Risky joke - could get a laugh, could get you a meeting with HR without biscuits. It's worth a punt though if you know your audience!
If you make the joke a bit more explicit it tends to get a few more laughs, like "this one goes out to the tireless administrators, creative engineers, fantastic embeds... and Paul".
Only pull those stunts if you're happy to get the piss taken out of you in return though, else you'll look like a right tosser.
An old boss of mine started most group conversations with "right then you cunts..." and it was set the tone straight away. No bullshit, no egos, and no dragging on the conversation. Top fella actually, one of the best leaders I've had. We were his cunts, and he was our better-paid cunt.
We had another bloke who was a proper cockney boy. If you were in his good books, you were a "geezer", and if you'd ruined his day then you were a "slaaaaag".
I'm guilty of addressing my squad from my very junior managerial position as "alright my dudes", which on the surface of it sounds very male-leaning, but I think since the 90s "dude" has become as gender-neutral as they come.
That, or you could go full Karl Jobst and kick off with "hello you absolute legends .."
More often than not, I'd agree with you - though it is quite handy for catching up on what's been happening while I've been elsewhere or asleep before a nightshift.
It is entertaining to see what rumours are going around though, finding out who's made a real James Hunt of a ticket so nobody makes the same colossal clusterfuck of a job twice, and hearing who's moving where in the organisation though.
If they stopped doing them tomorrow though, I wouldn't miss them.
I enjoyed that game. Not sure how it was ever pushed out as a full release rather than a Net Yaroze style special, but fair play to them.
Kurushi (as it was known in the UK and Europe) is like rocking horse shit now. A nice little treasure if you find one in your collection.
Our unit has a conference call every twelve hours where each senior rep from every division globally has to attend, provide an update, and pick up what's happened since the last meeting.
Previously, we went through nearly twenty people across the organisation giving the same bullshit numbers and stats, with the odd bit of news or gossip. It took fucking ages.
Now, some bright spark has knocked together a form and a Power BI automation tool, so the stats are forwarded before the call has even began, and people only pipe up in the meeting if anything has changed or if something out of the ordinary has happened. It has turned a 30min call into a five minute call tops.
A rare W for common sense.
I suppose the TV licence in the UK is a sort of paywall, even if it is made of swiss cheese and enforced by folk with all the legal standing of Larry the Head Mouser or whatever moggy it is now.
I pay it, but I'm loathed to now. Not because I watch any live TV or BBC programming, but because I use the BBC News site a metric fucktonne and I suppose I justify it to myself as funding the BBC News department rather than Graham Norton's salary.
Maybe I'll fuck it off though. I do fancy a letter war with Capita or whoever managed the enforcement these days.
Absolute banger of a game.
"why can't we get a mortgage?"
"Well I bought a hot dog on a payment plan for a laugh, and I defaulted on a 38 cent payment"
"oh no"
It's highly unusual to have a Sony PSP as an in-car navigation aid.
Invariably I'd have drawn a comedy penis in there somewhere, and some poor lad somewhere would likely find his plonker refusing to work one night, or died with his old chap at full mast for maximum embarrassment.
Good ol' Comical Ali, haven't seen these memes wheeled out since the last time the west started fucking about with the Middle East.
Which weirdly, wasn't all that long ago.
You realise you can present historical actions that support your argument without being a complete bellend about it, right?
For example, in 2015 Bernie Sanders was becoming a hot favourite to become the public's new pin-up boy for the 2016 presidential run. Unfortunately for him, it is alleged that the DNC had already banked on Hilary Clinton being the primary winner, so their plan may have had it's legs done before they even started.
So, it is widely reported that the DNC provided very little support to Sanders for the remainder of his campaign run, while pouring big money and organising competing support behind Clinton, stacking the odds in her favour.
In this instance, history tells us that whereas a candidate may be supremely popular, they may not end up getting the support of the political party they represent.
(The above is a massive oversimplification to fit into a bite sized lemmy post, so points of discussion are expected)