• @shapesandstuff@feddit.de
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    162 years ago

    Nobody really knows anything. It’s a mystery to me how the company hasn’t crashed and burned yet. It’s gonna happen eventually, there’s no backup, no redundancy.

  • queermunist she/her
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    142 years ago

    I actually really like repetitive assembly work! I figured I’d lose my mind from boredom doing simple repetitive tasks (grab part from bin, load into welder, activate press, inspect weld, repack into finished bin), but actually, the job is so mindless that it frees me up to daydream all night about dumb shit.

    Don’t need to talk to anyone, don’t need to disrupt my work to go do other things, and I don’t need to pay attention to what anyone else is doing. I can just do my thing for eight hours, work through the plot of “hmm what would the next ten years be like if the city got nuked”, and go clock out.

    • anonymousOP
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      22 years ago

      I think a guy sued his job for being too boring once. No reliable source, though. I think it was the repetitive job that did something to his hand. And according to my memory, he won.

      • queermunist she/her
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        -12 years ago

        Well if it hurt his hand then he sued for a workplace injury - an yeah, as much as I like assembly work they don’t treat us right on the production line. Things could be so much better

  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠
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    122 years ago

    I work in a Latin fusion restaurant. The owner is Palestinian and cannot eat a significant portion of the menu.

    • @lungdart@lemmy.ca
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      82 years ago

      I work in cloud. The amount of people who have the ability to destroy the entire internet with one command is too damned high!

  • ArgentCorvid [Iowa]
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    62 years ago

    In a previous life, I was in the Navy as a Reacto Operator in the engine room of a ship. Nothing was done in the operation of that power plant without having a very large book in front of you with a step-by-step detailed procedure to follow. For most things, there would be a person reading the procedure while you did what they said, and there would be a supervisor there watching. Going off script was punished.

    My current job is …not like that. We are lucky if there is something written down, even if it is known to be incorrect.

  • @pavnilschanda@lemmy.world
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    52 years ago

    I work as a children’s illustrator and I was surprised that I had to change my art style to fit the market. I guess I should’ve learned sooner

  • raubarno
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    42 years ago

    Before my first job, I was expecting people raging and yelling at me (like Steve Jobs/Linus Torvalds or that insurance boss from The Incredibles movie) but I was welcomed by very friendly and curious people.

  • @ophelia@lemmy.ca
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    12 years ago

    The post-secondary education system in my country is primarily an immigration pathway first, and an institute of higher learning second.