To be fair, she is accurately describing government office jobs.
Poor little girl has probably never worked a day in her young life....
I gotta tell you... she’s not entirely wrong.
It’s not hard to find a twit these days, especially on Twitter. Empty headed shallow people have been amusing us since we discovered fire.
She’s right. Now have her do Congress.
This is what happens when decadent people spawn.
“We’re trying to get a feel for what people do, so If you would could you walk us through a typical day?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_1lIFRdnhA&t=17s
The ignorance is thick on this one....editorializing on what goes on in an office job she has no idea about.
Get a job little girl and actually experience it instead of living on Twitter all day.
Anybody that uses the word “like” that many times as a crutch for speaking is automatically classified as a dimwitted in my book.
I think she’s trying to justify to herself that she shouldn’t have to work.
She’s clueless. Someday, she’ll run for office. A perfect candidate.
She must not be working in an FBI or CIA office because we know they spend their entire days and nights doing nothing but spying on Americans.
Aside from the attitude and the unnecessary language that now seems to be part of the lexicon, she is right.
It is called the rule of 1,000. The rule of 1,000 is that once an organization reaches somewhere around 1,000 individuals no real work need take place for everyone to appear busy. Simply communicating keeps 80% active while the other 20% perform essential functions. E-mail, zoom and other modern conveniences make this even more efficient so that now 1,000 is reduced to mere hundreds.
When in doubt or it seems essential to appear to be doing something, call a meeting to brainstorm or something. Years ago you had to be somebody to call a meeting and to attend one. They were rare. In fact, in my first two years at Exxon I can’t think of ever having attended a meeting except for one or two for the annual report or some company wide initiative or something like united way.
How did we ever manage? Very well actually. Workers worked and leaders led, smart leaders solicited help and suggestions from workers then made decisions. It was, a beautiful thing.
This is a failure of our education system.
She probably thinks factory jobs are fake too, and has no idea what trades-people and technicians do either.
This is because all they talk about in public school now are fake social issues and slanted takes on history. These kids are not being the minute-est bit prepared for the work place.
Most office jobs are not clerical or support. Those existed a lot more in the 20th century. Most people who work in offices are engineers and designers, sales people (the inside variety) and brokers/middlemen/purchasers, and they do all of their own typing, making calls, and meeting. In general, people who work in offices get paid salary, are very productive to the point of chronic stress, and under a much greater level of professional scrutiny than people who work low skill jobs. Most meetings are not internal. They involve dealing directly with clients, customers, or collaborators.
This child probably hasn’t strung two 10 minute segments of productivity together in her entire ADD life.
Because the private sector really enjoys paying people to do nothing.
Well, one thing I’ve learned at my “office job” - particularly since it has transitioned to 100% telework - is the importance of a steady camera on zoom/Teams calls. Steady camera, steady audio level - she might want to look into that.
Well, in my office, now home office (the silver lining to COVID), you wouldn’t get away with not working. There’s far too many sync-up meetings and status meetings that if you didn’t show progress, people would be complaining in a week or two that you’re holding up the project. Then we have charge numbers for each task on a project that our time is accounted for/to and the program managers are not going to pay you to sit around and not produce. Everything is quite visible that way. Of course, my company produces physical products so it may be quite different for ESG jobs, etc.
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Working at an “office job” I sometimes wonder that myself.
Said the little brat that doesn’t produce anything.
My government office job consisted of tracking down bomb-makers and developing target folders so that they meet an unhealthy demise.
It doesn’t just happen by itself. There has to be inertia.
"You want fries with that?"
Honestly, I’m convinced that the, “Office Job,” white collar people are just there to make us blue collar people’s jobs harder.