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  • arthurinscalesarthurinscales Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    finally got a chance to catch the latest episode (14) of dungeon meshi
    kuro is great, when does he get a spinoff series

    also i think kabru's picked the wrong adventure to go on, he's in a megadungeon when he should have picked a campaign with political intrigue or something, remembering details about people and their possible motivations like that aren't suited for a bunch of monster slaying

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    asofyeun wrote: »
    finally got a chance to catch the latest episode (14) of dungeon meshi
    kuro is great, when does he get a spinoff series

    also i think kabru's picked the wrong adventure to go on, he's in a megadungeon when he should have picked a campaign with political intrigue or something, remembering details about people and their possible motivations like that aren't suited for a bunch of monster slaying

    100% correct read of Kabru

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Second episode of Train to the End of the World continues setting things up. I'm still fairly interested, looks like next episode will introduce some actual plot and explain a few more things.

    I also checked out episode one of Loser Ranger/Ranger Reject, which is way, way prettier than I expected. The humans look somewhat ugly, which I think is on purpose, but the animation and effects are really, really slick. Even the text looks great! I'd definitely recommend people take a look at it just to see what I'm talking about, although there's a chance the sentai/tokusatsu storyline might not hold your attention if you're not already a fan of that genre.

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  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    That's a constant in retail I've seen too. You can't rate anyone high because "they could always do better" and if you don't rate anyone low you're a bad manager. Got a good crew? Fuck you, tank some of them.

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  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Shadowfire wrote: »
    That's a constant in retail I've seen too. You can't rate anyone high because "they could always do better" and if you don't rate anyone low you're a bad manager. Got a good crew? Fuck you, tank some of them.

    It's yet another shitty management policy from The Man Who Murdered GE, Jack Welsh.

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    asofyeun wrote: »
    finally got a chance to catch the latest episode (14) of dungeon meshi
    kuro is great, when does he get a spinoff series

    also i think kabru's picked the wrong adventure to go on, he's in a megadungeon when he should have picked a campaign with political intrigue or something, remembering details about people and their possible motivations like that aren't suited for a bunch of monster slaying

    100% correct read of Kabru

    Kabru is just an incredibly well realized character, and his character development, motivations and everything are wonderful.
    I enjoy the postion he ends up in at the end of the story. He will beh aving a ball while also being Very Mad

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Reynolds wrote: »
    Second episode of Train to the End of the World continues setting things up. I'm still fairly interested, looks like next episode will introduce some actual plot and explain a few more things.

    I also checked out episode one of Loser Ranger/Ranger Reject, which is way, way prettier than I expected. The humans look somewhat ugly, which I think is on purpose, but the animation and effects are really, really slick. Even the text looks great! I'd definitely recommend people take a look at it just to see what I'm talking about, although there's a chance the sentai/tokusatsu storyline might not hold your attention if you're not already a fan of that genre.

    The Ranger Reject manga is great, so I'd echo this. People should check this out.

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  • enc0reenc0re Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I think rank-and-yank can have a place if you are conducting lay offs. There has to be some way to decide who goes.

    As an annual practice? Bad idea. Basically punishes you for developing coworkers.

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  • Martini_PhilosopherMartini_Philosopher Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    enc0re wrote: »
    I think rank-and-yank can have a place if you are conducting lay offs. There has to be some way to decide who goes.

    As an annual practice? Bad idea. Basically punishes you for developing coworkers.

    There are soooooooo many statistical fallacies even in using it in layoffs. Like, it might be sound if you use it in a situation where you have 10,000 identical jobs with identical goals. But when you have different jobs with different goals and means rank-and-yank is pure bullshit. It is mathematical malfeasance. A purposeful misunderstanding of what statistical methods are even for. The equivalent of a rhetorical bad faith argument.

    It has no place in businesses.

    Welsh was using vibes and only vibes to make his decisions and using numbers to cover up his racism, his hatred of unions, and his avarice.

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  • FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Crowley dealing with his plants was less cruel and more sensical.

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  • enc0reenc0re Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    enc0re wrote: »
    I think rank-and-yank can have a place if you are conducting lay offs. There has to be some way to decide who goes.

    As an annual practice? Bad idea. Basically punishes you for developing coworkers.

    There are soooooooo many statistical fallacies even in using it in layoffs. Like, it might be sound if you use it in a situation where you have 10,000 identical jobs with identical goals. But when you have different jobs with different goals and means rank-and-yank is pure bullshit. It is mathematical malfeasance. A purposeful misunderstanding of what statistical methods are even for. The equivalent of a rhetorical bad faith argument.

    It has no place in businesses.

    Welsh was using vibes and only vibes to make his decisions and using numbers to cover up his racism, his hatred of unions, and his avarice.

    You can apply rank-and-yank both to people and positions. So if the number is "reduce headcount by 10%", one method is to rank your employees and lay off the bottom 10%. Another method is, rank your positions and get rid of the bottom 10%.

    As you say, ranking the people really only makes sense if they are doing fungible jobs: because the jobs are the same, or the people doing them are cross-trained, or because retraining is relatively cheap.

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  • tinwhiskerstinwhiskers Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Shadowfire wrote: »
    That's a constant in retail I've seen too. You can't rate anyone high because "they could always do better" and if you don't rate anyone low you're a bad manager. Got a good crew? Fuck you, tank some of them.

    I think there is probably some legitimacy in enforcing those kinds of systems on the mangers from above because putting employees on PiP and such are both extra work on their plate and also are the type of confrontational things people like to avoid. You just can't be a fucking idiot and "I saw a tweet about this "your implementation of it.

    It is less about the line employee and more that, if a company with 20,000 employees has only 20 ranked with unsatisfactory performance in reviews. It's either the greatest company on earth or the managers aren't really doing their job.

    At a certain point you do get into some sort of theory of employment stuff. Like if a team of 5 ships their goal 100 widgets a day, but Bob on that team only ships 10 do you try to replace Bob? Is it fair to Alice, Charlie, Dave and Eve if you don't and they have to pick up his slack? etc.

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  • redxredx I(x)=2(x)+1 whole numbersRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Shadowfire wrote: »
    That's a constant in retail I've seen too. You can't rate anyone high because "they could always do better" and if you don't rate anyone low you're a bad manager. Got a good crew? Fuck you, tank some of them.

    I think there is probably some legitimacy in enforcing those kinds of systems on the mangers from above because putting employees on PiP and such are both extra work on their plate and also are the type of confrontational things people like to avoid. You just can't be a fucking idiot and "I saw a tweet about this "your implementation of it.

    It is less about the line employee and more that, if a company with 20,000 employees has only 20 ranked with unsatisfactory performance in reviews. It's either the greatest company on earth or the managers aren't really doing their job.

    At a certain point you do get into some sort of theory of employment stuff. Like if a team of 5 ships their goal 100 widgets a day, but Bob on that team only ships 10 do you try to replace Bob? Is it fair to Alice, Charlie, Dave and Eve if you don't and they have to pick up his slack? etc.

    What is the likelihood these less than competent non-confrontational managers are able to recognize the impact on their team and push back against their superiors when the policy will make their team less productive?

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  • AbsoluteZeroAbsoluteZero The new film by Quentin Koopantino Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Shadowfire wrote: »
    That's a constant in retail I've seen too. You can't rate anyone high because "they could always do better" and if you don't rate anyone low you're a bad manager. Got a good crew? Fuck you, tank some of them.

    This has been a constant in my corporate career, talking extremely huge multinationals. It is the dumbest fucking thing.

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  • shrykeshryke Member of the Beast Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Shadowfire wrote: »
    That's a constant in retail I've seen too. You can't rate anyone high because "they could always do better" and if you don't rate anyone low you're a bad manager. Got a good crew? Fuck you, tank some of them.

    I think there is probably some legitimacy in enforcing those kinds of systems on the mangers from above because putting employees on PiP and such are both extra work on their plate and also are the type of confrontational things people like to avoid. You just can't be a fucking idiot and "I saw a tweet about this "your implementation of it.

    It is less about the line employee and more that, if a company with 20,000 employees has only 20 ranked with unsatisfactory performance in reviews. It's either the greatest company on earth or the managers aren't really doing their job.

    At a certain point you do get into some sort of theory of employment stuff. Like if a team of 5 ships their goal 100 widgets a day, but Bob on that team only ships 10 do you try to replace Bob? Is it fair to Alice, Charlie, Dave and Eve if you don't and they have to pick up his slack? etc.

    Depends. Is Bob taking all the annoying tasks that don't directly result in shipping a part but still need to get done to ship any parts? Does Bob keep the work area tidy and well stocked with required tools and other supplies? Does Bob represent the team in various required meetings taking him away from the work area? Does Bob handle the intermittent minor maintenance or IT issues for the rest of the team? Is Bob just slower but he's always reliable and willing to pick up a shift for the rest of the team as needed? Is there one type of widget that's harder and takes forever to make but Bob is happy to do them? Maybe Bob is your longest serving employee and he takes time out of his day to train the others?

    I mean, sure. Also sometimes Bob just isn't as good. Or he's lazier. Or doesn't care as much. Or whatever. You see any talk about job shit on this forum even and it's full of "goddamn my idiot coworker/etc did this today". It's not some weird scenario.

    And there is always some question of whether we actually care enough about it to want someone to do something serious about it.

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  • enc0reenc0re Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    There is the meta question if managers can observe performance. And that depends on the nature of the job. Attaching a metric to an assembly line worker is a lot easier than to a research scientist.

    But unless we arguing that layoffs should be decided by speccing a dice kit, managers will have to develop a preference order somehow.

    "Hi Bob, come on in and roll that D20. Natural 1? I got some tough news, Bob."

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  • aiouaaioua Ora Occidens Ora OptimaRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    There's a difference for when you're actually laying people off (hard choices are being made regardless) vs the companies that do perpetual yearly stack ranking (and put the bottom people on PIPs/give them no raises, eventually force them out).

    It's the second one that's stupid. All it does is create perverse incentives for the frontline managers, leaving headcount open, hiring people intentionally to fire them, etc.

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  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Shadowfire wrote: »
    That's a constant in retail I've seen too. You can't rate anyone high because "they could always do better" and if you don't rate anyone low you're a bad manager. Got a good crew? Fuck you, tank some of them.

    I think there is probably some legitimacy in enforcing those kinds of systems on the mangers from above because putting employees on PiP and such are both extra work on their plate and also are the type of confrontational things people like to avoid. You just can't be a fucking idiot and "I saw a tweet about this "your implementation of it.

    It is less about the line employee and more that, if a company with 20,000 employees has only 20 ranked with unsatisfactory performance in reviews. It's either the greatest company on earth or the managers aren't really doing their job.

    At a certain point you do get into some sort of theory of employment stuff. Like if a team of 5 ships their goal 100 widgets a day, but Bob on that team only ships 10 do you try to replace Bob? Is it fair to Alice, Charlie, Dave and Eve if you don't and they have to pick up his slack? etc.

    This is wrong on both fronts.

    First, if your managers aren't doing their job properly (and being able to do the hard part of managing people with these hard discussions is exactly that), then that's a problem with either management training or with properly selecting management candidates (or both!) The solution to those issues isn't pressuring management with corrosive policies that erodes team camaraderie - it's to make sure you pick good management candidates and then train them to have the tools they need to do their jobs appropriately - and if applicable, removing individuals who cannot do the job.

    Second, the idea of there being some "natural" level of "unsatisfactory" employees is predicated on a false premise - that being that your workforce is a random selection. Which, if you're doing your hiring right, it is most certainly not. It is perfectly in line to have few - or even no - "unsatisfactory" employees, as that shows that your hiring policies are doing their job of finding qualified candidates. Conversely, a high number of "unsatisfactory" employees is often a sign of defective systems in a company's hiring and training.

    Frankly, this "theory of employment" you're thinking of is coming from there school that produced Welsh and Stonecipher - men whose policies poisoned and destroyed the companies they helmed.

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  • KanaKana Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    This Watamote chapter was pretty short but good. How good this little mini-arc is is mostly gonna come down to how they close it out, but everyone just being their worst selves has been pretty entertaining.

    Especially Yuri, who's just brutal to some girl that she's never even talked to before.

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    Yes, it's true, you're NOT as good looking as those other girls, and also the guy you kinda like seems like he hates you. Also, what's your name again?

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  • Gabriel_PittGabriel_Pitt Stepped in it Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Fencingsax wrote: »
    The implication of "Everybody should be in a Union" is that the Union is well run.

    It does seem to be the classic,
    Shadowfire wrote: »
    That's a constant in retail I've seen too. You can't rate anyone high because "they could always do better" and if you don't rate anyone low you're a bad manager. Got a good crew? Fuck you, tank some of them.

    I think there is probably some legitimacy in enforcing those kinds of systems on the mangers from above because putting employees on PiP and such are both extra work on their plate and also are the type of confrontational things people like to avoid. You just can't be a fucking idiot and "I saw a tweet about this "your implementation of it.

    It is less about the line employee and more that, if a company with 20,000 employees has only 20 ranked with unsatisfactory performance in reviews. It's either the greatest company on earth or the managers aren't really doing their job.

    At a certain point you do get into some sort of theory of employment stuff. Like if a team of 5 ships their goal 100 widgets a day, but Bob on that team only ships 10 do you try to replace Bob? Is it fair to Alice, Charlie, Dave and Eve if you don't and they have to pick up his slack? etc.

    This is wrong on both fronts.

    First, if your managers aren't doing their job properly (and being able to do the hard part of managing people with these hard discussions is exactly that), then that's a problem with either management training or with properly selecting management candidates (or both!) The solution to those issues isn't pressuring management with corrosive policies that erodes team camaraderie - it's to make sure you pick good management candidates and then train them to have the tools they need to do their jobs appropriately - and if applicable, removing individuals who cannot do the job.

    Second, the idea of there being some "natural" level of "unsatisfactory" employees is predicated on a false premise - that being that your workforce is a random selection. Which, if you're doing your hiring right, it is most certainly not. It is perfectly in line to have few - or even no - "unsatisfactory" employees, as that shows that your hiring policies are doing their job of finding qualified candidates. Conversely, a high number of "unsatisfactory" employees is often a sign of defective systems in a company's hiring and training.

    Frankly, this "theory of employment" you're thinking of is coming from there school that produced Welsh and Stonecipher - men whose policies poisoned and destroyed the companies they helmed.

    I've been in a lot of manufacturing environments where everyone on the lines are doing their job right, and both production and QC goals are being exceeded. So cutting the bottom 10% is just pure 'never rest easy, peons.'

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Costume mod turns the latest DLC character in Guilty Gear into a familiar character:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUG6tlIINQQ

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  • redxredx I(x)=2(x)+1 whole numbersRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    I've had a few good managers. They didn't really stick around being a low level manager for particularly long, either got promoted or went to work elsewhere after a couple years.

    The managers who I've had who supervised worker for long periods of time had pretty much reached their level ane were fairly terrible.

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  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Latest Dungeon Meshi was very funny. I especially liked the last gag of the episode.
    "You shouldn't use someone as a fermentation weight."

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  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    MegaMan001 wrote: »
    My experience with managers my entire adult life is that none of them actually want to have the challenging discussion to help their team succeed and would rather hide behind some bullshit metric to do their dirty work for them.

    Corporate assholes don't want managers who are in to coaching because it takes longer to develop good people that way. Like every other line go up bullshit in business, they want immediate results.

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  • KanaKana Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    There's a user on Pixiv who is just way, way too good at doing fanart in the style of Naoki Urasawa

    Spy x Family
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    Bocchi
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    Delicious in Dungeon
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    Watamote
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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 14

    Belatedly: I watched all of these, and damn can Griffith's VA sing.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Kana wrote: »
    There's a user on Pixiv who is just way, way too good at doing fanart in the style of Naoki Urasawa

    Spy x Family
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    Bocchi
    c4i1nz0t7rwc.jpg

    Delicious in Dungeon
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    Watamote
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    this is an amazing bit bravo

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I want to like Rinkai!, the new bike anime...but it's got some really, really bad CG in it. And it's not anything you can ignore, it's the bikes and riders. As soon as a totally normal looking 2D anime girl gets on a bike, they become a very bad, very cheap 3D model. It doesn't help that the subs are atrocious.

    Apparently there's no mainstream English release of this show or Blue Archive, they're both subtitled by an Asian YouTube channel. While BA has fans of the game that seem to be planning to fansub it, I don't think anyone's going to step up to fix the subs for this show. I might give it one more episode, but it needs to become way better or way worse to keep my interest.

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  • Mortal SkyMortal Sky queer punk hedge witchRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    As someone who thinks keirin bicycles are fuckin' dope, yeah, Rinkai being a cheap-out anime is a bummer

    Especially since YowaMushi Pedal proved that you can make road bike racing look remarkably solid in animation, too

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Mortal Sky wrote: »
    As someone who thinks keirin bicycles are fuckin' dope, yeah, Rinkai being a cheap-out anime is a bummer

    Especially since YowaMushi Pedal proved that you can make road bike racing look remarkably solid in animation, too

    It's apparently by the same studio that did that exact bike anime, which makes it extra strange that this one is so bad.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    The only thing I wanna see, or rather hear, in Blue Archive anime is Unwelcome School. aka "oh no everything is going wrong all at once in a comedic fashion" aka Aru's unofficial "theme song"

    https://youtu.be/pEg_d2f6myw

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  • Johnny ChopsockyJohnny Chopsocky Scootaloo! We have to cook! Grillin' HaysenburgersRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Finished Season 1 of Vinland Saga.

    Holy shit, why did I let myself wait so long to watch this?

    Hope Season 2 can maintain this level.

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Finished Season 1 of Vinland Saga.

    Holy shit, why did I let myself wait so long to watch this?

    Hope Season 2 can maintain this level.

    As someone who has read all of the manga currently available in English

    It only gets better

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