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In the Late 60's and early 70's there was a talented football player for Hereford United, who were one of the top 5 teams of the day, by the name of David Icke. After suffering from arthritis he then became a radio commentator, staying with the game. The guy was pretty famous for playing the nation's most popular sport, later becoming a pundit on TV and Radio, appearing into the 80's as a major personality with frequent BBC appearances.
David Icke is not remembered as a footballer
David Icke is not remembered as a pundit.
David Icke is remembered as a fucking crank.
David Icke went... Significantly off of the rails... like, You know the theory that all famous people are lizardmen pedos? That's basically him. he even has his own section on the Wiki article for the conspiracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reptilian_conspiracy_theory
Anyway, I remember my parents telling me about this and I remember being blown away that a legacy like that could be undone by such abject crankery...
I'm very much not saying that a certain fantasy author has fucking lost it in the same way as our former Hereford United Goalkeeper, but I do wonder, with how she's making herself, how long it'll be till in the eyes of the wider public that her legacy stops being about witches and wizards, and starts being gametes and parasocial divorcees
Suddenly, the lizardmen pedos also have a spaceship and a moon base that are beaming signals to the left hemisphere of our brain, creating a digital 'Matrix' overlaid on our senses that control what we see and experience.
workers are the lifeblood of a company, NOT customers. the current "customer obsessed mindset" that a lot of modern companies say they have is just another way to deprioritize workers and their rights. increasing hours, decreasing pay, creating fucked up schedules, imposing strict (nonsensical) metrics, forcing people to adhere to scripts, etc. all in the name of "customer outcomes".
and on the practical side, catering solely to customers is a surefire path to ruining a once good product. customers say they want all sorts of shit totally unrelated to what's at the core of a product. this is how you get catch-all software that used to work fine at the 5 things it did now trying to do 35 things in the name of making customers happy.
(also this is all underpinned by the need for infinite growth, make no mistakes there. saying that it's "for the customer" is a veneer on utterly deranged profit motives that only make sense if you think the world's going to end next quarter)
if you want to make customers happy, make workers happy. cater to their needs. listen to what they know. people want to be good at their jobs. people genuinely want the companies they work for to succeed. ignoring workers is not just shitty, it's incredibly short-sighted and stupid.
"Listen to what a customer tells you when something is wrong. Don't listen to them tell you how to fix it."
I think about that a lot. The 'customer' has no goddamn idea, in the main, what happens to get a product in front of them. It's like the "just make good video games!!!!!!" school of Twitter critics: your ideas might be great but your solutions are dumb as shit.
So yeah, balls to customers. Workers know what the fuck they're doing and should be trusted with more responsibility.
Also pockets on their uniforms, McDonald's.