It just occurred to me that we are the lowest paid, highest power workers in the office. Do you think the cute graphic design chick in the marketing department can take down the whole business? No.

Accounts receivable and payable can stop doing their thing and it will go to shit, but not Instantly.

Even ceos can order something dumb and it will take a good amount of time to execute.

There was a quote attributed to Lao Tzu I saw on tiktok the other day, and I was pretty damn sure it was nowhere in the Tao Te Ching, but I was curious if there was some weird translation out there I wasn’t aware of.

The conversation went EXACTLY like this. Like down to the word.