#6things: Robots are coming, Simon Meth Gets Me and I hate Slack but love diversity

DAAAAAAANNNNG.

If you have a toxic workplace culture, this article right here (titled “Monsters”) is a scary warning. Granted, there is a lot of bad blood between Pando, Sarah Lacy (@sarahcuda) and the coiffed “Chads” and “Matts” that run around Silicon Valley (no offense to Chad and Matt) — but this is a pretty spot on article about some shady stuff going on period. Maybe it’s time to drain that other swamp? Or, barring that, just make sure your workplace culture doesn’t turn swampy in its pursuit of well…whatever I guess, power, information, money, prestige. (Pando)

The Robots are Coming For you

Google already gets everything. You can almost hear LinkedIn crying “Google, google, GOOGLE!” like Jan Brady. Yes, Google is coming for your jobs, not YOUR job, but to show you the jobs. Roy Maurer (@SHRMRoy) dissected this new offering for SHRM and collects viewpoints from Joel Cheesman (@joelcheesman), Chris Russell (@ChrisRussell) and other industry veterans for a well-rounded look at this stranger thing. (SHRM)

Giving everyone a DEMOTION

TBH, I thought this was way dumb when I read the headline but actually it seems pretty awesome. I might steal it for Red Branch Media (@RedBranch) someday when I am made of money. Creativity is the lifeblood of any place of work and summer can sap it right out of you! (AdWeek)

Well it’s old news NOW of course

But Lumesse has shutted popular TalentObjects, which is super weird because the way I hear tell, that was gonna be Lumesse’s saving grace for a hot minute. The word on the street is staff got 5 days to clear out their desks. Not to be a bit*h or anything but that’s messed up. Marc Mapes (@marcmapes), the face of TO for many of us, will be in SFO celebrating HRTechWorld next week, so if you’re looking for someone like him, you should go there too. (FB)

You don’t have to play racquetball with your dad’s friends anymore!

Because you’ll probably lose (old dudes are the BEST at racquetball) and it also won’t get you the job. See, this is what I do, I take serious stories published in the Harvard Business Review and make them trite. Anywho, weak ties, a popular 70s theory still vomited up in jobseeker classes today, is not relevant. Instead, Workplace ties are the ticket to finding a job.

More than 60% of the storytellers reported that someone they had worked with in the past helped them find their next job versus the 17% who reported weak ties had helped. So…still networking, just be nice to the people you work with and for. (HBR)

Not Slacking Off in the Diversity Dept

I really like this post on Medium. The tl;dr version is…Slack has been working on diversity for awhile AND they’ve been measuring it. And while there were some solid gains, they’ve identified areas in which they can improve AND focused on being transparent with the data. If they pushed the needle forward, they list it here, but if they didn’t, they’ll say so. While no diversity program is perfect and we all wish they weren’t necessary, this is a welcome antidote to this. Oh, also they show WHAT they are doing to move forward which is also v cool. Brava Slack! Even if I will never use your awful, terrible, no good product that everyone loves but me. (Medium)

Office IRL and I cannot watch

This is so, so, so BAD. And I praise Athena that Celinda Appleby (@celly_app) brought it to my attention.

No disrespect to PWC but these trainers need to get their mind checked and also their Netflix queue. How do you not know you are making a parody of a satire show? That’s crazy!

I don’t even know what a shabooya roll call is, outside of the Office. And I would like to keep it that way PWC! (Mashable)

Bonus:

I’m in love with Robin’s podcasts

Markup or Max Bill Rate? You be the judge

This is Proof Simon Meth Gets Me

This is why I am not Wonder Woman…yet