Environment makes a huge difference for me: recently bought myself one of those SAD lamps and switched to working 08:00-16:00 rather than 09:00-17:00 and my general mood has increased 10x; leading to a significant…
If you take the view that rights are granted by society and not inherent then you are technically correct that rights don't really exist. But then neither does money or law. This kind of nihilistic reductivism isn't…
And the same reason private landlords rent us back our right to shelter
> I guess the only answer, as some others have mentioned, is a predictable organization system for the documentation, which crucially is actually taught to newcomers. Precisely - just as you'd on-board new hires with…
There are two sides to the coin with not being able to find things - sometimes it is, as you say, because you are bad at searching for things, but sometimes things haven't been made in an easily searchable way. To name…
Ooh thanks, I will have a read
As the only person on my team who routinely documents my work (or at least who does so in a place visible to others), I definitely agree. I get very tired of people asking me things about my work where the reply is…
Designers to design, draughtspeople to draught, archivists to archive. Engineering entails a lot of secretarial work that has been "streamlined" by expecting engineers to do it themselves rather than employing…
It doesn't bother me particularly and I must admit I barely noticed it (hence no original CW) but there is more to other people than I could ever understand; if I can take thirty seconds of my time to prevent someone…
That is a very reasonable point and I have been trying hard to be objective and avoid "grass is greener" thinking. From the short periods when I have worked in offices in-person, you are correct that the lion's share of…
For sure! Why can't it be "we have updated/created X policy, please find it here: <link to document in policy repository>" ? Is that so much harder? Most document management systems have a notification system built-in…
Hard agree. My current workplace culture (at least in the HW dept) is much more towards zero-documentation than anything I have experienced before and it has been a nightmare as a relatively new employee. I waste so…
You're welcome!
Exactly! Interestingly it has prompted some reflection on my part about the whole remote vs on-site work debate: my entire contact with my colleagues with the exception of rare days on-site is via the internet. This…
Thanks, I have added this to my comment so it is more visible.
https://samkriss.substack.com/p/the-internet-is-already-over CW: gore in header image, about one page long. PgDn gets it out of view on a 1080p screen Posted on HN a while back. It's slightly bleak in outlook but it was…
I agree with you in some ways and disagree in others. In yet more ways, I am undecided. However, I am convinced that this is probably not the best setting for a discussion like this that will achieve anything more than…
Oh yeah for sure I am not disputing that this is the way that the system works - the whole thing rests on the compromise point between the employer's margin and the employee's wage. Both need each other to some degree…
This experience relies on there being other people of your age or others who have the same attitudes to online socialisation. I am the only person in my department younger than thirty and we all work fully remote; I…
I don't disagree with you but I think we may have differing definitions of "exploitation." To generate more value for a company than you receive in wage is to be exploited, in my book, and is subsequently unethical. The…
> I'm not even close to the age to worry about work-life balance. What age is that? I am in my early twenties and work-life balance is one of the most influential things on my day-to-day mental state. A couple of days…
It doesn't matter how many people you survey, you will always end up only getting responses from the type of people who respond to surveys
At least a computer is a lot higher effort to use. Much harder to start browsing due to a compulsion when you weren't already using it. I agree it's just as easy to slip into doomscrolling on a computer browser but only…
> No one argues with pronouncing the first syllables of those words with the "air" sound. I do. Never met anyone who would rhyme the first syllable in "character" with "air" - maybe this is true in some US accents? I'm…
Environment makes a huge difference for me: recently bought myself one of those SAD lamps and switched to working 08:00-16:00 rather than 09:00-17:00 and my general mood has increased 10x; leading to a significant…
If you take the view that rights are granted by society and not inherent then you are technically correct that rights don't really exist. But then neither does money or law. This kind of nihilistic reductivism isn't…
And the same reason private landlords rent us back our right to shelter
> I guess the only answer, as some others have mentioned, is a predictable organization system for the documentation, which crucially is actually taught to newcomers. Precisely - just as you'd on-board new hires with…
There are two sides to the coin with not being able to find things - sometimes it is, as you say, because you are bad at searching for things, but sometimes things haven't been made in an easily searchable way. To name…
Ooh thanks, I will have a read
As the only person on my team who routinely documents my work (or at least who does so in a place visible to others), I definitely agree. I get very tired of people asking me things about my work where the reply is…
Designers to design, draughtspeople to draught, archivists to archive. Engineering entails a lot of secretarial work that has been "streamlined" by expecting engineers to do it themselves rather than employing…
It doesn't bother me particularly and I must admit I barely noticed it (hence no original CW) but there is more to other people than I could ever understand; if I can take thirty seconds of my time to prevent someone…
That is a very reasonable point and I have been trying hard to be objective and avoid "grass is greener" thinking. From the short periods when I have worked in offices in-person, you are correct that the lion's share of…
For sure! Why can't it be "we have updated/created X policy, please find it here: <link to document in policy repository>" ? Is that so much harder? Most document management systems have a notification system built-in…
Hard agree. My current workplace culture (at least in the HW dept) is much more towards zero-documentation than anything I have experienced before and it has been a nightmare as a relatively new employee. I waste so…
You're welcome!
Exactly! Interestingly it has prompted some reflection on my part about the whole remote vs on-site work debate: my entire contact with my colleagues with the exception of rare days on-site is via the internet. This…
Thanks, I have added this to my comment so it is more visible.
https://samkriss.substack.com/p/the-internet-is-already-over CW: gore in header image, about one page long. PgDn gets it out of view on a 1080p screen Posted on HN a while back. It's slightly bleak in outlook but it was…
I agree with you in some ways and disagree in others. In yet more ways, I am undecided. However, I am convinced that this is probably not the best setting for a discussion like this that will achieve anything more than…
Oh yeah for sure I am not disputing that this is the way that the system works - the whole thing rests on the compromise point between the employer's margin and the employee's wage. Both need each other to some degree…
This experience relies on there being other people of your age or others who have the same attitudes to online socialisation. I am the only person in my department younger than thirty and we all work fully remote; I…
I don't disagree with you but I think we may have differing definitions of "exploitation." To generate more value for a company than you receive in wage is to be exploited, in my book, and is subsequently unethical. The…
> I'm not even close to the age to worry about work-life balance. What age is that? I am in my early twenties and work-life balance is one of the most influential things on my day-to-day mental state. A couple of days…
It doesn't matter how many people you survey, you will always end up only getting responses from the type of people who respond to surveys
At least a computer is a lot higher effort to use. Much harder to start browsing due to a compulsion when you weren't already using it. I agree it's just as easy to slip into doomscrolling on a computer browser but only…
> No one argues with pronouncing the first syllables of those words with the "air" sound. I do. Never met anyone who would rhyme the first syllable in "character" with "air" - maybe this is true in some US accents? I'm…