so we can actually see what our friends do all day
Friend: “So you get paid to spend the day periodically typing on your computers, surrounded by lots of large monitors, and several times a day you have video calls with people where you use so much jargon that the conversation is almost entirely divorced from the English language? You just finished an hour long meeting where I overheard every word from both sides of the conversation, and I have no idea what the hell either of you were talking about.”
I think my friends (the ones that aren’t in the same field anyways) would be surprised by how much of my time is sitting around doing shit that a junior should be doing instead of more important engineering-type stuff
“so you just got paid $100 to sit around and watch an intermittently frozen software program for a couple hours and clicking a button every now and then, while answering questions you’ve answered two or three times before in your message history with this person, and sat in on three meetings that you didn’t even need to speak during, and you have absolutely no work product to show for the past two hours of your time yet?”
“yep. I’m gonna blow my brains out if this continues”
ofc, the other side of this is “so you spent 6+ hours working nonstop going straight from task to task while being constantly available to multiple other departments and context switching nonstop, and you finished up three models and documented some project stuff and verified a few applications with calculations and whatnot”, to which the answer is the same “yep. I’m gonna blow my brains out if this continues”
I want to throttle every microsoft employee. I have enough issues with the CAD program itself, I don’t need fucking office365 and explorer freezing and crashing nonstop
Every area of expertise has vocabulary that’s relevant only to that discipline, is extremely precise and carries a lot of useful meaning. Why would that be bad?
Its not “bad”, but the goal proposal of the OP post was that our friends gain understanding by observing us do our jobs. The jargon means even with direct observation, our friends cannot gain understanding of the jobs we do.
Then the proposal may be unfeasable for professions with highly specialized knowledge. Dumbing down the jargon of doctors, programmers or architects, for instance, makes no sense given the loss of needed precision. If a mundane doesn’t know the workings of the lymphatic system or the uses of the visitor pattern, tough luck.
Friend: “So you get paid to spend the day periodically typing on your computers, surrounded by lots of large monitors, and several times a day you have video calls with people where you use so much jargon that the conversation is almost entirely divorced from the English language? You just finished an hour long meeting where I overheard every word from both sides of the conversation, and I have no idea what the hell either of you were talking about.”
Me: “yes, that about sums it up”
I think my friends (the ones that aren’t in the same field anyways) would be surprised by how much of my time is sitting around doing shit that a junior should be doing instead of more important engineering-type stuff
“so you just got paid $100 to sit around and watch an intermittently frozen software program for a couple hours and clicking a button every now and then, while answering questions you’ve answered two or three times before in your message history with this person, and sat in on three meetings that you didn’t even need to speak during, and you have absolutely no work product to show for the past two hours of your time yet?”
“yep. I’m gonna blow my brains out if this continues”
ofc, the other side of this is “so you spent 6+ hours working nonstop going straight from task to task while being constantly available to multiple other departments and context switching nonstop, and you finished up three models and documented some project stuff and verified a few applications with calculations and whatnot”, to which the answer is the same “yep. I’m gonna blow my brains out if this continues”
Too real
I want to throttle every microsoft employee. I have enough issues with the CAD program itself, I don’t need fucking office365 and explorer freezing and crashing nonstop
Commenting to share this neat video I saw recently from the developer of Windows Task Manager. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQykvrAR_po
Seems like a great guy. He is retired from M$, so probably safe from your throttling anyway.
yeah that was a neat video
Every area of expertise has vocabulary that’s relevant only to that discipline, is extremely precise and carries a lot of useful meaning. Why would that be bad?
Its not “bad”, but the goal proposal of the OP post was that our friends gain understanding by observing us do our jobs. The jargon means even with direct observation, our friends cannot gain understanding of the jobs we do.
Then the proposal may be unfeasable for professions with highly specialized knowledge. Dumbing down the jargon of doctors, programmers or architects, for instance, makes no sense given the loss of needed precision. If a mundane doesn’t know the workings of the lymphatic system or the uses of the visitor pattern, tough luck.
DevOps?
Niche IT project work actually, but lots of overlap with DevOps type skills/situations.