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araly @araly2/6/2024, 7:34 AM

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satah @sitcom2/5/2024, 11:47 PM

consistently the absolute funniest thing abt doing a technical writing program is being introduced to Tech World Stuff. Hello computer employee. This is an empathy map. It helps you remember that the people who use your thing are people with feelings & thoughts. It's like if you looked at a person & imagined that they have an interior life, on top of just using your app! i've had to Make Personas in i think three different classes so far. silly cone galley is out here making up guys & saying that's business!!! they're writing 15000 articles about the economic benefits of making up a guy who might use your industry disruptive website for Dog Surfing & i have to read all of them & they're like!!!! ooooh this is business this is tech!!!!!!!!!!!!! this is so important & real!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! these are my VERY IMPORTANT BUSINESS OCS DO NOT STEAL.. EVERYONE COME IN TO THE "MEETING".WHERE I WILL SHOW YOU PICTURES OF MY BUSINESS OCS... WE CAN DO A JOURNEY MAP FOR THEM... maybe think abt which buttons they would clikc.... ans when...... wouldn't that be nice............ life could be but a dream..

satah @sitcom2/5/2024, 11:52 PM

im SORRY if i ever make FUN OF YOUR JOB i am just carrying a LOT of STUFF from my LONG CAREER in FOOD SERVICE & being CONSTANTLY TOLD to GET A REAL JOB but EVERY TIME i LEARN MORE abt what "REAL JOBS" are LIKE i'm like FEEDING PEOPLE MIGHT BE ONE OF THE ONLY REAL JOBS WE HAVE LEFT & i may YEARN FOR THAT FEELING FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE

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mint @mintexists2/6/2024, 1:30 AM

i had to do this at my internship and it was so silly because i was like "person who needs the software to be easy to use" and they were like "no they need to have a job and personality and stuff" it was so silly

satah @sitcom2/6/2024, 6:37 AM

there's simply no way we can know how people would interact with a program unless we make a little doll of them & play for a while

Panic! At The Opticon!@panicattheopticon2/6/2024, 9:15 AM

it’s because they went straight out of college (fake made up world freemium game) into offices (stressful but incredibly alienated from reality where all problems are fake like being held captive by some godlike alien in a star trek episode who turns out to be someone’s bratty space child) and thus can no longer relate to any normal human much like a VN character trapped in their millionth time loop

they’re not dead but they’re not living either. every day i have to fight the urge to turn into one of them. it’s so so hard to finally “make it” and have that turn out to be one of the worst things to happen in a slow way.

this shit feels like the ending of Utena

Panic! At The Opticon!@panicattheopticon2/6/2024, 9:17 AM

sorry i’m a project manager so im literally the one having to make the funny paper dolls so people can understand how to collectively move a task along. meanwhile i remember getting screamed at by sous chefs

it’s not like i miss it but once you’ve seen the human capacity to Get Shit done and you see your millionth dollar burned on someone’s half baked plan to reach an imaginary goal it just really fucks with you when you remember struggling just to get two dollars

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@aune2/5/2024, 11:57 PM

yeah nothing about business is a real job

it's fucking stupid

i've had to explain to people how to copy paste text from one file to another

in tuft we trust @tit2/6/2024, 12:00 AM

unhinged chosting, +follow

Noel B @NoelBWrites2/6/2024, 12:02 AM

Yeah no I used to make "personas" for clients and it is indeed fake and silly

@margot2/6/2024, 12:06 AM

it’s 2024. every job that isn’t a “real job” is things that are actually essential to society. every “real job” is showing up to an office to get paid eight hours wages to spend an hour typing into a spreadsheet and maybe go to a meeting or two

walking mirage @atomicthumbs2/6/2024, 12:06 AM

i love that i can either work in e-waste in the bay area and make $29,000 doing something extremely useful and helping hundreds of people a month, or go work in tech in the bay area and make $229,000 for a job which requires no manual labor and, at best, annoys hundreds of thousands of people a month

Annie D @ann-arcana2/6/2024, 2:14 AM

so many of the world's problems are literally just allocation failures, and not enough people seem to understand that.

Nire Bryce @NireBryce2/7/2024, 1:57 AM

the people in power understand it quite well, tbf. You can't weaponize it like that accidentally.

invertigo hayfever @the-doomed-posts-of-muteKi2/6/2024, 12:14 AM

This is really recontextualizing my complaint that we never actually formally gather requirements in the process of making software here

Panic! At The Opticon!@panicattheopticon2/6/2024, 9:19 AM

there’s no time to because of shareholders. it’s like running someone’s bar except it’s a barbie’s playhouse bar.

An (Gremlin)@Angremlin2/6/2024, 12:16 AM

Every day I press my stupid buttons to make the computer man jump and I think. Why is this considered a high value job. What god let my life depend on this.

Irenes (many)@ireneista2/6/2024, 12:18 AM

no, yeah, you have an excellent point

Blit @blit2/6/2024, 12:26 AM

Yeah

sometimes I volunteer at community gardens and food banks just to feel like I’ve done something

KelliKow @Bovine2/6/2024, 5:57 AM

keep doing that, that's good shit

fictive @artemis2/6/2024, 12:37 AM

gods yeah. disabled now, and there's things i can do that are real, but none of them pay the bills. so i have to carve time out for them between the thing that does -.-

~@modulusshift2/6/2024, 12:46 AM

You sure will. I work as an estimator for construction, so in a way I'm fairly close to ground level... but in another way by the time I get involved there's already someone who needs something and someone who can do that thing talking to each other and I'm simply determining what amount of green paper should be exchanged

This is unnecessary. No one who actually needs anything should be the one paying for it. That's absurd. Yes, you have needs so you must be charged for them. There's plenty of people who need nothing and pay for nothing, what sense is that?

I can at least be proud I charge less than market rate for this unnecessary service...not that that's helping my needs

gnoss @gnoss2/6/2024, 1:52 AM

the worst part of personas is being asked to make personas instead of doing the actual useful things like interviewing/observing people use stuff. if you just make personas you don't need any of that stuff i guess!!!!

satah @sitcom2/6/2024, 3:14 AM

this is the funniest part to me!! like, one of the classes was like "do user research then synthesis it into a persona" & i was like, fair enough. but sometimes it's literally just "who do you think is out there :3" & i'm like "uhhh i think this is a person who coincidentally wants a website to be exactly what i want it to be, that's my persona, are we good"

gnoss @gnoss2/6/2024, 6:38 AM

this kind of shit is why i am so disillusioned with design as a whole. it's pure psychic damage

Annie D @ann-arcana2/6/2024, 2:14 AM

you have nothing to apologize for: foodservice workers are braver than the troops. probably more likely to catch a bullet lately too.

I get paid six figures a year to make interacting with the DMV worse, and every day I think about how if my body weren't broken, I'd get an honest job flipping burgers in a heartbeat.

Natalie @nex32/6/2024, 2:37 AM

yeah it's sooooo fucking fake top to bottom lmao

erysdren @erysdren2/6/2024, 2:39 AM

mighty agree, i genuinely miss working in food service compared to the tech jobs i've had because i got an actual !!good feeling!! from feeding people food (i delivered pizza for several years, usually late into the night). handing over some nice hot pizza to a tired parent at 9:30 pm or a stoner at 1:00 am was always the greatest feeling in the world. i really miss it. if i can secure a more reliable car, i probably will go back.

KelliKow @Bovine2/6/2024, 5:55 AM

I'm taking a software engineering class right now and it's just "corporate waterfall" this and "Best practices" that

serial creaturemoder genderarmy @smokeronthebalcony2/6/2024, 9:17 AM

i was thinking "hold on let's not dismiss empathy maps, there's no shame in having trouble with understanding emotions and social cues" and then i looked up what an empathy map was and i'm sorry i ever doubted you op bc what is that shit

Moose!@moosen2/6/2024, 7:22 PM

I straight up do this professionally and I feel this so much. modern tech is silly as fuck

Nire Bryce @NireBryce2/7/2024, 1:55 AM

this is invading other industries now too it's like people with MBAs think everyone has an MBA

the harmonious blend of tradition and modernity @verticalblank2/7/2024, 5:14 AM

I am sad that I know exactly what you are talking about in both the first chost and the second chost, and I feel for you. You are right that it is all stupid and feels ridiculous and is infinitely less important than making somebody food. (Which might be why I spend so much of my free time cooking.)

For what it's worth, making up little guys is necessary because--as wild as it is--people get so obsessed with making a thing that they forget all the time they are making a thing for people, and they wind up making a thing for the sake of making a thing. Here, this team of 50 people spent three months and a million dollars making this, it's a beautiful little box full of gears and pulleys that is always closed, isn't it neat, it meets all the goals and closes all the tickets and ticks all the boxes. What does it do? Wrong question.