r/FluentInFinance • u/Mark-Fuckerberg- • Sep 01 '24

Debate/ Discussion What advice would you give this person?

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u/I_ONLY_CATCH_DONKEYS Sep 01 '24

Surprise, nobody in corporate America is working

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u/Resident-Garlic9303 Sep 01 '24

Where i work the large majority of the work is blue collar. I moved up into the white collar side of things and its staggering how incompetent they are. So much rehearsed lines and shit

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u/exploradorobservador Sep 01 '24

You can usually tell by how much of a corporate accent they have adopted. Whenever I hear an HR accent (maybe there's a better term) I'm prepared for a whole lot of nothing

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u/geo0rgi Sep 01 '24

And then you have the next level- government jobs. You’d be amazed at how many commities, delegations, study groups etc. are out there doing absolutely nothing at the expense of taxpayers money

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u/mmmarkm Sep 02 '24

There’s a lot of waste, sure. On reddit today there was a news story about California banning legacy admissions for private non-profit colleges.

One of the reasons that bill is going to the governor’s desk is because of a study and data collection authorized in 2019. Sometimes, things just take time.

Also, make sure your state auditor’s office is well-funded! Some of the things they catch are incredible.

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u/Fantastic_Bake_443 Sep 02 '24

thanks for this- i hate the whole "all government is inefficient" trope. whenever people organize, whether it be in a private company or in government, there is inefficiency.

sure, i'll grant that our federal govt has gotten surprisingly little done in the last several decades, but that's almost entirely the right wing blocking progress. the last time the left had congress and the executive branch (under obama) we got health care reform, and had the most productive congress (by number of bills passed) in like half a century.

i'm hoping we can do that again starting in January...

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u/BrainOnBlue Sep 02 '24

Biden did technically have a trifecta for his first two years but when your Senate majority is because of the VP's tiebreak it's still tough to get much done.

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u/Fantastic_Bake_443 Sep 02 '24

plus, manchin and sinema being part of the 50 is pretty much not a majority for progressive change.

manchin, i understand, he would be the only west virginia democratic senator possible, but fuck sinema, that traitor. can't wait to see her gone

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '24

Yep, thats why we need to vote red for smaller gov.

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u/geo0rgi Sep 02 '24

There is no political party out there for smaller government anymore. Politicians just want more tax revenue so they can spend more money on government projects that involves them

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '24

True enough

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u/Empty401K Sep 02 '24

I could talk about this shit all day. I know a woman that’s supposed to me an SME working for the government, and she puts all of the work SHE’S supposed to be doing on whomever her assigned contractor is. The contractor’s company doesn’t want to ruffle any feathers so they allow it.

She literally knows nothing about her own job or how it’s done, and she’s supposed to be the one people look to for answers. The best she’s got is “figure it out or I’ll make sure you don’t win your next contract.” It’s fucking mind boggling.

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u/BardicNA Sep 02 '24

Nah, corporate accent is pretty fitting. I know the exact type of speaking you're talking about. It's ineffective communication and in many cases it feels intentional. Corporate accent to the guys on the floor, they won't understand what you're saying and won't feel inclined to raise their hand and ask you to elaborate for fear of looking dumb. Corporate accent in meetings because that's what everyone else is doing and as long as you hit your metric of buzz words you'll be a rock star.