Business Bullshit

*Going forward* on a *journey* into *best practice* elsewhere.

[Business Bullshit @StopBusinessBS]

Business Bullshit: An A-Z to get you through the dark days 👇

[Business Bullshit @StopBusinessBS]

UK economy in the "technically you can't say we're not doing our job objectives" phase of their performance review meeting. Malicious compliance the order of the day here in Blighty.

[Office for National Statistics (ONS) @ONS]

GDP grew 0.1% in Quarter 3 (July to Sept) 2024.

Services grew 0.1%, construction grew 0.8% while production fell by 0.2%.

Read more ➡️ https://t.co/6divrYqXmA

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@harchivist what lean management produces, above all, is its own grave diggers...

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Inevitable endpoint of "continuous improvement"?

[Jake Sherman @JakeSherman]

Musk and Ramaswamy will lead the DOGE -- Department of Government Efficiency.

It will provide "advice and guidance from outside of Government"

[Leo McCann @LeoMc76]

https://t.co/xBI6lRIMds Only about ten things in this article that all UK academics would immediately recognise...

[Business Bullshit @StopBusinessBS]

"AI will be rolled out as part of austerity ... It won’t mean there’s less bureaucracy ... there will be more bullshit work with AI, not less."

https://t.co/sn0174si8y

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

framing “AI” scams/labor disciplining vehicles as good for “female & underrepresented writers” is beyond cynical and stupid but it’s pretty much all the scammers have. It’s all crypto boosters had. It’s a bingo free space of meaningless marketing pablum. Like ok, sure

[Business Bullshit @StopBusinessBS]

@StephanieLahey Also what happens when no one can admit the real source of corporate profits (monopoly power). Still, is there a better "author-driven sales" platform than a CEO who can have their company buy copies for its staff and/or force them to use it with their "customers"

[Business Bullshit @StopBusinessBS]

To misquote GK Chesterton, when a corporation's success is built entirely on monopoly power they don't believe on nothing, they believe in anything.

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

Newsletter: Microsoft is a cult driven by “The Growth Mindset,” a psuedo-science that informs recruitment, hiring, firing and promotion decisions, all while instructing employees and managers to generate performance reviews using hallucination-prone AI.

https://t.co/SFfkWoFI3b

[tweet davidson @andyreed]

legacy software companies adding an ai chatbot to their product

[Alex Chalmers @chalmermagne]

We walk through a few different examples in the piece. But far too much effort is expended on work that has little to no bite

[Alex Chalmers @chalmermagne]

new from me: I’ve teamed up with @anastasiabekt to explore why so much policy work is basically pointless. We walk through the mistakes tech companies, consultancies, think tanks, and lobbyists make, how it impoverishes debate, and how we can improve it. 🧵

[Business Bullshit @StopBusinessBS]

Is the Co-Op still an ethical organisation? Private Eye finds that engagement will provide "member and Co-op data to enable Member Engagement to strategically plan where they best deliver activity locally with the maximum impact for our members."

[Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd]

My university has informed us that we are moving to a “customer service” model. Not a joke.

[Business Bullshit @StopBusinessBS]

The word "great" as feedback at work now simply means that something exists? Is this part of the trend that one must give a five star review for a service that has met the lowest possible bar?

[Tom Cecil @scopgieb]

Insane stat from the Wall Street Journal that there are like 12 million full-time influencers in the US right now. That’s 7% of the American workforce

No way a bubble like that is at all sustainable

[Brandy Jensen @BrandyLJensen]

should start asking “for or against?” when someone says they’re a human rights lawyer

[Business Bullshit @StopBusinessBS]

The latest "free one" edition of @trashfuturepod has lots of fun with the idea of Moomin managers. There is actually a book on that from @BrisUniPress...

[alisa @squirtstain]

i ❤️ capitalism i ❤️ consumerism i ❤️ advertising i ❤️ branding i ❤️ social media strategy i ❤️ content creation i ❤️ SEO optimization i ❤️ audience insights

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"Occasional bout of customer laughter" is too on the nose for England.

[Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman]

If you move to an area of a city that already has bars/pubs/clubs/restaurants etc and you complain about the news you should have your property confiscated

[Business Bullshit @StopBusinessBS]

Last and final vestige of meaning departs the word "craft", FT confirms.

[Financial Times @FT]

Rise of Gail’s shows big British appetite for craft bakery https://t.co/tnZkTixpa3