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It’s the hyperspecialization that is the problem. To ease the training of the labor force, they wanted to specialize everyone. However, generalists have their value too, as they act as the glue. But, management have forgotten that. All they care about employees that fit their small niche, which makes it hard for them to get employees and for others to get a job. I have given many interviews, where I was not as good with the manager’s niche and that sucked ass because whatever knowledge I am missing, I could easily learn it while working because I focussed to learning how to learn too. But, that was not good enough.
It’s so funny how colleagues and employees act as though their job is so niche no one could do it. Bro, YOU did it and you’re just some andy (respectfully). Anyone can do it.
I’ve seen some meme’s about imposter syndrome along the lines of “If it was really important, wouldn’t they get someone better to take care of it?” and they’ve actually helped me relax quite a bit about my work responsibilities.
Also, I want others to be able to do my job. Being the only person where I work familiar with my shit is such a pain in the ass! I want to work on new stuff, not be cursed to answer the same damn questions every day because no one can be bothered to read the documentation I wrote.
Absolutely my mind set - “Oh, so this is the bar? Okay…”
Frankly it just makes me sad at this point.
Yeah, I feel like any job should be doable by a wide range of people. I mean, the advantages are fairly obvious. I don’t know why would anyone want their jobs to be niche. If there is any work that is only doable by a handful of people, either change the way you do things or train more people to do it. At least that is what I believe.
I used to be a programmer and probably my best strength was my ability to talk to clients, understand their needs, and design software that satisfied those needs. There are absolutely no certifications or formal qualifications of any kind for this in the programming world and employers do not look for it or give it any weight at all when filling positions, despite its obvious importance to the success of projects.
But, you don’t have 5 years of Javascript, Php, angular, react, python, c++, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Azure experience. How is a manager supposed to hire you?
In all seriousness though, I remember a project where we were supposed to do Point Cloud Segmentation, essentially classify which point belongs to what object. Problem was, I didn’t know the subject and there are no good textbooks because it is not yet a well formalized discipline. So, I asked my manager to buy me a course, which should give me and the team a foundation to stand up on. But, they said no. How is one supposed to do a project without actually knowing the subject, especially when most of the subject is locked behind papers that are not easily accessible.
Feel you! I am literally in the same situation right now.
I wished to sit in an open plan office where everyone could see me scratch my ass while all conversation and meetings were done via Slack and Zoom, even if we were next to each other.
I essentially quit the programming profession because of fucking open office plans. Just an absolute nightmare as far as actual productive coding environments are concerned.
They’re the wet dreams of marketing departments the world over, but genuinely shit for everyone who has to concentrate on their work lol
Modern “open plan” offices with hot desking bullshit are not designed for neurodivergent people which are generally drawn to programming.
Ooo! Are we playing Corporate Lingo Bingo?
I just love waking up to a flurry of emails from my boss frantically asking me to do basic tasks. It’s how I know I’m a valued team member! And I do this for less and less every year due to the fact the raises are never high enough to counter inflation.
They keep telling me I’ll be rich soon, guys! Oh man, I wish I were kidding…
Getting paid 130k+ a year is a pretty good life for writing emails.
Its essentially a trade of your soul for writing emails.
Meh. I work 35 actual hours in front of a keyboard. I have my days but I’m happy and mostly fulfilled.
I do the same… and i guess i am burnt out by lack of interesting and consistent work to do.
aspects of my job I absolutely hate:
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Maintaining a DLL( or shared object) in a large piece of software where my team’s scope is so narrow that we are just a conduit between two other processes. bugs get introduced by behavioral changes from upstream or downstream.
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No real exiciting problem to solve.
I learnt Compiler design, Complexity theory, Concurrency, Algorithms, etc in college. But I look at bad code that does
if (boolvar) return 1; else return 0;- Constantly get shuffled around on tasks by my manager who goes into panic mode if his supervisor asks about something.
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Everyone wants to touch my base and I haven’t even started building one yet
Is this Patrick Bateman? Cause I’m reading this in his voice.
It sure is. Seems like something he might say unironically.
No, it’s not Bateman, that’s Batman.
Ever since I was a
sophomore in college(?)
I knew I wanted to
work cross functionally across teams
Otherwise I might be in yesterday’s Excel meme 😳 only a lil Excel/GSheets pls
My childhood dream job was not working in office.
Oh, so like, you wanted to work in a factory?
Rather that, than work in an office, but not exactly that either. I wanted to do something that involves working with my hands, so I became a plumber, but nowdays I’ve got my own company and do other renovation jobs as well.
I think I actually did.
I always got told I could do whatever I wanted and didn’t know what I wanted to do. But I figured I didn’t want to do anything manual into old age so ruled that out. I knew I wanted to do a lot of different things and work with different people. But talking can be difficult.
Emails and working together with lots of other people and working on problem is great. Wearing a suit and making big decision seemed really interesting.
Work in general sucks but it beats the alternatives. Everyone on this website comes across as somewhat autistic. Dealing with people isn’t the end of the world.
