MyBrainHurts
@MyBrainHurts@lemmy.ca
- Comment on What's the solution to QR code phishing? 1 day ago:
Which of those groups do you routinely lie to?
- Comment on What's the solution to QR code phishing? 1 day ago:
“Sorry date/group of friends/family/work function, we can’t eat here. I don’t want to scan a QR code.”
- Comment on Do the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few? 6 days ago:
Judging by how many people wear clothes made by children in sweatshops, I’d say the wants of the many seem to outweigh the needs of the few.
- Comment on My Take Home Pay 1 week ago:
Admittedly, a lot of taxes are misspent but a quarter of your income seems a bargain.
For example, I imagine getting to your jon would be really difficult without roads. Or a semi functional legal system that stops people from just robbing your business whenever they feel like it. Or a system that enforces contracts and property rights.
I’ve had a job where I didn’t pay taxes. It didn’t end well.
- Comment on Movies not starting when they are scheduled. 2 weeks ago:
Oh heck, I never thought of just asking! (Admittedly, I’m usually high as balls and socially awkward at a movie but still!)
- Comment on Ads when you’re pumping gas 4 weeks ago:
Straight down the centre.
- Comment on How do you gently tell someone you only want to keep seeing them if it's on a dating level? 5 weeks ago:
I’d like to be friends but only if we can have sex.
Doesn’t really sound like a rock solid friendship there.
- Comment on Stupid question: how does one watch old movies? 5 weeks ago:
Yarrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
- Comment on 10 Years Ago, A Legendary Sci-Fi Director Showed Hollywood The Secret To Reviving A Franchise 1 month ago:
It was, it.was just nowhere near as good so we all forgot about it.
I suppose that’s the corollary, if you try to follow up the best action movie of the 21st century, best not miss.
- Comment on 10 Years Ago, A Legendary Sci-Fi Director Showed Hollywood The Secret To Reviving A Franchise 1 month ago:
All you have to do is make the best action movie of the 21st century and boom, franchise revived!
- Comment on What movies have you watched this week? 2 months ago:
We are Still Here.
Under the radar horror that hit me just right. They have an absolute blast with it.
- Comment on What do office workers actually do? 2 months ago:
I can only give my experience and I think mine is a bit unusual but here goes.
Like the Office Space folks, I’m a dev in a large (admittedly, non profit and really good) organization. Since covid, I’ve worked remotely but my day to day hasn’t changed.
We have a help desk where people send questions/issues. Someone on our team generally splits those roughly based on workload, skills, knowledge etc. Our goal is about half our work should be those one off requests.
I also have client units within the organization. They usually come to me with wild, bold ideas that I help make a reality or explain (gently) why what they are asking for is insane. Some of thr projects are based on what folks have heard are best practices in our industry, others are about cutting down manual work/seeing what we can automate.
Any of those projects can take anywhere from a couple hours to a couple of months. Some require buy in from other units, so on those I end up on a lot of meetings and email threads answering questions, hearing suggestions etc. I then (usually) coordinate with my manager to make sure I’m not stepping on any toes or there aren’t considerations which I had yet to consider.
Today for example, I spent about half the day working on help desk tickets, about 1/3 of my time was clarifying “what the hell are you trying to say?” Or pointing out logical gaps etc (much easier to do this upfront than write a bunch of code and have someone realize they meant something else entirely… People are dumb.) The other 2/3 was coding.
On my major projects, I spent an annoying amount of time emailing around to get approvals so a project manager would accept that my clients were fine with something I built, even though it was a bit unorthodox. Then a couple hours actually working on another project.
Plus, y’know, Lemmy time, cat skritching time and a bit of cooking.
Admittedly, my experience is unusual. I’m hihhly skilled but slightly underpaid in a non profit, so folks compensate by giving a lot of leeway. So a nice work environment plus I think what I do makes the world a better place, I’m pretty happy. I understand most office jobs are not quite like that but I don’t think they’re far off.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
It’s wild how many of trump’s decisions are exactly what Putin wants.