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Cake day: July 30th, 2023

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  • Our CEO made a big announcement about how we were going to move from a B2B (Business to Business) environment to a B2C (Business to Consumer) environment. B2C is the future, Internet of Things, yadda yadda.

    So, since we have an open door policy, I popped him an email and asked him what the plan was to invest in our infrastructure because, as it stood then, B2C was out of reach and the clients we had attempting it were finding it wasn’t robust enough, citing my example client list and recent failures.

    I got immediate heat. Nobody had told him our infrastructure couldn’t do it. “What are your sources? How do you know?” - Sources cited. CEO went to his yes men: “This guy knows what he’s talking about and seems really sure of what he’s saying…”

    Oh.

    10 years later, we’re on our 3rd CEO, our infrastructure still isn’t updated, and B2C still hasn’t happened.






  • Never. The plan is delay, delay, delay, delay until it’s too late and then go “Well, there’s nothing we could have done anyway.”

    I’ve been following the arguments for decades now:

    1. Climate change is not happening.

    2. OK, climate change is happening, but there’s no evidence it’s caused by humans.

    3. OK, it is happening, and maybe it’s caused by humans, but maybe it’s something else.

    4. OK, it is happening, and it’s definitely caused by humans, but it’s too expensive to do anything about it, and people need jobs. <- You are here.

    5. OK, it is happening, it’s caused by humans, and it’s bad enough now that it’s making it impossible for people to work without air conditioning, but really, the time to have done something was 30 to 50 years ago. (eta 2030 to 2050).

    6. OK, well, it’s self perpetuating at this point, nothing to be done. Here, have some more oil, on us. (eta 2100).