The Assorted "WTF, 2021?" Thread

[Houngan]

Certainly. That line stops hard at immediate family, and grandparents aren’t that.

[Sabotai]

@TheWombat

My real problem is how people associate time spent in the office with actual productive work. Perhaps at a place like JPM all that time actually generates whatever bullshit it is they generate that people pay them for. In most places I’ve seen though there is a huge difference between time spent at work and actual productive labor. It’s the same in my current field, higher education. Our 19th century metrics equate butts in seats with education. That is, as long as students get X credit hours and attend Y percent of classes, voila, they be edumecated.

That is pretty much all horseshit. Competency based metrics have their own flaws, but at least they are a lot more logical and line up better with reality, but accreditation with anything but standard credit hour loads and four-year programs is often difficult. When I teach my classes, we normally have 75 minute periods. I keep the students exactly as long as we have reasonably productive stuff to do that day. Sometimes it runs right up to the limit. Sometimes they get out earlier. Simply making them sit there doesn’t do much, any more than simply showing up at the office does anything.

Back when I was in the defense contracting business, there were days when I got what work I was assigned done by noon, and done well, but had to twiddle my thumbs until 5pm or whatever because there was literally nothing else to do on that task, and I couldn’t do any other tasks because of the way contract billing was done. Most of us sat around doing de nada far more often than we’d like. And with the compartmented programs we worked with, you could not just go and help out others, even if they would let you bill the hours. Yet God forbid management would allow anyone to work anything other than at least a full eight or nine hours each day.

I think middle managers just want to validate themselves by having people around to boss about and harass.

There is a lot of research and evidence that shortening office hours might actually increase productivity. Ireland is champion productivity. In The Netherlands we work on average 27 hours a week and are 9th overall in productivity per hour. Most women and quite a lot of men just work 4 days a week.

Where Labor Productivity Is Highest [Infographic]

These Are the Most Productive Countries in the World

[Destarius]

I worked 16-20 hours through the week including my weekends and two holidays. I’m in financial services in a global company. It’s not better as you get more senior.

[Pedro]

Be wary of Ireland in any GDP-based stats, as it’s skewed by Google, Apple and the like booking their profits here.

Norway is possibly similarly skewed by small population/oil richness.

[TheWombat]

@Pedro

Norway is possibly similarly skewed by small population/oil richness.

Clearly the key is to reduce our population to Norway and Ireland levels! Which our unvaccinated population is desperately trying to do it seems.

[easytarget]

This could be used as an ad for autotune:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sN7kgEw954&t=109s

[inactive_user]

Wtf, 2021

[RichVR]

Eww.

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[easytarget]

Yeah, she’s a good’un alright.

So the question I’m pondering is this: Is she clueless to the fact she can’t sing or is this an off key self made rickroll?

[RichVR]

In the days of TicTok I’m gonna say clueless.

[HideousRex]

My favorite comment from YouTube:

I mean it’s actually kind of impressive. In all that wailing randomly at every note that ever existed, at no point in the song, did she ever hit the right one.

[arrendek]

My favorite comment was:
“She hit all the right notes, just not in the right order”

[wisefool]

How did anyone listen to the whole thing?

[arrendek]

Wait, did you miss the rap part?

[RichVR]

@wisefool

How did anyone listen to the whole thing?

There is a simple explanation. I didn’t. :)

[wisefool]

Dude i played 10 seconds and then stopped it because I thought it was going to break my speakers or something.

[rrmorton]

My fave comment, “They’re going to have to re-consecrate that church.” :D

(This video has to be a post-Friday troll.)

[HideousRex]

If you only listen to 10 seconds, then try 1:35 - 1:45. It’s amazingly bad.

Amazingly. Bad.

[Penny_Dreadful]

@easytarget

So the question I’m pondering is this: Is she clueless to the fact she can’t sing or is this an off key self made rickroll?

The videos seem very tongue-in-cheek and she’s apparently an intelligent and well educated person who studied sociology at Oxford, so I’m going to have to say it’s a social experiment of some sort. Or she’s trying to launch her music career by going viral as some kind of competently horrible singer. Because there is a difference between what she’s doing and what you would get if you just put some completely untrained person up there.

Or maybe this is just her style. People like all kinds of weird music.

[barstein]

Redditors exploring various theories on /r/crappymusic