• TIEPilot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1 hour

    The want to see their monkeys in one cage.

    I mean really why pay rents for the new open office concept if it doesn’t feed their ego???

    If I can save money hiring women a .76% and no rent I’m in!

  • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2 hours

    Guess which (only) trait all the captured Nazis in Nuremberg shared?

    Yeah, our society is not a good place to be in.

  • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3 hours

    I feel they could rewrite the article title to be Fortune 500 companies share narcissistic traits and it would still be true.

    I’m a firm believer in that you can’t get to a high level of anything without having some form of narcissistic or selfish traits.

  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 hours

    unobtrusive measures of narcissism via photo size, signature size, and relative compensation predicted greater resistance to remote work in public statements early in the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Dude, come the fuck on. I take psychology as a serious science, so this methodology legitimately offends me: signature size as a metric for narcissism? Get the actual fuck out of here. This reeks of a paper in search of a conclusion.

    • Peekashoe@lemmy.wtfEnglish
      2 hours

      I had the same reaction to that paragraph, but the very next paragraph is more compelling:

      In another experiment, the authors primed CEOs’ narcissistic self-image by asking them to reflect on the role that a bold, assertive ego played in the successes of Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Oracle cofounder Larry Ellison. Afterward, leaders who’d been primed were more likely to oppose working from home, compared with those who weren’t primed. This, the researchers concluded, suggests a causal link between activating ego and opposing remote work.

    • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3 hours

      I agree with your skepticism about the metric, but there’s a gigantic example to be found in the oval office…

      • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3 hours

        Could I then use this handwriting phrenology to claim that Jimmy Carter was a bigger narcissist than Barack Obama was a slightly bigger narcissist than Adolf Hitler?

        Jimmy Carter's signature on a letter

        Barack Obama's signature on a bill

        Adolf Hitler's signature

        I understand they’re considering other factors, but this is so obviously fucking stupid.

    • MasterBlaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2 hours

      It would be a good short, for sure. Not enough there for a full length movie, IMHO.

      I’m sure there will soon be some sort of zoomer sees “office space” for the first time YouTube videos. They’ll then realize GenX “gets it” or something.

        • MasterBlaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
          58 minutes

          I’m not surprised, but now I have to look for it. We’ve remained unseen by Society for the last 40 years. It’s kind of surreal to see the stuff with GenX references right now.

    • CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      4 hours

      Millennials are at that stage for sure, with enshittification, AI, and the xxteenth generational crisis in a row.

  • Miller@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4 hours

    They want people fawning in person, remote fawning is not so moist xxx