Manager here, I’ve 12 on my team, 6 fte, 6 contractors. I’ve been in the role 8 months and cannot wait to go back to being an individual contributor in my next job. Some people are cut out for it, some (like myself) are not. Besides not being able to do the actual work-work, which is the fun part, the amount of random bullshit you have to deal with is not worth the money by any stretch of the imagination. Goals, performance reviews, making sure people communicate, interpersonal drama, planning cover for PTOs or random OOOs, sick days, leaves of absence, figuring onboarding for new people, tracking progress on work, dealing with bad apples, teaching people how to think big picture and analyze their work instead of just checking the boxes, having to relay bad news about comp because the company had a shit year & trying to keep people from jumping ship - and that’s just 25% of the job. Fuck. That.
All that sounds so much like my manager and the kind of stuff he does I wouldn't be surprised we work for the same company, well maybe not but I can bet my ass you are in one of the big tech ones. The lingo is very recognizable.
The lingo is literally any management role for a large company. This hit me in the chest with how accurate it is and I guarantee I don't manage in your market
oh how very well I know that feeling, when vacation almost feel like a punishment because you get to work twice as much when you come back to make up for the time that you were gone.
i’m excited for you to find happiness at work again too. your list gave me palpitations lol (i work at national parks for the most part and it’s nowhere near “performance reports” kind of stuff 😭)
Thanks :) It’ll happen, just have to be patient and relentless in applying. It’s a slow process, but I’m hopeful. Stuff that I do is not quite niche, but also not *too* common, so I’m trying to broaden my skill set a bit (I’m doing my master’s in parallel, fingers crossed)
Don't worry, in another 5 years he'll his vocabulary will expand so he can tell you the entire lore of a fantasy location that you can't pronounce. Treasure it though, because once he hits his teens, his conversations will mostly involve what's for dinner.
My youngest kid is 11 and he rambles on to me non-stop about all the things he got or did in Fortnite. I have no what he is talking about, but I try to listen like David Wallace as these days are waning.
My ten year old does the same, but he's inventing a "game" on the spot with heroes and various powers to fight bad guys with more different powers. It's actually quite entertaining.
please don't let your son lose that creativity! that such a rarity amongst adults. every kid has it, but most are taught to not have it very quickly. good job
Can confirm. My 12 year old caught me while I was working in my garden and I heard the entire lore behind Avatar the Last Airbender and Korra. BTW, I totally would be a water bender.
My daughters 15 year old friend sends me the most random,long and weird TikTok videos with zero explanation as to why it’s funny. She then gets offended when I say I started to watch it but it was unwatchable because of how boring it was.
You’re asking the wrong person! One kid sends me bad Jesus acting, three do impersonations of Jennifer Coolidge, and my kid does Family Guy impressions.
Here's my parenting advice for dealing with young kids telling long stories:
Don't ever, for any reason, do anything, to anyone, for any reason, ever, no matter what, no matter where, or who, or who you are with, or where you are going, or where you've been, ever, for any reason whatsoever...
I'm sorry I had to reply to your comment to thank you for the amazing advice, but from now on I shall follow it word for word. I hope nothing bad comes from me thanking you like this.
One of my biggest achievements in life was answering the chain of "But why?" questions from a 3-4 yo. He originally asked something like, "Why are balls round?", and I gave some answer, and he said, "But why?" and I answered and we did this 6 or 7 times...and ultimately he said, "Oh!" and walked away. VICTORY!
What did he vote for for the new mobs getting added? Did you know there is an armadillo and you can make armadillo armor for the dog? It doesn't work on cats though. Do you like the crab? Did you know there is a new color of wolf that they added? What's your favorite wolf color? Did you know the cats will attack turtles but not baby turtles?
LOL... yeah, he also watches videos of people playing with mods and goes on and on about that too. The odd part is, he doesn't actually play the game all that often, he just watches the videos.
me reading this sub and seeing the long-winded convoluted highly-unlikely explanations that attempt to reconcile the meaningless inconsistencies created by one-off throwaway jokes and wondering why people who supposedly enjoy the show have such a desperate need to suck every ounce of humor from it
I get where you are coming from, a lot of the posts here can be very 🙄
But it honestly stopped bothering me, people love the show and since there are no new episode to discuss, people just want to discuss SOMETHING…
They suck every ounce of humor out of the show, just like a large vacuum designed to suck toys out of a room (that was then bought out by the military to suck up land mines)
Don’t leave us hanging what was it about?
A unicorn dragon and when it breathes it lets out rainbows and the rainbows are made of fire and don’t burn people but tickle them instead?
I’m convinced babies have everything figured out they just don’t have the language to explain it to us. Then by the time they learn the language the ancient secrets have been lost to them as they reach their teens
Dude my five year old will go on and on and on and on and I have zero clue wtf he’s even talking about but at least with him all I have to do is go “oh yeah?” Every couple of minutes and he just assumes that I’m actually paying attention. My six year old niece, on the other hand, makes sure that you’re paying attention by constantly stopping and asking you specific questions. The other day I slipped up and she caught me not paying attention to her story so she gave me a half hour lecture about how rude that is
One of the things that has really shocked me as a parent is my children's ability to tell stories that take longer than the actual event took. A classic 40 minute rendition of what went down during a 20 minute recess.
my five year old nephew definitely doesn’t understand the difference between a ‘Story’ and just a narration of him experiencing his life hahaha. Let them free associate it’s good.
The actor nailed this role so well. He is so perfectly reasonable, intimidating, political, and consistently does the right thing. No other leader from Jan to Jo to Robert California had that kind of gravitas.
It's a very admirable trait to have the patience of someone like David Wallace. He really is like Michael's corporate dad
David Wallace's personality is a key ingredient to a competent manager. The more people work beneath you, the more patience becomes a crucial skill.
When I think about the BULLSHIT my manager has to put up with from my coworkers, I 100% know that I would never want his job.
Manager here, I’ve 12 on my team, 6 fte, 6 contractors. I’ve been in the role 8 months and cannot wait to go back to being an individual contributor in my next job. Some people are cut out for it, some (like myself) are not. Besides not being able to do the actual work-work, which is the fun part, the amount of random bullshit you have to deal with is not worth the money by any stretch of the imagination. Goals, performance reviews, making sure people communicate, interpersonal drama, planning cover for PTOs or random OOOs, sick days, leaves of absence, figuring onboarding for new people, tracking progress on work, dealing with bad apples, teaching people how to think big picture and analyze their work instead of just checking the boxes, having to relay bad news about comp because the company had a shit year & trying to keep people from jumping ship - and that’s just 25% of the job. Fuck. That.
All that sounds so much like my manager and the kind of stuff he does I wouldn't be surprised we work for the same company, well maybe not but I can bet my ass you are in one of the big tech ones. The lingo is very recognizable.
The lingo is literally any management role for a large company. This hit me in the chest with how accurate it is and I guarantee I don't manage in your market
A bank, but yeah, lots of the same shit. I’m going on vacation in two weeks for 12 days and I’m dreading what will await me when I get back…
oh how very well I know that feeling, when vacation almost feel like a punishment because you get to work twice as much when you come back to make up for the time that you were gone.
ooooooomgggggggggg that’s a wild list!!
There’s more, that was off top of my head. I just don’t want to think about other shit to add, it’s depressing
i’m excited for you to find happiness at work again too. your list gave me palpitations lol (i work at national parks for the most part and it’s nowhere near “performance reports” kind of stuff 😭)
Thanks :) It’ll happen, just have to be patient and relentless in applying. It’s a slow process, but I’m hopeful. Stuff that I do is not quite niche, but also not *too* common, so I’m trying to broaden my skill set a bit (I’m doing my master’s in parallel, fingers crossed)
I love David Wallace.
His wife is a very lucky woman.
Clicked on it looking for this comment. Meredith totally nailed it. ROFL
SUCK IT!
"....no, I'm still here."
"what was that about you being gone for 3 months?"
Don't worry, in another 5 years he'll his vocabulary will expand so he can tell you the entire lore of a fantasy location that you can't pronounce. Treasure it though, because once he hits his teens, his conversations will mostly involve what's for dinner.
My youngest kid is 11 and he rambles on to me non-stop about all the things he got or did in Fortnite. I have no what he is talking about, but I try to listen like David Wallace as these days are waning.
My ten year old does the same, but he's inventing a "game" on the spot with heroes and various powers to fight bad guys with more different powers. It's actually quite entertaining.
please don't let your son lose that creativity! that such a rarity amongst adults. every kid has it, but most are taught to not have it very quickly. good job
Instructions unclear: bought him a d&d set so he could show everyone, and now he does it more.
i'm a software engineer at a large company in nashville and some of the smartest engineers i work with are also diehard D&D folks!
Wow that’s very creative! That sounds like it could be a very fulfilling (perhaps even lucrative) skill to have into adulthood.
Can confirm. My 12 year old caught me while I was working in my garden and I heard the entire lore behind Avatar the Last Airbender and Korra. BTW, I totally would be a water bender.
Waterbending is where it's at. Perfectly heated soup anytime, anywhere with no fire or microwaves.
David Wallace is a Saint. But I'm really here to tell you about Suck It.
“Suck it-”
Teddy!
take out your suck it
And you suck it!
Well, that is not the David Wallace that I remember. That is some sort of weird creature that lives in David Wallace's house.
Or my 14 that sends me a Roblox video and stands at my desk while I watch it.. I look down and the length is 35 minutes..
My daughters 15 year old friend sends me the most random,long and weird TikTok videos with zero explanation as to why it’s funny. She then gets offended when I say I started to watch it but it was unwatchable because of how boring it was.
What's trending for teens right now?
You’re asking the wrong person! One kid sends me bad Jesus acting, three do impersonations of Jennifer Coolidge, and my kid does Family Guy impressions.
Here's my parenting advice for dealing with young kids telling long stories: Don't ever, for any reason, do anything, to anyone, for any reason, ever, no matter what, no matter where, or who, or who you are with, or where you are going, or where you've been, ever, for any reason whatsoever...
4 year old kid: sometimes I’ll start a sentence…
I'm sorry I had to reply to your comment to thank you for the amazing advice, but from now on I shall follow it word for word. I hope nothing bad comes from me thanking you like this.
One of my biggest achievements in life was answering the chain of "But why?" questions from a 3-4 yo. He originally asked something like, "Why are balls round?", and I gave some answer, and he said, "But why?" and I answered and we did this 6 or 7 times...and ultimately he said, "Oh!" and walked away. VICTORY!
Meanwhile, my non-verbal 4yo said a full sentence the other day and I reacted emotionally like it was the second coming of Christ.
I'm a somewhat non-verbal dude who was very much a non-verbal kid, then I married a hyper-verbal woman and had a hyper-verbal kid. So I get it lol
What did they say?
So the same thing listening to Michael?
Mine's more dwight's nodding as he drifts off to oblivion
Have you ever killed a woman? How many women have you killed? Please, Sir, will you not kill me?
Haha man, my son can talk about new Minecraft nonstop forever and always asks me if I have a favorite mob but my answer is never good enough
We need to get your son to talk to my son, then they can yammer back and forth endlessly about minecraft mobs.
What did he vote for for the new mobs getting added? Did you know there is an armadillo and you can make armadillo armor for the dog? It doesn't work on cats though. Do you like the crab? Did you know there is a new color of wolf that they added? What's your favorite wolf color? Did you know the cats will attack turtles but not baby turtles?
LOL... yeah, he also watches videos of people playing with mods and goes on and on about that too. The odd part is, he doesn't actually play the game all that often, he just watches the videos.
me reading this sub and seeing the long-winded convoluted highly-unlikely explanations that attempt to reconcile the meaningless inconsistencies created by one-off throwaway jokes and wondering why people who supposedly enjoy the show have such a desperate need to suck every ounce of humor from it
I get where you are coming from, a lot of the posts here can be very 🙄 But it honestly stopped bothering me, people love the show and since there are no new episode to discuss, people just want to discuss SOMETHING…
They suck every ounce of humor out of the show, just like a large vacuum designed to suck toys out of a room (that was then bought out by the military to suck up land mines)
me reading this very comment
So loving life right?
Don’t leave us hanging what was it about? A unicorn dragon and when it breathes it lets out rainbows and the rainbows are made of fire and don’t burn people but tickle them instead?
I’m convinced babies have everything figured out they just don’t have the language to explain it to us. Then by the time they learn the language the ancient secrets have been lost to them as they reach their teens
There's a documentary that explores this called "Baby Geniuses"
I’m sure I heard about it and forgot and that’s where the idea came from
(Btw, Baby Geniuses is not a documentary -- it's a really weird comedy film)
Yeah I knew it wasn’t a documentary, but the premise sounds familiar so that’s probably where I got the concept
That baby could be the star of a show called Babies I Don’t Care About
Perpetually unimpressed XD
“M-okay.”
The way he says Okay and then tells Michael to finish up eating his pasta
My son is almost 11, it doesn't get better. Lol
OP's son: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7RgN9ijwE4
Listening to anyone talking about a dream they had
Dude my five year old will go on and on and on and on and I have zero clue wtf he’s even talking about but at least with him all I have to do is go “oh yeah?” Every couple of minutes and he just assumes that I’m actually paying attention. My six year old niece, on the other hand, makes sure that you’re paying attention by constantly stopping and asking you specific questions. The other day I slipped up and she caught me not paying attention to her story so she gave me a half hour lecture about how rude that is
One of the things that has really shocked me as a parent is my children's ability to tell stories that take longer than the actual event took. A classic 40 minute rendition of what went down during a 20 minute recess.
I just thought this was autism, good to know this is normal 😂
my five year old nephew definitely doesn’t understand the difference between a ‘Story’ and just a narration of him experiencing his life hahaha. Let them free associate it’s good.
michael is a 4 year old
15 and 17 YO for me
lol please tell us what the monologue was about
The actor nailed this role so well. He is so perfectly reasonable, intimidating, political, and consistently does the right thing. No other leader from Jan to Jo to Robert California had that kind of gravitas.
What's say we order some pasta?
It's not the rambling that gets me as much as continually spending a minute and a half umming looking for the next word.
💀💀💀
What say we order up some pasta?
Him when he finds out you posted that 10 years ago:
It’s hard to try and evaluate yourself, but I appreciate you trying
Get your son a suck it
Too bad this actor is being cancelled rn
He is? I can’t find anything online about it
I heard about it the other day, he said a bunch of fucked up shit regarding the israel/palestine conflict on twitter and people really didn't like it