Saturday
Grabbed my laptop to check if the Amazon package I ordered shipped
Saw my analyst's green dot on Teams
Typed "plz fix" and nothing else
He responded in six seconds
"On it but which file?"
Read it
Didn't respond
Sent him a calendar invite for Monday at 7am
Subject line: "Updated Materials Walkthrough"
No agenda
No description
No materials
Nothing I'm aware of that needs to be fixed
He accepted in four seconds
Then he sent a follow-up: "Hey just saw this. Anything I should prep over the weekend?"
Didn't respond
Closed my laptop
My wife watched the whole thing from across the kitchen table
She asked what he did wrong
I said nothing
She stared at me for a long time
She asked why I do this
I said it builds character
She said "his or yours"
I didn't answer that one either
He will now spend his entire weekend rebuilding a model and deck that didn't need rebuilding
He will flag three errors I wasn't even aware of
I will cancel the meeting Sunday night at 11pm with no explanation
The deck will be better than the original
Fear is a leadership tool if you use it correctly
Sent from my iPhone
let me make sure i’m understanding this correctly
the supreme court is refunding all tariff money back to corporations.
the same corporations that didn’t pay a single cent of those tariffs to begin with.
they passed every dollar directly to you through higher prices on everything you buy
you went to the store and paid more for groceries. you paid more for clothes. for car parts. for literally everything.
that money came out of YOUR pocket not theirs
and now the refund goes to THEM?
the corporations who used the tariffs as an excuse to raise prices even higher than the tariff itself and pocket the difference
the american people funded the tariffs.
the corporations profited off the tariffs.
and now the corporations get a refund on money they never spent in the first place
and nobody in washington thinks the people who actually paid should get the money back.
not a single person has even suggested it
guess we are never getting our DOGE checks either
this country does not work for you.
it works for them. it’s a joke
and they’re not even pretending anymore