Notices by Flippin' eck, Tucker! (losttourist@social.chatty.monster)

This is not mine, it's from a colleague who posted it to our work Slack. But it's far too good to be left languishing there, so here's my (stolen, but I'm sure they'll understand) contribution to #Caturday.

Gah, why can't senior managers ever speak plain English?

I work for a large organisation, and apparently the latest policy is to stop hiring temporary contractors and start recruiting permanent staff again.

How was this policy change communicated to us in an email? With this:

A substantial review of our Talent Acquisition operating model, capacity and service levels over this last year has indicated that to truly elevate our recruitment and sourcing service to the level that this organisation needs, we must increase our internal resource proposition.

@aral "Don't Be Evil" seems such a very, very long time ago now

@aral That's bonkers. Although Bank of Ireland so I'm not totally surprised.

I assume you have the equivalent of UK's building societies in Ireland, they'd presumably have somewhat less capitalist lending criteria. Maybe? Hopefully?

I do feel more than a little sympathy for @ernest.

In January he decided to try to build an ActivityPub based messageboard system.

A month ago he decided the code was stable enough that he could release the first alpha version, and stood up https://kbin.social to demonstrate it.

It attracted quite a few users per day and proved that it might just be an exciting new entry into the Fediverse.

And then Reddit's admins did their thing, and suddenly thousands, millions, tens of millions of users are looking for a new home. And although a few other brave souls have also created kbin instances in the last few days, there's simply not enough capacity to even begin to cope with all the demand.

#kbin #Fediverse #RedditMigration #Reddit