Publishing is a hot bed of managers and the people below them who need their jobs and don’t want to mention the Emperor’s white-haired ball sack knocking over shit on their desks.

The job of a manager is to get people to do things. There are a lot of ways to do this, and some of them don’t involve being an asshole.

That, in a nutshell, is management: to be the adult in the room. You get to/are forced to/have to babysit and make the grown-up decisions. I’ve been on both sides several times. I’ll take management. Then I can at least make it better for the “worker bees”. As a worker, you can do you job, but it is rare that you can…

So how did the CEO respond to being called overhead?

If only people would just hand you everything you need.

As someone in management, I feel like my first job is to make those under me happy and productive but I end up spending most of my time following up on bullshit mistakes made by home office. Accurate and timely paychecks used to be a given but now with cost cutting Jackie at HO has to draw up all checks by hand on a…

Countepoint: Middle managers exist to apologize for your shit when you do your job to the specs you were given, not to the specs as they existed in senior management’s mind.

I don’t know which is worse, the places where they have too many managers or the ones where they have too few (who would probably go for the removal of some more).

I don’t think you can consider yourself reasonably well informed on Syria if you don’t know what Aleppo is.

Agreed.

Wasn’t the entire crux of this (or at least part of it) that the law says certain things are ok when it’s the law itself that should be changed?

I understand exactly how you feel. I was molested by a realative and he was(is?) A nice guy minus molesting children and I don’t really wish ill towards him.

Well that attitude is based on the stranger danger myth. Sex offenses are almost always perpetrated by someone known to the victim, especially child sex offenses. A neighbor who was sex offender is not half as much of a threat as your transient brother-in-law, or your niece’s new boyfriend.

Lately I’ve been really feeling this conflict surrounding the Brock Turner case (and the other ones like it). Because on one hand, I’m 100% against rape. On the other, I’m not the wrath and punishment sort.

In all fairness having some random offender (as in convicted and released) live next door to you likely doesn’t put your kids in danger. It’s non-convicts and first time offenders who are likely to do it (since no one is watching them). To boot a victim is usually related to their offender or said offender is a close…

I’m conflicted too. However, I firmly believe that if you tell people that they are completely unredeemable, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy and they will decide that being a pervert is their unwavering identity. That's pretty dangerous.

I don’t like sex offenders any more than the next person, but I think it’s pretty dangerous to make their lives so damned unlivable that the ones who want to be rehabilitated lose any motivation to stay on the right path.

My God, you're an ignorant piece of shit. Please go away.

You didn't read what I wrote or understand it at all.
In case you're actually interested, I have real humanities degrees from real universities, both of which are generally lousy at sports, and a real job in the private sector that requires actual thinking.…

Not really. This is terribly misleading. Coaches are not "public employees" in any meaningful sense.*

It is not a good indicator of where our priorities are either. Coaches make a lot of money because they are able to "extract" a little bit (relatively) out of a lot of people. Tickets are getting to be expensive, but…