I wish more people got hired just for being decent people you want to have around instead of everything having to be about ROI all the time. One of my favorite coworkers is the local office manager. She's probably the "least important" by capitalist BS metrics but she's also one of the kindest people you'll ever meet. She makes me want to show up to work.
@faithisleaping In the old days you used to be able to hire someone because at interview you thought "yes, we need someone like that to fill the role of office earth mother since so-and-so left", but with HR's insistence on things like uniform scoring charts these days it can't be as easy.

@TimWardCam @faithisleaping @aligorith a former team leader told me how she got a job in the team.

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