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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 87 points 4 days ago (3 children)

so we can actually see what our friends do all day

Friend: "So you get paid to spend the day periodically typing on your computers, surrounded by lots of large monitors, and several times a day you have video calls with people where you use so much jargon that the conversation is almost entirely divorced from the English language? You just finished an hour long meeting where I overheard every word from both sides of the conversation, and I have no idea what the hell either of you were talking about."

Me: "yes, that about sums it up"

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 17 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I think my friends (the ones that aren't in the same field anyways) would be surprised by how much of my time is sitting around doing shit that a junior should be doing instead of more important engineering-type stuff

"so you just got paid $100 to sit around and watch an intermittently frozen software program for a couple hours and clicking a button every now and then, while answering questions you've answered two or three times before in your message history with this person, and sat in on three meetings that you didn't even need to speak during, and you have absolutely no work product to show for the past two hours of your time yet?"

"yep. I'm gonna blow my brains out if this continues"

ofc, the other side of this is "so you spent 6+ hours working nonstop going straight from task to task while being constantly available to multiple other departments and context switching nonstop, and you finished up three models and documented some project stuff and verified a few applications with calculations and whatnot", to which the answer is the same "yep. I'm gonna blow my brains out if this continues"

[–] wabasso@lemmy.ca 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

watch an intermittently frozen software program for a couple hours and clicking a button every now and then

Too real

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I want to throttle every microsoft employee. I have enough issues with the CAD program itself, I don't need fucking office365 and explorer freezing and crashing nonstop

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Commenting to share this neat video I saw recently from the developer of Windows Task Manager. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQykvrAR_po

Seems like a great guy. He is retired from M$, so probably safe from your throttling anyway.

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago

yeah that was a neat video

[–] richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Every area of expertise has vocabulary that's relevant only to that discipline, is extremely precise and carries a lot of useful meaning. Why would that be bad?

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Why would that be bad?

Its not "bad", but the goal proposal of the OP post was that our friends gain understanding by observing us do our jobs. The jargon means even with direct observation, our friends cannot gain understanding of the jobs we do.

[–] richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 2 points 4 days ago

Then the proposal may be unfeasable for professions with highly specialized knowledge. Dumbing down the jargon of doctors, programmers or architects, for instance, makes no sense given the loss of needed precision. If a mundane doesn't know the workings of the lymphatic system or the uses of the visitor pattern, tough luck.

[–] ClockworkN@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

DevOps?

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Niche IT project work actually, but lots of overlap with DevOps type skills/situations.

[–] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 31 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Hell no. We need a 4day work week so that we can just go and hang out with our friends AND still make enough money to make ends meet.

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 24 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Sorry, Best I can do is take your boss home day

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago

do we have to bring them back? or let anyone see them ever again?

[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 35 points 4 days ago

"Ah! Lore accurate John from work"

[–] dumbass@piefed.social 36 points 4 days ago

Me: So, who is the one I want to punch?

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 25 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Then you accidentally call Fat Accountant by his story nickname.

[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 23 points 4 days ago (1 children)

"Oh hey! It's Cheating Chelsea!"

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

"Oh, she really does have the hots for Slutty Steven!"

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

You must be Micro-Penis Marc-Paul!

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

what makes it worse is he weighs 93 pounds wet.

[–] io@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

wet? 🤨

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Covered in water? I'm tired, isn't that a saying

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 18 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

One of my earlier jobs, security guard, only 1 dude on the assignment out of the whole crew wasn't a friend from school that I still regularly hung out with.

And, coincidentally, that 1 dude who wasn't my friend, was the same asshole who tried to get me fired on my first day at a previous job for his own fuck-up. Nobody likee him at that first job, and the tradition continued at the security job.

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Are there only two jobs where you live?

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago

three, but you have to have "experience" for that one

[–] Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 days ago

I mean, I do have a comfy chair they can sit in as I type stuff and curse.

[–] lemmyseikai@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago

I think you just defined purgatory.

[–] IWW4@lemmy.zip 6 points 4 days ago

Yeah and your idiot friends start spewing all the shit you don’t want your coworkers to hear.

[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

i work in a sex dungeon. i don't think my friends want to see what i do lmao

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

... Does it pay well?

[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Pretty well! Accounting for prep time (makeup, outfit, etc.) and cleanup time, it's about double the hourly rate of my other jobs I've had where I "use" my stupid biochem degree. However I don't have a guaranteed number of hours. Some months it's only a few :(

I need to get a 9–5 again I'm running out of money 🤷‍♀️

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

However I don't have a guaranteed number of hours. Some months it's only a few :(

I need to get a 9–5 again I'm running out of money 🤷‍♀️

Damn, I feel you there. After 5 months of job hunting while unemployed, I took a part-time job (it was all I could find) which has slowed down for the winter. I'm lucky to get 13hrs in a week.

Struggling :(

[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 days ago

so sick of living in the race to the bottom economic system

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I already work with all my friends so problem solved?

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Do you work with all of your friends or are your coworkers your only friends? It's an important distinction.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

Most of the people I work with were my friends long before. My boss and my grand-boss I’ve know for 30 plus years. I also have several other friends I work with that I hang out with occasionally outside of work. I do have other friends but they were originally part of that same group I’ve known for 30+ years.

[–] webp@mander.xyz 4 points 4 days ago

Would never happen

[–] notreallyhere@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

nice idea