• yermaw@sh.itjust.works
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    2 hours ago

    At any given moment, an ambitious snake of a coworker will ask you if you can just do the job youre currently engaged in for them please.

    Its specifically your job, and you were in the middle of it, but now you’re doing it under the direct instruction of this lazy fucker. You can say no, look petty and aggressive and he’ll get chosen for promotion over you. Or of course you can do it, and management will applaud his initiative and he’ll get chosen for promotion over you.

    Brace yourselves, itll happen to you.

    • AeonFelis@lemmy.world
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      5 minutes ago

      “Sure, just let me finish <this exact thing they were telling me to do and I was already doing>”

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    10 hours ago

    I mean, yeah, being required to do something or else you’ll be starving and homeless is pretty fucked up and worthy of a day being ruined.

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        35 minutes ago

        But at no point have we ever been so detached from the means of production. Growing food has a different feeling than sitting in an office.

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      3 hours ago

      Its not fucked up at all. You’ll (the average person not someone with a disability preventing them from working) will always need to do something. Even welfare systems require you to do something or be kicked off.

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        plenty of countries have welfare systems that don’t require anything to use, the incredibly small amount of “parasites” that will abuse these systems are essentially a rounding error.

        most people actually don’t mind working jobs, if it atleast feels like it’s their own choice to work it

        as a whole the US spends more time/resources trying to punish poor people than it would cost just to allow some poor people to abuse the system

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    11 hours ago

    But I am too busy thinking of fixes for problems we haven’t run into yet, why do I have to deal with this problem we did run into?

    • The Picard Maneuver@piefed.worldOP
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      9 hours ago

      I think it’s just a human reaction to work sometimes. Like, it’s clearly your job and why you’re employed, but part of you is also like:

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      9 hours ago

      As an engineer, ill frequently get an email or slack message asking me to do something Im employed to do but haven’t done in months. I have to drop my current work and try to relearn something that is now slightly different in unexpected ways. And its already broken too, thats why I got the message. Def ruins a day.

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        7 hours ago

        I recently received a question along the lines of “Hey do you remember [project we did roughly 18 months ago]? What firmware version did we use on the controller?”

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          Someone just assigned me a Jira issue for a project I haven’t been on the team for since at least 2 and a half years ago. We didn’t even use Jira when I was on that project.