Article Of Incompetency

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[discontentedly reading] I don't really think that sounds right to me.

What?
This article you pointed out about why you think Herr D isn't being paid well to do any of the many things he does well. Did you send that to Herr D?
Yes. (Note: Hairy refers to following link, should any viewers wish to cut-paste to another tab's address bar.)
https://hbr.org/2018/05/why-talented-people-dont-use-their-strengths

See if he's online.
Tired but online. Here.
hey, Hairy
Yeah, hey, kid; how're you?
trying to fit too many bills into my paycheck again. Excel helps
Eeeww. Sorry to hear that. Did you read that article Shelob sent you?
wacky. got it all wrong
Yeah, it sounded wrong. What's your take on it? What's it really like out there?
for starteres, up to each jobseeker to figure out what they do well enough to get paid at all by anybody
Yeah?
 not a meritocracy. skills aren't weighted for what theyr'e worth. people need work to pay bills. companies pay as little as they can to as manuy as they can and complain when people leave for better pay. then if you get a job paying enough to live on doing what you like, the bosses can change uour job at any time to suit company need. You can do what they need or look for anothe job
So that's . . . backwards.
I've had a lot of companies not hire me because I couldn't do everything they might need. Not that anyone they had could do it all, but that was the reason they gave. they went for the wrong people. I made a lot of cash teaching people who got jobs instead of me how to seem competent and not such a horrible choice as they were and not get fired right away.
That's worse than I thought. Anything else?
I made twice as much money moving cheap plastic crap around in one room while sitting on a machine than I make pushing sick and injured people around a hospital on foot. Eight miles a shift.
[sound of revulsion deep in gills] Yikes.
Now that computers tell people who to hire, there's another layer of bad decision making between hiring the right people and the crowd of wrong people. People did it wrong interviewing in person. Having a computer do it just means the wrong people get hired a lot faster. 
Now that more people get degrees in business, more busineses are run badly, with the phil. that people are interchangeable or should be. Also more busineses are going bankrupt for bad decision-making.
Okay. When you did operations consulting, how often did you run into problems you COULDN'T solve?
1 in 7 times we found out that the problem was the owner ran the business or his son was allowed to work there. we refunded and said just that we couldn't help them. that way no one hated us at least
[outside chatbox] Herr D was profane in his initial reaction. [shows Hairy]
That's--sickening. You wouldn't want to 'toon this one, would you?
awfully busy this week
Send it up when you can. We'll be glad for it. Shelob? I'm going swimming. [disconnect]