Knights among toner cartridges ( infosec.pub )

(Business people) speaking a language familiar and dear to them. Its portentous nouns and verbs invest ordinary events with high adventure; executives walk among toner cartridges, caparisoned like knights. We should tolerate them - every person of spirit wants to ride a white horse. -William Strunk Jr. (The Elements of Style)

PhlubbaDubba ,

Translation, “we want someone who’s ok with us harassing them to do stuff outside work hours”

Rodeo ,

“No.”

“You were hired here on the basis of being a team player.”

“And I put in exactly the hours required of me by the job description. You’re the manager; if slack needs to be picked up, it’s your responsibility to do so, not mine.”

My bosses all hate me, and I’m happier than ever.

DemBoSain ,
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Is that a page-feed scanner? Anyone that hands me a sheet of paper had better realize it’s going to sit on my desk until the end of the day, and then get dumped in the recycling.

Evade5415 ,

When I worked on the accounting system at my last job they had scanners just to scan invoices. They were scary fast.

PlutoniumAcid ,
@PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world avatar

I got myself a Brother scanner to digitise my paperwork. Double-sided color scans converted to PDF in just over one second per sheet. Impressive!

Lepsea ,

It’s actually a fast-paced and unpredictable environment. The job is about how fast you switch from playing games/browsing lemmy to look like you are working when the “management” passing by

Asafum ,

As a dumb fuck factory schmuck I’d kill for that kind of fast paced! The only time I get to stop and sit on lemmy for a minute is when I’m in the bathroom lol

pixelscience ,
@pixelscience@lemm.ee avatar

TWO MONITORS!

TonyTonyChopper ,
@TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz avatar

why get a reasonably sized monitor when you can get these babies for $20 each in bulk orders

rekabis ,

At least it’s a private cubicle and not an open layout where devs are crammed in cheek-to-jowl in a cacophony of chaos.

FlyingSquid ,
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It’s not even the noise that’s the worst part. It’s that you know you can’t scratch your ass without everyone noticing.

Konstant ,

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    FlyingSquid ,
    @FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

    When you’ve got an itch, you’ve got an itch.

    Swedneck ,
    @Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

    also, every single job listing says this, and i’m NOT willing nor able to work in such an environment

    god i love capitalism

    Asafum ,

    Yeah and I fucking hate it because I don’t just assume everyone is lying so I never apply to those places.

    I don’t think these idiots realize how hard they’re shooting themselves in the foot with these kinds of ridiculous descriptions…

    Also the “college degree required, starting salary: 2 peanuts and a dead cat, bimonthly pay periods.”

    Absolute insanity.

    Mirshe ,

    Whoa whoa, a whole dead cat?

    AnUnusualRelic ,
    @AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world avatar

    “We used to dream about getting a dead cat!”

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