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.
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.
That's alot of words to say you're a faggot. Go back to antiwork.
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.
It's worse than just a personal irritant, it decays the knowledge base of the country when stuff like that happens.