Comment on Anon interviews for a job

• addie@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• Comment105@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    another greentext for you

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    • Comment105@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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      • spongebue@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s a false choice if I ever heard one. Surely reasonably-paced increases in productivity could spawn job creation in other areas? And while modern-day capitalism is not exactly encouraging this, maybe we can take advantage of less manpower needed to make society function by having less time working (with a similar quality of life) for all? If there were only so many employment hours available, there are ways of distributing that other than raising the unemployment rate or artificially lowering it.

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  • ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No, that sounds like the pitch from some weird sadist

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    • Comment105@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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      • 0laura@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I thought you were joking when I first read that

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      • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        We can’t be feeding people who do no work.

        But we could.

        who would rob them of the fulfillment of employment.

        A boring job isn’t fulfilling and mental underload leads to burnout.

        There’s exactly one reason to do work: getting living money. If you can make a living from your hobby or your job is otherwise fulfilling, that’s nice for you.

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  • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • Comment105@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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      • Aqarius@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Bait used to be believable.

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      • Etterra@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Dude don’t be lying. Nobody who makes mobile games is being useful.

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    • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Aside you’d literally die if there is no work

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  • Boomdigity102@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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