Yesteryon We Saw It Tangentially
Today we're going to encounter full-on Manglement in action, where the drive to cut the bottom line is focussed on with such intensity that common-sense goes out of the window, along with perspective. Once again, our torrid tale of trauma is set in South Canada, where - I keep saying this - managers bitterly regret that slavery is illegal. Art!
Just to demonstrate what happens in a normal society, this is a Glasgow pub, "The Old Toll" and to up the Word Count -
A pub manager who claimed her boss suggested she was associated with Nazi ideology after she didn’t buy him a coffee has received a payout for unlawful discrimination.
She didn't buy him a coffee because he was a bottomhole, it seems.
ANYWAY back to our tale, related by Talented Aware Marketing Manager, hereafter TAMM, who said that a sudden 'restructure' took place on Friday afternoon, where she and half the Marketing Department were laid off. In reality this was either to cut the wage bill entirely or replace them with cheaper, far less experienced staff. Altogether in chorus now, What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Art!
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| AI Art Generator strikes again |
TAMM then went on to blow her own trumpet about dealing with the businesses largest client, a restaurant chain that had locations across the state. This was, in fact, the agency's biggest client and TAMM had Done everything up to sacrificing her first born to 'grow' their relationship, to the point where it brought in $200,000 per year. Their biggest client, worth nearly a quarter of a million, and manglement will just swap someone else in at random? Again, what could possibly go wrong?
Quite a lot, actually. Art!
This is what the AI Art Generator thinks "The demographic was wrong".
You see, about six weeks after being laid off, TAMM got a call from FUrious Director, hereafter FUD, wanting to know if they'd consider doing freelance work for the restaurant chain, as TAMM's previous employer had dropped an embarrassingly large clanger over their account. As mentioned above, the demographics were wrong, 'the creative was off-brand', whatever that means, and they had missed deadlines. Oooops. So much for just swapping in a new person, hmmm?
TAMM grabbed this opportunity with both hands, especially as it came with a salary of $300,000, per annum. She would be doing the whole end-to-end process for this, a lot more than she did with her old employer. Art!
Her old employer - we'll call them Bottom-Line Bottomholes - rang her up in a panic, wanting to know if she had any gen on their biggest client quitting them. TAMM wisely kept her mouth shut about now being the account holder, because although the restaurant chain had recruited her, BLB would be bound to complain about 'poaching' and enforcing non-competition clauses in her contract. Which, in a lot of cases, are illegal and un-enforceable, just for your information.
What she did retort with was cutting in the extreme: "Maybe you should have kept someone who understood the account." The manager on the call went silent.
The haemorrhage at BLB continued, as TAMM was contacted by two of her previous clients to see if she would freelance for them, as BLB was proving to be embarrassingly inept, with advertising campaigns crashing and burning. Word gets around!
O and BLB found themselves having to hire in three people to fill TAMM's old position, so rather than cutting the cost of a position, they now have to pay three times what they did prior. An example of what we call in business circles, 'cutting your throat to spite your neck'. Art!
Hmmmmm I didn't think the AI Art Generator would work with that quote as a prompt. No blood or incision, though. I wonder why it jibbed at 'Furious boss' after generating a picture? Just goes to prove my assertion about AI being too stupid to take over the world*.
It Assails From Rails
Back to another painting from 'Railways At War Before 1918' and this time it's British railway artillery, just for a change from the M8s. Art!
Unlike the French, this weapon is able to traverse a full 360º, thus obviating the need to build spur lines and allowing it to fire from unprepared track. As is visible, large hydraulic outriggers were swung out and cranked into ground contact, thus bracing the whole assembly. The gun was carried high enough that there was no need to dig pits to accommodate it's recoil. Art!
Here is the 'Breech Loading 12" Howitzer Mk III'. Note that the outriggers are not swung out here because the gun is aligned with the rails.
The 12" howitzer was a descendant of the 9.2" howitzer, being embiggened to fire a bigger shell further. It was a bit of a (relative) lightweight for a railway howitzer, only (!) massing 58 tons, probably because of the comparatively short barrel. A total of 81 of these monsters were built, of various marks. Those unfortunate to be on the receiving end of one of these would be getting 750 pounds of shell at distances up to 11,000 yards, or over 6 miles, which would inflict a bad hair day upon said recipients. Art!
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| Ready to deliver the good news |
Just to keep you informed, these brutes were given a new lease of life in the Second Unpleasantness, too.
A Touch Of Enlightenment Dawns
I recently posted a photograph with caption, which made little sense to me, as apparently it concerned a sporting event known as the 'US Open' and all sport is as a closed book to Conrad. Apart from my knowledge of the Offside Rule in the ballfoot game, which was patiently explained to me verrrry slowly by Brendan many years back. Art!
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| Sinner not winner |
So, it wasn't a typo and shouldn't have been 'Alcatraz' after all. 6 Grand Slams? Blimey, he must have an ENORMOUS mantlepiece! Art?
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| With puny humans for scale |
With A History Of Satire Behind Them -
Some Ruffians are cocking a snook at the FSB. Art!
This is the logo for the Ruffian milblogger 'Fighterbomber', who professed to have been in the Ruffian air force, and may indeed have been. He is one of a bunch of military bloggers on Telegram, their social media platform., who are rabidly for the war and want it to be prosecuted as ruthlessly as possible. This has meant Fighterbomber raking the Kremlin and it's generals over the coals for their stupidity and corruption - in Ruffian. Which is what makes the difference to the FSB, because it means other orcs may read it; they care nothing for those who broadcast in English.
That's Misha, from Quora, who posts in English about the staggering corruption and poverty in Mordorvia. The FSB pay him nil attention as his audience isn't his fellow Ruffians. Big K. of 'Inside Russia' also used to fly under the FSB radar because his vlogs were in English. Not so old FB.
Conrad Predicts The Future
You may remember when the Flabby Fraudster was convicted of defamation last year, when the courts awarded a swingeing $83 million against him. Typically Trump immediately appealed, in order to kick the can down the road as long as possible. Well, the appeals court has reached a decision. Art!
Tee hee.
Inevitably, the Orange Land Whale will petition the Supreme Court, hoping to at least delay things, perhaps even getting the award reduced or overturned. Neither he nor Carroll are spring chickens any longer, and the Toxic Tangerine Toad may keel over and die sooner rather than later, given his dire health.
Fat Ankle Freddy
And with a leap and a bound I was free, and also done.
* Until it does.
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