I once met a guy who made at least 20 times what I make and didn’t know how to spell dolphin. He was a bit better than me at trading commodities though.
I think an intern helps them tie their shoes too
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twinnie@feddit.uk 8 months ago
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
trading commodities is truly the most important skill to making society function, god only knows how we’d survive without people who make bets with other people’s money
spez@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
God kill me
Ultragigagigantic@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I don’t know which God you’re referencing but your genetics is programmed with planned obsolescence. You will die one day. You are welcome, there are only so many monthly tributes to your landed lord before you are free for the first time.
melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 8 months ago
So… Poker? But without the flash and with the chance to genuinely throw the economy into chaos?
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
I can relate
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Did he ask if the tuna you were having for lunch was dollfin safe? I’m guessing he wasn’t informing you about anything like “dolphins pass puffer fish to get high” or “dolphins sexually assault other dolphins“.
TheBat@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Rain man?
Doof@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Don’t ask your doctor to spell something if that matters to you
MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 8 months ago
This happens at my job a lot lol I’ll need to do something that I don’t have authorization to do so I have to ask a manager, they have no idea what the policy is, why I’m asking them about it, or how to actually do any of it. They end up just doing a screen share and letting me make the change from their system
HonkTonkWoman@lemm.ee 8 months ago
The worst part is, they never learn… it’s always the same damn questions, every damn time.
Sylver@lemmy.world 8 months ago
No wonder data breaches are a when and not if…
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
The weakest part of any security system are the people … your security is only as good as the people who use the system.
I don’t work in any corporate systems but I know many people who work in factories, mines, government, hospitals, institutions who should all know or at least be aware of the most basic digital security measures … yet the majority of their passwords for everything is still 12345678 … a good number of them also share personal emails with their name and birth year on it.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
“hey boss i need access to your bank account to fix this thing”
SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
There are legitimately situations where a meritless person is mooching off of an organization because of corruption (e.g. cronyism, nepotism, abusing union). And then there are situations where a person appears completely incompetent, but has this one unique skill or asset that makes them absolutely invaluable to the company (e.g. savant, schmoozer, someone with connections). It’s important to be able to tell them apart.
nobleshift@lemmy.world 8 months ago
[deleted]brbposting@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
I can’t speak for any individual, but let’s draw up a theoretical scenario:
You’re the world’s highest contributing cancer researcher, responsible for breakthrough after breakthrough. You’re 80 years old and you want to retire next year. You earn $1 million a year. in order to collaborate with other researchers, specialized piece of software must be used. Given you’re brilliant, you could certainly take a training course and learn it in eight hours - $4000 worth of your time. Instead you scan your paper notebooks and send the copies to an intern who spends an hour a week transferring the data into the software. If the intern is paid $50 an hour, cost savings are $1500 over the year. more cancer research gets done.
Highly specialized people who can learn everything and do have access to all necessary tools are not necessarily idiots for evaluating and deciding to make certain trade offs. recommend looking into opportunity cost.
fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Sure mate.
Anyone who makes twice as much as you doesn’t care about your respect.
alyth@lemmy.world 8 months ago
someone with connections
cronyism, nepotism
goes hand in hand :)
slurpeesoforion@startrek.website 8 months ago
I rolled savant.
Ultragigagigantic@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I rolled wage slave
Delphia@lemmy.world 8 months ago
We have an Excel expert, its in no way his job but god damn that man is helpful. He is also a combative asshole when he is in a mood.
People are like “How do you put up with him” and I dont tell them “Because he found ways to make 2 hours of administrative work take 30 minutes.”
Ultragigagigantic@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m sure when this guys retires you will be doing his job on top of yours with no additional pay increase.
Line.
Go.
Up.
Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Literally happened at my work place a couple months ago.
Boomer coworker who’s job was basically to order supplies and do the last step of processing accounts so we can bill them retired after like 35 years and bought a house in Arizona to fuck off there. Her job was just split among our phone operator and annual control policy department. What she got paid a lot of money to do for 8 hours a day and complained constantly about the other two people do in a couple hours a week and is easy peasy according to them. Of course they didn’t get a raise, if they had come to me with that I would have declined or quit if they insisted. Fuck that.
melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Absolutely. These minds atrophying in commercial towers are a tragedy.
realcaseyrollins 8 months ago
Only if you get those responsibilities by staying in the same company rather than getting hired in the same role by another one
Toes@ani.social 8 months ago
One of my first jobs, anytime I needed an administrator password I had to get the manager. And I was tasked with updating Adobe Reader and Flash on each workstation, and she would stand there to type in the password as I went to each computer.
(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
The fact that you had to update software manually on each computer speaks volumes about how bad that company was being run. Sccm has existed since the mid 90s.
cybersandwich@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Ms365, onedrive, and teams integration makes me feel like the PDF saver.
I’m fucking smart and I crush my job, but the way they’ve “integrated” all of their dumb services has me asking my team to “just send me a $&@$ing email with the pdf”.
My job isn’t MS office guru. My job involves using PPTs, docs, XLS, etc to get funding, effect strategy, guide investment, brief senior leadeahip, and all that. But holy shit I feel like I turn into a clown/Luddite with dumb MS office tools.
bier@feddit.nl 8 months ago
I work in software development, I understand website, webservices and the backend it all runs on at a pretty deep level.
But I never owned an Apple device. So whenever my wife (iMac user) has a problem and I try to help, I struggle with all the basic shit. I don’t know the interface, don’t know the menu structure, don’t have muscle memory for basic key bindings (like copy paste).
Same with my parents, a few years ago my dad gave my mom his old iphone, didn’t do any factory reset etc. She used logged out his apple id and logged in hers. But the apps he installed refused to update, very little information from the device about the problem. They don’t know you shouldn’t do this and just give me the phone and say apps don’t update. It took me a while to figure out what the hell was even going on.
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I just refuse to help with Apple stuff. My family knows my disdain, if you’re on apple and can’t figure something out, you made your bed now you lie in it lol
fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Yeah I get you.
Onedrive seems so bizarrely complex. My entire organisation is 5 people. We just want a big shared folder with all our stuff.
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Teams groups have web pages with sharepoint folders. Any file shared in chat is automatically shoved into the root of it.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Can you just use a network share?
crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
If you can drive a change you could switch to something like next cloud, own cloud, or cryptpad. Much simpler
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Libreoffice and Thunderbird
HopingForBetter@lemmy.today 8 months ago
Yeah…
Used to be a document controller for a QA dept. My manager sent me emails to print out for him and then wanted them scanned back into the computer so they were saved as .pdf
I “definitely” didn’t just print to .pdf and sit at my desk most of the day.
fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
But they’d probably be mad you didn’t do it their way.
I suspect they do know there’s better ways but they want you to jump through hoops like a trained pig. Fuck em.
HopingForBetter@lemmy.today 8 months ago
Lol. That’s why I kept a recycle bin next to my desk; “empty” it in the AM, “fill it” on my way out. Didn’t waste paper because it was the same scrunched balls.
stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pub 8 months ago
Me watching some guy think his salary is worth more than someone who does and knows things completely different from them just because they know how to save as a pdf
😷😷😷
cybersandwich@lemmy.world 8 months ago
“me watching a senior dev who makes more than me try to brief senior leadership”
We all have our talents. Some stuff is “table stakes” baseline stuff, but with the way MS has bungled their software these days I’ll never judge anyone for not knowing how to do something “simple” because MS has made most tasks infuriatingly difficult.
stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pub 8 months ago
The main issue I had was that it’s dismissive of all other talents the person likely has to have gotten this far. Obviously sociopath c-levels are just there because they’re soulless, but this meme wasn’t talking about those people shrug
Synnr@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
You work on computers, they work on people. Part of their job is working on their bosses for more money, just like you write a bash script.
If you want, you could develop those people
manipulationcoding skills and be twice as valuable as them.IMongoose@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You’re giving some of these people way too much credit. I work IT and I deliberately avoid watching some people whose job it is to use a computer use a computer. Any deviation from the norm and they are lost. ANY deviation. I’ve seen people get confused when a box opens up in a different spot. I completely understand that everyone has different skill sets but some people have not progressed very far into their skill tree.
Synnr@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Some of them, sure. Usually old people that ran out of neuroplasticity 40 years ago. But there are a lot more that function well enough and IT guys have a tendency to think of them as useless, where if they had to do their job for a day they’d be as lost as an old guy spooked by the window location change.
melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 8 months ago
That’s not value. That’s a grifter.
Squorlple@lemmy.world 8 months ago
My boss has called me into his office multiple times to help him with Microsoft Excel
Mikufan@ani.social 8 months ago
Those are the people i sign up for shitty newsletters lol
Etterra@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Boss: why can’t I just print Wikipedia?
I swear I remember somebody telling that story once.
Minotaur@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Hey if you’d ask the people on this site, higher positions always entitle themselves to higher wages.
We really gotta have some kind of actual initiative to restructure wages around actual work lol
GBU_28@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Huh? This is the most flat org / workers rights / collectivist board I’ve ever seen
realcaseyrollins 8 months ago
lol prolly
locke@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Twice? lol
ooterness@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I didn’t know about that. At my company, the head of HR (3.5x average salary) recently told everyone, “If you want a higher salary, go work at [rival company].” This was onstage in front of ~150 people.
FutileRecipe@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Probably needed to downsize without the confrontation.
abbadon420@lemm.ee 8 months ago
It’s true though. Your salary range is determined at the initial negotiations. After that, your salary will only ruse with a few percentages. For a real raise, its best to have a new initial negotiation (and shoot for the stars)
Nyanix@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
We must work at the same org, we got that recently too
melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Almost like there’s some sort of caste system…