#creating business systems

[kopfconsulting]

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[quess-art]

I was going to do a house warden series but got too busy

[drvct-tape]

I was plagued with a vision. Will do something about it if nobody else does.

[sweetestflow3rs]

Heya, I need to know if Rory is really as kind and benevolent in DoD as Cody sees them. Also, what's their backstory/reason they're running the orphanage?

TW for SA mention / trafficking mention in tags

Oh Cody is absolutely 1000% being delusional and excusing Rory’s…. everything™️ despite knowing and HELPING the crimes Rory commits on a 24/7 basis.

Cody just thinks that because Rory was merciful to them ( it’s literally just Rory being biased because they took care of Cody when they were a teen & also a pinch 🤏 of codependency on the era of their life they miss, with Cody being the only one in close proximity to them from that era so— ) that everyone should just suck it up when it comes Rory’s bad side.

But it is also a bit!! complex with what’s going with Rory.

Cause with Bailey, you know, everyone sort of knows Bailey isn’t great and everyone in that orphanage is in debt and when you bring up the orphanage almost EVERYONE has an idea about it because they hear rumors. Rory on the other hand, I made a bit more ‘insidious’ with how Rory actually acts more like a sweet, yet tired guardian in front of everyone. Very easy to love and laugh with, when it comes to the public and even some of the orphans because in Depths of Depravity not everyone is indebted to Rory.

So you have some orphans who seen how harsh and demanding Rory is about payments, and then others who have no idea what they are talking about. Like trying to bring up Rory’s bad behavior with others, if you don’t have a high love with them, some people will straight up not believe you and think you’re lying, damning your reputation a bit and your relationship with some of your peers. Even if you try to tell them the threats Rory whispers in your ears when you pass them in the hall.

Cause like, some people have gone missing under Rory’s care, but it’s never really gone into ‘Oh, Rory has something to do with this’ its more of ‘oh this kid got mixed up with the wrong people’. Because Rory cares SO MUCH ( doesn’t ). Still having missing posters put up in St. Agatha’s in hopes they come back :( ( we know the lies )

Which Rory’s reasoning for running the orphanage does still tie in with the previous guardian of the Orphanage like how we assume Bailey does. For Rory’s backstory, I just simply think the idea of St. Agatha being more terrible before Rory is hilarious, with orphans being openly abused and put through the wringer, ( it adds onto why people are less likely to believe the player if they try to accuse Rory because they are like ‘well no. have you seen the previous guardian? rory is doing the best they can’ ) Rory being a former orphan who was the guardian’s favorite, who they constantly brought to the other ‘friends’ to ‘go on outings with’. until y’know. rory & company got fed up and murked the previous director. and out of spite and anger, rory became the new guardian at a young age, and because they also wanted to get back at the other people who went along with their abuse because why would their violence end at just the guardian, started to delve deeper into the underground and raise up rank to the point that in their developed age ( i imagine late 30s ) that Rory now is one of the more powerful heads in town.

[kraniumet]

“you want me to not have copyright on my own work? you want a big megacorp to just be able to take my work and make money on it, or making it so nobody will ever see it, leaving me entirely out of the loop, if they desire?”

the current copyright system:

[mister13eyond]

the fun thing about making a comic where i've vaguely appropriated the aesthetics of christianity but entirely eschewing the actual religion is that i get to come up with headcanons for my universe like "hell isn't eternal punishment at all, it's literally just a big meat grinder where people's souls are sent to get converted to demon food. which isn't really all that different than the default option, where a soul is simply released back into the universe and becomes part of the big ocean of mana out there"

[linoguy]

i wonder at what point skz started to feel like they couldn't live without each other or that they felt like family. obviously it doesn't happen one day and you notice it but just from a human standpoint, i'd be so curious to know their povs on that

[fissions-chips]

Mundane sort of ‘magical creature AU’ thought but- a sad notion.

Y’know how urban wildlife is typically viewed? Like… seagulls. “Trash birds”, heavily loathed, often chased away despite the fact that they are only trying to adapt to a human, urban world. Or coyotes, widely hated and hunted when they encroach upon human settlements for the risks they pose- despite the fact that they were there first.

Idk. That happening with mythical creatures- again, it falls back into that idea of something that was once respected or revered (moreso in the case of magical creatures than true wildlife, but still) now being reviled and ‘common’ for the crime of being simply inconvenient.

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[natasha-in-space]

Aaah Mia I was so excited to see that you watched Barbie! What did you think of it?

Alright, I'm gonna put this under the cut for anyone who wants to avoid spoilers!

Faye, would you believe me if I told you that this was very out of my usual comfort zone? :D Because it was! I never really watch movies like these. Actually, pretty much the only movies I make a point of checking out nowadays are horror movies. Especially indie horror movies! (A24 my beloved) I don't talk much about my love for horror genre on this blog, since I know it's definitely not for everyone, but I am, in fact, a huge horror fan. That aside, I went to see the Barbie movie mostly for the aesthetic of it. I honestly didn't have any expectations for it, and that's how I like it. We're all there to have a good time! It doesn't have to be groundbreaking or anything. (I'm looking at you unnecessary internet discourse, I am shooing you away with a comically large broom!) And... I had a good time with it! Had quite a few genuine laughs, was very impressed with the production of it, and the acting was great! This movie was made with love, and you know? That's what I appreciate the most about it. We don't get that often nowadays, sadly. (Definitely not the fault of the creators, the movie industry right now is absolutely horrendous with the way it treats its creators)

I even cried! Wow! But, uh, that's not that impressive, since... I cry at everything. Show me a video of a cute cockatoo snuggling, and I will sniffle away. Well, I do have two specific scenes that are definitely stuck in my head. In a good way!

I couldn't help but think about that scene where Barbie asks permission to be herself, and then she gets told that she doesn't need permission for that as I got back home. That no one can give her permission to do that, because that's just something you start doing yourself. I definitely thought about that scene for some time.

But, oh, my absolute favorite scene was something else.

The moment I cried was when Barbie was admiring the old lady sitting next to her on the bench. Because that's what it means to be human and that's what life is. And she saw her imperfection, and aging, and realized that it was beautiful. Barbie was so afraid of being imperfect, of getting old and dying, and then she saw that all of this could be beautiful too, and she cried, and I cried too.

Overall, I recommend it! It's a heartfelt movie that you can laugh at, cry at, and just have a good time with it. I can see myself rewatching it when I need a pick-me-up :)

What about you, Faye? What are your thoughts on the Barbie movie? 👀

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[mentorshelly]

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Let’s be real—when you first started your business, you were the CEO, HR, marketing, admin, and janitor all in one. You did what you had to do to get things off the ground.But now your business is growing. You’re hiring. Delegating. Scaling.And things are slipping through the cracks. If your small business is running on outdated instructions, word-of-mouth training, or “this is how we’ve always…

[rhysintherain]

Your average upper middle class family has enough money to have nice things, put their kids through school, and not have to think critically about every purchase they make.

Your average billionaire has enough money to convert it to gold and build an island in the ocean out of nothing but gold. And probably to also build a mansion on it and buy a helicopter to commute with.

Those... Aren't the same thing.

Dude, the enemy is not "the group of people who can afford a nice house and car and take vacations and eat well and have enough saved for retirement."

The enemy is the group of people who make it IMPOSSIBLE for EVERYONE to have a nice house and car and take vacations and eat well and save enough for retirement.

In the US, "poor people" USED to be the people who had not-so-nice houses and cars, or who had to rent instead of own. And it's not the dentist down the street who changed that; among others, it's the ultra-rich CEOs and shareholders who refuse to pay a living wage so they can live off your labor, and the exploitative corporations that buy up as much housing as they possibly can and charge exorbitant rent so you'll never be able to own your own home. It's the bosses who decide that "excess" food must be destroyed if it cannot be sold at a price that enriches shareholders. And it's the politicians who encourage and enable all of that.

[onedatasoftwaresolutions]

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[mckinlily]

Plot armor but it’s Bruce Wayne’s wealth.

Bruce is one of the richest men in the world. Bruce does not want to be one of the richest men in world.

He starts by implementing high starting salaries and full health care coverages for all levels at Wayne Enterprises. This in vastly improves retention and worker productivity, and WE profits soar. He increases PTO, grants generous parental and family leave, funds diversity initiatives, boosts salaries again. WE is ranked “#1 worker-friendly corporation”, and productively and profits soar again.

Ok, so clearly investing his workers isn’t the profit-destroying doomed strategy his peers claim it is. Bruce is going to keep doing it obviously (his next initiative is to ensure all part-time and contractors get the same benefits and pay as full time employees), but he is going to have to find a different way to dump his money.

But you know what else is supposed to be prohibitively expensive? Green and ethical initiatives. Yes, Bruce can do that. He creates and fund a 10 year plan to covert all Wayne facilities to renewable energy. He overhauls all factories to employ the best environmentally friendly practices and technologies. He cuts contracts with all suppliers that engage in unethical employment practices and pays for other to upgrade their equipment and facilities to meet WE’s new environmental and safety requirements. He spares no expense.

Yeah, Wayne Enterprises is so successful that they spin off an entire new business arm focused on helping other companies convert to environmentally friendly and safe practices like they did in an efficient, cost effective, successful way.

Admittedly, investing in his own company was probably never going to be the best way to get rid of his wealth. He slashes his own salary to a pittance (god knows he has more money than he could possibly know what to do with already) and keeps investing the profits back into the workers, and WE keeps responding with nearly terrifying success.

So WE is a no-go, and Bruce now has numerous angry billionaires on his back because they’ve been claiming all these measures he’s implementing are too expensive to justify for decades and they’re finding it a little hard to keep the wool over everyone’s eyes when Idiot Softheart Bruice Wayne has money spilling out his ears. BUT Bruce can invest in Gotham. That’ll go well, right?

Gotham’s infrastructure is the OSHA anti-Christ and even what little is up to code is constantly getting destroyed by Rogue attacks. Surely THAT will be a money sink.

Except the only non-corrupt employer in Gotham city is….Wayne Enterprises. Or contractors or companies or businesses that somehow, in some way or other, feed back to WE. Paying wholesale for improvement to Gotham’s infrastructure somehow increases WE’s profits.

Bruce funds a full system overhaul of Gotham hospital (it’s not his fault the best administrative system software is WE—he looked), he sets up foundations and trusts for shelters, free clinics, schools, meal plans, day care, literally anything he can think of.

Gotham continues to be a shithole. Bruce Wayne continues to be richer than god against his Batman-ingrained will.

Oh, and Bruice Wayne is no longer viewed as solely a spoiled idiot nepo baby. The public responds by investing in WE and anything else he owns, and stop doing this, please.

Bruce sets up a foundation to pay the college tuition of every Gotham citizen who applies. It’s so successful that within 10 years, donations from previous recipients more than cover incoming need, and Bruce can’t even donate to his own charity.

But by this time, Bruce has children. If he can’t get rid of his wealth, he can at least distribute it, right?

Except Dick Grayson absolutely refuses to receive any of his money, won’t touch his trust fund, and in fact has never been so successful and creative with his hacking skills as he is in dumping the money BACK on Bruce. Jason died and won’t legally resurrect to take his trust fund. Tim has his own inherited wealth, refuses to inherit more, and in fact happily joins forces with Dick to hack accounts and return whatever money he tries to give them. Cass has no concept of monetary wealth and gives him panicked, overwhelmed eyes whenever he so much as implies offering more than $100 at once. Damian is showing worrying signs of following in his precious Richard’s footsteps, and Babs barely allows him to fund tech for the Clocktower. At least Steph lets him pay for her tuition and uses his credit card to buy unholy amounts of Batburger. But that is hardly a drop in the ocean of Bruce’s wealth. And she won’t even accept a trust fund of only one million.

Jason wins for best-worst child though because he currently runs a very lucrative crime empire. And although he pours the vast, vast majority of his profits back into Crime Alley, whenever he gets a little too rich for his tastes, he dumps the money on Bruce. At this point, Bruce almost wishes he was being used for money laundering because then he’s at least not have the money.

So children—generous, kindhearted, stubborn till the day they die the little shits, children—are also out.

Bruce was funding the Justice League. But then finances were leaked, and the public had an outcry over one man holding so much sway over the world’s superheroes (nevermind Bruce is one of those superheroes—but the public can’t know that). So Bruce had to do some fancy PR trickery, concede to a policy of not receiving a majority of funds from one individual, and significantly decrease his contributions because no one could match his donations.

At his wits end, Bruce hires a team of accounts to search through every crinkle and crevice of tax law to find what loopholes or shortcuts can be avoided in order to pay his damn taxes to the MAX.

The results are horrifying. According to the strictest definition of the law, the government owes him money.

Bruce burns the report, buries any evidence as deeply as he can, and organizes a foundation to lobby for FAR higher taxation of the upper class.

All this, and Wayne Enterprises is happily chugging along, churning profit, expanding into new markets, growing in the stock market, and trying to force the credit and proportionate compensation on their increasingly horrified CEO.

Bruce Wayne is one of the richest men in the world. Bruce Wayne will never not be one of the richest men in the world.

But by GOD is he trying.

[voidolive]

biting and biting and biting the bars of my enclosure