And the stuff he saw himself. He mentioned in an interview once that he kept his office job for a long time after making it big with Dilbert because he got so much material.
“What do you think went wrong, and what can you do to improve it”
“Well, I think mainly our problem was, we didn’t score more points than the opposing team. That was a major contributing factor to our loss. I think in the future, we need to focus more on scoring more points, and not allowing the opposing team to score more points than us.”
Well except in that case the coaches and players don’t actually give a fuck. They are contractually obligated to be there and say something to morons trying to bait them into viral clips
They respond by spitting out canned responses
This is not a problem with sports, if sports was left alone I promise you the coach wouldn’t be volunteering to go give a recap of a 3 nothing loss to a team outside the division in the middle of the season
Fun fact it’s crap like this that makes me not care about sports. Like the core is interesting but everything around it is just fluff I don’t care for and can’t care for. Unironically I’ve watched folks play sports video games and have been thoroughly invested because it’s just the meat of it all l.
It’s so hard to refute this one. They’re obviously closely linked, but that makes associations so much stronger in people’s minds.
I remember physics class. Our teacher was desperately trying to explain that, in circular motion, the resulting force is THE RESULT of adding all others, and that resulting force results in circular motion, not some magical additional force because something is turning. Just like your quote, cause and effect were reversed. (Resp. rather, instead of cause, rising costs are inflation.)
The more common way these guys increase profit is by lowering costs, and the only way they’ve figure out how to do that is by laying off a bunch of people, so this is actually a step in the right direction at least.
Now I’m wondering whether their solution is to appeal to more customers or to raise prices. What am I saying. Of course it’s the latter.
the only way they’ve figure out how to do that is by laying off a bunch of people
Weirdly enough, another way to lower costs would be to have everybody work from home so you don’t have to pay for office space. Yet the overwhelming trend is away from WFH.
Because they’re also power-hungry assholes who like to watch people scurry around an office on their whim. That and they figure that they’d slack off at home and do nothing, so of course their workers will too, and how would they know?
I mean, if “making money” = revenue, then increasing revenue, assuming you’re making a profit, will increase profits…but you could also work on your costs and increase profits while keeping revenue constant
”To increase profit we need to make more money”
This was said by a C-level suite at my work. Yeah, no shit Sherlock.
I know Scott Adams is not someone to be promoted for his personal views, but Dilbert is so much a reflection of reality it’s unreal.
It’s because Adams just drew the stories other people sent him.
And the stuff he saw himself. He mentioned in an interview once that he kept his office job for a long time after making it big with Dilbert because he got so much material.
Same when they interview coaches after a game.
“What do you think went wrong, and what can you do to improve it”
“Well, I think mainly our problem was, we didn’t score more points than the opposing team. That was a major contributing factor to our loss. I think in the future, we need to focus more on scoring more points, and not allowing the opposing team to score more points than us.”
Seriously, sports interviews are the worst!
Chess interviews are pretty good occasionally
Well except in that case the coaches and players don’t actually give a fuck. They are contractually obligated to be there and say something to morons trying to bait them into viral clips
They respond by spitting out canned responses
This is not a problem with sports, if sports was left alone I promise you the coach wouldn’t be volunteering to go give a recap of a 3 nothing loss to a team outside the division in the middle of the season
Fun fact it’s crap like this that makes me not care about sports. Like the core is interesting but everything around it is just fluff I don’t care for and can’t care for. Unironically I’ve watched folks play sports video games and have been thoroughly invested because it’s just the meat of it all l.
“because of inflation, costs are rising”
It’s so hard to refute this one. They’re obviously closely linked, but that makes associations so much stronger in people’s minds.
I remember physics class. Our teacher was desperately trying to explain that, in circular motion, the resulting force is THE RESULT of adding all others, and that resulting force results in circular motion, not some magical additional force because something is turning. Just like your quote, cause and effect were reversed. (Resp. rather, instead of cause, rising costs are inflation.)
Literally begging the question!
The more common way these guys increase profit is by lowering costs, and the only way they’ve figure out how to do that is by laying off a bunch of people, so this is actually a step in the right direction at least.
Now I’m wondering whether their solution is to appeal to more customers or to raise prices. What am I saying. Of course it’s the latter.
Weirdly enough, another way to lower costs would be to have everybody work from home so you don’t have to pay for office space. Yet the overwhelming trend is away from WFH.
Because that decreases the value of their commercial real estate investments
I know that’s usually given as the reason, but I think most companies rent. I dunno.
Yeah, they’re not talking about the companies these managers actually run, but their personal stock portfolios.
Because they’re also power-hungry assholes who like to watch people scurry around an office on their whim. That and they figure that they’d slack off at home and do nothing, so of course their workers will too, and how would they know?
They ended up laying off a bunch of people either way. Still unprofitable though.
I mean, if “making money” = revenue, then increasing revenue, assuming you’re making a profit, will increase profits…but you could also work on your costs and increase profits while keeping revenue constant
This is like the tips on a loading screen.
“If you are dying often, try using healing potions” “Try focusing on an enemy’s weak points”