ladfrombrad comments on There is zero need for millions of office drones to be on the road daily.

[+] ladfrombrad@lemdro.id -6 points 2 years ago (15 children)

The thing you're not accounting for is that work that primarily involves thought, which is what "office drones" are doing

Found the office drone.

Our office drones are not "thinking" for half the day like you, and input and manipulate data. You could also include half these "managers" too who sit in an office sending emails all day, and never hit the shop floor.

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[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Given that office drone would cover any job that isn't service, manufacturing or laborer, it's not exactly surprising that you'd find one. I'm a software developer.

It's almost always best to assume that other people's jobs actually take some form of skill, because they always do. People get paid for a reason. Otherwise you fall into the trap of calling huge swaths of work "unskilled labor" and thinking they don't deserve much pay, just because they're just moving stuff around on the shop floor.

What do you think those emails the managers are sending are, if not work?

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[–] Ashe@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 years ago*

You don't understand though, because it's not physical (software of any kind) and even if it is (any hardware) because you aren't constantly doing something it's not work!!

As an admin who got push back from the sales team, everyone has... Unique perspectives on what is and isn't work.

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[–] Minotaur@lemm.ee 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

A software developer!? On Lemmy!? Say it ain’t so

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[–] ladfrombrad@lemdro.id 1 point 2 years ago

The old; how do you know someone is a software developer? Yup, they tell ya!

I think I really touched a nerve with that guy though, and it seems like they want to be an office drone instead of working from home (this is the bit where the "senior software devs + team manager" argue they need to collaborate, in person) with a nice life balance.

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[–] ladfrombrad@lemdro.id 0 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I know exactly what those emails are because I have to deal with them asking me if a wagon that I'm looking at has arrived yet.

So I email them back telling them that it's arrived (they knew that already because goods-in already updated the checking in sheet) and they get to validate their job somehow by asking me, shit.

It's quite amazing how they keep their jobs.

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[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago (5 children)

So you can dismiss someone's job because you, a person whose job it is to look at wagons, got an email you didn't see the point of?

If they have the sheet, why do they need you to work there and look at the wagon at all?

Now, I know your job definitely has more to it than looking at wagons and confirming their existence.
My point is that the person who sent the email does too. It's rare for a job to actually have no point and no work associated with it.

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[–] ladfrombrad@lemdro.id 1 point 2 years ago (4 children)

Well, maybe your workplace wouldn't put up with these people but I can confirm that besides them not being able to use SAP to check the quantity of a BOM, to like I said - they have access to the other functions / data but prefer to delegate them to others.

So it ends up going down a hierarchy until someone else does what these managers could do themselves in the first instance.

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[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

And they spend all their time forwarding these queries to people lower down the hierarchy and that's all they do, eh?

You should probably get a new job if your company has that much dead weight and no direction.

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[–] ladfrombrad@lemdro.id 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Nah, I wouldn't want to become an office drone because I'd go from calling people on the internet liars to then trying to give others career advice when they don't even know 2% of my job.

Hilarious, the self-righteousness must come from being an office drone, right?

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[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

Who told you to become an office worker? I said your business is fucked if all of your managers are as incompetent as you think, so change jobs. You know, like "work for a different employer who you think is competent”?

I do think it's kind of ironic that you're really indignant that someone who doesn't know what you do might judge you, when you're judging others because you don't see the point to emails they sometimes send you, and you don't know what they spend their time doing.

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[–] ladfrombrad@lemdro.id 0 points 2 years ago

My immediate manager is fine and like I said above, half of their managers could be given the chopping block but that doesn't mean I need to find new employment as you suggest. I quite like my job since I can walk it there, work outside all day with wonderful views even if the weather does get a bit poop sometimes.

In fact it tells me you're relatively sheltered with experience in workplaces if you think most places don't have lazy ass managers, office drones (I like this term), and good luck asking if they even have them during an interview.

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[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 3 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

Experimental solution proposal:

Fire all management. They're expensive and exponentially less productive. Their stupid large offices and pricey desks also waste space.
(Office) workers collectively do the thing they do without being micro managed and stuffed into pointless meetings.
???
Probably profit, actually. But then how would the "in-club" kids reap all the rewards without working? :( :( :(

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[–] ladfrombrad@lemdro.id 2 points 2 years ago

I have direct experience with the management that only work days since I work continental hours, so get to see how we run during the night without them.

Like I said, half is probably a number we could run with at my place. Sorry state of affairs.

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[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

If it is so easy to be an office drone, why weren't you able to get a job like that?

Is it maybe because it involves skills you aren't aware of?

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[–] ladfrombrad@lemdro.id 0 points 2 years ago

I once worked in an office doing what I described above.

I absolutely hated it stuck in a cubicle, and now work outside with lots of other people grafting, instead of listening to gossiping over the cubicles all day long. Think I lasted 2 months.

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