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The joys of CONsulting

We recently hired a project manager who apparently isn’t going to manage projects (baffling, right?). She’s just supposed to “set us up with Agile methodology” and provide us with the right tools. It’s not a workshop, it’s a 3 – 6 month contract.

Have I been working incorrectly my entire life? I thought working actually required doing the work…

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Nepo baby blessings

Was talking to an ex-coworker who’s currently having some damned good craic right now and he had only this to say about our resident nepo baby:

“May the roads rise up to meet his face.”

We miss that man so much every day.

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Telegram temptation

My Monday’s been really productive. HBU?

Me: Man some of these emoji reactions are questionable af
Me: Hot dog and strawberry one 100000% sus
Me: When would you EVER use that
P: There are very few food emojis that wouldn’t DIRECTLY be used for innuendo
Me: Like that hot dog is SLIDING up and down in the bun
P: …oh come on now!
Me: Strawberry had some weird turn/squirt animation
Me: Like WHY
P: Jesus… now I’m just checking out sexualized food emojis
P: There goes my day

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The halvening is nigh

My shitcoins right now:

We takin' off

My sensible co-worker:
why don’t you just DCA eth or btc like a normal person

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The myth of anonymity

Like how on earth is “anonymous feedback” supposed to work in a tiny team setting?

Do we have to write each other’s feedback to obfuscate the original author? Or do we all tell ChatGPT to do a rewrite so there’s just one voice?

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Terrible human being award

We recently hired a couple of people (who were already working for us) who were let go from their previous agency.

The douchebag who let them go tried to invoke a poaching clause.

You’ve already fired them and now you’re trying to stop them from getting a new job?

It’s not as if they quit. YOU. FIRED. THEM.

What kind of a next level salty tool are you really?

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Loss inspo

“You’re too talented to just be maintaining a website. You should realize your potential… elsewhere.”

Was not expecting to hear this today, but it’s probably something I needed to hear for awhile now.

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Trusting the process

Sometimes we create things that seem like rubbish at the time.

But strangely, they come in handy and swoop in for a creative rescue a few weeks and/or months down the road.

It’s a fine line between psychic powers and a mental illness of compulsive hoarding.

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Bottom of the barrel

I was so close to sending this back to the rando cold email (from someone with arguably one of the most punchable faces I’ve seen this year) trying to sell his amazing SEO services to help fix our topical authority:

Spoiler: no one really knows how topical authority works
Screenie from https://ahrefs.com/blog/topical-authority/
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Small wins

I lasted 11 days into 2023 without wanting to stick an axe into anyone from the other team at work.

It’s going to be a long month.

Happy New Year everyone!