Idk how many people noticed this before me

At the time of writing:
If you search anything you get SQL Query bug
If you "find all posts" or "find all threads" you get SQL Query bug

Maybe been there a while(?), but I never consciously realized until now

Something that happened

I have a 9-5 office job and today, I had a meeting with my manager and the head of HR (scary, I know!)
The meeting was called because my team was asked by the CEO to work in the office 4 days a week (up from 1-2 days) and I was only in the office 3 days a week. Doesn't seem like a big deal. All I had to do was explain why and I could get back to work!

But I couldn't have been more mistaken.

After giving my reasons and briefly mentioning how I didn't agree with being forced to work in the office that often, the HR person went on the offensive! They labeled my disagreement as having a "bad attitude" and began lecturing me about how I shouldn't have such a bad attitude at my relatively young age. Then came the scolding. They told me it was a "serious offence" to disobey a directive from the CEO and that I could potentially get fired for my heinous crime. At one point, they asked me if I even wanted to work there, and that if I was unhappy with the arrangement, I should find another employer who suits me better.
Brilliant. I have heard something similar on Hotel Hell before, and this clip is how I would have loved to respond.



What an over-the-top reaction to what is basically a non-issue. All I did was work an extra day from home and they are acting like I lost the company millions of dollars. They even noted it down on my employee record. One strike down, two or three more and I will get fired for the crime of doing my work at a different location.

This got me pretty upset because I had genuine reasons to do what I did, but I didn't bother telling them because it seems like any more disagreements would make them even angrier. When I'm just a regular employee facing off against the head of HR who has decades of experience at making people follow orders, they can shut me down with their superior authority and power, so I'm quite helpless.
And that's precisely the reason why I am writing this, because I feel like I'm walking on eggshells at work now and I would probably get into a lot of trouble if I said the things I'm saying here.


Working from Home vs Office

Now the working from home vs working in the office debate is nothing new. People have been talking about it ever since Covid, and I'm surprised at how many people are still on the "working in the office" side. Honestly, I thought my current employer, who has been pretty pleasant to work for up until now, would be a bit smarter about this.

Call me crazy, but results are far more important than where I sit when I deliver them.
And that is because:
1. The area of the company I work in solely exists to make money
2. I was hired to make money
3. My KPIs measure how much money I make for the company

So the fact that they are taking working from home so seriously makes no sense.

What do you think? Would you fire an outstanding employee because they did their work from home?
Is office attendance more important than bringing value to the company?

My takeaways from this

• The power dynamic is strong. People above you in the corporate ladder can boss you around and you can't do anything about it.
  
• Blind obedience is mandatory, even if it is not reasonable or beneficial.
  Disagreements = Bad Attitude.
  
• Office attendance first, productivity and results second.
  Note that I have voluntarily worked weekends/nights to get urgent work done (sometimes without compensation) and have exceeded my KPIs every year, yet here they are spitting in my face like they don't value any of that.
  
• The meeting took 30 minutes and achieved little. Will there be another meeting to address this blatant waste of time?
  
• Gordon Ramsay thinks my head of HR is disrespectful and disgusting.
  

This is a massive shame, but it's better to find out now than never.
Also, sorry for the negativity. I just needed to rant

(background)

My father's previous wife had forced my mother to owe 3M yen of debt and to care for her daughter 25 years ago when my mother had been either pregnant or I had been within 3 months old; my father had never helped my mother then.

My father's family, as well as those woman and daughter, had gave my mother nasty treatments.

My mother had got mental disease because of those nasty people.

My father's mother died at 89 last November.

(Update of today)
My father had been to where he had got born since two days ago to bury his mother.

My mother had found out that those woman and daughter had attended to the event through that woman's Threads account this morning.

My mother ordered me to phone my father; he pretended as if they had not been here, but when I said her post he clarified that they had attended last November's funeral too.

My mother ordered me to phone my father's previous wife's daughter; she said they were there because they wanted to inherit my father's mother's house.

Asked her to never meet us; she said she won't because she hated us.

My mother had got upset.

Recorded their words.

Similar people?

Word of the Day Post

There is a new word every post.

Instructions

Post a word along with one or more of its definitions and related information. Include as little or as much information as you'd like.

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I'll start:

Ambrosia - Noun

Def: Food of the Greek and Roman gods. Often paired with 'nectar' as the drink. Usually described as liquid and fragrant, making it suitable for perfume. May grant immortality upon consumption, replacing human blood with divine blood or 'ichor'.

Hey, Aura here!

Long time no see. I'm known as AuraOpal on PR2, creator of levels known as Mad Hatter, Destiny, and of course Aura Zone. Though, it's been well over a decade since I made these levels and was active on PR2. But uh, I'm trying to reconnect with old friends.My best friend on PR2 was Atomic Cat, and I miss them. So if anyone knows where she is, then let me know.

If you're here, well, hey, hi. Please dm, or if you have a discord, dm me your Discord. 3w3
Idk, it's been a while.

Sorry for the awkward post. I'mjust searching.

Memetics is the concept that evolution (Usually applied to life) can also be applied to 'ideas'.

A Comparison Between the Two

Evolution of Life
Living beings can either be Active or Unactive. (Usually 'Living' or 'Dead'.) With most living beings when they become unactive they are forever dead. There may be complex states, like hibernation or dormancy, which is temporary 'death'.

Living beings can also Reproduce. When they reproduce, their internal information (genetics) is transferred to a new body. Except, this happens with minor changes known as Mutations. These mutations mean that there will always be Variance, slightly different versions of a similar being.

Eventually, they will all be subject to "Natural Selection" or "survival of the fittest." Basically all this means is that some will not Reproduce, or if they do, their offspring does not survive.

(Technically my terminology is wrong because "Biological Entities" includes viruses whereas "Living Beings" don't, but this is easier to write it this way.)

Evolution of Ideas
Ideas, or 'memes', can either be inside someone's mind or not. Active or Unactive. 'Living' or 'Dead'. If an idea exists externally, then it is dormant. Examples of this include ideas in books or in forum posts. They are not true vessels the same way minds are. Once someone reads that book, or forum post, then idea will then infect that person's mind, coming to life.

Ideas can be exchanged between people. Therefore, ideas can Reproduce. When one person tells another an idea, the other person will get it. Except different people have different interpretations, so the idea will change slightly. These are Mutations. Ideas can also be intentionally changed using human creativity. Another form of mutation. This means that all ideas have Variance.

And eventually, all minds die. When a mind dies, the idea dies with it. Therefore, the idea is subject to a form of "Natural Selection." This means that ideas either fail to be transmitted, or if they are transmitted, they die before they reach adulthood. In other terms, the idea recipient forgets the information.

The Gist

Basically, ideas change constantly. Ideas also live in people's minds. They die off when forgotten.
Ideas that don't survive, either because they're not popular or useful, die out, potentially forever.

Everybody is familiar with internet memes. Everybody knows at least one meme that has mutated past a point where the original meme and present-day meme have literally no relationship to each other. Divergent evolution have speciated the memes. (Personally I love the Gondola meme, which has its own long history, but I doubt most readers here will know of it.)

But memes are more than just internet memes or 'jokes'. Memetics covers the entire range of ideas. And since all of human culture can be summed as as a collection of ideas, memetics can apply to all culture. Styles of visual arts, music, cuisine, writing can all be charted out using memetics. Even culture associated with religion and nationality can be.

When memes die out, it is because they failed to pass the "survival of the fittest." Note that "fittest" does not actually mean best. There is no such thing as best. It just means most well-adapted for that particular situation/environment. For example: If a joke doesn't land, it's because in that particular environment, the joke doesn't work. It is not fit. But for a completely different environment, that joke could thrive, being retold over and over, and creating variations of itself.

The Discussion

Is The Concept of "Memetics" Useful?

Is Memetics a useful way to think about Ideas?
Or is just a lot of fancy terms and metaphors that describe obvious aspects about ideas?

Personally I find it useful, but others have criticized it as being not.

What "Meme Lineages" Do You Know of? What About for JV and PR?

Are there any JV or Platform Racing ideas, concepts, or cultural traits that have been shared and mutated a lot?

Personally I can think of that fact that noob.txt has had multiple different forms over the years. (Discussed in JV Historical Reference Guide.) Though I could not chart out a proper lineage or taxonomy of all the versions.

I often wonder if anything from JV or PR has culturally impacted something else. Like if it has inspired other game designers or other internet communities somehow. Or if everything from JV and PR will just go extinct.

Also had blocked by several people through DMing

Eventually I have decided to disable my account because no one wants to hear my family story constantly

Therefore I am rethinking of why I use internet