I think if you added a third argument of how many people don't actually care...the numbers would be surprisingly high!
That being said, whoever did build this simulation did pretty well :D
I agree with this! I think its great that you're trying to ask people for advice but honestly you want to maximise your learning from your potential customers themselves! The book 'The Lean Startup' mentions "faster learning loops" where you try to build something as fast as possible, find out whats wrong, iterate. - Book summary here: https://tdevroome.medium.com/book-summary-the-lean-startup-2...
Wouldn't it be easier if you could just have one software that by default maps certain actions to existing keyboard shortcuts...something like a one to one conversion?
This is so much fun! Brings me back to the old days where I used to spend hours on Facebook's Tetris Battle, except the sand makes it feel like a cheat code lol
Imo the typical “women in tech” issues only really applies to US (and maybe some other typical western countries). It’s really different elsewhere, case in point in Afghanistan.
Hope that the small things we’re doing at GitStart can break down the barriers of language, merit, class, culture, and political situation and let anyone who wants to learn coding can learn, and those who want to make money from it can!
As a Gen Z I can vouch for this statement. There are so many times where I just look at what alot of my peers spend their time doing and I think I'm so out of place...Where is the work ethic?? the desire to improve.
However I can also say that there are always some good apples in the midst of the bad ones and that we aren't all that bad!
People want to do meaningful work and improve their skills and lives.
However, incentives are not lined up to promote and reward this for quite a lot of people. Workers look around and see that working harder just means you get more work and maybe a pizza party. Raises don't beat inflation or are non-existent. They might be scheduled or classified in a way that makes them ineligible for health insurance. Pensions don't exist and "the market" ruined plenty of people's paths to retirement. Their free time is disrespected with inconsistent and last minute scheduling or with on-call duty. Their leaders can decide that inflation is caused by high salaries with layoffs as the solution and their employer obliges. They can work full time and still be in precarious positions when it comes to basic necessities like housing and healthcare.
I stopped at a McDonald's to use their WiFi and a group of high school kids were there, and I overheard a girl get very upset because her mom was laid off from the job she worked at since the girl was born, and can't retire, keep her health insurance or home. She was crying for her mom and herself. She yelled about how her mom worked crazy hours and put up with abuse. Then she said something to the tune of, "what's the point of giving yourself to your job if you will just be thrown out like that?" This was in a middle/upper middle class neighborhood.
Screw work ethic. We could all reap the benefits of AI by working a day less but instead it’s gonna get given to the machine owners who just lay everyone off and have them fight down to the bottom
They wisely took a look at us millennials, who worked ourselves to the bone and all we got was bony fingers, and decided they didn't want any of that shit. Good for them, honestly.
Something that I have thought is that gen z may be just like every generation except we know way too much. The same trend of a few winners that worked hard, a few lucky, and then a sea of misery.
I've found a few crazy hard working gen z, and im happy to be mentoring g one.
In 20-30 years when Gen Z is the backbone of the working economy, what is it supposed to look like? Will there be doctors and lawyers? Specialist engineers and experts in various fields? Somebody needs to be working and learning now to have the experience and knowledge then. Not everyone in a generation can sit back and say “nope”, and those who don’t will be the new task masters/managers/CEOs. The vacuum will be filled by someone.
To be honest alot of my reply was directed at the first part of it, but to answer the second part....unfortunately I don't think you'll see that 'apathy' towards issues that the Gen X / Millenials were fighting for. If anything, my generation finds new ways to get hurt about things that actually make us stronger as working career driven individuals. People want remote work, but also benefits, but competitive pay, and the list goes on
I'm sorry, are you saying that it's UNFORTUNATE that the younger generation won't be apathetic to workers' rights issues? Is that your actual position or did you just double-negative yourself by accident?
I have had those. Worse is that everyone has different work from home days and on Thursdays I'm the only person on my team in the office - so I get up early, make the commute into the office, talk to no one face to face, attend meetings remotely (but have to book a meeting room for privacy), then commute back home. It's a giant waste of time.
RTO is never going to work with my team. More than half of my teammates are remote, and unlikely to move if asked. We’ve already lost one person that way. I used to have a private office, but when I came back they moved me to an open floorplan seating arrangement. I now don’t sit next to anyone I work with who are local, nor do I know what the people next to me even do. No conference rooms are ever available for meetings, and most of the people I collaborate with at this point aren’t in my office anyways and I know exclusively from webex and slack. I usually just take meetings from my car in the parking lot. And damnit, they “renovated” the office but it’s now just a collection of misshapen rooms and white walls.
I can’t believe I get paid as much as I do at such a reputable company and this is the current state of things. I feel like a dog being dragged on a leash by whatever god-emperor exec made this decision. Sorry for the ramble, but I’m sitting in bed procrastinating going to work when I could alternatively just pull out my laptop right now and get things done.
I feel you. I did a somewhat controversial thing when I was in a similar situation (I had to attend an online meeting and actually present something but all meeting rooms were usually occupied by people who wanted to work in peace). So I made the effort to be anti-social and spoke quite loud in the open space to make sure everyone left, including the CEO heard me well. Nobody dared to approach me and discuss my behavior because, well, they understood the idiocy of the situation. I left the company a few months later anyway as nothing changed and they insisted on hybrid work with no private offices.
Our team has specific days we are all in the office (and we all get lunch together that day) which helps. The commute to an empty office does really suck. All the energy and value of being in-person around your peers is lost...
I get that...and honestly thats why I do still look forward to going into the office once a week, but thats only when I know I can have real interactions with great people :)
Don’t complain about that or you will end up with forced telework days. Our office now requires everyone in office TWTh, where so preferred working MWF because of how my work products and some meetings are scheduled. Telework and flexibility are at risk here.
I don't point it out at work. I sit quietly doing work with noise cancelling earbuds in and think about finding a job that doesn't make me come into the office 3 days a week.
I'm sure you know the answer to your question is "because they can".
All the current layoffs and rollback of WFH are directly related to power gained by employees during the COVID emergency. These useless stuffed shirts want to return to the good ol' days, when they barked and we jumped. No more.
The jig is up fellas. The banks are broke, the workers are pissed, and this attempt at rolling back worker power will fail.
I had a job where I was the only person on my team in the office location, but I was expected to work in the office. All of my teammates were in other states.
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