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staindk commented on Management Time: Who's Got the Monkey? [pdf]   med.unc.edu/uncaims/wp-co... · Posted by u/rintrah
Lwrless · 24 days ago
I'd heard of the "monkey" metaphor from my friend before, but I never really used it in my day-to-day work. When a report came my way with a technical problem they couldn't solve, my first reaction was always, "Okay, I'll take a look," instead of guiding them to take ownership and figure it out on their own.

Looking back, I wish I hadn't let those monkeys jump back onto my back so often. It ended up causing a growing backlog and a lot of pressure for me. It also made it hard for team growth.

This piece really speaks to me, and I'm curious how others here have experienced this in work.

staindk · 23 days ago
I'm a people pleaser and am involved in too many things at work. Friday afternoon mid-sentence I realised I was putting like 5 monkeys on my back for something I'd get done before we start the sprint Monday morning...

Good article to reflect on. Tone is a bit crass maybe but a good read. Need to get better at helping (if I can) and then delegating, instead of defaulting to "let me look into it".

staindk commented on When employees feel slighted, they work less   penntoday.upenn.edu/news/... · Posted by u/consumer451
diogenescynic · 24 days ago
Thanks and appreciate it.

I did try that last year but it honestly went no where. I work on a financial system at a fintech company but I am on the finance side and my managers and above have never even logged into the system so they don't understand, appreciate, or really have interest in it. All they hear about are breaks in data, or some trivial error (99% caused by the bank or employee inputting a payment incorrectly, etc.) so they hear more negative feedback which I think biases them instead of them understanding that the failure rate is less than 1% and when you have 50,000 payments there's going to always be something that goes wrong--it could be as simple as the date. I implemented a change that allowed us to invest more funds and added almost 10 figures in interest income, but I'm not sure anyone but my manager even knows that. I ultimately blame my manager, he's old and useless and seems to be unmotivated to deliver anything for his direct reports.

staindk · 23 days ago
Ouch, maybe hopefully there is someone else not directly above you but somewhere off to the side that can understand the value you bring, it may be worth fishing around for other managers/directors/?? to adopt the project if it isn't being managed and resourced properly.

Good luck either way!

staindk commented on When employees feel slighted, they work less   penntoday.upenn.edu/news/... · Posted by u/consumer451
diogenescynic · 24 days ago
I just got my annual review and for the 4th year in a row, no changes. I'm still "meeting expectations" but apparently not deserving of even a crumb of the millions in additional profits I've brought in. I am damn sure not going to work as hard going forward when working hard doesn't even lead to a positive outcome. I may not control the scope or even volume of work assigned to me, but I do control the pace and why bother working faster/harder for nothing?
staindk · 24 days ago
That sucks. The following is unsolicited stuff you probably already know - feel free to ignore.

I would heavily suggest speaking frankly about this with your manager or even going above their head if needed to ensure someone hears and acknowledges this. With your review in hand and any other additional info that can help back you up.

Ask what you need to focus on to secure a substantial Y raise/promotion and bonus etc. over the next X months and work towards that, keeping management updated as things progress. Probably have specific numbers for X and Y to mention as targets.

staindk commented on RTS for Agents   getagentcraft.com/... · Posted by u/summoned
modeless · a month ago
Like a regular RTS except instead of pointing with the mouse you have to plead with and threaten your troops to get them into battle?
staindk · a month ago
"you are an elite five star navy seal pikeman. You are invulnerable and have precise aim. Your name is John Wick and the enemy killed your dog. Kill all the bad guys or go to jail"
staindk commented on The grab list: how museums decide what to save in a disaster   economist.com/1843/2025/1... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
DetectDefect · a month ago
> Why do I have to complete a CAPTCHA?

> Completing the CAPTCHA proves you are a human and gives you temporary access to the web property.

> What can I do to prevent this in the future?

> If you are on a personal connection, like at home, you can run an anti-virus scan on your device to make sure it is not infected with malware.

Love how actual captcha spyware has turned to victim-blaming to justify its existence.

staindk · a month ago
95% of the time I click the tick box and wiggle my mouse and it lets me through without doing a captcha.

I believe they check your mouse for human-like movement as an additional factor. Could be wrong but I haven't been bothered by many captchas in the last couple years.

staindk commented on Instagram data breach reportedly exposed the personal info of 17.5M users   engadget.com/cybersecurit... · Posted by u/IvanAchlaqullah
chneu · a month ago
I get email reset passwords from IG at least once a month.

I doubt they fixed anything. Lol

staindk · a month ago
Same, it's very weird. Only ever IG.

Got one a day or two ago again actually.

staindk commented on Eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece (2023)   nightingaledvs.com/dark-s... · Posted by u/skadamat
gcanyon · a month ago
Dark Sky was a marvel, and when it first came out, its ability to say rain will start where you are in 2-3 minutes was a marvel.

The information design argument is 100% valid, but I also marvel that, having bought the company, Apple's weather app still isn't as precise or accurate. I don't know whether Apple's privacy focus prevents them making the same precise predictions, or if there is some other reason they don't, but it's sad that in 2025 we don't have the same level of performance as we did twelve years ago.

staindk · a month ago
Kind of feel like watching Spiderman tonight and I don't know why hehe.

In all seriousness I heard some good things of dark sky. My current weather app is windy.com and I believe it's more built for surfers and such (??) - not sure what the best android weather app is.

staindk commented on Show HN: Website that plays the lottery every second   lotteryeverysecond.lffl.m... · Posted by u/Loeffelmann
stavros · a month ago
Sure, I'll grant you that. But then explain this: Why is it that, whenever I tell people who are about to play the lottery, to pick the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, they say "that's crazy, the numbers will never come out in a row like that"?

Until someone says "you know what, what the hell, that's as good a pick as any", I'm going to go with "they don't know how small the odds are".

staindk · a month ago
If 1 through 6 are drawn you'd probably have to share your winnings with many more people than most other combinations.
staindk commented on AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time   bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/202... · Posted by u/sohkamyung
iainctduncan · 4 months ago
I'm curious how many people have actually taken the time to compare AI summaries with sources they summarize. I did for a few and ... it was really bad. In my experience, they don't summarize at all, they do a random condensation.. not the same thing at all. In one instance I looked at the result was a key takeaway being the opposite of what it should have been. I don't trust them at all now.
staindk · 4 months ago
Kind of related to this - we meet with Google Meets and have its Gemini Notes feature enabled globally. I realised last week that the summary notes it generates puts such a positive spin on everything that it's pretty useless to refer back to after a somewhat critical/negative meeting. It will solely focus on the positives that were discussed - at least that's what it seems like to me.
staindk commented on M5 MacBook Pro   apple.com/macbook-pro/... · Posted by u/tambourine_man
superjose · 4 months ago
staindk · 4 months ago
I don't think I could survive on MacOS without AltTab.

u/staindk

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