The reason they are paid more than you is because they have a skill you will probably never possess.
Through a mixture of selfishness and manipulation they are able to evade ever having to be self reliant. This means they are experts at getting work done through others.
Which, unfortunately, is what management is all about.
Had me in the first half there.
Watched someone copy an entire file of Python code, paste it into an LLM, ask the thing to ‘remove all whitespace’, copy paste it back, and then be flabbergasted that there’s even more whitespace than before.
I’m thankful it was over a video call and not in person.
But… Python
Python has…
Python has whitespace semantics
You can’t just-
*sigh* we’re doomed
This is one of those rare occasions where the AI was apparently smarter than the person asking the question. It was smart enough not to remove the white space
I feel that’s not a very rare occasion at all.
I’m sorry I made you feel those feelings, truly, but yes, we’re boned ☠️
Then ask it to remove parenthesis from your C code.
Or Lisp
lol that’s even better. I meant to say curly braces.
To be fair, PDFs have always been complete and utter cockshit to deal with and how you deal with it has changed over time.
For awhile there, you used the Print dialog. Because the PDF authoring software was implemented like a printer driver. Because if you know the history of PDF, it makes a certain kind of sense to do it that way because the bones of PDF is PostScript. Except it’s a dogshit way of implementing the UI, because the user is trained to create a file, you click Save. To create a physical sheet of paper, you click Print. Now you’re asking to create a file, by clicking Print. Makes as much sense as the FCC’s website.
Some programs now implement it through the Save dialog, others have a “Save as PDF…” option in the File menu, and others have an “Export” and/or “Export As…” which I bet a lot of folks who know what that means and would know to look there would struggle to turn it into words.
Oh, and then…when I was in high school, they trained us on Office '97. When I was in college, they trained us on Office '03. My first non-minimum wage job? Equipped with Office '07. Ribbon interface, no more File Edit View Preview Tools Help. Microsoft especially has a bad habit of moving shit around so that your tools don’t work the way you’re used to and offering no training or hints that anyone can actually find.
My favorite was when an update would change, hide, or remove a feature I had never heard of that was absolutely critical to one person’s workflow for an essential task that affected everyone, like payroll.
It was real fucking fun arriving in the workforce college educated with computer literacy classes on my transcripts not knowing how to run MS Office because they changed it out from under me. Even if the ribbon interface is objectively superior, they just dumped it on people.
My father found, buried on Microsoft’s website, a tool (I think written in Silverlight because it was about that time) that simulated MS Office 2003, you could click on a function, and then it would play an animation about how to do that function in Office 2007. This wasn’t advertised and it wasn’t shipped on the disc with Office '07, which NEEDED a retraining tool.
Office '10 was different yet again, and they also shifted a lot from XP to Vista to 7 to 8 to 8.1 and that’s when I switched to Linux.
I was driving limo and the CEO client (who I knew quite well, client-wise) spent the first 30 minutes of a trip on the phone insisting that his original password be restored, as the ‘system’ was insisting it be changed.
He told me he has to repeat this every 4 months…To be fair, simply forcing users to create a new password every X weeks is bad security policy.
It is and it’s actually not even recommended best practise to change passwords anymore precisely because of this. It hasn’t been considered best practise since I think around 2016-17 so businesses are really lagging.
If you get governmental contract work and pretty sure not resetting the passwords too often is actually now part of the security requirement but outside of that businesses just do what they think is best regardless of research.
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It’s actually even outright discouraged by NIST.
For those who don’t see the reason why, forced password resets lead to users using predictable passwords like “password2025october”, “password2025november”, etc.
Yep. Back when I was being forced to reset my passwords every 90 days, I needed some way to remember the new password, so I developed a strategy like that. Whatever beverage is currently on my desk plus @ plus the time. Water@1257, for example. It’s so nice to have the option to randomly generate a strong password these days.
More like 3x my salary, but yup…
Today I had to explain to an a linesman (electrical infrastructure technician) what a website was.
He could not get the concept you could just go to a website and he kept googling stuff which doesn’t work because I wanted him to go to an intranet site
Just out of trade school, or old as the trade itself?
I think he was around when the electron came into existence and the dawn of the universe.
Well, were you able to repair a high voltage line? There’s stuff that was very easy for him that you also don’t understand.
Real. It’s almost painful to watch some people struggle with such simple things while I’m literally coding my own utilities for fun
Bruh, I worked in a university for some time and the number of high-level staff and tenured professors who have no idea how to use basic tech in their courses is alarming. A lot of them earn six figures and can speak so eloquently, but can’t function without course assistants or adjuncts.
I swear, that actor captures the face of psychotic, narcissistic rage so well it’s scary.
He did beat up a 21-year old while drunk, so maybe he’s able to channel something from deep within when he takes on the role.
That’s an actor? I thought he was a generic marine from a video game.
You go to your room and watch The Boys right now, young man! And while you do, you best feel very ashamed that you haven’t done so sooner.
Oh. I watched that show … Probably up to season two? … A while ago. (And enjoyed it! I had a very little kid at the time and baby Homelander metaphorically moved me.)
I’ve self diagnosed as face blind, so maybe that’s the issue here.
edit: This gif makes him look way less cute and way more scary than I remember. I remember him fiddling with his blanket and looking for parental support, not casting a terrifying and disappointed gaze.
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It is unprofessional to raise your voice in the workplace. His incompetence doesn’t justify your attitude.
my four shitty boomer bosses dont even know how outlook works, let alone basic excel. they all make six figures.
my four shitty boomer bosses
it takes 4 of them just to keep you busy - you have become unmanageable.
huzzah
Happened to me the other day. Computer (work laptop) got stuck in a loop in one of our closed systems, and I didn’t have access to the thing that unlocks it and yes…I had to submit a ticket. Just put me in the ground now.
I never got to attend school beyond high school but I’ve been able to get by in many things. I know quite a bit of technology, I build my own computers, used to tweak, adjust, maintain, fix and install/uninstall/reinstall my Windows software all the time … I’ve kept just about every electronic device I’ve ever owned over the past 20 years - and they all still function. Now I’ve moved onto Linux and open source software and now enjoy spending my time tweaking, testing, destroying and playing with it all as much as possible in my spare time.
Meanwhile, I have a couple of friends who are the same age as me and they came from well-to-do families who helped them go through years of university and now they’re doctors, lawyers, dentists, teachers and administrators.
They have a ton of training and schooling … yet I’m the one they come to for help when it comes to their home computers, work laptops and any electronic device. When they can’t get my help or I’m not available or I don’t have time, their usual solution to electronic problems is to throw the thing away and buy something new.
The disturbing part of seeing them throw away old devices, laptops and desktops is that no one ever thinks of wiping or destroying the drive. I’ve picked up so many old drives, laptops and devices that still have so much sensitive data on them its unbelievable.
I think doctors and lawyers needing help with their computer is fine. That’s the “I have a deep knowledge in this specific subject at the expense of not knowing much outside of it.”
But I’m more interested in knowing how you do your testing? Is it some super specific set of hardware / software? I ask because sometimes I have an issue and I don’t know if it’s some mixture of software packages or versions or hardware, or maybe I just found a bug and should report it.
Save it from what?
A video!
from deletion
Adobe?
Reality check: you don’t make boatloads of money for having useful skills everyone has (or should have). You make boat loads of money when you have useful skills that few people have.
Reality Check: You make, or don’t, make boatloads on money based on your social skills, and your status at birth.
You can literally map zip codes at birth to salary.
The useful skill of being born rich so you could go to an Ivy League School.
Reality check: your relation to capital determines how many boat loads of money you make
Instance doesn’t check out.
I just assumed it was some new refugee who landed on the flagship but nope, two year old account that’s been dodging .ml State Security somehow
Or just be born into a rich family. Not sure that counts as a skill really.
Been born into a rich family and then murdering your way to your inheritance without getting caught, now that’s a skill.
The useful skill of being able to sack hundreds of people to make a few dollars for shareholders and still be able to sleep at night.
Or, in simpler terms, a lack of empathy.
So you believe we live in a meritocracy? I find that staggering at this point.
what illiterate upvoted this grift?
20 upvotes and 16 downvotes. Crazy work.
That is definitely not true when everyone seems to have that one horror story where they have an incompetent coworker a level above them.
Wish I could help ya… 🤷♂️
