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Nothing is more radicalizing than interaction with those suit-wearing, nasal-voiced motherfuckers. I had a little job that involved dealing with those types, worst fucking three months of my life. I remember once one of those fuckers submit an application for something at the place I worked, but it was for something in another location so we had to wait for confirmation from the other office. So I was stuck alone with him in a little damp room for an hour, and naturally we started chatting a bit. The conversation sort of steered towards talking about local problems such as housing, homeless people and some other shit. I couldn't believe the pure evil that he was saying, I swear I would've hurt him that day if I wouldn't get fired doing so. I later googled his name and it turned out that his father is some big shot in oil consulting, while his mother is involved with corporate finance. They all lived in a 100% white area in a big ass mansion
The next time they say that communism killed 200 gazillions, I'm simply gonna say "they clearly didn't kill enough people considering you're here". Like, unironically, while some people here advocate for giving these rats housing and healthcare and so on, I just won't understand why they don't just want to get rid of them and create a better world without this trash.
Let me tell you about interacting with my managers, all of whom have business background and. It is infuriating on so many multiple levels. Here is a few from my last job (can you tell Im bitter? I am very bitter):
- talking over me, the expert in the area, even when a clear explanation why their idea is wrong, backed with numbers and calculations. I actually suspect sexism here
- lack of expertise in the domain areas and what problems it can solve
- Changing the scope of the project to what they think the client wants, instead of what the client actually wants. Even though what the client wants is easier, better and more useful.
- Using ALL the buzzwords
- mAcHIne LeARnING DaTA plaTFoRm
- Every single opposition, criticism or idea is met with "I agree with you, but let me offer this other completely made up and bullshit perspective..."
- haivng zero ideas what the skillset of someone in that project should entail
- Ignoring a finished solution, in place of developing a new one, on a platform that nobody in the team is familiar with, and not even involving the person who developed the initial solutoin and is familiar with the problem.
- Not including your data scientists in a project that will involve machine learning and predictions in the design and scoping meetings
- Wait no, actually only keeping said meetings to designers and UXers, who have no idea what is possible within the problem
- Spending vast amonut of money for something that will end up being barely used
- Never, ever, ever solving actual problems even though we are supposed to be the problem solving department.
- Lettings your employees go for many months without being involved in anything related to their core skillset (you might think its actually cool and revolutionary, to just sit around, read theory and get paid, but believe me, it gets old real quick, and no, you cant actually do whatever you want)
The app needs to be able to do three things:
Keep a list of contacts, sort them alphabetically, and solve the travelling salesman problem.
It's lesser known but there exists a fascist variation to the travelling salesman problem, known as the happy merchant problem.
Managers are so utterly disconnected to actual work that it’s literally impossible for them to have a good idea. They’re in their own little world divorced from reality and constantly have to make unnecessary reorganizations and changes that always make things worse to justify their own existence.
But at least they could listen, it would benefit them and those under them... I think that they actively do not want to say streamline processes or do meaningful projects or whatever... Maybe Im the stupid one for still being naive enough to belive in such bullshit after all this time :(
My father who is sadly extremely liberal was a business major for his first undergraduate degree. He once told me he ended up hating the faculty and everything about it so much that he voted for the local communist party in any election out of spite for the duration of his studies.
The people studying business at my Uni would always wear suits all the time and try to act like Gordon Gecko or some shit, it was super cringe
Business school is capital’s brainwashing tool to internalize even more the idea of treating human beings as disposable. It’s terrifying to see what it does to people I know
Business majors did far less than engineering majors in the pursuit of me becoming a maoist.
As an engineering major, real engineers are easy to radicalise because a lot of them fundamentally want to make the world better with technology and then come to the startling conclusion that the places they can work will not let them.
Not the Elon Musk fanboys though, and they're not engineers, they intend to found startups and get rich quick.
i signed up to upbear the aero part. no words, just depression.
Er... 5? News to me, I’m pretty convinced that number is 0.
You definitely have more incel types in engineering though and that's mad annoying. Business major chuds are much easier to understand than 4chan types.
The slow realisation that capitalism would never let me do the research I wanted to do is why I'm no longer a Molecular Biologist. Like fuck guys, all I ever wanted was to potter around in a lab for 60 years working on gene therapy to fight heart disease. But nah, too blue sky to get a funding round.
Mood.
When I was a kid, I wanted to go into robotics when I grew up, so I could find the least enjoyable job and automate it. It seemed like the obvious thing that a person should do with their life. But misery is usually cheaper than robots, and when it's not automation just means the workers lose their jobs and some asshole gets rich.
I'm a computer engineer and holy fuck were my classmates insanely chudsy
It’s really interesting how far right most engineering majors are. Got into an argument with one last year who insisted that all muslims are terrorists and that christianity will save the world. Also thought Bernie was a commie that was gonna kill us all with breadlines lol.
For most of them though, I blame the fact that engineering programs are designed to funnel people into the military industrial complex. Their world views are explicitly sculpted through lack of philosophy classes, environmental/climate change classes, etc.
It's fun messing with coworkers who sign their emails with their MBA degree as if they earn a title like doctors after graduating from money school.
