if you would expel air from your nose in annoyance. Be gentle about it
If you powder a bit the nose even if the powder wipes most of the make up will stay on. And it’s a matter of re-powdering if if starts to go away.
Tap lightly the nostrils, don’t rub at it the nose, just go near the nostrils. When you want to blow, don’t cover the nostril as you would normally, put a bit of kleenex at the nostril entry to cover it and blow the other one. And again reapply powder as needed.
Hope it helps!