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It is review season, and the Dude will once again do the heavy lift for his boss. It is the least rewarding part of working in corporate America. He just wishes that management would do their job.

The contact form gets some interesting input. Not good, but interesting, and poorly targeted spam.

The Dude turned off all notifications from #linkedin, and his email has been thankful. But a recent visit for a separate reason to LI clues in that LI has become as much of a cesspool as other social media

The leaders of the Dude's company generously are granting paid days off as part of the Covid response, and entitled pricks immediately bitch that it isn't more convenient for them.

I guess it was inevitable that fake receipt generators would exist in the wild. But who the fuck would risk their jobs cheating this way? Certainly not Product Management

What does the Dude read? It turns out that the bulk of his reading is fiction, or history, and not business process books. Imagine that...

While it may seem like the grass is greener, the Dude has never actually found that to be the case. He will take the devil he knows, rather than the trainwreck

Just when things are going decent, a giant monkey wrench is tossed in the works.

Grunt work - assigned projects that don't move the needle, but consume copious amounts of product management's time