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In the old days I received a printed request form in my in-box at work. Ran the report they asked for and mailed it back via interoffice mail.
Then I started getting request forms via email. I'd run the report and email it back to them.
Now? I get a request via email. Or Teams. Or the intranet project site. Or ProposalTech. Or SharePoint. Or the newest custom software package. The last three of which are ALL different, ALL practically impossible to figure out, and ALL a huge pain in the ass.
But it gets better. Now I get requests via one of the proprietary platforms that say "please respond on another platform, but mark as done on this platform."
And then sometimes I have to email them AS WELL.
Do you know how much money they spend on these various new platforms? Some of them are custom, or customized for the company. I was involved in an early project like that, and it cost tens of thousands of dollars AT LEAST - and that was back in the 1990s.
But EACH NEW PLATFORM makes my work so much harder. They're picked by executives who don't understand them, won't ever use them, and won't even ever look at the output. But we all know we have to get in line or be FIRST in line when the time comes for layoffs.
#Work #Working #Corporate #CorporateStupidity #Enshittification
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A year or two after I started work at my employer (a large not-for-profit company), we were haunted by an influx of consultants wearing three-piece suits. They interviewed everyone "to get an idea of what kind of work you do".
Not long afterwards the layoffs started. We'd been a happy department of creative types; the only annoying thing about it was that they were all fervent Mac users.
The phones started ringing, one at a time. The first few answered their phones, seemed startled, then got up and left the floor. It soon got out that they were being called for another interview; we weren't sure if it was with the consultants, or management.
But it didn't take long for the word to get out that these were EXIT interviews. The head of the department had been the first to be axed. So as phones rang, people cried and hugged each other goodbye. They weren't being allowed back to their desks to get their stuff.
About half the department was laid off.
It turned out that the consultants hadn't done a very good job, though. Several of the people that they got rid of turned out to be vital to the functioning of the company. So management had to try to get them to come back.
Some refused. One of them, a tall woman, accepted on the condition of a BIG raise (word was her salary doubled), and a life-sized photographic cardboard cutout of herself with a base so it stood up.
It depicted her standing, head a little tilted with a telling smile and one finger pointed at a word balloon above her head. In large letters it said "I TOLD YOU SO!".
I've always admired her.
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My employer is pushing us all like crazy to incorporate AI into as much of our work as possible. I've been forced to sit through meetings, long meetings about AI and all the ways they want to use it. Then they made us all write down ideas for using AI in our daily work.
I have absolutely no fucking idea how to do that. I don't want to do that. I do not want it to BE. It will not work, and it makes no sense.
I hope I make it to retirement.
We're ruled by idiots in all facets of our lives.
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My employer is pushing us all like crazy to incorporate AI into as much of our work as possible. I've been forced to sit through meetings, long meetings about AI and all the ways they want to use it. Then they made us all write down ideas for using AI in our daily work.
I have absolutely no fucking idea how to do that. I don't want to do that. I do not want it to BE. It will not work, and it makes no sense.
I hope I make it to retirement.
We're ruled by idiots in all facets of our lives.
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My employer is pushing us all like crazy to incorporate AI into as much of our work as possible. I've been forced to sit through meetings, long meetings about AI and all the ways they want to use it. Then they made us all write down ideas for using AI in our daily work.
I have absolutely no fucking idea how to do that. I don't want to do that. I do not want it to BE. It will not work, and it makes no sense.
I hope I make it to retirement.
We're ruled by idiots in all facets of our lives.
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My employer is pushing us all like crazy to incorporate AI into as much of our work as possible. I've been forced to sit through meetings, long meetings about AI and all the ways they want to use it. Then they made us all write down ideas for using AI in our daily work.
I have absolutely no fucking idea how to do that. I don't want to do that. I do not want it to BE. It will not work, and it makes no sense.
I hope I make it to retirement.
We're ruled by idiots in all facets of our lives.