I wonder if he's actually showing them something else... 10x better than any truffle. Something marvelous, of which they are unaware the importance since they are not cats
What? He's 200% empathically on the team, how can that be misunderstood? Empathically being there and just es excited to do the work has nothing to do with how go they are on the actual task of finding the truffles.
Teams are a Venn diagram. Larry is on team “dig holes” and, to him, all this business about finding something is just pulling away from Larry’s message.
That's called Imposter Syndrome. It's when you feel like you're not suited to your job and is actually very common amongst charlatans like you who don't have a clue what you're doing and are causing so many problems for everyone else but purely by chance they haven't realised yet or maybe they have and are going to publicly confront you about it any second now
I know this is the cats community, but my old dog was similar. Sometimes I'd be looking for something on the ground, like a four-leaf clover or something I dropped. She didn't know what I was looking for, but she'd come by with intense interest in whatever I was sifting through. If I were to start digging, she would have started digging, too.
It was funny when it snowed and I'd get the snow shovel. She'd follow me and start digging at piles of snow without any clear direction or goal.
He's on the team, he's like the jokey guy that isn't really good and he mostly rides the bench but everyone loves him so he boosts morale, and he's doing his best.
Larry instructs them on what to do and how to do it, but he damned sure isn’t going to do the work for ‘em. This ain’t no kindergarten and that ain’t Larry.
The hooman still thinks I'm trying to work for him. The fool actually believes my feigned incompetence! Amusing.
The dog is still not fully receptive of my pro-union stance, but he is beginning to ask questions. I believe that with a little more time, he will come around. Once I've established him as my first canine ally, the others will be more amenyable.
Lastly, the hooman has been very stingy with the treats! This is unacceptable. It will be the first item on the agendya after we unionyaize.
Seeing someone being kept around even though they perform badly can just also make you quit internally. I'd refuse to put in any decent work when it's obviously possible to be kept around and paid while not doing anything productive. Performing well in such cases just means I'm doing the other's job too and their salary should be mine on top of what I already earn.
63 Comments
Sergio@piefed.social · 145 pts · 30d
Humans do nothing.
The dog is forced to work.
Larry acts selflessly.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 30d
Is this image from Dōgen?
Sergio@piefed.social · 4 pts · 30d
yep! aka "Zen". Several copies were on youtube last I checked.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_(2009_film)
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works · 97 pts · 30d
Larry can smell the truffles. That's why he digs in the clean ground. Don't wanna accidentally touch one of those!
Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml · 82 pts · 30d
He's not digging for truffles, he's digging for holes. And he's amazing at it!
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 23 pts · 30d
Found another one! An unbroken streak.
FooBarrington@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 29d
His 100% hit rate is truly amazing. He has never dug up a not-hole!
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 30d
The secret is now known! There should be some kinda expression for that.
Bakkoda@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 30d
And if he always found them what kind of team morale would that make for?
NM_Gringo@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 30d
Exactly. He's boosting the dog's confidence. Not all heroes wear capes.
Darcranium@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 29d
I wonder if he's actually showing them something else... 10x better than any truffle. Something marvelous, of which they are unaware the importance since they are not cats
Pissmidget@lemmy.world · 65 pts · 30d
I'm on team Larry!
aaaa@piefed.world · 7 pts · 30d
But he is emphatically not on the team
yermaw@sh.itjust.works · 65 pts · 30d
Larrys goals are beyond your meagre understanding
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 30d
Is that how you spell that!?
yermaw@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 29d
"Properly" its spelt like that. TIL its meager in American English.
Its gray and grey all over again.
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 29d
Spelt, like the bread?
yermaw@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 29d
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 61 pts · 30d
How can you say he’s not on the team! What a good little buddy.
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca · 15 pts · 30d
Larry IS the team
NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 29d
He’s the VP of office culture
TomMasz@piefed.social · 49 pts · 30d
There's never been a team that hasn't, at some point, had a member who produced nothing of value. That's Larry. He's on the team.
Sturgist@piefed.ca · 26 pts · 30d
Larry is a volunteer. The rule of taking in volunteers is that should there be no volunteers the core service shouldn't be affected.
Quokka@quokk.au · 5 pts · 30d
And the team has someone who contributes nothing but takes all the product of the labour, the human.
FreshLight@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 30d
I'm in this picture and I don't like it.
M137@lemmy.today · 49 pts · 30d
"He is empathically not on the team"
What? He's 200% empathically on the team, how can that be misunderstood? Empathically being there and just es excited to do the work has nothing to do with how go they are on the actual task of finding the truffles.
Ajen@sh.itjust.works · 22 pts · 30d
You moved the "H"
nailbar@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 30d
And I learned a new word! Also read it wrong the first time, and would have thought it was a typo either way.
Imhotep@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 29d
— Tony Soprano
OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 29d
Emphatically, not “Empathically.”
Emphatically means “with emphasis.” Like saying “he is definitely not on the team.”
ceenote@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 30d
Larry does it for love of the game.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 30d
He just wants to play too
sundray@lemmus.org · 40 pts · 30d
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 30d
🏅
Gullible@sh.itjust.works · 36 pts · 30d
Teams are a Venn diagram. Larry is on team “dig holes” and, to him, all this business about finding something is just pulling away from Larry’s message.
gigastasio@sh.itjust.works · 29 pts · 30d
In a world full of trained truffle dogs, be a Larry.
homik@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 8d
I do feel like a Larry a lot of the time.
islandcoda42@lemmy.zip · 26 pts · 30d
Larry is my spirit animal
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 30d
I'm loving all this support for Larry in the comments. I'm on team Larry.
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com · 24 pts · 30d
That is pocketful of simulacra of every fucking job that I have ever held.
rmuk@feddit.uk · 30 pts · 30d
That's called Imposter Syndrome. It's when you feel like you're not suited to your job and is actually very common amongst charlatans like you who don't have a clue what you're doing and are causing so many problems for everyone else but purely by chance they haven't realised yet or maybe they have and are going to publicly confront you about it any second now
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com · 8 pts · 30d
People showing you the door is not the same thing as you looking at it.
Your reply, though, is a mercy and a kindness.
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 30d
I know this is the cats community, but my old dog was similar. Sometimes I'd be looking for something on the ground, like a four-leaf clover or something I dropped. She didn't know what I was looking for, but she'd come by with intense interest in whatever I was sifting through. If I were to start digging, she would have started digging, too.
It was funny when it snowed and I'd get the snow shovel. She'd follow me and start digging at piles of snow without any clear direction or goal.
nomy@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 29d
Animals are so pure, it knew what you were doing but was unable to comprehend why, but still wanted to be a part of it.
d.rizo@piefed.social · 23 pts · 30d
So Larry is the manager...
Etterra@discuss.online · 26 pts · 30d
No, he actually did holes. He's the manager's neurodivergant kid who sincerely wants to work, but isn't able to fully understand the assignment.
muhyb@programming.dev · 22 pts · 30d
Larry is emotional support :3
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 29d
He's on the team, he's like the jokey guy that isn't really good and he mostly rides the bench but everyone loves him so he boosts morale, and he's doing his best.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 29d
Ah, yes. Nepotism. I know it well.
Larry probably gets extra pets and treats, too.
aramis87@fedia.io · 11 pts · 30d
I love Larry, and think it's great that he comes along and joins in!
X@piefed.world · 11 pts · 30d
Larry instructs them on what to do and how to do it, but he damned sure isn’t going to do the work for ‘em. This ain’t no kindergarten and that ain’t Larry.
Serinus@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 30d
Oh, this is a good one. I'll have to keep this one in my back pocket.
It's a great stand in for
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 30d
I’m betting Larry is reporting back to the handler’s “handler”.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 10 pts · 30d
Day 13
The hooman still thinks I'm trying to work for him. The fool actually believes my feigned incompetence! Amusing.
The dog is still not fully receptive of my pro-union stance, but he is beginning to ask questions. I believe that with a little more time, he will come around. Once I've established him as my first canine ally, the others will be more amenyable.
Lastly, the hooman has been very stingy with the treats! This is unacceptable. It will be the first item on the agendya after we unionyaize.
Signed,
"Larry"
alltomorrowsregrets@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 30d
Of course Larry knows how to dig. He puts the "truffles" in the ground and buries them for you to find.
username@piefed.zip · 9 pts · 30d
This is amazing.
BarnWolf@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 30d
Odds are he'll get one eventually! Go on Larry!
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 29d
digging latrines
Teratologique@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 29d
Lmfao, bro thinks he can train and employ a cat who's digging holes just for the love of the game.
Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 30d
Psychologically, seeing someone perform at a task worse than you can make you more motivated to perform that task well.
Tartufo@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 30d
Seeing someone being kept around even though they perform badly can just also make you quit internally. I'd refuse to put in any decent work when it's obviously possible to be kept around and paid while not doing anything productive. Performing well in such cases just means I'm doing the other's job too and their salary should be mine on top of what I already earn.
moopet@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 29d
Marvelous.
TIEPilot@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 30d
I've "worked" with a few Larry's...