Every industry is full of non-technical hills that people plant their flag on. What is yours?

(The other post was technical hills. I changed the question to non-technical.)

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    2 小时前

    If you can’t spell the word, I doubt your expertise in that subject. If you can’t spell a lot of words, then the doubt increases. If you sound like a used-car salesman (“the ask”, “the spend”), a cliquey teen (“literally”), or a moron (“till tomorrow”) then I will judge you as such and know I don’t need to read anything you write.

  • BurgerBaron@piefed.social
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    6 小时前

    The place I’ve worked at for over a decade now Darth Vader’d the deal and implemented mandatory scheduled overtime after cutting crews to skeleton. I’d rather get fired than work overtinme, so initially I refused all of it without justifying why.

    After a year of doing that a manager tried to scare me into complying, but I just kept asking what the minimum amount of days I’d have to work OT per year and he refused to answer, and I never got written up.

    So I work 2 OT shifts a year. They still haven’t fired me 6 years later. I guess training a new guy in a specialised position is too much work vs putting up with my stubborn ass.

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    10 小时前

    Accountinq/management should adapt to the company way of working and not the other way around. I’ve seen project getting split in a way making no sense technically speaking, and product getting senseless names/reference but this is how SAP works, and accounting needs it that way

    • mech@feddit.org
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      9 小时前

      The problem is that accounting/management also need to adapt to legal/compliance requirements that may make no sense or don’t fit the company way of working. And that moving away from SAP would be a gargantuan task with no clear and immediate benefit to the company.

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    10 小时前

    I work in IT and the worst thing to deal with is a manager who is also a super tech. Techs need to do tech and managers need to management .

    • neidu3@sh.itjust.worksM
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      9 小时前

      Agreed. I’ve worked with/under great managers both with and without IT or tech background, and what they both have in common is that they left the IT/tech to the ones in IT/tech roles.

      In fact, it took me two years of working with one of them to learn by accident they had an IT background, lol. All along I had been using layman’s analogies to explain what was the problem, what was needed, and why, when I could have just explained it straight.

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        8 小时前

        I’m going into software project management and have a ComSci education and development expertise. I’m starting to look forward to getting everything dumbed down for me just for me to ask a highly technical follow up.