Replying to Garbage #garbageatgaming Do you guys all live in the WKUK Stapler Factory Sketch or is that just a subsection of the US economy
Yes Garbage
70%-80% of white collar work is this
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Thursday, May 14, 2026
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.
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
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
Literally hasn't been loaned out in 3 years because nobody wants to hear they're fucking up
Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131 I have a friend doing the same thing, huge engineering consulting company in California
What a coincidence that I have the same issue in California haha
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.
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
And somehow all this money is from our taxes at the end anyway
Through 10 layers of NGOs or military contractors
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
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.
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.
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.
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
Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131 Or, you let me croot you to work on satellites (edited)
I take it back, don't move here
I just drove by some shitty new condos that advertise 1500 sqft starting from the "low 900s"
max leaking ideas aren't funny when they're ones we're actually realistically considering
come on
