With all of the accusations of posts being bots, I began to think of my over posting and decided to just group together stuff I found that correlate with each other. I've mostly run into stuff about jobs and remote work, so here we go.
First up, managers believe people who work in an office work better because they are being monitored.
This follows up with the second article, people seeking jobs and jobs being offered have shown a decline in remote work. It doesn't really show much because the remote workers want a desk at random times away from their house.
However, the third article shows that the bosses and workers may just be using weaponized incompetence. This is where someone feigns incompetence so others will do their work. Bosses use that to have underlings work harder.
At the same time, AI and automation is taking away jobs quickly. If there are no workers there is no need for a boss. All we need now is a brain computer, which is my last article.
Some people simply don't do their jobs when they're not watched. My girlfriend's company has been working from home since COVID and she always has problems with people blowing deadlines now because they're too busy jerking off and watching anime instead of doing their jobs since nobody is watching them. They tell themselves that they'll just cram at the last minute and when they fuck that part of the plan up "oopsie" deadline blown.
Anyone who thinks differently simply isn't occupying the same world and reality that I am. You can't trust people to behave when there isn't accountability. In fact, it's the opposite: you can trust that people will NOT behave, and over time, their odds of not behaving will increase as they test boundaries and find none.
You’re definitely not wrong but It’s a weird balance though. I’m definitely guilty of being distracted at home, but I’ve also put in a lot of like 12 hour days that I would’ve never let happen in office
I'm going to just lay it out for you:
The vast majority of jobs are redundant at best and outright detrimental at worse.
People like Kaarous will say "people just want to be lazy", but the honest truth is that most people can get their 8 hours of "work" done in about 2 hours.
Everything is so hyper efficient that many people only have a job so that people have money to buy and pay for things.
I've said my job exists because people are stupid. I don't care though because I'm well paid and I can do it in my pajamas. If I don't do my job it's evident right away so working remote isn't that big of a deal. I do feel I dick around less when I'm in the office but at the same time thanks to muh open floor plan there are way more distractions and its a lot harder to buckle down and focus.
I had a job once that involved doing 6 house calls over a 10 hour period, split into four hour blocks. I was always able to get my 6 calls done with at least 2 hours to spare and sometimes 4-5 hours, at which point there was no incentive for me to do extra work. Some techs were hopeless and could barely get through half their calls and were always begging me to take their jobs to help them out. Yet we got paid the same. Place had HIGH turnover.
Friend of mine is a trucker and they throw in all kinds of incentives. If he makes extra stops he gets paid for each one. More work directly means more money.
Very true. The economy is turning into a trade a barter system with technology being the crux of how to do it. This negates the entire economy, job system, and financial status of everything. The entire globalism push is the top level people trying to stop it so they still have control.
Speaking from experience, remote work is mostly an excuse to be lazy. Most people will lay around their house, proverbially or literally jacking off. To get value out of most people remotely you need to create a level of monitoring that just is weird, along with the expense of company devices for the remote workers.
Exclusively digital jobs have their own problems, because they're prone to being shipped off to India. Turns out 20% quality of the work at 10% of the cost is supposedly good business.
Most people are working jobs that produce zero to negative value to the company and the current work ethic is to "reward" people who finish their tasks with more fucking work at the same pay.
This idea that people are "lazy" because they no longer have to pretend to work for the last 2/3 of their day is one of the most Boomer ass takes I can imagine.
That's what happened to me. Instead of loading one truck very tightly over the course of a few hours I now have to load several trucks in the same time, which I can't do as neatly, which gets me yelled at.
Haha, you're fired. Go work for a millennial.
So you think the desire to be paid to sit around your house isn't the literal definition of laziness?
No, it's rational. If the reward structure is the same, it's foolish to expend more energy. To put it another way, unless accurate tracking and performance based incentives are in place there is no logical, self-interested reason to domore. Companies threw away goodwill first by treating workers as overly replacable.
You are overly replaceable. Your worth is directly comparable to the effort and expense it would take to get another one of you. That is the truth.
Now, as to why that's the case, your labor is devalued largely because globalism exists. Globalization of the labor market devalues everyone by having you compete against foreigners.
Does that suck? Certainly, and the neocons and liberals are traitors to the nation for implementing it. It is however still reality.
Nor does that change the fact that it is actually possible to be a valuable, irreplaceable worker. I have a good job because I'm a skilled professional. I can't be replaced easily, and I'm treated accordingly.
God, you're one of those "time to lean, time to clean" brownnosing dicksuckers, aren't you? You know, the ones that spend the last 12 years of their youth sucking up to the teacher?
If you think people aren't fucking the dog at work, you are fucking clueless. I've had actual blue collar jobs that, if I actually met my quota for the day, would result in the company literally looking for menial tasks to keep me busy for the rest of the day in a weeks time.
Not even close. Hell I was homeschooled.
Dunno why you think I'm a boomer either, I'm gen x. I find millennials and boomers to be equally worthless, just for different reasons. Boomers are consummate hypocrites who sold the country into debt slavery for vague promises of good times. While millennials are useless mental children who if they had their druthers would live like the Fat Vampire from Blade.
Gen X are just Boomers with their baseball cap backwards
Cry more, my cup's not full yet.
That's alot of words to say you're a faggot. Go back to antiwork.
I quit having businesses with employees way before losers that bad came along. Imagine being so retarded you'd hire that guy.
Yeah, God forbid you want to hire someone who gets their shit done and expects more pay for more work.
Their 'shit' is hours of work in exchange for money. If they stop working, then the money stops.
I agree that's the key. I used to manage people and hated it tbh but I couldn't imagine managing a large team of remote workers.
I've never lead more than a squad's worth of people, after you get bigger than that you need to delegate.
Anyone working in the industry will tell you that this never works out. It always backfires and the company eventually has to hire locally again because the consequences of outsourcing are too costly.
Tell that to Delta Airlines. Their customer service line has been consistently Googi Googi since the mid 2000s.
I guess we have different ideas about what a digital job consists of. I'm thinking more along the lines of IT and not call centers.
Quite a bit of IT requires and/or benefits from in person work. Coding doesn't, certainly. Network stuff does, so does server work. Someone has to put builds and racks together, etc.
Agreed.
Hard disagree. Coding in an IT environment has been a been my focus in the industry for the last couple of years and I'll tell you straight up it is way easier to get customer requirements hammered out and keep people in the loop when you're working in-person. In my personal experience projects progress way smoother and more successfully when working on-site. Can the work be done off-site? Yes. Do I expect the same quality of work when everyone's isolated and disconnected and not having regular human contact? Absolutely not.
I butt heads with a lot of people in my industry on this but I don't think fully remote work is a good thing.
Certainly fair. My personal experience with coding is some freelance database population way back.
It's worse than just a personal irritant, it decays the knowledge base of the country when stuff like that happens.
I say ignore them. Post what you want and let the community decide if its interested.
This would be much simpler if the block function worked properly.
If you work for a corporation, then of course you can skate by doing 2 hours of work a day while being remote. Why you would work to build up the empires of our enemies just to be a well paid lazy sack of shit though, doesn't make sense to me.
Even though I remote worked for 8 years prior to COVID, this current trend of remote work is mostly a bunch of lazy shit asses. The vast majority of Americans would simply quit and start crying if they had to do a mere fraction of what 3rd world developers do.