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legorhin rawb
Replying to Kribbles #kribbles1
For me, a degree is teaching you how to learn and having a course on the intricacies of gitlab or docker would be pointless to me because you're missing the fundamentals and just becoming a mindless drone to execute work. And then a master's or phd teaches you autonomy on how to teach yourself how to learn
nearly everything i am doing now is self taught over the last few months
Spooky Phijkchu rawb
Replying to Kribbles #kribbles1
I'm either going to be a research scientist back at my school and hang out with Mint, or I'm going back to the navy and I can say hi to Spooky once a month when I go to DC
Or, you let me croot you to work on satellites
Spooky Phijkchu rawb
And agree with everything Mint said, computing is a weird field because if you're not trying to be an actual chip architect, every other degree/program/certification/internship leads to sorta the same nebulous job
Spooky Phijkchu rawb
So you get stuck with this sorta "prove it" mindset until you find yourself somewhere you got into via connections/nepotism, and have a longer leash to actually do stuff
mtcdood rawb
You wanna pay me to sit around, ok. I'll accept the severance package when my role is eliminated in lieu of involuntary termination because I threaten to sue if you don't classify it that way.
TinyBomby rawb
Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131
I will say, as someone who has worked jobs where I'm told to "watch paint dry" and get paid for it It is usually torturous
I sorta had this issue where I was not being given any work to do, but then my boss would complain that I never do any work and I was just stunned at what I was meant to say to that.
mtcdood rawb
My boss asked me to participate in a project where we'd collect common customer requests. I said I don't spend enough time in the ticket queue to know what common requests are. He was confused by that, then started saying something about that needing to be corrected, then asked what I do all day then.
legorhin rawb
Replying to TinyBomby #tinybomby
I sorta had this issue where I was not being given any work to do, but then my boss would complain that I never do any work and I was just stunned at what I was meant to say to that.
make up tasks then be unable to associate them with any billing accounts
mtcdood rawb
Also provided HR a bunch of examples of the guy simply not being present. New on-call system. Don't know how to use it. No one else does either. Wouldn't give info. Got a guy bothering me at bum o'clock in the morning asking me to do his job for him, brought it to my manager three times. Not even a "I'll talk to management." Got a promotion. Waited 100+ days to be excused from my old role and enter my new one. Repeatedly brought it up. HR had to intervene and I transitioned the next week.
Spooky Phijkchu rawb
Leg and Pika will laugh for me saying this But the most useful thing anyone can do at companies like that is to fuck around with AI all day You either accidentally will solve major problems or at the very least you get a marketable skill you can get a raise for at your next job
mtcdood rawb
I spent the first year or so trying to identify process improvements, write new tools, update existing tools. No one gave a shit, so now neither do I.
TinyBomby rawb
Replying to Garbage #garbageatgaming
Well, my company did do a lot. I just specifically had nothing to do. It was a really weird situation where my company works with "captive shops" to get work done and my company provides the captive shops with engineers. Half the time, the captive shops were NOT receptive to engineers coming in and telling them what they're doing wrong though, so it's just kinda awkward, especially as an entry-level engineer.
Spooky Phijkchu rawb
And when you start managing teams, you realize most work you give them is ultimately pointless/purposeless anyway Even when it's just greenlighting their personal projects and giving them funding, none of it will ultimately serve any purpose or even be used
Spooky Phijkchu rawb
Replying to TinyBomby #tinybomby
Well, my company did do a lot. I just specifically had nothing to do. It was a really weird situation where my company works with "captive shops" to get work done and my company provides the captive shops with engineers. Half the time, the captive shops were NOT receptive to engineers coming in and telling them what they're doing wrong though, so it's just kinda awkward, especially as an entry-level engineer. (edited)
I have a friend doing the same thing, huge engineering consulting company in California
mtcdood rawb
I have stopped short of saying it to work but our 20+ person team is mostly solutions seeking problems, and they are largely personal projects with enough lipstick to look work-related.
mtcdood rawb
Example: Customers ask vague questions. It takes us a long time, sometimes nearly an hour, to guess what they want. Some retard (he's not he's just not being wise) says "Here's my AI project to speed up the guessing process." I'm like... why not ask the customer to clarify AND in the proces soft train them to ask better questions in the future? Nah. The AI project will fix it.
Spooky Phijkchu rawb
Replying to mtcdood #mtcdood
I have stopped short of saying it to work but our 20+ person team is mostly solutions seeking problems, and they are largely personal projects with enough lipstick to look work-related.
Yep, there's no better way to say it that I know 99% of what we bring forward is going to get shelved or not have a customer, but I have the budget and team so I may as well spend it, which ironically looks better for our metrics And when we do find someone interested, 99% of the time it's because they have money they don't have anything to spend on, and have no intention of even seeing the project through beyond a year or two
Spooky Phijkchu rawb
Replying to mtcdood #mtcdood
Example: Customers ask vague questions. It takes us a long time, sometimes nearly an hour, to guess what they want. Some retard (he's not he's just not being wise) says "Here's my AI project to speed up the guessing process." I'm like... why not ask the customer to clarify AND in the proces soft train them to ask better questions in the future? Nah. The AI project will fix it.
Lol, ok that's such a retarded premise I lk might steal that as a shitpost
Kribbles rawb
Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131
I will say, as someone who has worked jobs where I'm told to "watch paint dry" and get paid for it It is usually torturous
Yup. I worked a factory job where I would take turns on an airgun putting nails into a wooden board. Literally, I did 1 nail, passed it off to the other guy, he did 1 nail, and he passed it back to me.
TinyBomby rawb
Replying to Kribbles #kribbles1
Yup. I worked a factory job where I would take turns on an airgun putting nails into a wooden board. Literally, I did 1 nail, passed it off to the other guy, he did 1 nail, and he passed it back to me.
I also had something similar to this, except that I was hired as an engineer and they wanted me to have on the floor training, so they wanted me to work like this for months.
Kribbles rawb
Replying to legorhin #jazardly
push enter in a terminal and sit around for half an hour to push enter again
Someone at the navy did that because she didn't want to think, so she just spent a week clicking the next button every hour.
polu rawb
The position I had in my company before this one was really comfy. They would give me assignments that would take months to complete that I could get done within the day and I spent the rest of the time playing vidya and watching anime.
Kribbles rawb
I enjoyed working at the navy because my boss always had work for me and I could just keep grinding away at cleaning up tasks. I got annoyed that no one else had that motivation, but my current job doesn't allow me to keep grinding away at new tasks and that is so much more soul-crushing.
mtcdood rawb
Replying to legorhin #jazardly
surely nothing could go wrong having an LLM hallucinate gap filling in a poorly posed problem statement
Yeah man. It's hard for a human being to produce a correct, complete, and current problem statement.
CEO of Phijkchu rawb
Replying to mint #wimint
getting my sec+ this summer, decided to skip the other ones
Nice, I only ever ended up getting A+ plus a random router networking cert. Still pissed at my last company for never providing training for the AWS certs they promised me
mtcdood rawb
Another work thing. Guy: Hey <customer> is going to use our API to open about 1000 support tickets to test whether rate limits will be an issue in a real situation. My Manager: sounds good Me (quietly): come the fuck on bro

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