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Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs (news.cornell.edu)

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“Corporate bullshit is a specific style of communication that uses confusing, abstract buzzwords in a functionally misleading way,” said Littrell, a postdoctoral researcher in the College of Arts and Sciences. “Unlike technical jargon, which can sometimes make office communication a little easier, corporate bullshit confuses rather than clarifies. It may sound impressive, but it is semantically empty.”

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[–] P1nkman@lemmy.world 12 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

I did the same. Worked as an IT Problem Manager for one of the worlds largest oil companies for 6 years. Got tired of the bullshit, now I work as a developer in a small company. Pay is way less, but man, an I happier now than 10 years ago!

[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I wanna do that. How did you go from.IT to developer. I did Linux IT and aero engineering. Some MATLAB and C back in the day. Is it hard to switch?

[–] P1nkman@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

Honestly, I had no programming experience. I told my wife I'm tired and need a change. Signed up for 100Devs, an intensive course, especially watching it live in the middle of night twice a week while maintaining a full-time job, but if you ask me, it paid off in the end! But man, it was a fucking hard 9 months.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

Yah, shit, I was making salary for the first time in my life and my entire job consisted of acting engaged at pointless meetings.

I make half as much now, but I also hate this work too so there's that. I keep thinking about picking up some better coding skillsets but then I see yet another workplace gutted by AI and wonder how much time I have as a white-collar worker at all. Might have to go back to painting figures for money.

[–] grandma@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Someone will have to fix and maintain the tidal wave of slop being generated right now. Programming will remain an incredibly valuable skill and hiring will pick back up when this LLM mania ends.

[–] probably2high@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

I look forward to future full-slop/devslOps engineer job listings