I automated my job over a year ago and haven't told anyone

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jan 19, 2022, 9:38 PM UTC

getoj wrote: post #326

buran77 wrote: post #244

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The story is most likely made up and one of the last clarifications strongly hints at it: > It can't be this simple / this is fake because you aren't doing blah blah. You're right, it's not this simple. There are more steps involved in the script and it performs functions I haven't discussed. [...] The core of the script, transfer and hash, is accurate The person focuses on transfer and hash and keeps what looks like…

> But nobody ever suspecting they're the actors in the story despite the process being fairly unique? In a past life I used to write for a local TV soap. I would constantly take personal events that my friends and family told me about, minimally jazz them up, and have them happen to our regular cast. I was there for five years and not one person noticed that their story was on the show. It's all about context.

Post by 5bolts » Wed, Jan 19, 2022, 9:42 PM UTC

mirkules wrote: post #339

ironmagma wrote: post #118

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Is that really bullshit work? I seriously doubt you’d be able to completely solve the problem of lost luggage. You could cut it down, yet you can’t scale down the number of jobs dealing with it very easily (one per airport at least, and you can’t hire half a person if there’s only half a workload). A similar thing could be said of bloated code.

I know nothing about luggage transit, and any idea of a solution for lost luggage I could come up with is more likely naive than not. Could you define why lost luggage is an unsolvable problem? What makes it so difficult?

Post by sokoloff » Wed, Jan 19, 2022, 9:44 PM UTC

duxup wrote: post #343

TravelTechGuy wrote: post #330

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re: the performance review: don't know about your work place, but the first quarterly review I got at [insert name of large known company], my manger sat me down and explained she is budgeted a certain amount of bonus points for her 5 team members, and required to "grade on a curve". Hence, 1 team member will be "above average", 3 will be "average", and one "below average" every quarter. And for fairness, she rotates…

I worked at a company that operated like that. Each manager could only put in so many high marks. Company had something like 5000 employees. I felt good that I often got the highest mark, but others were doing well too, they deserved more. I finally asked my boss, he told me. “I figured out that other being told in an email how to award perf reviews… nobody checks… so I give everyone the highest reward.”

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jan 19, 2022, 9:46 PM UTC

Melatonic wrote: post #224

zffr wrote: post #191

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I personally know someone who claims to have automated his work with Excel after learning how to code. He ended up telling his manager after feeling guilty. He got a promotion and eventually left the team to become a real software engineer. The rest of his team was eventually let go since they were not needed. This was at a large company you have definitely heard of. Its possible that my friend lied or exaggerated th…

Sounds like your friend is a hell of a lot more honest than that guy who took on multiple sysadmin positions and then automated almost everything and for the remainder hired multiple overseas contractors to do the rest

Post by ironmagma » Wed, Jan 19, 2022, 9:50 PM UTC

5bolts wrote: post #353

mirkules wrote: post #339

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I know nothing about luggage transit, and any idea of a solution for lost luggage I could come up with is more likely naive than not. Could you define why lost luggage is an unsolvable problem? What makes it so difficult?

logistics.. its amazing that MORE luggage isn't lost on a daily basis. I traveled every week for 10 years, lost my bag maybe 4 times? usually around a holiday where the airports are burdened with extra people (and 75% of those lost bags were out of O'Hare... ) sure it seems simple take a bag put it in a tube, take it off the tube give it back to the person.. but man, probably 30 people touched that bag in that proces…