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TheBlackVegetable posted:LLMs, and ChatGPT 4 particularly, are proving very useful for programming assistance - you just have to know exactly what you want, how to ask the right questions, and how to validate what is produced. They're useful if you're an expert so you can correct them. That's exactly the reason I don't use it, I'll just do it right the first time or actually learn from a mistake. Too many AI psychos where I work overusing it.
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blackmet posted:The typical person making up free form communications for a financial institution has a pretty terrible grasp of English. So, I sort of get why you would want to use an AI to turn their gibberish into something professional. Oh I'm aware. Get this: we wholesale. We're not only stupid, we're scum of the earth AND can't find our rear end with both hands, an assistant and a mirror. I just had someone use the phrase "guaranteed market returns" in an email I was copied on. I may take the rest of the week off to lie in a dark room alone and scream.
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Another day, another interview with someone who's lied so egregiously on their CV that they can't even bullshit their way through softball questions. What's more frustrating is that these applications are supposedly being screened by a recruiter. Our requirements are simple - C#, API, database testing experience. All you need, I'll take someone experienced in another language if they have the other two because the skills are largely translatable. Today's guy listed he had C# experience but couldn't tell me what a class was. API testing but had never used Postman nor could tell me what a GET request did (and that's the emergency break glass "gently caress this person might not have ever seen an API before" question). He did know how SQL works, at least. We're now into month 2 of this recruitment process and no signs of actually getting a candidate. Either people applying are perfectly qualified but live 3+ hours away (and we have to be in the office 2 days a week), or don't have the experience they say they do on their CV. We offered one person I used to work with but unfortunately the salary offer was barely over what she's currently making. I am well over 300 CVs now. gently caress.
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EvilHawk posted:Another day, another interview with someone who's lied so egregiously on their CV that they can't even bullshit their way through softball questions. What's more frustrating is that these applications are supposedly being screened by a recruiter. Our requirements are simple - C#, API, database testing experience. All you need, I'll take someone experienced in another language if they have the other two because the skills are largely translatable. Sounds like your company is being too stingy to get the talent they want.
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Apr 17, 2024 17:57
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EvilHawk posted:Another day, another interview with someone who's lied so egregiously on their CV that they can't even bullshit their way through softball questions. What's more frustrating is that these applications are supposedly being screened by a recruiter. Our requirements are simple - C#, API, database testing experience. All you need, I'll take someone experienced in another language if they have the other two because the skills are largely translatable. I wouldn't want to be in the office 2 days a week to do those things either. Gonna have to pay more to get someone for that.
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Apr 17, 2024 18:23
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Yeah, you'll have to do: 01. Pay more 02. Allow fully remote 03. Both Probably in that order, but maybe reverse 1 & 2 to find someone.
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EvilHawk posted:Another day, another interview with someone who's lied so egregiously on their CV that they can't even bullshit their way through softball questions. What's more frustrating is that these applications are supposedly being screened by a recruiter. Our requirements are simple - C#, API, database testing experience. All you need, I'll take someone experienced in another language if they have the other two because the skills are largely translatable. My company has been understaffed in every technical area since 2020 because they also require people to come into the office 2-4 times a week (depending on department) and nobody in leadership will budge on that.
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satanic splash-back posted:My company has been understaffed in every technical area since 2020 because they also require people to come into the office 2-4 times a week (depending on department) and nobody in leadership will budge on that. I’m required to come into the office for “collaboration and team building”. Nobody else on my team is at this site. I commute to the office to talk into a webcam all day. 
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Execs really underestimate how much WFH is worth to some people. I've got a coworker who is pretty open about how he's turned down higher paying work because they wanted him to come into the office anywhere from 25-100% of the time, and the money he's saving on child care means that he's effectively making more here than he would there. Me? I just like my morning commute to be from the bedroom to my office, enjoy petting my cats during the day, and am willing to pay a bit for that if need be.
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Going from 2 days a week in the office to 3 days kinda sucks. Something about that 3rd day in a row really seems to drag the week out. I have been doing it for a couple months now, and miss Thursdays at home. Really destroys my willingness to be productive on Friday. And it’s not like I have a long commute (15 minutes depending on lights), it just sitting in the office waiting on teams calls to start sucks. I have had people stop by my desk an average of about once a month since I started this position 2 years ago, and the extra day hasn’t changed that.
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Apr 17, 2024 19:31
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I currently make more than I ever have to drive to an office 5 days a week and do nothing for 8 hrs plus an hour lunch break. I had a day of work 2 weeks ago, and I just got word that I’ll have another day of work in 2 weeks.I mean I can’t complain too much, but it’s ultimately unfulfilling. Thinking about studying to be a project manager or computer toucher.
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Apr 17, 2024 19:51
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Krustic posted:I currently make more than I ever have to drive to an office 5 days a week and do nothing for 8 hrs plus an hour lunch break. I had a day of work 2 weeks ago, and I just got word that I’ll have another day of work in 2 weeks.I mean I can’t complain too much, but it’s ultimately unfulfilling. Thinking about studying to be a project manager or computer toucher. Play your cards right (or wrong?) and you can have computer toucher money doing the exact same level of work as you are now.
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Apr 17, 2024 19:58
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wash bucket posted:I’m required to come into the office for “collaboration and team building”. Nobody else on my team is at this site. I commute to the office to talk into a webcam all day. I commute to the office to talk into a webcam all day to people who work in the same building.
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Apr 17, 2024 20:25
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Dameius posted:Play your cards right (or wrong?) and you can have computer toucher money doing the exact same level of work as you are now. Ahhh, life could be a dream.
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Salami Surgeon posted:I commute to the office to talk into a webcam all day to people who work in the same building. Same. I'm doing the bare minimum to meet the '2 days in office per week' requirement. I do half days on Tuesday and Thursday and fill them with meetings so people don't bother me.
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My office has one day in the office, to which I simply don't go in Also they're all getting covid and I'm not, not sure what that's about
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kdrudy posted:They're useful if you're an expert so you can correct them. That's exactly the reason I don't use it, I'll just do it right the first time or actually learn from a mistake. Too many AI psychos where I work overusing it. It's like a virtual junior hire you are forced to manage for no additional salary
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We're "encouraged" (but not required) to go in three days a week. The company that bought us (and is now spinning us back off) is constantly discussing making four days in a requirement, but nothing's happened so far (Because they know it will result in a mass exodus) and the CEO of our company has repeatedly said "Nah, this is working fine" So I dunno how that'll shake out. The push by Facilities to change to a four day, 8 hour work week is still happening, and I wish them godspeed.
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Apr 17, 2024 21:55
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The four 10-hour day work week is so good
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I just got asked by two different people to provide a profile picture for an email announcement today. Guess who's about to get reorged!?
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Lazyfire posted:I just got asked by two different people to provide a profile picture for an email announcement today. Guess who's about to get reorged!? Not you. Prepare to be let down. Then if it happens it'll be all the more pleasant.
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Lazyfire posted:I just got asked by two different people to provide a profile picture for an email announcement today. Guess who's about to get reorged!? Are you getting reorged back into your old role before you started your new one?
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20 Blunts posted:The four 10-hour day work week is so good I did this for a couple months at a previous job and yeah. If you find a company that will give you a full 30 minute lunch instead of the 15 minute break for that shift you can't not take the option. The company I worked for that had the 4-10 option gave you the ability to work 5-10s with the 5th day being time and a half AND let you come in for weekend hours. I make 1.5x more at this company than I did working that insane schedule. The only benefit was that the facility was near a really good brewery so I would leave at noon on Saturday and fill a growler on the way home. I miss Outer Light.
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Salami Surgeon posted:Are you getting reorged back into your old role before you started your new one? Based on who asked, I'm about to get sent to non-product contracts, which is fine by me because that's what I've technically been doing for the last year. The manager likes me because I was a dick about getting my last contract signed. Too bad I like my current manager, but there's limited growth in her org. Funnily enough, this may be the right spot for me because I just recently started organizing a long term contract with a supplier that wouldn't fall under my current management's purview. I'll know more tomorrow.
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I just spent the day chasing tails because our manufacturer in China air shipped us 700lbs of short shipped product on 4/11. It's been sitting at LAX since 4/12. No one told me about this and expected it to magically appear at the warehouse by itself. An ops grunt came to me, after bouncing to 4 other people, who are all managers, that shrugged and pointed at someone else as the responsible party. I reached out to our normal freight forwarded and bless that dude because he sure tried but the customs people stonewalled him. I ended up having to draft a limited power of attorney so the customs hold would release the shipment to our freight forwarder. Because the attorney left early. I made the owner sign the PoA. As per norm, she didn't read it and just signed off on it. Meanwhile, I had a solo meeting with a brokerage who would handle every aspect of importing for us, including calculating added landed costs per unit for us, and provide us with daily updates on tracking for these shipments. Literally poo poo I'm manually doing, and takes up about half my time. But we won't use them because.... We're loyal to a forwarder who outsources the customs part and gives us no data. Though they sure did scramble today. I'm really glad I have like 3 people in different departments I can get updates from. This is a trainwreck of the highest magnitude.
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tactlessbastard posted:We are talking about the guy who wants to take away our overtime pay because, and I quote, 'it's not fair for you to get it and I don't' And nobody has egged his car in the parking lot because...?
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I am currently wholly sustained on the entertainment of how violently the jr warehouse associate is rolling his eyes when the sr associate tells him "I remember what to do, I'll write my notes down later" and then immediately doesn't remember what to do and asks me. This is now the second warehouse I'm sad I'm not near retirement age to get a cushy gig at working 8 hour days fulfilling orders at the speed of grandma doing sunday shopping at Walmart. The margin on this poo poo must be astronomical.
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We have been working for over a year to make changes to our system. Extensive testing of pretty much every function our custom software does. A couple months ago it was decided that we were going to containerize our data for added security so they copied all of our DBs into new instances and we tested there, though very limited compared to what we've been doing. Mostly just "hey go and see if this screen works, maybe do some updating or adding of data." Our team bangs this out. Then a couple of weeks ago "Oops we hosed up, can you go retest all the screens again?" gently caress. Whatever, it isn't hard and that's what I get paid to do. This time we do the whole thing in one goddamn day. A tester working in a different environment was doing much more extensive testing and logging an absolute shitton of bugs because we have contracted with a company to do the coding for us. We were supposed to go live on the 8th but it was decided after much hemming and hawing that we would delay it for a week because they still had 40 open bug tickets. Probably a good thing, since we were originally going to go live April 1st (lol) and I took the week of the 8th off to go see the eclipse so I wouldn't have been around to help with tickets and troubleshooting. The system went live over the weekend, and everyone logged on Monday to start working. It was a loving. Disaster. Every kind of ticket from "I can't log in" to "the system is eating data" to "our system can no longer do basic math." What's worse is our users have one system to log tickets, and we use Jira so we have to take the ticket from the user, contact them and go through all their steps, then copy all that poo poo over into a Jira ticket. So basically double the work. I verbally mentioned to my team that I didn't know how this could've happened. Like, we didn't test everything but I think we would have noticed things like "when you update a client's address it disappears." Surely something got hosed up along the way. At about 3pm today my boss calls us all into his office, shuts the door and tells us that the reason we're having so many problems is because the loving contractor had a newer, different version of Java installed on their machine and a lot of the code that was written is not compatible with our older version so that's why it's making GBS threads the bed. 
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SubponticatePoster posted:We have been working for over a year to make changes to our system. Extensive testing of pretty much every function our custom software does. A couple months ago it was decided that we were going to containerize our data for added security so they copied all of our DBs into new instances and we tested there, though very limited compared to what we've been doing. Mostly just "hey go and see if this screen works, maybe do some updating or adding of data." Our team bangs this out. Then a couple of weeks ago "Oops we hosed up, can you go retest all the screens again?" gently caress. Whatever, it isn't hard and that's what I get paid to do. This time we do the whole thing in one goddamn day. A tester working in a different environment was doing much more extensive testing and logging an absolute shitton of bugs because we have contracted with a company to do the coding for us. We were supposed to go live on the 8th but it was decided after much hemming and hawing that we would delay it for a week because they still had 40 open bug tickets. Probably a good thing, since we were originally going to go live April 1st (lol) and I took the week of the 8th off to go see the eclipse so I wouldn't have been around to help with tickets and troubleshooting. The system went live over the weekend, and everyone logged on Monday to start working. lol, lmao. loving Java, not even once.
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SubponticatePoster posted:At about 3pm today my boss calls us all into his office, shuts the door and tells us that the reason we're having so many problems is because the loving contractor had a newer, different version of Java installed on their machine and a lot of the code that was written is not compatible with our older version so that's why it's making GBS threads the bed. lol at the flashbacks I had reading this. Glad I don't live that life anymore.
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Krustic posted:I currently make more than I ever have to drive to an office 5 days a week and do nothing for 8 hrs plus an hour lunch break. I had a day of work 2 weeks ago, and I just got word that I’ll have another day of work in 2 weeks.I mean I can’t complain too much, but it’s ultimately unfulfilling. Thinking about studying to be a project manager or computer toucher. The book "bullshit jobs" talks about this subclass of bullshit job. It sounds perfect on the surface, but it eventually drives people completely insane because you feel like you have no purpose
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Thesaurus posted:The book "bullshit jobs" talks about this subclass of bullshit job. It sounds perfect on the surface, but it eventually drives people completely insane because you feel like you have no purpose I read a really striking article about the months and years after the Taliban took back control of Afghanistan 2021. Men who spent their adult lives being rebel fighters in the mountains suddenly got cushy desk jobs in the new government. The entire article is about how miserable they were doing laptop jobs instead of fighting a guerrilla war against the US.
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Thesaurus posted:The book "bullshit jobs" talks about this subclass of bullshit job. It sounds perfect on the surface, but it eventually drives people completely insane because you feel like you have no purpose that's when you get another remote job and double dip
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E: ^^^ or thatKrustic posted:I currently make more than I ever have to drive to an office 5 days a week and do nothing for 8 hrs plus an hour lunch break. I had a day of work 2 weeks ago, and I just got word that I’ll have another day of work in 2 weeks.I mean I can’t complain too much, but it’s ultimately unfulfilling. Thinking about studying to be a project manager or computer toucher. If you're doing nothing for 8 hours a day can you enroll in a course and get paid to pick up an advanced degree?
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wash bucket posted:I read a really striking article about the months and years after the Taliban took back control of Afghanistan 2021. Men who spent their adult lives being rebel fighters in the mountains suddenly got cushy desk jobs in the new government. The entire article is about how miserable they were doing laptop jobs instead of fighting a guerrilla war against the US. Christe Eleison posted:https://twitter.com/quantian1/status/1622017427755212803?s=20&t=NS1IWOLP0M8RBJK6uRv90A
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Lmao https://x.com/metakuna/status/1622034270129618944
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Jaguars! posted:I've read that one too. Absolutely worth a read. Welcome to the resistance. The other resistance.
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20 Blunts posted:The four 10-hour day work week is so good This was my schedule back when I was a board op for a tv station, that poo poo ruled so hard.
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Thesaurus posted:The book "bullshit jobs" talks about this subclass of bullshit job. It sounds perfect on the surface, but it eventually drives people completely insane because you feel like you have no purpose My purpose at a job like that would be posting to every thread on SomethingAwful.com
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