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cait@cait.bsky.social |
my cemetery has tons of historical correspondence by employees going back almost 200 years and i like to read it and make myself insane thinking about how much more shit i am expected to do in a day than these people and how i am not even actually making that much more money than them
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Dr. Damien P. Williams (Temporarily Logged Off)
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1) That's cool as hell, but 2) oof.
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Head Engineer - Blinky Light Dept.
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They used to measure staffing as engineers per transmitter. Now we're at transmitters per engineer, and let me tell you, the number of transmitters is higher than two. There has never been a shortage of work in this profession! These machines still need care!
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Hastur Selante
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This is the vibe from the disconnect that happened in the 80’s, between worker productivity & wages. Guess which one stagnated!
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Mike Gorgone
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I am an engineer and have this same thought about the speed of work when drawings were done by hand and not on the computer and that was way less than 200 years ago.
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Kathleen Lenihan
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As a family historian who has benefited from so many people who work at cemeteries, thank you.
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1Obit Community
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So just wondering how many people in this cemetery can you connect the dots to that are related to others plus cemeteries further a field connect descendant-chain. Like six degrees epigram.org.uk/the-six-degr...
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eva
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now i wonder if your struggles are being recorded for someone else to read in 200 years?
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Public Universal Ally
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Less. The inflation figures are propaganda, and labor got 8/8/8 in an era before hour commutes
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Birb at Arms
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It's fun to read the little notes medieval scribes wrote in the margins of the books they were paid to copy by hand. Lots of moaning about drafty workspaces and sore wrists, but on the bright side, their clients were cool with getting a book full of doodles like this:
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special baby 👶
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not to salt the wound, but you're probably making less than them.
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David Henningham 🏳️🌈
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You can do something in the morning and something after lunch. That's the real work day.
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Stephen Shankland
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OTOH we have memes and dental floss
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Still looking for Digimon World 1-3 Ports
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Similar but also not, my friend worked in a doctor's office and during the start of covid her manager did her job and was like "I did all your work with only me, idk why you're so slow with 2 people" and she's like???? You had 1 patient a WEEK, not 40+ and referrals.
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atomic shrugs
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I am a baby academic and reading about the expected outputs of old timey academics in the olden days compared to now makes me sad and mad
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Lots42
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Now I'm thinking about the podcast the Magnus Archives, where Jonathan Sims is hired to sort out all the 'I saw something spooky' stories Londoners have bitched about over the centuries.
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So, tell me again how this is going to end...
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That's called "productivity" and the value is all funneled upward so some sociopath can have his own space program
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Hi! It's Herb!
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I found a way to basically double the throughput of our development teams by just fixing busted ass systems and putting in some automation for them so we could meet dates. Business started asking for 3x as much in the same time because we needed to be 'pushed'
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cait
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i know it sucked in different ways but some of these people really wrote ten letters a day on a typewriter and signed two forms and made $200 an hour comparatively
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Andromeda Yelton
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I seriously think this is half of why everyone I know has ADHD - it’s not entirely that our executive function is SO bad; it’s that the number of things we are expected to track has gotten jacked up beyond all reason
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Tom Wrongbottom 🍦
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Ghost pages or ghost wages. Rough.
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The Big Marmot
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I've been reading 19th C. correspondence for my job and I recently read about the post master of Honolulu going into town only a few days a week and only ever from 9am-2pm when he did. Enough money for a mansion in Honolulu for that
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Head go boomy
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Our tech let's us communicate and calculate so efficiently but need an executive function to manage them. I think that has pushed our brains to one of its limits.
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@jrmcc.bsky.social
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Trickle-down-economics for the WIN!!
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the thing noticer
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yeah but did you consider that they were also probably not steeped in daily news of all the decaying systems around them at all times, as well
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