Are they full, or is there a small subsection that has them and we’re giving them undue attention? I rarely come across such things myself, though that’s obviously anecdotal, I feel that at least means there’s plenty of space that isn’t dominated by what you speak of.
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Hey, that song is beautiful!
I’m talking about a cultural problem started by Henry Ford over a hundred years ago called the assembly line. Where you only have one job to do and you do it over amd over with little variation. It started in industry, but shows it’s face in every profession.
Im glad your personal experience is better, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t a very dangerous trend in most professions that this entire post is literally complaining about.
Yes, situations should be more ideal for the worker. But they’re not. That is my entire point.
Why is diversity bad? Shouldn’t we want multiple avenues, as long as competition is fair?
Of course! It can and should be something that is encouraged in most, if not all, workplaces.
Im saying that’s not the case, even going outside engineering. The emphasis is on learning and polishing your primary skill, not tertiary, or even adjacent skillsets. If it happens and improves workload, great! But if we catch you doing it when you could be making money instead, for shame…
I would say in professions like engineering, where you are doing more problem solving, there is a higher tolerance. Especially since a lot of PMs and supervisors are or were engineers themselves. But tolerance is not acceptance.
Working with engineers as my profession, these are not professional requirements, they are personal requirements. They make you a better prospect when hiring, but spending time to learn those skills while actually on the job makes you a liability.
One of the jobs I had when working with engineers was basically doing all the digital document management and word processing/excel tasks.
Again, im not saying those skills, or their equivalent in other professions, shouldn’t be part of the general lexicon. Im saying taking the time to learn them, while also being paid, is discouraged. KPI is a thing, and learning new skills makes that go down.
Because it’s basically a text file. The data doesn’t exist anymore once you open it as a CSV on another computer. It’d basically just add zeros to the end.
They could probably get that info from the other file, but that would mean getting that person to give it to you again.
Considering it is being saved in another format, I’d hardly consider this an excel problem.
CSV has existed since before personal computers, much less Microsoft office.
In a capitalist landscape we are trained to only ever be good at one thing. If you do more than one thing, you are worth less because then clearly youre not as good at your primary profession. Even if those other skills benefit that primary profession.
There are, of course, exceptions where managers understand that well-rounded employees provide a bulwark against mistakes and thus inefficiency. But for the most part, if youre not spending time on things that are not your primary responsibility, like learning tangential skills, youre losing them money.
Is the problem that someone else is wrong and we want to relish in the agony of dealing with it?
I’d say it has more to do with feeling under-appreciated for what they do to help workforce. To their colleagues they’re treated as little more than lowly keyboard jockeys until they’re needed for an IT problem, then they’re sent back to languish in the computer mines.
At the end of the day it’s more a managerial problem, as they arent treated as an equal contributor to the group. Despite how much they contribute to overall efficiency and productivity.
Nah, you gotta work there.
So that’s why Zimmerman was an outcast who only had holograms to keep him company? He was a bit brusque? The only other person that tried to keep him company was Barclay, largely because he saw a lot of himself in Zimmerman.
Like I said, it’s something to be worked on, not necessarily a fatal flaw… but to downplay it like you are is vastly under stating his issues.
His entire version line had to be decommissioned because of their personality problems. That’s not just his programming being corrupted.
He, as a person, worked very hard to overcome those problems… but he still has them.
These are all main characters…
If it’s good enough for Guinan, it’s good enough for me.
Do you regret the action if kindness itself, or do you just abhor the response you got from it?
It’s kind of a pain, especially in certain districts in red and purple states where they make it intentionally hard to vote… but for the vast majority of non-voters, either they just don’t care or they think it won’t make a difference who they vote for.
It’s as much a mind game as a foot game.