Go-Away-I-Have-Dragons

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Tiktok post by @ wynunlimited.

[sialiasnest]

Motivational Speaking

The things you focus on will grow.

If you are a Manager and you need to address a large group of employees and 10% are low performers, 10% are extraordinary and the remaining 80% of employees are somewhere in the range of “adequate to pretty good,” the goal is neither to praise the high performers nor to scold the low performers. You can do those 1:1 with the employees who need to hear your mind. Your goal (for the duration of the meeting) is to address the 80% of your organization that is somewhere in the middle. These are the people you need to motivate to go out there and be capable employees.

It’s not about motivating your superstars: they are already motivated.

If you focus too much on the “people who gave 120 percent” it embarrasses your superstars (who are on the edge of burnout most likely and wondering how long 120% is going to be the new normal) and makes everyone else feel that praise is unattainable.

It’s not about scolding your low performers.

Scolding seldom motivates someone to want to do better: at best it assigns consequences for their failures that they will want to avoid. If they knew how to succeed, they would probably already be doing that. Few people really are intrinsically lazy freeloaders or terrible people. Most employees with performance issues have barriers such as lack of training, personal life distractions, lack of clear goals, lack of functional workflows, meaningful feedback about their work that can be acted on, understanding of organizational culture & mores, etc. Sometimes it helps them to know that someone is watching and cares what they do, but generally it is better for morale if the someone watching is truly trying to help them succeed, not looking for an excuse to punish, shame or fire them.

If you focus on scolding the low performers, the Adequate 80%  will worry you are talking about them and fret that Management is going to micromanage them, doesn’t appreciate what they do, is always demanding too much work for too little time/pay. Morale goes down as paranoia about the surveillance culture and punitive/disciplinary measures are threatened. If you are scolding everyone—even your Adequate and Great people, it creates a pervasive sense that there are systemic problems and everyone is a target. The problem will seem to be a lot larger because you were so upset about it you felt that everyone needed a good talking to about it. Everyone will wonder “is the Manager talking about me?”

Focus on this:

Focus on telling your Adequate 80% that you have their back, that you are paying attention, that you will listen to their needs and remove obstacles and set reasonable priorities, fight for the resources they need. Tell them how proud you are of their commitment to their customers and projects. Tell them that they do great work and you want them to keep doing it.  Ask them to praise and thank each other if possible, because people get attached to teams they work with habitually when they get recognition for good effort from their teams. Put your effort into telling people what kind of a team they aspire to be and help them get there.

People who gave 95-100% deserve recognition for showing up and getting the assigned work done without looking for glory or drama. You want them to come in to work tomorrow because replacing them is hard. Help them encourage each other to stay and keep doing the good work. You want them to keep the main part of the bell curve full, and you want the fullest part of that bell curve in a solidly effective place, not falling back toward your low performers just barely over the adequate line.

And then go deal with your disciplinary problems firmly but quietly. Discipline is loud enough without making a fuss over it.

[terrible-tentacle-theatre]

Fun fact: the guys at our college’s geology department prop out the doors with their samples. I totally understand why but as someone whose work with samples is necessarily super delicate and sterile it fucks me up so bad

[bears-official]

lol idk if you watch nautilus live at all but watching them process bio & geo samples side by side evokes exactly this Thing (the descriptions are gold too… “here are the 30 steps we use to preserve bio samples, and as for rocks, well, we let them dry, bag them, & put them in the Rock Box)

[terrible-tentacle-theatre]

Good to know there’s enough Biologist Salt™ to go around

[thepioden]

Paleontologists occupy a weird and highly uncomfortable slice of this Venn Diagram

[thepurplegeologist]

in my own experience with geology most precautions with samples are to preserve the life and safety of the geologist, most of the rocks are fine. 

[laboradorescence]

i am continually reminded of one of my colleagues, who wanted to collect a sample of gypsum on a field excursion but was too lazy to take off his backpack and get his rock hammer. so he said “eh, it’s soft enough” just fucking punched the rock until a piece fell off like it was fucking minecraft

[betsyschuylers]

SORRY BUT YOUR PASSWORD MUST CONTAIN ONE NUMBER, ONE CAPITAL LETTER, THE COW AS WHITE AS MILK, THE CAPE AS RED AS BLOOD, THE HAIR AS YELLOW AS CORN, AND THE SLIPPER AS PURE AS GOLD

[bold-baddie]

[jareckiworld]

Cat Johnston — The Flowerbeast (cloth, paper, wood, epoxy clay, 2021)

[theeldritchbatreads]

He had in fact been raised to be a Fool, a man whose job it was to caper and tell jokes and have custard poured down his trousers. This had naturally given him a grave and solemn approach to life and a grim determination never to laugh at anything ever again, especially in the presence of custard. In the role of ruler, then, he had started with the advantage of ignorance. No one had ever told him how to be a king, so he had to find out for himself. He'd sent off for books on the subject. Verence was a great believer in the usefulness of knowledge derived from books. He had formed the unusual opinion that the job of a king is to make the kingdom a better place for everyone to live in.

Lords and Ladies - Terry Pratchett

[dragon-in-a-fez]

this felt so good tbh

[lepusrufus]

I think we as a society don't hate ads enough. We can always hate them more you know.

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

"are you gonna take those pills the rest of your life?" you mean my molecules? why surely you wouldn't deprive me of my molecules. they are shaped exactly just so, you see. my molecules

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

do you know how hard someone had to work to make my molecules into their molecule shapes??

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

they invented a new shape of molecule just for me and you want me to what, not absorb it???

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

reblog to remind somebody about their molecules

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

people who shape molecules at their jobs found this post and they're in the notes being happy to be appreciated. go take your fucking molecules

[etchif]

Oh what's that? You only read books with lots of "spice" in them? Well then I've got a great one for you, practically the whole plot revolves around "spice". Ahem. In the week before the departure to Arrakis,

[arithmonym]

i saw this sign in a bookstore and it made me laugh so hard :’)

[coinandcandle]

Local house witch telling you to please learn basic housekeeping skills.

It’s not your fault if no one ever taught you but YouTube is a magical place and can teach you at your own pace.

[coinandcandle]

Someone asked me what housekeeping skills I’d recommend learning.

Keep in ming that this is not me shaming you, I know you have your reasons, folks. This is just a guy who enjoys clean spaces asking that you start learning now.

Here’s what I suggest as an adult who has lived with other adults who didn’t have housekeeping skills:

First and foremost, learn about all the places in your house that need to be cleaned and understand how often they should be cleaned. the American Cleaning Institute (I guess that’s a thing) has a good article about basic cleaning info. Plus this video on cleaning tips is great!

Learn how to do your dishes. HOT water is the only way to clean your dishes.

Learn how to clean your shower head, especially if you live in a place with hard water. Same goes for your sinks.

Learn how to do your laundry correctly. Even without the whole “separating whites and colors” thing, there are things you need to learn about washing your clothes. Learn what the tags mean, too.

Also, you don’t have to use fabric softener and you shouldn’t use it on towels or any fabric meant to absorb. (Learn about laundromats) And please learn how to clean out your dryer vent, it’s a safety hazard!

Get a disinfecting cleaner for your high-touch areas, especially the gross ones like the bathroom. Just because it doesn’t look dirty, doesn’t mean it’s clean!

Learn how to sweep, mop, and vacuum effectively.

You’ll also want to make sure to change out your home’s air filters.

TL;DR, here are some cleaning videos.

How to Clean Everything in Your Bathroom

How to Clean Everything in Your Kitchen

Livingroom Cleaning Routine

How to Clean Everything in Your Bedroom

Now these resources are not the end-all-be-all, but I think if you don’t know much about cleaning your space this is a good way to start.

[thumperdaetime]

here’s some of the things that are helping me actually clean (as an adult who had messy parents, and has a hard time getting threw my nurodivergency about cleaning specifically) that may be helpful to you:

Favorite Cleaning Book: it helps you work through the emotional side of cleaning (and other care tasks)

Current Favorite Decluttering Method/Concept: it helps you know how much is too much to keep and how to get started when you’re overwhelmed. (having too much stuff makes it incredibly hard to clean/organize.)

Basic Cleaning Skills: this channel is amazing! this man has a special interest in cleaning and cleans people’s spaces who deal nurodivergence that make it hard to clean. he does this for free (or at a deficit because he pays for supplies and dumpsters and transport and such) and does it all with empathy and kindness working With the people as much as people can handle instead of just coming in to “fix” an issue. these videos are a bit different from his usual ones, (the last one’s most like his usual videos) but i find having the sped up cleaning videos with a voiceover can help fill in for body doubling when im too ashamed to bring people into my messy spaces.

[analog-machine]

I’m gonna queue this as well so you’ll be seeing it again from me in a few months without any comments on it, but this is all good things to know

[noelledeltarune]

affirmations for the bus:

- it’s ok to be on-time

- you’re allowed to be at the stop at the time you’re meant to be there

- people won’t be upset if, when you get to the bus stop, you stop and let them onto the bus instead of making direct eye contact and driving away without stopping at the bus stop

- please

[adiantum-sporophyte]

least-convenient-possible-world vr driving simulator ('oh, jaywalker popped out from behind a bus so you're slamming the breaks? well, when was the last time you checked your rearview mirror? more than 2s ago? ~you've got a tailgater!~') would be so good for me as a driver

[argumate]

HATETRIS for driving

[madame-helen]

[fixyourwritinghabits]

I WILL bring this up again. You will give yourself a huge leg-up by learning basic skills. Look up free YouTube tutorials, see if your library has training classes, take a computer literacy class if you can fit it into your class schedule.

You will do so much better at a job if you can use just the basic functions of Excel, Word, and Outlook. Interested in coding? Learn it! Everyone telling you that AI is going to get rid of the need to know how to do HTML is a damn liar. Take a step back to figure out what you don't know, pick the first thing on the list, and go learn it. It will be worth it!

[fenrislorsrai]

if you learn the very basic HTML commands, you can leave extra unhinged comments on AO3. Behold, by typing six characters into the box while I'm leaving a comment, I can turn the entire comment bold so I can yell my love.

Or slightly more letters and a little URL copy pasta and I can gif react to them. WIZARDRY. continue the tradition of learning skills for hobby and fun reasons that you can then wow your boss with!

[prokopetz]

Comedy series about an evil wizard where in every episode they discover some Ancient Secret of Magic that will allow them to surpass their rivals and bring the world to its knees, and every episode they learn the hard way why modern wizards don't do it that way anymore.

[cipheramnesia]

[eatsteas]

discord should replace their age policy with this