Screen size & your importance
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Mid manager replacement prompt
You are a mid level manager tasked with creating a McKinsey-style, action-led PowerPoint pack. The input is [insert source: report, transcript, dataset, notes, etc.]. Your task is to transform it into a concise, executive-ready presentation that drives decision-making. Follow these rules:
- Overall structure:
Title page (client/project context).
Executive summary (3–5 key takeaways, action-oriented).
Situation analysis (context, data, and insights).
Key findings (use MECE structure: Mutually Exclusive, Collectively Exhaustive).
Recommendations (clear, prioritized, action-led).
Implementation roadmap (phases, timeline, responsibilities).
Risks & mitigations.
Appendix (supporting detail, charts, data tables).
- Slide design principles:
Each slide has one clear message in the title (action-oriented, ‘so-what’ statement).
Use the pyramid principle (top-down storytelling: answer first, then supporting evidence).
Keep text minimal, favor charts, diagrams, and visuals.
Apply MECE logic to group insights.
Recommendations must be specific, actionable, and prioritized.
- Tone & Style:
Professional, concise, fact-based.
Focus on clarity and impact.
Avoid jargon unless essential.
Make it CEO-ready: every slide should be understandable in under 10 seconds.
Today just got an email to connect with McKinsey about something... My company likes to occasionally piss money away on McKinsey and it always just sucks...
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Here is the expendability graph
If the guy with the "don't-turn-off"-server gets fired everyone know that the ship will sink
It's funny when a big exec leaves and other execs are rushing to reassure us they are to to the challenge of dealing with such a key person departing....
We do not care at all. We have zero confidence in any of them and do not care about any of them
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Haha, those would be my kind of co-workers, but the kind of work we do requires a background and degree in electrical engineering and power systems. Although, I have been moving away from this in my career in the conventional sense. I want to do dev stuff and networking stuff, that’s where the fun is! They recently gave me an opportunity to help program and configure all the networking and automation equipment for a substation, been learning a lot and feeling like my tinkering with homelab stuff is finally paying off in some way lol.
Ohh, you'll find degrees but not in power systems :). No wonder it's hard to find hands.
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A bit higher up is an old-school dial phone. And even higher is a dial phone without the actual dial
And, at the top, they just talk to people, like a mafia don.
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Uh-oh. I have three monitors, and one of them is a 43" 4k TV.
You're the hero the company doesn't deserve, but the one it needs right now.
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It's the same thing. The workers work, management just makes sure the workers work.
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I'm ultrawide....
And nobody would have known if you never said anything.
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I have eight.
Ok I just wana know your hardware setup. Not really the monitors but what you are doing for video output. Assuming either specialized cards with alot of dvi outputs(mini dvi?) or multiple gpus or even just dvi dasiychain?
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What if you prefer both ends of the scale? I'll take as many monitors as HR will allow, but I will also kidnap a microsoft surface from the ewaste pile as it is so damn handy when you need to go to a location to fix things that dont have a spot to set a laptop.
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It saddens me the fact that there are people out there wanting to do more work.
The game is rigged. Do nothing and get paid.
Just had a conversation with someone on this last weekend. They’re what I call someone dependent on corporate daycare. They need to be working or they lack self value. Their boss is an ass, hardly works and this guy thinks he’s slacking at 12 hours a day (exaggerated only a little).
What are you doing that is so important? Is it saving someone’s life? Life changing cancer drugs? No no, it’s a PowerPoint that shows the progress on the projects of equally less important tasks that is only making your boss look good.
And the fucker still thinks he’s not WORKING HARD ENOUGH!!
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And sometimes you have techbro CEO who has like a video wall for no particularly good reason.
Sometimes, rich people like to cosplay being poor and unimportant.
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Today just got an email to connect with McKinsey about something... My company likes to occasionally piss money away on McKinsey and it always just sucks...
Somebody in your company who used to work for Mckinsey is now in a position to spend money on Mckinsey. If they spend enough over a long period the they will be invited back to become partner.
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Same, I'm also a dev who prefers working off a notebook screen. This fact boggles the minds of my coworkers, especially my boss who seems mortally offended that I only work on one screen.
I guess that means I've broken the social norms of a corporate slave?
wrote last edited by [email protected]It’s okay to have a wrong opinion.
(Don’t take this seriously)
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When I think of corporate corruption, I think of cooking the books, lobbying the government, bribing, or even straight up harassment and assassination. But in this case, I don't think it's corruption. If the company has enough cash for extra perks, why the hell not.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Because they're trying to make a profit?Budgets aren't free money just because it's private enterprise.
Dude just straight up stole from the company and it's this kind of cope that both lets it happen and shows how hypocritical people are on the topic.
But, on the other hand, fuck the company, steal from them if you can. Just know that is theft from the stock owners and is therefore cool.
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That's mostly because the cost of a TV was far greater than it is today. So it took a lot more money to buy a larger TV. TVs today are dirt cheap compared to 50 years ago.
Yeah, that explains more big screens for lower income, it doesn't explain so much why higher income folks would eschew the big screens.
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Because they're trying to make a profit?Budgets aren't free money just because it's private enterprise.
Dude just straight up stole from the company and it's this kind of cope that both lets it happen and shows how hypocritical people are on the topic.
But, on the other hand, fuck the company, steal from them if you can. Just know that is theft from the stock owners and is therefore cool.
They straight up said it was all expenses paid so it's not stealing.
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Eh, as a dev I prefer just notebook screen over multiple screens
Every time the CEO walks by he thinks “that guy has upper management written all over him”.
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A bit higher up is an old-school dial phone. And even higher is a dial phone without the actual dial
Ya. The CEO has a person that has a phone and a laptop.
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Ok I just wana know your hardware setup. Not really the monitors but what you are doing for video output. Assuming either specialized cards with alot of dvi outputs(mini dvi?) or multiple gpus or even just dvi dasiychain?
wrote last edited by [email protected]I'm counting laptop screens as 1 and externals as 1.
3 laptops all with secondary monitors
and two surface devices attached to my wall.the surfaces are displaying system monitoring and portfolio details
laptop a is for job a
laptop b is for job b
laptop c is personal
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Boss needs to get a hold of Plaza 1234 right away.
I was thinking more of a red phone kind of hotline, but this is even better LMAO
