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Where do they get off? (media.piefed.world)

submitted 13 hours ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world to c/funny@sh.itjust.works

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[–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

I don't get it. He hates his job? Is that the joke?

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world 22 points 11 hours ago

I think it's just a human reaction to work sometimes. Like, it's clearly your job and why you're employed, but part of you is also like:

[–] lectricleopard@lemmy.world 18 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

As an engineer, ill frequently get an email or slack message asking me to do something Im employed to do but haven't done in months. I have to drop my current work and try to relearn something that is now slightly different in unexpected ways. And its already broken too, thats why I got the message. Def ruins a day.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I recently received a question along the lines of "Hey do you remember [project we did roughly 18 months ago]? What firmware version did we use on the controller?"

[–] wunami@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago

Someone just assigned me a Jira issue for a project I haven't been on the team for since at least 2 and a half years ago. We didn't even use Jira when I was on that project.