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That is pretty awful. But you know, and maybe this is just me being too fatalistic due to what’s happening in my own professional life, but most of what we do i
by draw_down 7y ago
That is pretty awful. But you know, and maybe this is just me being too fatalistic due to what’s happening in my own professional life, but most of what we do is a waste of time in some sense.
Just shovel the shit, get paid, and move on. They want it changed? great, change it. They want a form that does something stupid, fine, build it. A lot of people spend their work day ringing up plastic crap that people don’t really need, or whatever. Which is to say it could be worse.
Of course part of what sucks about this story is that the author failed to do the “get paid” part correctly, but I’m speaking generally. I just can’t get too attached to outcomes anymore.
- RhodesianHunter 7y agoThis is depressing to read. It's still a very in demand line of work. If your day to day is that miserable try finding some place that isn't.
- draw_down 7y agoIt’s not miserable really, I just sense the pointlessness in it, and in what happens in most of corporate America. Where I work is considered rather desirable actually, here and elsewhere. I’m well compensated which is the point of a job after all. I think there is wisdom in acknowledging that you’re there to shovel the shit, and then shoveling the shit, and leaving it at that.
- barking 7y agoI can empathise with his point of view. Sometimes all going the extra mile gets you is a shrug of the shoulders or worse, grief. If tv didn't exist, people would be more impressed with you for inventing blurry 405 line b&w than high definition colour. The latter makes it look easy, the former gives them some inkling that it's a technically difficult task. They'll be more grateful and impressed as a consequence.