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The Who Cares Era

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Re: The Who Cares Era

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Post by Permik »

0_____0 wrote: post #5

I was just kvetching about this to my partner over breakfast. Not exactly, but a parallel observation, that a lot of people are just kind of shit at their jobs. The utility tech who turned my tiny gas leak into a larger gas leak and left. The buildings around me that take the better part of a decade to build (really? A parking garage takes six years?) Cops who have decided it's their job to do as little as possible.…

From these kinds of observations in my own life I've just concluded that unfortunately some neurotypical got hired to do an autistic people's job.

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Post by XorNot »

0_____0 wrote: post #5

I was just kvetching about this to my partner over breakfast. Not exactly, but a parallel observation, that a lot of people are just kind of shit at their jobs. The utility tech who turned my tiny gas leak into a larger gas leak and left. The buildings around me that take the better part of a decade to build (really? A parking garage takes six years?) Cops who have decided it's their job to do as little as possible.…

> The buildings around me that take the better part of a decade to build (really? A parking garage takes six years?)

This doesn't happen because nobody cares. It happens because the financing dries up, or labor is straight up not available. And that still comes back to money.

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Post by jaoane »

Yes, nobody cares about what a special supplement says. No one reads those and if they do it’s just to pass time. What happened here is that having used AI to write the supplement made the obvious more evident. The rest of the article is just crying about AI and Trump and yawn wow this is even less interesting than a Chicago Sun Times special supplement!

Re: The Who Cares Era

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Post by jaccola »

maxehmookau wrote: post #9
0_____0 wrote: post #5

I was just kvetching about this to my partner over breakfast. Not exactly, but a parallel observation, that a lot of people are just kind of shit at their jobs. The utility tech who turned my tiny gas leak into a larger gas leak and left. The buildings around me that take the better part of a decade to build (really? A parking garage takes six years?) Cops who have decided it's their job to do as little as possible.…

An embrace of mediocrity in one's work, specifically, though. In many countries, the UK for example, wages have become stagnant over the last 15 years and "getting on in life", "social mobility", whatever you want to call it, appears to have stalled entirely. Maybe "Who cares?" is the correct response for many people.

Maybe (and I mean this genuinely, I don't know for certain) "Who cares?" is a cause of wage stagnation.

Re: The Who Cares Era

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Post by sndean »

0_____0 wrote: post #5

I was just kvetching about this to my partner over breakfast. Not exactly, but a parallel observation, that a lot of people are just kind of shit at their jobs. The utility tech who turned my tiny gas leak into a larger gas leak and left. The buildings around me that take the better part of a decade to build (really? A parking garage takes six years?) Cops who have decided it's their job to do as little as possible.…

> a lot of people are just kind of shit at their jobs.

Is this similar to the Peter principle, though? And not that it is exactly that concept, but that book is from 1969. People have been making this observation for a while.

In this context, it's more comforting to really pay attention to very competent people. I had a home inspector spend ~5 hours on my house and was amazed by every little detail he discovered and documented, and how knowledgeable he was, etc.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle

Re: The Who Cares Era

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Post by saltwatercowboy »

jaccola wrote: post #15
maxehmookau wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

An embrace of mediocrity in one's work, specifically, though. In many countries, the UK for example, wages have become stagnant over the last 15 years and "getting on in life", "social mobility", whatever you want to call it, appears to have stalled entirely. Maybe "Who cares?" is the correct response for many people.

Maybe (and I mean this genuinely, I don't know for certain) "Who cares?" is a cause of wage stagnation.

UK real wages stagnated directly in line with the 2008 financial crisis [1]. Enough has been written about 'too big to fail' that I don't need to rehash it, but ascribing guilt to the workers of a chronically underpaid and historically innovative nation doesn't feel right.

[1] Office of National Statistics via BBC: https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/2560/cpsprodpb/13FD8/p...

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Post by angry_moose »

jaccola wrote: post #15
maxehmookau wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

An embrace of mediocrity in one's work, specifically, though. In many countries, the UK for example, wages have become stagnant over the last 15 years and "getting on in life", "social mobility", whatever you want to call it, appears to have stalled entirely. Maybe "Who cares?" is the correct response for many people.

Maybe (and I mean this genuinely, I don't know for certain) "Who cares?" is a cause of wage stagnation.

It might be part of the feedback loop, but from my experience it always starts at the company level.

I think I've been under a pay freeze for 4 of the last 6 years, and a capped 2% raise one of the others. No matter how much effort I put in, my wages would have stagnated.

Re: The Who Cares Era

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Post by whobre »

0_____0 wrote: post #5

I was just kvetching about this to my partner over breakfast. Not exactly, but a parallel observation, that a lot of people are just kind of shit at their jobs. The utility tech who turned my tiny gas leak into a larger gas leak and left. The buildings around me that take the better part of a decade to build (really? A parking garage takes six years?) Cops who have decided it's their job to do as little as possible.…

> Cops who have decided it's their job to do as little as possible.

To be fair, the society decided to encourage such behavior.

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