Alex Greene

orange county | columbus | bogey golfer | OSU 2020

[Alex Greene @alg5570]

Who?

[NUCLR GOLF @NUCLRGOLF]

🚨🏌️🙅🏼‍♂️ #JOKE — In an exclusive with @thetimes, LIV Golfer Anirban Lahiri laughed off the theory LIV golfers are ready to jump ship and head back to the PGA Tour: “That is the biggest joke ever. I will not name names but I know at least a dozen players who’d rather not play golf than go back to the PGA Tour.”

When asked what’s wrong with the PGA Tour, Lahiri said: “I’m not going to answer because I don’t want this to be a hate thing,” he says. “I played on the PGA Tour for seven years and really enjoyed my time there. I learnt a lot about the business of golf and some of the things I learnt disillusioned me. I’ll leave it at that.

“That was enough for me not to want to go back, but that’s me personally. I’m sure others have different opinions of it and I respect that as well, but to generalise that everybody is falling over backwards to come back to the PGA Tour is the same kind of propaganda we’ve had for four years.”

[Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter]

Broncos re-signed free-agent WR Michael Bandy.

[Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter]

Broncos’ roster moves today ahead of Sunday’s AFC Championship Game vs. the Patriots:

🏈Activated C Luke Wattenberg from IR
🏈Placed QB Bo Nix on IR.
🏈Elevated WRs Michael Bandy and Elijah Moore.

[K.C. @Not___KC]

How Burrow keeps sneaking into these posts and he hasn’t played a game that matters since 2022 is beyond me

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

One of the funniest scenes in a TV show ever.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

Last year I eliminated our PTO policy.

I called it "unlimited."

The board loved it.

HR loved it.

Finance really loved it.

Let me explain why Finance loved it.

Under the old policy, employees accrued 18 days per year. Unused days carried over. When employees quit, we owed them money. Cash. For days they earned but didn't take.

That's a liability. On the books. $4.7 million in accrued PTO across 2,300 employees.

I made it disappear.

With one policy change.

"Unlimited PTO."

You can't accrue what's infinite. You can't owe what was never counted. The liability vanished. $4.7 million. Gone.

The CFO sent me a bottle of wine.

I told employees it was about "trust and flexibility."

It was about the balance sheet.

But "balance sheet optimization" doesn't fit on a careers page.

"Unlimited PTO" does.

We updated the job postings.

Applications increased 23%.

People love unlimited.

Until they try to use it.

Under the old policy, employees took an average of 17 days per year.

Under unlimited, they take 11.

That's not a bug.

That's the design.

When PTO is a number, people take the number. It's theirs. They earned it. Managers can't argue with a number.

When PTO is "unlimited," people take nothing.

Because unlimited comes with questions.

"Is this a good time?"

"Who's covering?"

"What will people think?"

The guilt does the enforcement.

I don't have to say no.

The culture says no.

I just built the culture.

We track time-off requests in Workday. I see everything.

A senior engineer requested two weeks in July.

His manager approved it.

Officially.

Then sent a Slack message.

"Totally fine. Just wanted to flag that the Erikson deliverable overlaps. Probably fine. Just flagging."

The engineer took four days.

Unlimited means whatever your anxiety allows.

For most people, that's less than before.

Some employees don't take any PTO.

We call them "high performers."

They get promoted.

Then they manage others.

They don't approve much PTO either.

The system self-replicates.

A recruiter asked how we "stay competitive."

I said, "Unlimited PTO."

She asked how much people actually take.

I said, "That's not tracked."

It is tracked.

I have a dashboard.

I don't share the dashboard.

We did an employee survey.

84% said they "appreciated the flexibility of unlimited PTO."

12% said they "wished they felt more comfortable taking time off."

We published the 84%.

The 12% went in a folder.

The folder is called "Noted."

I don't open that folder.

Someone in engineering asked if we could go back to accrued PTO.

I said, "That would limit your flexibility."

He said he wanted limits.

I said, "That's not aligned with our culture of trust."

He stopped asking.

Trust is a funny word.

I trust employees to feel too guilty to use their benefits.

They trust me to frame that guilt as freedom.

That's the deal.

I'm presenting at an HR conference next month.

The session is called "Unlimited PTO: Building a Culture of Ownership."

Ownership means employees own their guilt.

I own the savings.

The policy costs us nothing.

Because employees take nothing.

And call it a benefit.

I'll be VP of People by Q2.

Unlimited upside.

[Tony Jefferson @Tljefferson23]

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[Alex Greene @alg5570]

:’)

[Eric Weddle @weddlesbeard]

Lets be GREAT TODAY @chargers

[Alex Greene @alg5570]

Yup

[MLFootball @MLFootball]

SHOULD ERIC WEDDLE BE A HALL OF FAMER…?

Super Bowl champion (LVI)
5x All-Pro
6x Pro Bowler
NFL interceptions co-leader (2011)
NFL 2010s All-Decade Team
1,179 tackles
29 interceptions
98 PDs
5 TDs

[Joe Pompliano @JoePompliano]

Netflix rented out a field level suite to promote the upcoming Peaky Blinders movie during one of its Christmas Day NFL games. Pretty smart

[Zac Stevens @ZacStevensDNVR]

Bo Nix with big-time praise for Michael Bandy after his first TD.

[The Denver Post @denverpost]

Broncos journeyman WR Michael Bandy once left football for rugby. On Sunday, he caught his first NFL TD. https://t.co/G4pHFmAK3G

[Tom Pelissero @TomPelissero]

Broncos WR Michael Bandy has been released a dozen times, including at the end of training camp five years in a row.

Today, he scored his first NFL touchdown.

[Denver Broncos @Broncos]

First career TD for Michael Bandy 🙌

📺: CBS

[Alex Greene @alg5570]

@Clevta https://t.co/yTBBOdlq8F

[Kevin Bowen @KBowen1070]

Rivers asked about his current weight (listed at 236):

"Not what it was when I walked off the field in Buffalo (January 2021 Wild Card game)...But I ain’t never ran away from anybody anyways.”

[Clevta @Clevta]

One of the most influential coaches OSU has ever had. What a deserving opportunity 🫡

[KrossoverKon_ @TIjabiken]

This is the greatest football player ever

[Kalshi Football @KalshiFB]

When Eric Weddle defied the laws of gravity 👀

[Ian Rapoport @RapSheet]

For TNF: The #Broncos signed WR Michael Bandy to the active roster and elevated TE Marcedes Lewis and CB Reese Taylor from the PS.

[MikeKlis9NEWS @mikeklis9news]

Broncos are promoting WR/punt returner Michael Bandy to their 53-man roster per source. He takes spot vacated by J.T. Gray release.