Something Awful and Friends - The roller-coaster train-wreck embarrassing downfall of a Web 1.0 giant and its tick offspring like from Cloverfield

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Spunt said:
One of the key career tips they won't teach you in school is that you don't have to be *good* at your job, you just need to be slightly better than the last guy, and everyone will think you're a genius. I once got a job where the last guy only showed up to the office twice a week and ran at least one side business from home while supposedly on the clock. I accepted a salary that was barely half what he earned but I was still grossly overpaid for what the job entailed (the last guy had convinced his boss that this job was really difficult and required incredibly specialised knowledge, and I certainly wasn't going to dispel that idea). I did fuck all, wrote basic scripts to basically automate 80% of the job, and wrote two full-length books at my desk (and because I only asked to work from home twice a week instead of three times a week I seemed more committed). But because my scripts managed to improve my department's performance figures from terrible to slightly above average, I was hailed as a genius and survived wave after wave of firings despite doing almost no work at all.

Lowtax left Jeffrey such a low bar to clear that even the most mediocre level of performance from Jeff will make him look like a fucking superhero to the unwashed goon hordes.
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On this point, and it's something Jeffrey ought to figure out sooner rather than later --

Don't point out to management or stakeholders when you improve a process, or how. Let them figure it out, and then tailor their own perceptions and experiences of your work. Let them feel like you're doing better and more effective work, but never feel "accountable" like Jeffrey does to explain how or why. Limiting the amount of work you actually have to do via scripts, automatic, process control, etc, should be opaque as possible, so long as metrics are met and goals surpassed. Not only does this prevent greedy customers and bosses from assigning you more work as punishment for being efficient, it builds in value to the point where no one would ever dare get rid of you, for fear of your witchcraft being unable to be replicated. This is one of the very first things I figured out for a happy workplace.
 
Coolio55 said:
Which GoonCon was the one where some homo sat next to Lowtax and he could barely hide his utter disgust and rage?
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I don't know but I assume you mean this.
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The Grognard said:
Jeffo sorting out the WaffleImages thing is at least him putting real work into salvaging the site's long history, though I fully expect a lot of people gettng cancelled whenever their problematic posts in LF, FYAD, YCS and old GBS are rediscovered.
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Lol current goons are gonna see what was going on when Sony had that online dating game and absolutely loose it. God that shit was funny.
 
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Now that somethingawful is no longer owned by mangosteen man, does this mean lowtax can post here again?
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Too many mean words have been said about him on KF. We were also the one highlighting his abuse of Ashley while SA was throwing her under the bus and sucking up to BPD Cokewhore. He ain't never coming back.
 
Back me up! said:
Lol current goons are gonna see what was going on when Sony had that online dating game and absolutely loose it. God that shit was funny.
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I’ve still got an entire folder of those on an old harddrive somewhere. One day I’ll get around to uploading that shit somewhere.
 
Learned Hand said:
On this point, and it's something Jeffrey ought to figure out sooner rather than later --

Don't point out to management or stakeholders when you improve a process, or how. Let them figure it out, and then tailor their own perceptions and experiences of your work. Let them feel like you're doing better and more effective work, but never feel "accountable" like Jeffrey does to explain how or why. Limiting the amount of work you actually have to do via scripts, automatic, process control, etc, should be opaque as possible, so long as metrics are met and goals surpassed. Not only does this prevent greedy customers and bosses from assigning you more work as punishment for being efficient, it builds in value to the point where no one would ever dare get rid of you, for fear of your witchcraft being unable to be replicated. This is one of the very first things I figured out for a happy workplace.
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Oh yeah totally. There's nothing like being the only person in the building who understands what you actually do when it comes to job security and asking for raises. Especially when that job is absolutely necessary (either a core function or something required by law). As my organisation got repeatedly reorganised, restructured and downsized, I ended up with 6 different managers in 3 years, only one of whom had the vaguest clue what it was I actually did, and he got fired very early on because his skillset overlapped with mine and he was more expensive than I was. After that I was invincible, the laziest asshole in the building, but my performance reviews consisted of "erm, your performance figures are great, keep up doing whatever the fuck it is you're doing* and I'll see you in six months" except by then that person had usually been fired and replaced by someone even more clueless.

Jeff is taking a big risk by not only showing exactly how the sausage is made, but how easy it is to make the sausage. One of the reasons Lowtax got away with what he did (or rather what he didn't do) for so long is that his absence and opacity gave him an air of mystique - when he said that doing some basic thing was really hard or impossible, there was no way to disprove it and people only had their suspicions that Lowtax was a lazy asshole. The fact that Jeff can get more done in 6 months than Dickard did in 20 years has finally proven it. It has also set expectations going forward, which could be bad news for Jeff if he can't keep up the momentum. It will also cause a lot of goons to think "hey, I could do that", which could make things a bit spicier the next time there's a revolt against the admins.

*Browsing the internet on my phone during 30-minute shitter breaks, mostly.
 
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Now that somethingawful is no longer owned by mangosteen man, does this mean lowtax can post here again?
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Lowtax left because he got called out on his SA admin antics in the Schmorky thread along with the troons on SA throwing a shit fit. The easiest solution then was to just quit the farms. After his BPD Mormon coke whore crisis, he started blaming Kiwifarms for his misfortunes and continues to do so this day. To top it all off, people in the forums, including Josh, provided a lot of good, free advice on how to save SA and he ignored it. For him to log in and start posting would be akin to him admitting he was wrong.

Lowtax will never come back.
 
Pissmaster said:
I emailed him long long ago when I was still a kid and he was a dick to me, so I'm glad to hear he's being cucked now.

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I've never seen his picture before, either. He looks like Gary Coleman after someone pounded the shit out of him so bad he had to undergo facial reconstruction surgery.
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Kinda looks like Rebecca Sugar in blackface. What's that thing about people who marry people that look just like them?

northstar747 said:
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I wonder if he got molested
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Guaranteed he'll never try that line on anyone capable of ending him right then and there. What a fucking dweeb.
 
lowtax is way too sensitive to come back here just to get abused. i'm sure he reads the thread about him, which occasionally wanders into interesting SA stories but is mostly "wow guys, that lowtax sure was a faggot who beat his wife, wasn't he"
 
William S. Sessions said:
lowtax is way too sensitive to come back here just to get abused. i'm sure he reads the thread about him, which occasionally wanders into interesting SA stories but is mostly "wow guys, that lowtax sure was a faggot who beat his wife, wasn't he"
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No doubt at all he lurks here. I think the only reason he regged in the first place is because KF isn't full of angry trannies screaming for his blood. However, like others have said, since we don't felliate him either he has no interest in staying around because he has no ability to take criticism and especially so if he can't arbitrarily wield a banhammer and rob someone of $10.

Lowtax is in a hell of his own making and few people deserve it as much as he does.
 
ellroy said:
Lowtax left because he got called out on his SA admin antics in the Schmorky thread along with the troons on SA throwing a shit fit. The easiest solution then was to just quit the farms. After his BPD Mormon coke whore crisis, he started blaming Kiwifarms for his misfortunes and continues to do so this day. To top it all off, people in the forums, including Josh, provided a lot of good, free advice on how to save SA and he ignored it. For him to log in and start posting would be akin to him admitting he was wrong.

Lowtax will never come back.
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What a gay faggot lowtax turned out to be.
 
William S. Sessions said:
why is there always one guy in a suit at internet meets
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with goons the obvious answer of cargo cult masculinity is usually the correct one, some type of madmen larp (or whatever suit-wearing media was popular at the time) I bet he also has a little stainless flask, can tell you about straight-razor shaving and why the beer you're drinking is pisswater.
 
BobbyBriggs69420 said:
with goons the obvious answer of cargo cult masculinity is usually the correct one, some type of madmen larp (or whatever suit-wearing media was popular at the time) I bet he also has a little stainless flask, can tell you about straight-razor shaving and why the beer you're drinking is pisswater.
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The fashion threads in W&W were genuinely hilarious towards about the late 2000s.

Goons had two looks and it was either emaciated emo band frontman or desperately trying to pull off a suit and trilby like you're an old black guy.
 
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