Álvaro Barbado 🦖

Los que me conozcáis, sabéis lo que me apasionan los juegos de mesa. Por eso, estoy especialmente orgulloso del episodio de @mejorconecta2 que lanzamos esta semana: youtube.com/watch?v=6ktgU4… De la mano de @APJUEGOS @merybliya y @EdPrimigenio

@MiqRuz_ ¿Qué es ser "facha"? Cuando todo es fascismo, nada es fascismo. No he visto los comentarios (evito los pozos de roña de Twitter), pero de verdad que creo que se banaliza con este término con una ligereza...

Leo los comentarios y veo cosas vomotivas. ¿Como es posible que gente que juega a Pokémon, Mario, ve anime o le gusta el mundo friki en general, sea facha? ¿Si habéis crecido y os habéis culturizado con todo eso, como tenéis ese pensamiento? ¿No habéis aprendido nada de ello?

Alucinando con la cantidad de gente “tolerante” que sigue este programa, como bien demuestran los comentarios. Bueno, en realidad me sorprende poco…

Gran recomendación de @chemapamundirl en @ElmamboPodcast . El problema es que ahora necesito más mandanga en esta línea para llenar el vacío… 🙏🏼

Happy MAR10 Day from the cast of the @supermariomovie! #FallonFlashback #MAR10Day

Recuerdo perfectamente este número, y a mis padres mandándome a la cama cuando estrenaron tremendo peliculón ❤️

@Ananda19701718 Noooooo… para nada 😜

@AlvaroBarbado Lo tuyo son los castillos/mazmorras 😁

¿Qué juegos en solitario sacáis cuando 'no os apetece jugar'?, en el sentido de que queréis algo conocido que funcione: •Bullet •Citizens of the Spark •Small-Time Heroes •Leviathan Wilds •Fantastic Factories •Rogue Dungeon •Kinfire Delve •Arquitectos de Stonespine

Entre las editoriales que sacan juegos sin revisar y cargados de "bugs" y los creadores de contenidos enzarzados en batallitas de egos, el sector de los juegos de mesa está cogiendo los peores vicios del de los videojuegos. Qué pereza, madre...

@AngelesOrtas @cabify_espana Te dan 3 euros de saldo y ya creen haber solucionado un problema que se repite con cada reserva… muy mal

@AlvaroBarbado @cabify_espana Así llevo reclamando desde el 7 de enero porque el conductor llegó tarde y perdí el ave. Tuve que comprar otro billete y no me quieren abonar los billetes

“Reserva tu trayecto y viaja más tranquilo”. Mientras, @cabify_espana … pedido desde ayer para recogida a las 09:05 y esto me dice:

🤯🤯🤯🤯

Le dessin du jour, par #Félix

@cabify_espana Enviado. Me pregunto cuánto me cobraríais vosotros si me presentara en el coche con más de 15 minutos de retraso… 💸💸💸💸

@AlvaroBarbado Hola. Lamentamos lo ocurrido. Si ya reportaste tu caso a través de la app, por favor, envíanos tu número de incidencia por DM para revisar lo sucedido. Si no, te pedimos que nos compartas tu mail de registro por esa misma vía para poder ayudarte con lo que nos comentás. Saludos.

Eso a las 08:57. De verdad que es imposible ser puntual por culpa de esta gente. Menudo servicio…

Las saraos que se montan en mesa con Descent: Leyendas de las tinieblas… 🔥 ¡Arrancamos campaña del acto 2! 🤘🏽

@ibuprofeno600mg @Criminalsimpson Directo al corazón 🖤💔

@Criminalsimpson @AlvaroBarbado 😪

Last September I announced mandatory return-to-office. Five days a week. I called it a "culture-first initiative." Culture means presence. Presence means badge swipes. Badge swipes mean metrics. Metrics mean I can prove something to the board. I don't know what. But I can prove it. The announcement went out on a Tuesday. I sent it from my home office. In Aspen. I have an exemption. "Strategic leaders require location flexibility to maintain global perspective." I wrote that policy. HR approved it. HR approves everything I write. By Wednesday, 340 employees had updated their LinkedIn status to "Open to Work." I called it "natural attrition." Natural attrition means they quit before I had to pay severance. Very natural. We lost 47 engineers in the first month. I told the board it was "alignment correction." The people who left weren't aligned. With coming to an office. That I also don't come to. But that's different. I'm strategic. The office costs $4.2 million per year. Empty, it was a write-off. Now it's a "collaboration hub." I measured collaboration. Average daily Zoom calls from the office: 7.4 per employee. They commute 45 minutes. To take calls they could take from home. But now they're "present." Presence is culture. I've never been more certain of anything. A senior engineer asked why we couldn't stay remote. She had metrics. Productivity was up 23% during remote work. I said, "Productivity isn't everything." She asked what else mattered. I said, "Serendipitous collisions." She asked how we measure serendipitous collisions. I said, "You can't. That's what makes them serendipitous." She stopped asking questions. Then she stopped showing up. Then LinkedIn said she's at a company that's "remote-first." Good luck with that. They'll learn. We installed badge tracking software. It cost $380,000. It tells me exactly when people arrive. And when they leave. And how long they spend in each zone. I check it every morning. From home. The data is fascinating. Average arrival time: 9:47 AM. Average departure time: 4:12 PM. I sent a Slack message. "Core hours are 9 to 6." Arrival times shifted to 9:02 AM. Departure times shifted to 6:01 PM. Productivity did not change. But the metrics look better. Metrics are culture. We have a "hybrid" option now. Three days in office. Mandatory Monday. Mandatory Wednesday. Mandatory Friday. That's called "hybrid." Because Tuesday and Thursday are optional. But there are "anchor meetings" on Tuesday and Thursday. Attendance is "strongly encouraged." "Strongly encouraged" means mandatory without the liability. I learned that from legal. The head of product asked if he could work from home when his wife had surgery. I said, "Of course. Family comes first." Then I said, "But let's revisit your Q4 performance targets." He came to the office. His wife understood. I assume. I didn't ask. That's personal. The CFO asked about ROI on the RTO policy. I showed him the badge data. "Presence is up 340%." He asked if revenue was up. I said, "Revenue is a lagging indicator." He asked what the leading indicator was. I said, "Badge swipes." He nodded. The lease renews next year. Seven more years. $29 million committed. We needed bodies in the building. Now we have bodies. Fewer than before. But present. Morale is down. Glassdoor says we're "hostile to work-life balance." I told HR to respond. They wrote, "We're a high-performance culture that values in-person collaboration." That's corporate for "the review is accurate." But it sounds like a rebuttal. The CEO asked if RTO was working. I said, "Absolutely." He asked for evidence. I showed him a photo of the office. Full desks. Glowing monitors. Bodies in chairs. He smiled. "This is what culture looks like." It looked like a stock photo. Because I got it from a stock photo website. The real office has 40% occupancy on a good day. But he doesn't know that. He's also remote. We're both strategic. Next quarter I'm proposing a "collaboration bonus." $2,000 for anyone with 95% badge-in compliance. The bonus costs less than the turnover. And it shifts the narrative. We're not forcing people to come in. We're "incentivizing presence." Incentivizing means paying people to do something they don't want to do. It's different from mandating. Legally. The employees who stayed are "loyal." Loyalty means they have mortgages. And kids in school districts. And RSUs that haven't vested. They're not loyal. They're trapped. But on paper, it looks like loyalty. And paper is what the board sees. I've been doing this for 22 years. I know what culture looks like. It looks like butts in seats. Butts in seats mean control. Control means management. Management means me. RTO isn't about productivity. It never was. It's about seeing people. So I know they exist. So I know they're working. So I know I'm in charge. That's culture. As long as the badge swipes go up and to the right.

To believe this is about drug smuggling, you have to ignore Trump’s pardon of the former Honduran president for drug smuggling. To believe it’s about Maduro’s democratic legitimacy, you have to believe Trump cares even slightly about democratic legitimacy. Alternatively:

It was Rob Reiner who gave us this

Ya me jode aguantar a alguien con un perrito caliente al lado como para soportar esto.