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Melissa Nightingale

@shappy.bsky.social
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I’d like to thank all my terrible bosses for helping me get where I am today. worldsbestnewsletter.com

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Raw Signal Group @rawsignal.ca · 24/06/2026
Most bosses develop an intuition for when something’s brewing. www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...
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The next step - Johnathan & Melissa
Most bosses develop an intuition for when something’s brewing.
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Pete @barleywhiner.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Feeling this quote as a fairly new manager. “Management is nearly unique as a discipline in that most people doing it were trained to do something else, promoted because of that other skillset, and given little to no guidance on how to do their current job”
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Raw Signal Group @rawsignal.ca · 27/05/2026
As a manager, it's hard to look at these two columns and not ask yourself where your people would place you. www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...
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Have you ever had a bad boss? - Johnathan & Melissa
As a manager, it's hard to look at these two columns and not ask yourself where your people would place you.
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Melissa Nightingale @shappy.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
The Raw Signal Group, 1414 Danforth Ave., stands as one of the oldest bank buildings in Toronto, constructed in 1919, displaying a Neo Gothic and Art Deco architectural style. beachmetro.com/2026/05/20/r...
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R.C. Harris Water Treatment Plant, Kew Beach Lawn Bowling Club among local sites taking part in Doors Open Toronto – Beach Metro Community News
The R.C. Water Treatment Plant on Queen Street East at the foot of Victoria Park Avenue is among the East Toronto buildings that the public can visit
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Melissa Nightingale @shappy.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Team @rawsignal.ca is in @theglobeandmail.com talking dead rats in frying pans and transformation www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/...
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New love for an old bank
‘You can’t move into a building like this and not take care of it’
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Raw Signal Group @rawsignal.ca · 13/05/2026
This is the trick when your job is thinking big thoughts. www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...
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The decision that ruined business travel forever - Johnathan & Melissa
This is the trick when your job is thinking big thoughts.
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Raw Signal Group @rawsignal.ca · 15/04/2026
This is a "what matters is what matters" newsletter. www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...
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The last thing you need humans for - Johnathan & Melissa
This is a "what matters is what matters" newsletter.
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Brandon Rohrer @brandonrohrer.com · 10/04/2026
It's not just you--job hunting today really is a beast. As @shappy.bsky.social and @johnathan.bsky.social put it, the front door is fucked. The secret? Focus on connecting with actual human people. www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...
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Raw Signal Group @rawsignal.ca · 09/04/2026
There's a massive difference between what a lot of workplaces THINK they're asking of their people re: using AI... And what's actually happening. @shappy.bsky.social and @johnathan.bsky.social talked about that difference with @theatlantic.com recently:
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Melissa Nightingale @shappy.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
LET'S GO BUILD THAT
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Melissa Nightingale @shappy.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Shocking, I know. But the loudest conflict going on at work right now is not between prod and eng.
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Melissa Nightingale @shappy.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
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.
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Johnathan Nightingale @johnathan.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Listen. Listen. @shappy.bsky.social and I are making new stickers and they're going to be very good. That is all.
Overhead photo of the Raw Signal Group HQ sticker bowl, with several of our favourites laid out on a coffee table, including the RACI knuckle tattoos, "Super fucking clear", Really just like this, and Swearing is caring.
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Melissa Nightingale @shappy.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Today.
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Raw Signal Group @rawsignal.ca · 01/10/2025
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 👋)
A poster that says “where are the people pleasers” behind a window, with Melissa in the backgroundA poster that says “where are the people pleasers” behind a window with Johnathan making a face in the background
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Melissa Nightingale @shappy.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Today’s.
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Raw Signal Group @rawsignal.ca · 06/08/2025
The difference between the theater of work and actual work. www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...
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None of this is real and it doesn't matter - Raw Signal Group
The difference between the theater of work and actual work.
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Rob Taber @robtaber.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
"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.
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How did they not know?
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Megan @meganreally.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
reading this week's @rawsignal.ca email on the bus, almost missed my stop
Today, over in CEO-club, all the cool kids are forcing their employees to use AI. They write bombastic internal emails, and then post those publicly for their CEO friends to admire and riff on. They tie AI usage to performance evaluation and compensation. They tie it to promotions and headcount requests. These CEOs, many of whom have woefully incomplete policies on hate speech and harassment, are clear-as-day that failing to use this or that LLM is an immediately fireable offence.

It's fair to ask why one should have to compel people to use a tool if it's so obviously incredible, but the CEOs are prepared for that question. Of course the tools are incredible, and many of their team members are already using them. But the pace of adoption needs to be faster. CEO social circles are often full of AI investors who assure them that even more powerful AI is just around the corner. And if their teams need some tough love in order to get with the program and see the vision, so be it.
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Melissa Nightingale @shappy.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
"Sorta like Napster, just post-DMCA." IYKYK www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...
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How did they not know? - Raw Signal Group
We're still in the early days, this is still mostly anecdotes, but the anecdotes are multiplying fast. And they're haunting.
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Melissa Nightingale @shappy.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Do you really hate the work that much? www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...
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Bring your slop to work day - Raw Signal Group
It's definitely giving some low-key asbestos vibes.
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Melissa Nightingale @shappy.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
While they’re doing that, while they are out there on the edge of what’s possible, stop fucking with the seating chart.
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Melissa Nightingale @shappy.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
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"
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Hillary Hartley @hillaryh.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
"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? 🔥🔥🔥
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Hillary Hartley @hillaryh.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
"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."
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Hillary Hartley @hillaryh.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
"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."
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Hillary Hartley @hillaryh.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
I missed this when it first dropped, but damn @jonathannight.bsky.social @shappy.bsky.social this is 🔥❤️‍🔥 www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...
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Run it like a business - Raw Signal Group
You should have just said "run it badly."
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Melissa Nightingale @shappy.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
The froth has subsided. And in its wake, organizations have found some truly short-signed approaches to labour. www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...
Screen grab of a newsletter post. Title is: The enshittification of work" Date "April 2, 2025" Text: The froth has subsided. And in its wake, organizations have found some truly short-sighted approaches to labour. Image: small black beetle pushing fibrous brown ball against a background of red sand.
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Johnathan Nightingale @johnathan.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
If you self-identify as a people-pleaser, and you’re in management, look over here for a sec.
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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.
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Johnathan Nightingale @johnathan.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
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.
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Johnathan Nightingale @johnathan.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
From me and @shappy.bsky.social, for our people watching their work be torn apart by leaders deliberately breaking shit.
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Nothing about this is temporary - Raw Signal Group
The thing you can't do, even when the entire world is upside down, is freeze.
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Melissa Nightingale @shappy.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
In case you need a slow boot today, here. I got this for you. open.spotify.com/playlist/2F2...
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Raw Signal Mornings
Playlist · Johnathan Nightingale · 58 items · 56 saves
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Melissa Nightingale @shappy.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
The social card pulled its own copy. Swear.
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Johnathan Nightingale @johnathan.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
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
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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...
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Melissa Nightingale @shappy.bsky.social · 18/09/2024
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.
Very silly Bluesky certificate showing #103,043, certified bluesky elder first 10%. Username and join date Jun 2, 2023 along the bottom. There is also a ta-da emoji for added festivity.
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Melissa Nightingale @shappy.bsky.social · 04/09/2024
Prepping tomorrow’s newsletter. It is about #xoxofest cause of course it is. And you can get a copy right to your inbox if you want. Worldsbestnewsletter.com
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The World's Best Newsletter — Raw Signal Group
Raw Signal Group’s free, biweekly newsletter about management, leadership, and ridding the world of Sunday Scaries. For good.
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Melissa Nightingale @shappy.bsky.social · 25/08/2024
Flying out of PDX with full hearts and full bellies. Grateful for an amazing #xoxofest
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Melissa Nightingale @shappy.bsky.social · 22/08/2024
OH: I’ve got skulls and puffins and you’ve got stickers, right? Packing for the one and only #xoxofest
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Melissa Nightingale @shappy.bsky.social · 20/08/2024
Ok #xoxofest friends. How there are this many channels but not a single one on circus arts or juggling. Where are you all hiding?
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Johnathan Nightingale @johnathan.bsky.social · 19/09/2023
I feel bad for not telling bsky about my day job but: if you manage a team and it’s hard and you could use some new tools, @shappy.bsky.social and I really are very good at what we do. www.rawsignal.ca/bpx
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BPX — Raw Signal Group
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Melissa Nightingale @shappy.bsky.social · 09/08/2023
Hello world
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