*1 hr after meeting*

*boss calls*
Boss: how are you doing with the task we talked about on the meeting?

Me: Oh I'm doing that other thing we talked about. I'll finish both in about an hour.

Boss: great!

... then starts going on about their lives. I wanted to be nice to them, so I paid attention to what's going on in their lives while I program menial tasks.

*1 hour later*
Boss: so have you finished? It's been an hour.

I would've finished, IF YOU HADN'T BEEN DISTRACTING ME THE WHOLE TIME

Did you say the last line to your boss?

I swear the only people who actually work while at work are the engineers and housekeeping.

Managers talk and do paperwork.
HR? Talk and paperwork.
Customer support? Just talking.

Okay, artists tend to work, too. Same with the more manual jobs. But jobs that focus on people? Nothing but talking and maybe some paperwork.

Why do we pay them so much, again? Right, because they assumed responsibility for handling payroll. Sounds just like members of congress voting on a raise for members of congress. 🙄

@Root my view on it: 🤬🤬🤬🤬

New boss at work:
Ok @magicMirror, We need you to come to the office more (2 hour commute each direction).
Me: What? why? My productivity is much higher bc 4 more hours of work per day!
New boss: I don't care about that. I need you more in the office.
me: DAFUQ? why?
New boss: We need to set a standard across the company.
Me: 🙄. So you are ok with lower productivity?
Boss: .... Yeah. I guess.
Me: Ok then.

@magicMirror
"I need you more in the office."
"Why?"
"Standard across company"

I always love this kind if reasoning.
This doesn’t answer the question "why" it should be standard.

Like:
We need you to cut off one of your fingers each month.
Why?
Company policy.

@Root I deeply respect people that can work in customer support and can keep it together. Just talking sounds easy but it actually isn't. Customers basically unload all their frustration with the company as a whole on the support workers. They constantly get shit for something they barley have any control of. I'd consider that hard work given that their pay isn't that great either.

@TheSilent I agree. I don’t have the patience or kindness to deal with the average idiot user. Customer service often works harder than most. And they often make the most understanding office friends, too. Especially when you let them rant :)

But I think we can all agree that HR is pretty useless. They don’t make things better for employees or management; their only real contribution is handling insurance paperwork.

@Lensflare Sounds like a yakuza excuse

@Root HR is worse than recruiters bc i had some recruiters who understood that lacking professional (meaning your ass wasnt in an office when learning) experience in a framework like react (which to me was a relaxing cruise) doesn’t mean you’re a bad developer! They were rare but i was lucky to find them. HR is ironically a position that can be easily done by robots and anyone who can be trusted to not poop on the floor while screaming singing I made stinky and I know it clap my hands...by that I mean senior HR specialists or fucking analysts