This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15205399
Really cool blog post with beautiful photos and starts with a fun and interesting intro, here captured in an image for the the tl;dr but-want-to-comment-anyway among you :
If I could keep my salary I’d find another line of work. Something outside maybe? Whatever lets my brain go home at night.
I will never understand why burned up people in IT is so intent of changing a work where you may have intellectual challenges but you don't need to make strenous physical effort for extreme physical labor. I wouldn't be caught dead doing one of those jobs, and the idea of wanting them is unfathomable to me.
One of my coworkers and I often discuss quitting our stressful-stupid IT jobs and going to work at Home Depot or Costco or even Arby's.
Today I took my car in for routine service. A place I use all the time. Major chain.
The poor guy checking me in had to click past about 50 stupid pointless prompts on his workstation. He had serious muscle memory going on. The man was impressive, the software was not.
I can just imagine the asshole midlevel manager who made some beleaguered coder write all that pointless popup shit, to make sure "they don't forget to upsell the customer" and god knows what other inane nonsense .
It's embarassing how bad software is in 2024. Especially point of sale systems and medical records.
+1 to Point Of Sale systems - POS as the acronym is. Every single one of them.
Check out the current Luddite movement, this is their main complaint
Most people aren't actually that good at their jobs, only good enough.
I feel this. At my last job, there were many meetings I didn't think were useful in addition of software change just for the sake of change. Package.json errors everywhere. Small issues with docker to fix all day.
