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Edit: never mind. I guess the platform is just unstable. It’s rather frustrating. I spent 10 minutes writing something. Pressed “Submit” and it didn’t show up. So I spent another 10 minutes rewriting it. Pressed “Submit” and it didn’t show up.
It’s the third time in a few months this has happened to me, despite not commenting very much during that time, so it seemed a bit suspicious since I don’t see anyone else mentioning any issues. And it doesn’t happen to me on any other platform.
NO MALARKEY
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Hey. There’s no active censorship on the site. It doesn’t like it when there are lots of links. I don’t know about attachments.
Try just linking once to the image you want to post.
Rocky left the site a long time ago because he swore I was suppressing his posts. It’s just wordpress trying not to allow spam, and I never could figure out how to turn off the filter completely.
im certainly not censoring you. You bring balance to the force.
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I might drop off for a while, if not permanently.
I talked with a good friend of mine this morning. We haven’t connected in a number of years, but he was one of my closest friends in my 20s. He’s my age, early 60s. He was on the other side of my business, worked as a Controller and VP Finance for a variety of tech companies.
He stopped working a few years back, not intentionally. “The new frontier hit,” he said. A female superior told him she didn’t feel safe with older males in senior finance positions. Leadership at another company worried that they couldn’t attract Indian and Chinese talent if they had older white males in senior management.
Not the first time I’ve heard any of this. A number of senior, straight, white males I know, leaders in their fields, haven’t been able to find employment, including the single best CSO I know, who shepherded the growth of a Chicago-based firm for 12 years through COVID. He doubled their revenue in a tough market. Since he was canned three years ago, they have lost about 2% in annual revenue.
I have two sons, both employed. Older one has lost one or two roles to non-SWMs. He takes it in stride. Younger one is hypercompetitive, hypercapable. In a great tech company with few SWMs. He’s thriving…for now.
A number of years ago, I got in trouble with Mrs. Mick at the dinner table. My oldest son asked me what my dream job was. Don’t know what I was thinking, but I told him “bartender in Maui” and got the can-I-speak-with-you dagger look from Mrs. Mick who didn’t approve of my idle opinion in front of an impressionable teenager.
From time to time since then, I’ve wondered if that would have been a better way to go. No wife, kids, ongoing stress, heart failure, high blood pressure, etc… and my capable, well-trained, hard-working friends are unemployed or underemployed.
Was it all for naught?
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I hope you guys won’t leave, but I understand. We’ve had a very long run and this little lifeboat of a website has served its purpose.
The CEB of old had some really good debate from some really smart people. I learned a lot.
as to your observations, Mick, I get it. I had a massive career shift more than a decade ago, largely driven by a backstab from a fellow executive female who was having an affair with the CEO. It has turned out great for me. I took the leap into hanging out my own shingle and have been reasonably happy working with people I want to work with and building a really strong team of younger professionals in the process.
there are industries out there that don’t discriminate like you are articulating. And then there are those that simply think straight white men are bad. I don’t have any time for them.
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Two white guys, at each other’s throats, JD Vance and Gavin Newsom. Vance debated Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in December, 2023. Newsom wants a debate with Vance, using the dreary, tired old “if you have something to say to me, say it to my face.”
Feels a bit like a “Hail Mary” approach. San Francisco is slowly returning from the Progressive disaster under new (supposedly business-friendly) Mayor Lurie. But there is a reason that San Francisco is reviled; the pervasive aggressive homelessness, public defecation, mass closing of restaurants and other businesses and associated red tape in establishing new businesses, lack of preparedness for emergencies, the shuttering of over 200 businesses in the Union Square downtown shopping district, and on and on.
Hope it happens. It would be an interesting debate.
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