sharks + planes as formerly seen on Twitter

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

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

unhinged chosting, +follow

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

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

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

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

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.

no, yeah, you have an excellent point

Yeah

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

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 -.-

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

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!!!!

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.

yeah it's sooooo fucking fake top to bottom lmao

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.

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

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

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

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

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.