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Fellow job-having goons: How do you get over your crushing misanthropy and general apathy to actually apply for something and act excited in order to get it? Also, does anyone else have the lingering suspicion that most of office work in America could be done by like 3 people total?
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Badger of Basra posted:also: someone running for student government president told the college republicans that he supports campus concealed carry and told the university democrats he doesn't. nice job bro I don't know anything about college student government but is that a thing the student president would have any input into whatsoever? bradburypancakes posted:
see also: most non-office work in america PupsOfWar fucked around with this message at 04:46 on Mar 4, 2015 |
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Mar 4, 2015 04:44
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bradburypancakes posted:Fellow job-having goons: How do you get over your crushing misanthropy and general apathy to actually apply for something and act excited in order to get it? ah, i see you're applying for grants issue with only having 3 staff: who do you blame?
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Mar 4, 2015 04:44
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My Imaginary GF posted:issue with only having 3 staff: who do you blame? Those miserable fuckers that set you out to suffer on this god-forsaken planet.
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Mar 4, 2015 04:46
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has a student government ever done anything
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bradburypancakes posted:Fellow job-having goons: How do you get over your crushing misanthropy and general apathy to actually apply for something and act excited in order to get it? grade A bullshitting
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Mar 4, 2015 04:47
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PupsOfWar posted:I don't know anything about college student government but is that a thing the student president would have any input into whatsoever? our student government can lobby the legislature since we're like three blocks away but otherwise not really. it's just a litmus test
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Mar 4, 2015 04:47
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Nintendo Kid posted:has a student government ever done anything http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine_university_reform_of_1918
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Mar 4, 2015 04:48
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Nintendo Kid posted:has a student government ever done anything Our is doing a lot of things, actually. Badger of Basra posted:our student government can lobby the legislature since we're like three blocks away but otherwise not really. it's just a litmus test It's good times living in the State capital. 
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Mar 4, 2015 04:49
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Nintendo Kid posted:has a student government ever done anything my highschool student govt got us reduced priced tickets to hershey park
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Mar 4, 2015 04:51
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nutranurse posted:my highschool student govt got us reduced priced tickets to heresy park 
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Mar 4, 2015 04:51
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phonepostin heresy park wouldve been cooler tho
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Mar 4, 2015 04:52
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bradburypancakes posted:Also, does anyone else have the lingering suspicion that most of office work in America could be done by like 3 people total? While it's not ideal to hit a point where you just have goons sit around being paid to post, ideally you want enough staff that everyone who is working doesn't need to be 100% mission efficient with no down time for nine hours straight because then people go crazy and mistakes start happening. But don't worry, a lot of managers came to your same conclusion during the recession and were able to cut positions and whittle down staffs to skeleton crews but the job market was so uncertain it wasn't like anyone could go anywhere else for a job (if you had a job).
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Mar 4, 2015 04:54
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Watching RoboCop 2 now. Robocop? More like Robocreep!
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Our is doing a lot of things, actually. like??
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Berke Negri posted:While it's not ideal to hit a point where you just have goons sit around being paid to post, ideally you want enough staff that everyone who is working doesn't need to be 100% mission efficient with no down time for nine hours straight because then people go crazy and mistakes start happening. once when i was doing temp work one summer i got was supposed to do office work for some random company (punch data into excel spreadsheets) but... it had already been done. the completed work was, like, right there on the computer on the first day i was there and no one seemed to notice. so for like 2 weeks i got paid to post because i squirreled that loving project away onto my thumbdrive and gave it back to them at the end of my contract am i proud of that moment? nah, not really, but at the same time middle managers can be really bad at their job.
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Mar 4, 2015 04:59
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Berke Negri posted:
I wasn't really talking in any sort of "gently caress the employees" sense but okay! It's just that my current job permits me ample time to gently caress around on the internet, and the vast majority of the people I work with are inefficient wastrels who waste my valuable posting time by calling meetings that result in no action items. See: http://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/ Actually, maybe I think we should just fire everyone!
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Everyone should be given bullshit jobs until we get to the point of just paying everyone to be alive, or doctors, I agree. Edit: Sorry if I came off a little combatative there. You're right, most office work is set up with unrealistic expectations. I think most offices could use more people in them, but working 9-5 is unnecessary for a lot of places. Berke Negri fucked around with this message at 05:04 on Mar 4, 2015 |
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Mar 4, 2015 05:01
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Nintendo Kid posted:like?? [REDACTED] Absurd Alhazred fucked around with this message at 08:45 on Mar 4, 2015 |
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Mar 4, 2015 05:02
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Berke Negri posted:Everyone should be given bullshit jobs until we get to the point of just paying everyone to be alive, or doctors, I agree. It won't be too much longer before we have robot docs that are better than people.
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Mar 4, 2015 05:06
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Berke Negri posted:Edit: Sorry if I came off a little combatative there. You're right, most office work is set up with unrealistic expectations. It's cool, we agree on some points  Hieronymous Alloy posted:It won't be too much longer before we have robot docs that are better than people. 
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Mar 4, 2015 05:10
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:It won't be too much longer before we have robot docs that are better than people. i, too, watched big hero 6
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Mar 4, 2015 05:11
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hey it opened the door didn't it 
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Mar 4, 2015 05:12
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now imagine that, but its your body
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Mar 4, 2015 05:12
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my work question: best way to cope with being reassigned to a nonsensical job because the government is composed 100% of dumb cocksuckers
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Mar 4, 2015 05:13
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Jagchosis posted:my work question: best way to cope with being reassigned to a nonsensical job because the government is composed 100% of dumb cocksuckers 
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bradburypancakes posted:It's cool, we agree on some points http://io9.com/5983991/computers-are-better-at-diagnosing-and-treating-patients-than-doctors http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/04/health/quest-to-eliminate-diagnostic-lapses.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 The software's almost there already. Hieronymous Alloy fucked around with this message at 05:17 on Mar 4, 2015 |
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Jagchosis posted:my work question: best way to cope with being reassigned to a nonsensical job because the government is composed 100% of dumb cocksuckers the answer to all things relating to workboredom is to
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Mar 4, 2015 05:17
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:http://io9.com/5983991/computers-are-better-at-diagnosing-and-treating-patients-than-doctors if it means doctors lose their inflated wages then im all for it
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Mar 4, 2015 05:18
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Jagchosis posted:i, too, watched big hero 6 http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~cga/bighero6/#Build1 which leads to..  
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Mar 4, 2015 05:19
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nutranurse posted:if it means doctors lose their inflated wages then im all for it booooo it's a bit more than work boredom though, i am skilled in financial regulation, but i procrastinated on something and as punishment now i am put in intelligence against my consent. nothing about my life makes sense anymore.
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Mar 4, 2015 05:22
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nutranurse posted:if it means doctors lose their inflated wages then im all for it doctors hate using checklists and medical software that automatically determines drug interaction issues and poo poo a lot, but it turns out once oyu force them to do it on penalty of firing they make way less mistakes and the practice/hospital ends up liable for a lot less poo poo
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Mar 4, 2015 05:22
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I'm sure that in the year 3000 when we have the secrets of our fabulous star engines and matter forges, society will still force you ride a stationary bike for 8 hours a day for access to the power of the cosmos. We are just pathologically unable to decouple hours worked from the inherent worth of a person.
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Mar 4, 2015 05:26
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youtubes of robot infantry kills is going to be hosed up and crazy and I'm gonna watch 'em all
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Mar 4, 2015 05:26
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:I'm sure that in the year 3000 when we have the secrets of our fabulous star engines and matter forges, society will still force you ride a stationary bike for 8 hours a day for access to the power of the cosmos. We are just pathologically unable to decouple hours worked from the inherent worth of a person. to be fair itd be a great way to combat obesity
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Mar 4, 2015 05:26
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:I'm sure that in the year 3000 when we have the secrets of our fabulous star engines and matter forges, society will still force you ride a stationary bike for 8 hours a day for access to the power of the cosmos. We are just pathologically unable to decouple hours worked from the inherent worth of a person. imagine the wall e society minus fat people it would own
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Mar 4, 2015 05:28
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whats the problem with a nuclear energy iran, constantly inspected, and how is it any more dangerous than a nuclear armed israel, which doesnt even declare its nuclear arsenal?
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Mar 4, 2015 05:43
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Zeitgueist posted:i sure don't but there's apparently whole facebook groups devoted to get angry about hbo changing poo poo The show is mostly better than the books, because it actually has editors and people who filter out Daeny having daenyhrrea.
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TEAYCHES posted:whats the problem with a nuclear energy iran, constantly inspected, and how is it any more dangerous than a nuclear armed israel, which doesnt even declare its nuclear arsenal? objectively isnt we're just bitches of our terrible client state in the middle east
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