Thread regarding U.S. Bank layoffs

New research paper helps make it all make sense.

Google this: "The Corporate Bullsh-t Receptivity Scale: Development, validation, and
associations with workplace outcomes" paper by Shane Littrell, PHD

Every consultant from McKinsey, every MC member and HR exec who talks that fake BS we hear every day, but somehow doesn't know how to ACTUALLY lead, turns out there's this paper that dives into it. Turns out the coworkers who love mission statements and call their boss 'transformational' score lowest on actual decision-making. The buzzword-fluent are running the building. All the terrible people get promoted to grades 20+ and hire their grades 17 to 19 because they like the way these people "talk". It's all in this paper.

People with an actual IQ, turns out, get promoted less.


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@b8 you bet wrong. USB pushes AI so hard and cities are getting sc--wed over industrial compounds while people build stupid posters and ask it to do their review. Internet/Crypto facilities dwarf in comparison to what AI is doing to us.

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@a1 just read with you eyes and engage with critical thinking

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@a9 bet you hated the invention of the internet too.

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@a1 it is kind of annoying that you didn’t read the PDF and you “ran it through Claude”. AI blows.

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Good stuff, I ran that pdf through claude and this is the summary it gave me. This pretty much sounds like almost all of the leaders who are running the place. Here is what Claude said:

Researchers built a test to measure how easily people get fooled by empty corporate buzzword-speak — the kind of "leveraging synergies to actualize end-state vision" talk that sounds smart but means nothing.

The main findings: people who fall for this jargon tend to be weaker at analytical thinking, more likely to spew the same nonsense themselves, more impressed by their bosses and company mission statements, and — most tellingly — worse at making good workplace decisions.

In short: the people most wowed by corporate BS are usually the ones with the poorest judgment.

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