This actually is very important to many people and works.
It works if you're a gullible idiot or don't care about real advancement. It also works if you were already planning to quit and just need a slightly fancier title to pump up your resume.
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At my last company, they invented a job title called "Technical Architect" to which they would "promote" people who were at the top of their game as senior consultants, but that the company didn't want to pay significantly more money to... which would be a requirement of an actual promotion into a role like Solution Architect. So you'd take all these high performers and try to placate them simply by stuffing them into a role with contrived title and a job description so similar to their previous role that you'd be forgiven for thinking someone copied and pasted... under the guise of a 'promotion'. Still doing the same work, but now with a fancier title.
Needless to say, the management folks who thought this was an effective employee retention strategy were clearly morons of the highest order, and anyone who was sharp enough to see through the ruse left as soon as they found a landing spot upon realizing they were being treated with such disrespect. One landed at Google, even.
While I believe it is still a thing there, it seems dramatically reduced and at least some of the management who thought this was a good idea are either no longer at the company, or not in a role permitting them to make such stupid decisions moving forward. Yes, it may be a 'real' title elsewhere, but in this instance it was purely window dressing.
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Typical dumb take.
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Maybe I never paid enough attention to when the government was putting in new bills and such but I don't remember Trudeau ever having signing sessions akin to Trump and his executive orders. Carney seems to be enjoying the spectacle of it though.
Maybe I never paid enough attention to when the government was putting in new bills and such but I don't remember Trudeau ever having signing sessions akin to Trump and his executive orders. Carney seems to be enjoying the spectacle of it though.
I think one thing that the politicians are learning, is that the people want to see work being actually done... I listen to the Bulwark and they share what people say in focus groups, and one of the things that most people say about Trump is that he shows what he is doing something (Good or Bad).
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"Six days after Donald Trump threatened Canada with Tariffs, Mark Carney announced that he would move his headquarters from Canada to the United States."
The video shows a Tweet from Donald Trump dated Nov 25, 2024, then cuts to a headline dated Nov 4, 2024, stating "Brookfield Assets Management moves its HQ to New York"
For the record, it was Oct. 31 when it was officially announced:
"Six days after Donald Trump threatened Canada with Tariffs, Mark Carney announced that he would move his headquarters from Canada to the United States."
The video shows a Tweet from Donald Trump dated Nov 25, 2024, then cuts to a headline dated Nov 4, 2024, stating "Brookfield Assets Management moves its HQ to New York"
For the record, it was Oct. 31 when it was officially announced:
Kind of a muddled message and poor wording. The announcement on the decision to move was earlier on. Then Trump tweeted about tariffs. Dec 1 was the date that Carney sent a letter, as Chair, to shareholders urging them to vote to approve the move because shareholder approval was required.
Kind of a muddled message and poor wording. The announcement on the decision to move was earlier on. Then Trump tweeted about tariffs. Dec 1 was the date that Carney sent a letter, as Chair, to shareholders urging them to vote to approve the move because shareholder approval was required.
This is a lot of words to say “yes, they are knowingly lying”.
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Typical dumb take.
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Given what happened in the US where people didn't like Harris, but didn't like Trump either, so just decided to note vote - which definitely helped Trump win - what do we think will happen here.
I was thinking it's almost flipped, where NDP and Liberal voters seem very active and engaged right now. Obviously an echo chamber but Reddit threads have a lot of NDP people "strategically" voting liberal to spite the conservatives. On the flip side, do we think some conservatives don't want to support PP, but can't bring themselves to vote liberal and just wont vote?
It's always interesting to me how checking a single box can put people into some serious personal turmoil
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It's almost like PP tearing down Jagmeet and the NDP has backfired. It's not like those voters were going to vote CPC, so you just turn them into Liberal voters.
Given what happened in the US where people didn't like Harris, but didn't like Trump either, so just decided to note vote - which definitely helped Trump win - what do we think will happen here.
I was thinking it's almost flipped, where NDP and Liberal voters seem very active and engaged right now. Obviously an echo chamber but Reddit threads have a lot of NDP people "strategically" voting liberal to spite the conservatives. On the flip side, do we think some conservatives don't want to support PP, but can't bring themselves to vote liberal and just wont vote?
It's always interesting to me how checking a single box can put people into some serious personal turmoil
As an NDP voter I will be strategically voting that way, and I sword never to vote Liberal again after the about face on electoral reform. I think this is why the NDP are going to be decimated this election, but also why I don't think its going to be a permanent thing where it kills the NDP. It is exceptional times right now, and we need an adult in the room in the top seat. I don't think Poilievre is anywhere near Trump, but the CPC's Reform backbone is not the type of policy I can support and even dread seeing at this point in time.
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It's almost like PP tearing down Jagmeet and the NDP has backfired. It's not like those voters were going to vote CPC, so you just turn them into Liberal voters.
Let's not kid anyone here, Singh absolutely destroyed the NDP himself without the CPC's help. He completely made the NDP irrelevant by attaching the NDP wagon to Trudeau instead of making the NDP a viable governing party alternative. Now that Trudeau is gone and there is a new viable alternative being provided, the NDP is left with zero purpose and now he is facing an election he will have no say in. Who is NDP's base at this point? Just die hard partisan supporters who still claim Singh did a good job and continue to defend them?
Poilievre meanwhile just had to adapt to the cold hard Trump reality and change the party focus to be Canada's defender while heavily criticizing Trump like Doug Ford did, he couldn't or wouldn't. CPC could easily have kept its lead if they used Ford's playbook right from the start. That is a complete CPC own goal and they still don't get it.
Liberals have adapted by shifting hard right from where Trudeau was to the radical center, recruiting Tories as part of the war cabinet. Yes they were the recipient of incredible luck and timing, but they took advantage of it.
What does the NDP offer to Canadians today? That's why they are going to fall out of official party status. And Liberals are stealing several of the CPC's policies while Poilievre is left dumbfounded and unable to adapt, stuck on Just Like Justin and Carbon Tax Carney.
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That reminded me of this comment and the pushback others received when it was suggested that the Cons should change their leader or never should have picked PP in the first place.
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They chose the candidate who is going to win in a landslide.
I think the political party accomplished their goal of winning the next election just fine.
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