I didn't know about that. At my company, the head of HR (3.5x average salary) recently told everyone, "If you want a higher salary, go work at [rival company]." This was onstage in front of ~150 people.

Almost like there's some sort of caste system...

trading commodities is truly the most important skill to making society function, god only knows how we'd survive without people who make bets with other people's money

God kill me

So... Poker? But without the flash and with the chance to genuinely throw the economy into chaos?

The worst part is, they never learn… it’s always the same damn questions, every damn time.

No wonder data breaches are a when and not if…

"hey boss i need access to your bank account to fix this thing"

someone with connections

cronyism, nepotism

goes hand in hand :)

We have an Excel expert, its in no way his job but god damn that man is helpful. He is also a combative asshole when he is in a mood.

People are like "How do you put up with him" and I dont tell them "Because he found ways to make 2 hours of administrative work take 30 minutes."

Literally happened at my work place a couple months ago.

Boomer coworker who's job was basically to order supplies and do the last step of processing accounts so we can bill them retired after like 35 years and bought a house in Arizona to fuck off there. Her job was just split among our phone operator and annual control policy department. What she got paid a lot of money to do for 8 hours a day and complained constantly about the other two people do in a couple hours a week and is easy peasy according to them. Of course they didn't get a raise, if they had come to me with that I would have declined or quit if they insisted. Fuck that.

The fact that you had to update software manually on each computer speaks volumes about how bad that company was being run. Sccm has existed since the mid 90s.

I work in software development, I understand websites, webservices and the backend it all runs on at a pretty deep level.

But I never owned an Apple device. So whenever my wife (iMac user) has a problem and I try to help, I struggle with all the basic shit. I don't know the interface, don't know the menu structure, don't have muscle memory for basic key bindings (like copy paste).

Same with my parents, a few years ago my dad gave my mom his old iphone, didn't do any factory reset etc. She used logged out his apple id and logged in hers. But the apps he installed refused to update, very little information from the device about the problem. They don't know you shouldn't do this and just give me the phone and say apps don't update. It took me a while to figure out what the hell was even going on.

Yeah I get you.

Onedrive seems so bizarrely complex. My entire organisation is 5 people. We just want a big shared folder with all our stuff.

But they'd probably be mad you didn't do it their way.

I suspect they do know there's better ways but they want you to jump through hoops like a trained pig. Fuck em.

You're giving some of these people way too much credit. I work IT and I deliberately avoid watching some people whose job it is to use a computer use a computer. Any deviation from the norm and they are lost. ANY deviation. I've seen people get confused when a box opens up in a different spot. I completely understand that everyone has different skill sets but some people have not progressed very far into their skill tree.

"me watching a senior dev who makes more than me try to brief senior leadership"

We all have our talents. Some stuff is "table stakes" baseline stuff, but with the way MS has bungled their software these days I'll never judge anyone for not knowing how to do something "simple" because MS has made most tasks infuriatingly difficult.

Huh? This is the most flat org / workers rights / collectivist board I've ever seen