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Companies must stop using Google Analytics

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Re: Companies must stop using Google Analytics

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Looking down on, yes. Suffering nonsense meetings silently? No. My entire point was that there is a major difference between the two & that while the instinct to look down on others for this organizational symptom is immature, it’s not unfounded or without basis to highlight the issue: they’re blaming the wrong thing however. And I often find that in those types of meeting communication & relationship building is the…

I'm guessing you're junior, or you'd have more control over these meetings, or have the ability to decline ones that you believed weren't going to be good use of your time. Having good meeting culture requires everyone involved to improve it. If you want meetings to be better, set them up, add an agenda and objectives, and run the meeting so that it's effective. If you can't run the meeting, if it doesn't have an age…

Getting real "toxic positivity" vibes off your whole line of arguments...

Re: Companies must stop using Google Analytics

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This level of dependence on certain tools is neither rare nor unprecedented. Your run-of-the-mill business drone will be trained on Word/Excel/Outlook and be hard to impossible to retrain on anything else (either because of actual stupidity or resistance to change). This already starts at school where "Informatik" is often just learning where to click in Microsoft products. Similarly, tradespeople often specialize in…

'actual stupidity'... gotta love the general disdain of the 'run of the mill business drone'... It's funny my wife is a run of the mill business drone. She thinks IT is a bunch of assholes. I would say she is probably right. Way to keep things going.

Who's the a-hole:

The person trying to make things better and seeks out knowledge at great cost

Or

The person who is willfully ignorant and actively refuses knowledge handed on a platter?

Because one of those is the typical IT pro and the other is the worker drone....

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