Mentoring/helping people is a lot more frustrating than I expected. I need advice on this cause I can’t want it for them more than they do.
Man I just want school to start already so I can get this degree and get a better job somewhere.
In this mood where I just hate my current job and can’t even stand to go in anymore. The thought of hundreds of stupid passive aggressive emails sounds so appealing right now compared to this shit
In this mood where I just hate my current job and can’t even stand to go in anymore. The thought of hundreds of stupid passive aggressive emails sounds so appealing right now compared to this shit
By Jacir Go To PostHi. Long time since I been here. Im unemployed for a good while. I moved to the UK this year. So new place, new life. I live with a roommate tho. Now I need a job. I graduate this month after what shoulve been 2 year stint at a CUNY community college, turned into a 4 year chapter of existential depression. I need help I don't have much job experience. My CV is trash. The responses I've gotten from jobs I've applied to are rejections. I may just have to get into an apprenticeship. I did Computer Programming btw.Not sure about the UK, but the apprenticeship path is never a bad one. Just try and stay flexible until you get traction and experience - a shitty job that pads your resume is still better than what you start with.
By domino Go To PostMentoring/helping people is a lot more frustrating than I expected. I need advice on this cause I can’t want it for them more than they do.Helps to just bring topics back to what they feel they're good at strong at and build from there.
But yeah... folks need to be a part of their own rescue. Don't think I had any form of mentorship until the last few years. Prior to that it was sink or swim x learn from the failure of others. Its hard to relate to people who stroll in getting help right away while not being immediately appreciative of the opportunity.
Too many don't even realize how disrespectful they are with casual shit
By Old King Rob Go To PostMan I just want school to start already so I can get this degree and get a better job somewhere.
In this mood where I just hate my current job and can’t even stand to go in anymore. The thought of hundreds of stupid passive aggressive emails sounds so appealing right now compared to this shit
What you trying to do breh
going for my degree in computer science.
It’s something I should have done before but I hated school growing up and was dreading going back.
It’s something I should have done before but I hated school growing up and was dreading going back.
Thanks. Im going in 100% focused and dedicated, which was always my issue when I was younger.
I transferred over 14 credits from the one semester I completed a decade ago before I stopped going to school. Taking 16 credits this semester. Aiming to have my associates by the end of the summer. I’ll be turning 33 so I have to finish asap
Only thing I’m worried about it math but I’ll just have Fortune tutor me
I transferred over 14 credits from the one semester I completed a decade ago before I stopped going to school. Taking 16 credits this semester. Aiming to have my associates by the end of the summer. I’ll be turning 33 so I have to finish asap
Only thing I’m worried about it math but I’ll just have Fortune tutor me
By Old King Rob Go To Postgoing for my degree in computer science.
you can have mine. it cost me years of my life and only got me recurring nightmares.
By Old King Rob Go To PostThanks. Im going in 100% focused and dedicated, which was always my issue when I was younger.fwiw, the higher level math many comp sci courses want you to learn are rarely used in a job. There are exceptions (writing novel algorithms, high-level performance analysis, etc.) but I wouldn't sweat it too much. A mastery of algebra is honestly enough for the vast majority of jobs out there.
I transferred over 14 credits from the one semester I completed a decade ago before I stopped going to school. Taking 16 credits this semester. Aiming to have my associates by the end of the summer. I’ll be turning 33 so I have to finish asap
Only thing I’m worried about it math but I’ll just have Fortune tutor me
I take that back. Statistics is actually important. That is something that is useful all the time if only to help you avoid common pitfalls in design and also analyze the results of a performance profiler.
Oh, also whatever the class is called that goes over truth tables. That is also important.
don't we all
once you start having letters, fractions, and negative exponents? I'm lost
By Kibner Go To PostI take that back. Statistics is actually important. That is something that is useful all the time if only to help you avoid common pitfalls in design and also analyze the results of a performance profiler.lucky me, thats the class I got an A in when i took it
once you start having letters, fractions, and negative exponents? I'm lost
I'm at the point where I'm pouring jelly on myself for not getting a degree
But holy shit I hate the college environment
But holy shit I hate the college environment
By Old King Rob Go To PostThanks. Im going in 100% focused and dedicated, which was always my issue when I was younger.
I transferred over 14 credits from the one semester I completed a decade ago before I stopped going to school. Taking 16 credits this semester. Aiming to have my associates by the end of the summer. I’ll be turning 33 so I have to finish asap
Only thing I’m worried about it math but I’ll just have Fortune tutor me
I felt this. That higher level math always put an end to some of the stuff I was interested in.
By Kibner Go To PostThe only thing I miss about school is how relatively low pressure it was. And also being in a band.Funny I always thought school was high pressure in an artificial and performative way.
The real world is easy af comparatively
By DY_nasty Go To PostHelps to just bring topics back to what they feel they're good at strong at and build from there.
But yeah… folks need to be a part of their own rescue. Don't think I had any form of mentorship until the last few years. Prior to that it was sink or swim x learn from the failure of others. Its hard to relate to people who stroll in getting help right away while not being immediately appreciative of the opportunity.
Too many don't even realize how disrespectful they are with casual shit
We’ll see. I had a long chat with him about how he presents/carries himself and conveys his ideas so hopefully it pans out in these interviews.
I really think everybody should be made to take public speaking. It’s one of the few (like less than 5) actual useful classes I had in college.
By domino Go To PostFunny I always thought school was high pressure in an artificial and performative way.I just hate writing goddamn papers
The real world is easy af comparatively
Nowadays I have stressful deadlines but at least I don't have to fill 3 pages with bullshit
I did not know how bad I wanted to work until this place in wouldn't let me do it
Probably on to the next by September
Probably on to the next by September
IN LOWER-PAYING JOBS, the monitoring is already ubiquitous: not just at Amazon, where the second-by-second measurements became notorious, but also for Kroger cashiers, UPS drivers and millions of others. Eight of the 10 largest private U.S. employers track the productivity metrics of individual workers, many in real time, according to an examination by The New York Times.https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/08/14/business/worker-productivity-tracking.html
Now digital productivity monitoring is also spreading among white-collar jobs and roles that require graduate degrees. Many employees, whether working remotely or in person, are subject to trackers, scores, “idle” buttons, or just quiet, constantly accumulating records. Pauses can lead to penalties, from lost pay to lost jobs.
Some radiologists see scoreboards showing their “inactivity” time and how their productivity stacks up against their colleagues’. At companies including J.P. Morgan, tracking how employees spend their days, from making phone calls to composing emails, has become routine practice. In Britain, Barclays Bank scrapped prodding messages to workers, like “Not enough time in the Zone yesterday,” after they caused an uproar. At UnitedHealth Group, low keyboard activity can affect compensation and sap bonuses. Public servants are tracked, too: In June, New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority told engineers and other employees they could work remotely one day a week if they agreed to full-time productivity monitoring.
Architects, academic administrators, doctors, nursing home workers and lawyers described growing electronic surveillance over every minute of their workday. They echoed complaints that employees in many lower-paid positions have voiced for years: that their jobs are relentless, that they don’t have control — and in some cases, that they don’t even have enough time to use the bathroom. In interviews and in hundreds of written submissions to The Times, white-collar workers described being tracked as “demoralizing,” “humiliating” and “toxic.” Micromanagement is becoming standard, they said.
But the most urgent complaint, spanning industries and incomes, is that the working world’s new clocks are just wrong: inept at capturing offline activity, unreliable at assessing hard-to-quantify tasks and prone to undermining the work itself.
"Hello, hi, yes, this is dystopia speaking"
But two years ago, her employer started requiring chaplains to accrue more of what it called “productivity points.” A visit to the dying: as little as one point. Participating in a funeral: one and three-quarters points. A phone call to grieving relatives: one-quarter point.bruh
She and her co-workers could turn off their trackers and take breaks anytime, as long as they hit 40 hours a week, which the company logged in 10-minute chunks. During each of those intervals, at some moment they could never anticipate, cameras snapped shots of their faces and screens, creating timecards to verify whether they were working. Some bosses allowed a few “bad” timecards — showing interruptions, or no digital activity — according to interviews with two dozen current and former employees. Beyond that, any snapshot in which they had paused or momentarily stepped away could cost them 10 minutes of pay. Sometimes those cards were rejected; sometimes the workers, knowing the rules, didn’t submit them at all.lordy
I already have a hard enough time logging hours for clients at my current job. I will fucking walk if this shit gets implemented and find somewhere else to work.
By Kibner Go To PostI already have a hard enough time logging hours for clients at my current job. I will fucking walk if this shit gets implemented and find somewhere else to work.Writing this post has cost you 0.25 points
By DY_nasty Go To Posti seen kib looking out his window. how many points i get for snitching?Not enough to cover for your desire to open a bar
By reilo Go To PostPeople like this piss me off. The accountability is "did the job get done in a satisfactory manner?". That's it.
Maybe future Mrs. DY_nasty over here?
you can't even win with them either lol
if they don't see you do it, it doesn't count
if you have to start a different process or go off the beaten path a bit, they want to be notified even if it has nothing to do with them
if you do too good a job, it puts unnecessary pressure on them or some weird shit like that
if you reach out to them each step of the way, they're wasting your time and their own
just forcing themselves into middle management
if they don't see you do it, it doesn't count
if you have to start a different process or go off the beaten path a bit, they want to be notified even if it has nothing to do with them
if you do too good a job, it puts unnecessary pressure on them or some weird shit like that
if you reach out to them each step of the way, they're wasting your time and their own
just forcing themselves into middle management
Someone doing less work than you is annoying, I get it, they’re living the life you could be living.
Learn from them, don’t tear them down from their greatness
Learn from them, don’t tear them down from their greatness
By DY_nasty Go To Postif you do too good a job, it puts unnecessary pressure on them or some weird shit like thatwhat the fuck lol
also I agree with kib, demanding the appearance of productivity under parameters that don't shift is a shitty way to treat your employees
they way the system is set up, miserable people like the woman above are given MORE work when they work harder and then resent their coworkers instead of the terribly-run company
By JesalR Go To PostSomeone doing less work than you is annoying, I get it, they’re living the life you could be living.
Learn from them, don’t tear them down from their greatness
Agree that all those working harder and not smarter should be the first on the bread line.
im glad my place is chill, even if they're dysfunctional.... but holy fuck if you're not actively making work for others then you're not a problem
Item due on the 30th
Dude strolls by my office "so you know you're the only one who hasn't submitted that document right? 🥸"
I'm not. I know I'm not. And also wtf is the point of a due date you give me if you're gonna ask for it earlier.
The office is trash. This MF lives for acting like that's work he's doing.
Dude strolls by my office "so you know you're the only one who hasn't submitted that document right? 🥸"
I'm not. I know I'm not. And also wtf is the point of a due date you give me if you're gonna ask for it earlier.
The office is trash. This MF lives for acting like that's work he's doing.
He shouldn't even be asking me in the first place. It should be going through my contracting rep.
But this is why working in the office just can't be replicated at home. You need to be able to pester adjacent sections and people you don't even work with directly with inane bullshit in person. Really just reach out to people.
But this is why working in the office just can't be replicated at home. You need to be able to pester adjacent sections and people you don't even work with directly with inane bullshit in person. Really just reach out to people.
he's looking out for you dy,
making sure you dont fail.
or something along those lines that ive heard from Karens.
making sure you dont fail.
or something along those lines that ive heard from Karens.
It’s amazing how much of my days are just sitting around waiting for other ppl to do their jobs.
I can’t wait until they make them all go back to the office full time. They bullshitting.
I can’t wait until they make them all go back to the office full time. They bullshitting.
By domino Go To PostIt’s amazing how much of my days are just sitting around waiting for other ppl to do their jobs.Got a new job and changed up look at you rn
I can’t wait until they make them all go back to the office full time. They bullshitting.
By reilo Go To PostI told you that girl had potential, DYlol wow