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Fucking preach.

I do this “job.” I manage managers. Most of the time, your sentiment is entirely correct — we’re useless. We don’t have to be, though.

My previous boss made it his life mission to find every bit of pointless, time wasting nonsense that came from above and shield us from it so we could do our actual jobs. A lot of people didn’t realize he was doing it until he was promoted and left.

I spend most of my time finding ways to automate away boring things my employees do manually, so they can spend more time on the interesting parts of their jobs. I also spend a lot of time finding and getting funds for development and training they want so they can grow their careers. The rest of it is spent advocating for resources to the people that control them, hiring new people, and explaining what my people do to folks who are probably too dumb to understand it.

Your boss is probably useless. Most of us are. If you ever find yourself taking his place, remember how useless he was and how the value in your office is generated by the people who make things, not the people who “manage” them.

27 more to go, unless half of Congress has a stroke and we replace them with people who can manage to pass long overdue legislation.

I was really confused by that sentence. I do think that antisemitism is substantially on the rise, but 85 percent seemed insanely high.

So I searched for the report they were talking about, since the article doesn’t bother to link it. I’m guessing this is it, if you’d like it too. The statement they asked about that got the top “mostly/somewhat true” is the confusing bit for me:

“Jews stick together more than other Americans.”

It got a 70 percent mostly/somewhat true response, but it just doesn’t seem antisemitic to me. Is the Jewish community having a community a bad thing? Is that really an anti-Jewish trope? Is it the “stick together” part? Maybe just the generalizing about Jewish people in general? I’m lost there.

Like…the next one down (“Jews in business go out of their way to hire other Jews.”) is super clearly an anti-Jewish trope, along with all the others on the list, and the fact that it got 53 percent “mostly/somewhat true” is insane, but I don’t understand what makes the first one a negative thing.

What’s scarier to me is the 20 percent that believe six or more of the presented tropes. 20 percent of the country is (at least) closet-Nazi. Five people at the bus stop? One’s statistically a Nazi. Yikes.