Melissa Nightingale
@shappy.bsky.social
I’d like to thank all my terrible bosses for helping me get where I am today.
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Just found one of the last places in Canada that stocks Old Bay hot sauce and bought out their entire stock.
Except one bottle.
If you need to know where to find it, dm me.
Except one bottle.
If you need to know where to find it, dm me.
November 11, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Just found one of the last places in Canada that stocks Old Bay hot sauce and bought out their entire stock.
Except one bottle.
If you need to know where to find it, dm me.
Except one bottle.
If you need to know where to find it, dm me.
Reposted by Melissa Nightingale
Listen. Listen. @shappy.bsky.social and I are making new stickers and they're going to be very good. That is all.
November 5, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Listen. Listen. @shappy.bsky.social and I are making new stickers and they're going to be very good. That is all.
Today.
It’s hard to push decision-making to the edges if we're not sure how the edges are making decisions.
www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...
www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...
The price of admission - Raw Signal Group
It's hard to push decision-making to the edges if we're not sure how the edges are making decisions.
www.rawsignal.ca
October 15, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Today.
Reposted by Melissa Nightingale
Pictured: @shappy.bsky.social trying to get out of the way of the photo.
Also pictured: @johnathan.bsky.social well, uh, doing the exact opposite.
Also also pictured: new window art at the bank (our HQ is a restored bank if you’re new here hi 👋)
Also pictured: @johnathan.bsky.social well, uh, doing the exact opposite.
Also also pictured: new window art at the bank (our HQ is a restored bank if you’re new here hi 👋)
October 1, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Pictured: @shappy.bsky.social trying to get out of the way of the photo.
Also pictured: @johnathan.bsky.social well, uh, doing the exact opposite.
Also also pictured: new window art at the bank (our HQ is a restored bank if you’re new here hi 👋)
Also pictured: @johnathan.bsky.social well, uh, doing the exact opposite.
Also also pictured: new window art at the bank (our HQ is a restored bank if you’re new here hi 👋)
Today’s.
The first and easiest gut check in terms of whether your workplace surveillance is helpful or harmful is this.
www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...
www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...
If you're not reading this email, you're fired - Raw Signal Group
The first and easiest gut check in terms of whether your workplace surveillance is helpful or harmful is this.
www.rawsignal.ca
September 3, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Today’s.
Reposted by Melissa Nightingale
Reposted by Melissa Nightingale
"It's fair to ask why one should have to compel people to use a tool if it's so obviously incredible." @rawsignal.ca on the AI boomlet and the hazards to their own workers many tech CEOs are ignoring.
How did they not know?
mailchi.mp
July 23, 2025 at 11:32 AM
"It's fair to ask why one should have to compel people to use a tool if it's so obviously incredible." @rawsignal.ca on the AI boomlet and the hazards to their own workers many tech CEOs are ignoring.
Reposted by Melissa Nightingale
reading this week's @rawsignal.ca email on the bus, almost missed my stop
July 23, 2025 at 12:56 PM
reading this week's @rawsignal.ca email on the bus, almost missed my stop
Do you really hate the work that much?
www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...
www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...
Bring your slop to work day - Raw Signal Group
It's definitely giving some low-key asbestos vibes.
www.rawsignal.ca
May 28, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Do you really hate the work that much?
www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...
www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...
While they’re doing that,
while they are out there on the edge of what’s possible,
stop
fucking
with
the
seating
chart.
while they are out there on the edge of what’s possible,
stop
fucking
with
the
seating
chart.
If one more exec pastes one more link about workplace dips in productivity, the managers are going lose it.
www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...
www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...
20k of headache - Raw Signal Group
If one more exec pastes one more link about workplace dips in productivity, the managers are going lose it.
www.rawsignal.ca
April 30, 2025 at 1:28 PM
While they’re doing that,
while they are out there on the edge of what’s possible,
stop
fucking
with
the
seating
chart.
while they are out there on the edge of what’s possible,
stop
fucking
with
the
seating
chart.
OH @rawsignal.ca HQ on Newsletter Tuesday:
"I don't think we can add in the Fraggle Rock thing cause it's gonna take at least 150 words to explain what we're talking about"
"I don't think we can add in the Fraggle Rock thing cause it's gonna take at least 150 words to explain what we're talking about"
April 15, 2025 at 5:03 PM
OH @rawsignal.ca HQ on Newsletter Tuesday:
"I don't think we can add in the Fraggle Rock thing cause it's gonna take at least 150 words to explain what we're talking about"
"I don't think we can add in the Fraggle Rock thing cause it's gonna take at least 150 words to explain what we're talking about"
Reposted by Melissa Nightingale
"Forcing dedicated and decorated staff to resign based on their gender identity is not good fucking management. Eliminating a program literally focused on elevating great management is…well it’s not great."
See? 🔥🔥🔥
See? 🔥🔥🔥
April 5, 2025 at 1:22 AM
"Forcing dedicated and decorated staff to resign based on their gender identity is not good fucking management. Eliminating a program literally focused on elevating great management is…well it’s not great."
See? 🔥🔥🔥
See? 🔥🔥🔥
Reposted by Melissa Nightingale
"Midnight layoffs of gold-standard teams finding hundreds of millions in savings is not good management. Eliminating policies that drive transparency and accountability is not good management. Double-counting and faking your metrics is not good management."
April 5, 2025 at 1:22 AM
"Midnight layoffs of gold-standard teams finding hundreds of millions in savings is not good management. Eliminating policies that drive transparency and accountability is not good management. Double-counting and faking your metrics is not good management."
Reposted by Melissa Nightingale
"Intentionally putting teams into chronic stress is not good management, it’s ideology. Sending conflicting orders within the same management chain is not good management, it’s incompetence. Understaffing critical roles is not good management, it’s poor impulse control."
April 5, 2025 at 1:22 AM
"Intentionally putting teams into chronic stress is not good management, it’s ideology. Sending conflicting orders within the same management chain is not good management, it’s incompetence. Understaffing critical roles is not good management, it’s poor impulse control."
Reposted by Melissa Nightingale
I missed this when it first dropped, but damn @jonathannight.bsky.social @shappy.bsky.social this is 🔥❤️🔥
www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...
www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...
Run it like a business - Raw Signal Group
You should have just said "run it badly."
www.rawsignal.ca
April 5, 2025 at 1:22 AM
I missed this when it first dropped, but damn @jonathannight.bsky.social @shappy.bsky.social this is 🔥❤️🔥
www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...
www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...
The froth has subsided.
And in its wake,
organizations
have found
some truly
short-signed
approaches to
labour.
www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...
And in its wake,
organizations
have found
some truly
short-signed
approaches to
labour.
www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...
April 2, 2025 at 4:34 PM
The froth has subsided.
And in its wake,
organizations
have found
some truly
short-signed
approaches to
labour.
www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...
And in its wake,
organizations
have found
some truly
short-signed
approaches to
labour.
www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...
Reposted by Melissa Nightingale
If you self-identify as a people-pleaser, and you’re in management, look over here for a sec.
Where are the people-pleasers? - Raw Signal Group
The biggest issue for people-pleasing leaders isn't that they need to be tougher. Or scream more. Or play a different boss on TV.
www.rawsignal.ca
March 20, 2025 at 12:41 AM
If you self-identify as a people-pleaser, and you’re in management, look over here for a sec.
Reposted by Melissa Nightingale
The anger we talk about here is real — the need people have to fight us on it. It's part of why @shappy.bsky.social and I are still here eight years in making noise about it.
To be worthy of your time, work needs to have dignity, meaning, and impact.
The heart of it - Raw Signal Group
To be worthy of your time, work needs to have dignity, meaning, and impact.
www.rawsignal.ca
February 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM
The anger we talk about here is real — the need people have to fight us on it. It's part of why @shappy.bsky.social and I are still here eight years in making noise about it.
Reposted by Melissa Nightingale
From me and @shappy.bsky.social, for our people watching their work be torn apart by leaders deliberately breaking shit.
Nothing about this is temporary - Raw Signal Group
The thing you can't do, even when the entire world is upside down, is freeze.
www.rawsignal.ca
February 5, 2025 at 11:11 PM
From me and @shappy.bsky.social, for our people watching their work be torn apart by leaders deliberately breaking shit.
In case you need a slow boot today, here. I got this for you. open.spotify.com/playlist/2F2...
Raw Signal Mornings
Playlist · Johnathan Nightingale · 58 items · 56 saves
open.spotify.com
January 31, 2025 at 1:44 PM
In case you need a slow boot today, here. I got this for you. open.spotify.com/playlist/2F2...
The social card pulled its own copy. Swear.
We wrote about, you know, the ~~~everything~~~. And what you should be doing if you’re in a management position right now.
(Which is, to be fair, what @shappy.bsky.social and I always write about. But nevertheless!)
(Which is, to be fair, what @shappy.bsky.social and I always write about. But nevertheless!)
Apropos of everything - Raw Signal Group
If we’re honest about it, Mark Zuckerberg has been icky for a long time.
www.rawsignal.ca
January 22, 2025 at 11:50 PM
The social card pulled its own copy. Swear.
Reposted by Melissa Nightingale
I’m sure you *can* write about wrong-headed and menacing corporate attempts at performance management without referencing The Princess Bride, but why would you?
Today’s newsletter from me and @shappy.bsky.social
Today’s newsletter from me and @shappy.bsky.social
I do not think it means what you think it means — Raw Signal Group
Attaching the word performance to something doesn't automatically make it a good idea. In fact, most of the time when we see performance initiatives announced, they have the opposite of their stated i...
www.rawsignal.ca
November 28, 2024 at 1:55 AM
I’m sure you *can* write about wrong-headed and menacing corporate attempts at performance management without referencing The Princess Bride, but why would you?
Today’s newsletter from me and @shappy.bsky.social
Today’s newsletter from me and @shappy.bsky.social
This app would like you to know that I am a nerd. Zero surprise, app.
And I would like you to know that tomorrow's newsletter is fighty as all hell. If you're subscribed on a work account that filters for swearing, um, gonna need you to go sign up with your personal account please and thank you.
And I would like you to know that tomorrow's newsletter is fighty as all hell. If you're subscribed on a work account that filters for swearing, um, gonna need you to go sign up with your personal account please and thank you.
September 18, 2024 at 12:23 AM
This app would like you to know that I am a nerd. Zero surprise, app.
And I would like you to know that tomorrow's newsletter is fighty as all hell. If you're subscribed on a work account that filters for swearing, um, gonna need you to go sign up with your personal account please and thank you.
And I would like you to know that tomorrow's newsletter is fighty as all hell. If you're subscribed on a work account that filters for swearing, um, gonna need you to go sign up with your personal account please and thank you.