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Work is sending me over the edge. Corporate jobs are so pointless (hexbear.net)

submitted 11 hours ago by Snort_Owl@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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Ynow I wouldn’t mind if anything i did made even the slightest sense. Like there’s no work to do because there isnt any work. Businesses are just like circle jerking bullshit on all levels while 1 goblin in the basement is keeping everything ticking over so the rest of us can play political battles and kiss ass while doing nothing of value.

Like they’re talking about ai automating jobs but there was no job to automate because we dont do anything.

I keep thinking about the black books sketch of working in the office. Nobody knows whats actually going on or what their job even is you just carve out some niche, get a few consumers of it and thats where you sit in the little piss bucket you have made for yourself knowing deep down it doesnt really benefit anybody.

Just need to mentally check out until i get fired i guess. Use my office hours to make a game the thing i actually want to do.

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[–] iByteABit@hexbear.net 15 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

I thankfully have real work to do generally, but the corporate stuff on the side is completely infuriating to me.

Just pointless rituals one after the other, driven by people who serve as the middle men who keep the executives safe from harm and from having to talk to workers, while fully believing that their fake busy work is something of essense.

Most of it consists of logging our work to various company platforms every day, when it's completely possible for management to derive all of that data from a single source instead. One of the tasks is updating the task's story points (an effort estimation of sorts) after the task is complete according to the time it took, while the time is also separately logged by us and updating the estimations defeats the point of estimating in the first place.

It's complete insanity, and the only real purpose of it is so some corporate analyst/consultant/whatever who has not the slightest idea of what the real job consists of, gets to see some red and green lines on a chart, thinking that any of that data bears any relation to reality.

[–] 30_to_50_Feral_PAWGs@hexbear.net 5 points 5 hours ago

S C I E N T I F I C M A N A G E M E N T ™️

[–] Des@hexbear.net 6 points 6 hours ago

yeah after awhile you just start to think total all-seeing surveillance would be more merciful