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    1 month ago

    Zoom oddly enough was one of the first companies to require people to return to office.

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      371 month ago

      Thank you. As a child I always thought this was such an important job. It’s a shame the highest paid humans are useless.

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        291 month ago

        It IS an important job! Without us, the disabled, the elderly, and the lazy enough to become 600lbs couldn’t traverse large airports, and fly to various cities. We do a lot of hard backbreaking work for often very little money.

        So the next time you fly with grandma, slip your wheelchair assistant a $20 bill tip. Unless they were spectacularly awful at their jobs, and tossed your grandma down a flight of stairs…

        That would be awful!!! Still though…maybe like $5?

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      221 month ago

      Easy; just shove a massive LiDAR scanner underneath, a few rechargeable 12 volt batteries, an acceptably advanced image processing system- it’s basically a self driving golf cart that would probably cost more then your yearly salary and not work as well but common sense doesn’t really mean anything to management so it’ll happen either way!

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        171 month ago

        …stop being right. I know you don’t know the layout of the airport I work at, but theres a part where I’m SURE that thing would run over people.

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          241 month ago

          . that thing would run over people.

          By running over people it will ensure that it has a decent supply of people in wheelchair. Because even AI need job security.

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    He’s the one who ordered all the zoom employees to RTO right? Are we supposed to expect him to let people go to the beach?

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        330 days ago

        As an employee you can enroll in our voluntary PTO insurance coverage benefit to only pay 40% of your salary to zoom while on PTO, you get to keep 60%!

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      224 days ago

      The joke is you AI yourself out of a job. And Zoom collects a small portion of what you would have been paid. Along with thousands of other workers.

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    311 month ago

    Ah yes, because in our economic system, people with no job can just relax at the beach all day.

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    281 month ago

    He clearly doesn’t understand how office politics works. If I’m taking a Zoom call at the beach, I want my camera on so I can flex on everyone in the office or home in their pajamas. I hope the CEO joins the call and sees me in my shades so I can get promoted to VP of Staying Light and Keeping it Tight.

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    2329 days ago

    So, end capitalism and build a fully automated post-scarcity utopia where machines do all the work and humans spend our lives doing the things we really want to do?

    Sounds good bro, let’s do it.

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    231 month ago

    If jobs consisted of only attending video calls and wiring emails, the world would be a very different place.

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      41 month ago

      I honestly don’t know if this would be like letting toddlers run a daycare or if it would be paradise.

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        21 month ago

        Honestly, I have trouble imagining such a world. Hmmm… The more I think about it, the more it just kinda sounds like high school… Sends shivers down my spine.

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        71 month ago

        As a developer I have to say OH hell nah. If I had to compare the issue to something more layman, I’d compare it to tesla’s self driving. If I have to watch it the entire time it does its thing because there’s an almost certain chance it’ll mess something up CATASTROPHICALLY due to the fact that it literally lacks the ability to understand, than I might as well just do it my self. It rarely saves time and only in dumb cases, that should have been automated in other ways a long time ago.

        Not saying it’s not a very handy tool occasionally, just that it can’t come up with solutions to problems on its own, which is like 75% of my work. And it can’t do this due to a fundamental limitation in how learning models work, no amount of training will fix this.

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          329 days ago

          We’re getting close to 100% meetings and bullshit reportings in tech was what I tried to convey.

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            129 days ago

            Sounds like the kind of work my analyst does. I guess he’s technically part of the development team, so sure??? Our 3 client mediators are totally taking over. Also pretty sure we’re the only IT department that even has such a thing. The only other person in our IT branch to be mainly doing calls and such is the top head of IT, every other IT boss still has a lot of technical work around their necks. So at least at my job “close to 100%” is an absolute farcry.

            It’s a very similar story at my girlfriend’s work place. Except they don’t even have analysts.

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    429 days ago

    Wake me up when the AI travels to the network PoPs for me to replace broken parts, to install new transponder cards and new routers, to cable everything up correctly, to label it all and to photograph the result for documentation.