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>Most office jobs outside of the software engineering bubble are like that. People do very little actual work. It's 2023 and text submission still doesn't auto

>Most office jobs outside of the software engineering bubble are like that. People do very little actual work. It's 2023 and text submission still doesn't auto-add the /s where it's needed. Is that ever going to be fixed?

red-iron-pine 3y ago
Where is the sarcasm? I've been a consultant pulling well north of six figures and had weeks in the office doing fuck-all. 3 hours of meetings and then killing time on Slashdot. Except I had to be in the office, in a button-up shirt, and had to commute. I've done 50+ hour weeks at home, but when it's slow I'll take meetings while prepping a slow-cooker dinner. I had a boss that use to do the 1-on-1 meetings with his team (e.g. me) while running errands. I got used to hearing the sound of self-checkout machines while on that call, lol.
- WarOnPrivacy 3y ago
  > Where is the sarcasm? I thought he was being sarcastic. I could be wrong. Intent can be tough to suss out of text. > I've been a consultant pulling well north of six figures and had weeks in the office doing frak-all. I'm sure it has happened somewhere at sometime; I have heard an anecdote or two. Perhaps three now. But based on what I've witnessed over 30 years of onsite calls (more fields than I can count) - the assertion that "Most office jobs outside of the software engineering ... People do very little actual work" - is false. Massively, bizarrely false. Conspiracy-theory level false. If it were true in the slightest, I'd of witnessed it repeatedly. I would have met people who could testify of it over and over. If not one in field, than another. What I (along with most folks) witness are employees doing actual work, many working to the point of their own physical detriment. Based on widespread reality, I rate the assertion as physics-grade false.

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>Most office jobs outside of the software engineering bubble are like that. People do very little actual work. It's 2023 and text submission still doesn't auto

by WarOnPrivacy 3y ago

red-iron-pine 3y ago
Where is the sarcasm? I've been a consultant pulling well north of six figures and had weeks in the office doing fuck-all. 3 hours of meetings and then killing time on Slashdot. Except I had to be in the office, in a button-up shirt, and had to commute. I've done 50+ hour weeks at home, but when it's slow I'll take meetings while prepping a slow-cooker dinner. I had a boss that use to do the 1-on-1 meetings with his team (e.g. me) while running errands. I got used to hearing the sound of self-checkout machines while on that call, lol.
- WarOnPrivacy 3y ago
  > Where is the sarcasm? I thought he was being sarcastic. I could be wrong. Intent can be tough to suss out of text. > I've been a consultant pulling well north of six figures and had weeks in the office doing frak-all. I'm sure it has happened somewhere at sometime; I have heard an anecdote or two. Perhaps three now. But based on what I've witnessed over 30 years of onsite calls (more fields than I can count) - the assertion that "Most office jobs outside of the software engineering ... People do very little actual work" - is false. Massively, bizarrely false. Conspiracy-theory level false. If it were true in the slightest, I'd of witnessed it repeatedly. I would have met people who could testify of it over and over. If not one in field, than another. What I (along with most folks) witness are employees doing actual work, many working to the point of their own physical detriment. Based on widespread reality, I rate the assertion as physics-grade false.