Comment on Anon interviews for a job

fckreddit@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That sounds like the kind of thing that could easily, and perhaps should, be automated.

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  • addie@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    In which case, the job becomes transferring the bottled samples into sample tubes in trays so that the machine can process them, and usually adding a barcode to each sample tube. The sample tubes need to be kept immaculate as well - some of the things that we test water for, like pesticides, are only present in miniscule concentrations. Might not actually save a great deal of time, and you need to buy and maintain a very expensive automated sampler.

    When I used to work in the water industry, we were usually able to get PhD-qualified research chemists to do all this mind-numbing laboratory work. There’s a bit of a surplus of qualified chemists compared to the number of chemist jobs available, so you got absurdly over-qualified people applying for these roles.

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    • Frostbeard@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I specifically did not specialize in analytical chemistry because of this. It’s relatively easy to get a job, but it’s mind numbingly boring to do the same tests over and over and over.

      I did physical chemistry. No jobs but at least no one knows what the fuck you can do

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  • way_of_UwU@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I did automation work for a sewage treatment center that did regular water testing as part of treatment. Most of these kinds of jobs are automated for the most part. There’s always a human operator present to supervise and to do some small function that is still cheaper to have done manually instead of by machine.

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    • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I am definitely in favor of human supervision of many automated tasks.

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  • Comment105@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why do that when you can provide jobs to the needy?

    Making people do work is inherently valuable even if it’s unnecessary, monotonous, pointless, soul crushing work, is it not?

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    • grozzle@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      another greentext for you

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      • Comment105@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        He was not wrong, reducing shovel size is a great way to even out productivity to include those who would be otherwise unemployed.

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    • ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No, that sounds like the pitch from some weird sadist

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      • Comment105@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        We can’t be feeding people who do no work. It is much better that they be put to it than have the task “solved” by some brainiac who would rob them of the fulfillment of employment.

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    • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You should get rid of your “work or die” mentality.

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      • Comment105@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Dear Tawk, I hope you’ll realize that we can not permit grown men to be like babes suckling their nation’s teet. They should rather be creative in their difficult situation, learn programming, contribute to the mobile gaming market. Make themselves useful.

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      • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Aside you’d literally die if there is no work

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    • Boomdigity102@leminal.space ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Any work done that could’ve been automated is a waste of human life IMO. They could be spending that time doing jobs that aren’t automated.

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  • fckreddit@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Thing is most of water testing can be automated. There are electronic meters that can measure most important water properties like pH, electrical resistivity, total dissolved solids, turbidity, etc, which only require calibration from time to time. I am not sure why OOP was hired for manually testing water.

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