Vanth

Which is where "minimal effort to understand the problem" comes in.

Also, paying for professional services like an electrician is not the same as "asking for help" in the context of this story. The dude wasn't on the road offering Hercules a bag of coins to get the cart out of the ditch.

Maybe another term you would be interested in reading about it "the Peter Principle". The tendency of competent people to get promoted until they fail. Coupled with some managers getting rid of underperforming employees by helping them find new jobs (and sometimes that means promotions), a "no longer my problem" approach.

It would be lovely if all managers did things to best serve customers, employees, and the greater good of the company, but that isn't reality. Managers are often in competition with each other to scrounge resources for their teams. I don't know that there is a book on this, it's just the reality of our current capitalist economic model.

Under the category, "probably not actually from Aesop".

Hercules comes across a man with his cart in a ditch. The man is standing in the road, he asks Hercules for help. Hercules tells the man to get into the ditch, get his shoulder on the cart, push, and then ask for help.

Don't ask for help unless you've put some minimal effort into understanding the problem and trying to fix it yourself.

Late 2000s

A student and her football player boyfriend were caught behind the school after a game making out and probably more. The girl was made to publicly apologize to the class and then "strongly encouraged" to leave and finish her high school somewhere else. The boy faced no public repercussions and appeared to carry on as normal.

Let's call her "Jenny". For about a year, any time someone pushed the line on public displays of affection per school rules, they were warned to tone it down or they would get "Jenny'd".

Catholic school, in case you couldn't guess.

Public library.

It's fine. I don't prioritize personally-relevant usernames. Using the same username across multiple platforms just makes it easier for data brokers and stalkers to make connections. Most of my usernames are the result of 20 seconds of thought related to some piece of media I have been consuming.

When I picked this one, I was reading about psychopomps in various cultures. This figure was one I hadn't read about before and I figured it would make for a nice, unique handle.

Not Ello!

Jk, I was the only person I knew with an Ello account. I know more people on lemmy and mastodon and fediverse stuff than I did on Ello. It didn't take much to predict it wouldn't work out.

Defensish. Close enough that we overlap some and have a lot of intense rules to follow.

These people throwing company private information into chatGPT are absolutely wild to me. I'm waiting for someone from an actual defense company to get busted and make headlines for putting like missile defense system specs in, and then it's part of the dataset used to feed answers to everyone else.

I work for a company that requires everything to have a privacy policy that meets some minimums. We're technically not supposed to even use Google websearch because putting any question into it potentially sends company information into the world and out of our control. That one's not really enforced, thank goodness.

Without a privacy policy, I guess the calculator app could scrape the numbers you're entering, plus, idk an email and a OneNote entry for context, to reverse engineer the latest doodad we've been designing.

It's difficult to imagine what numbers from the calculator alone could be used for, but combine it with other information and you've got a problem.

Couples going through a rough patch can open-source their marriage.