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Shitty Million Dollar Ideas
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This is a place to pitch goofy million dollar ideas that you had in the shower, as you were falling asleep, or during a fever dream. Think of it is as shitty Shark Tank.
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Every company which makes objects is filled with middle management idiots who spend 100% of their time either harassing their staff, or producing reports about how the people who actually make the stuff are still doing their jobs properly yes. They spend quite a lot of time just sitting in their offices. They're dying for something to come along that means they can have a meaningful contribution to the process. Any time you hear about some boneheaded decision that makes the product worse in every way, you can be pretty well assured that it's one of these guys deciding that they're finally going to make their mark and be remembered with this new genius idea they've come up with.
I had a guy tell me I needed to relax, I was getting all worked up over these minor issues and it would be better if I just went with the flow and found a way to just show up and do some work and not be bothered by wanting everything to be perfect.
I told him that my solution that involved just being able to relax and not be bothered was to quit and find a new job where I wouldn't have to fight these battles for things to be set up semi sensibly. He became alarmed and told me that hadn't been what he meant. Eventually I did do exactly that, and the new job I found was quite a bit better in practically every respect.