• WanderingThoughts@europe.pubEnglish
    8 hours

    “But new jobs will be created,” they say.

    Have you looked at entry jobs these days? Those new jobs are going to require 5 years of experience for something that didn’'t exist 6 months ago.

    • TransNeko@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2 hours

      my favorite is when Jobs require (at an entry level) experience in a program that only their company uses (as in the company made the program for themselves and doesn’t let others use it). or when they require experience in a version of a program that doesn’t exist at all.

      – saw a job posting for an office admin position back in 2018 that required experience in Microsoft Windows 11. Windows 11 didn’t come out till October 5th 2021. I don’t see any keyboard where the “1” and the “0” are right next to each other.

      And my personal favorite on job tech requirements was a job posting in 2023 for a medical receptionist position at a mom and pop type of dentist place. they required new employees to buy their own “company” phone (not allowed to use personal phones for any company related calls and required you to be able to take company calls after hours.). The requirements for the phone were weird to say the least… they required all phones to be black (why do you need a color req?) and required either have an iPhone 17 (iPhone 16 hadn’t even come out yet) or a Samsung Galaxy S24 – slightly better in the “it doesn’t exist” category as they were only one version off in their number range. but hey maybe they had fat fingers as “3” is next to “4” but there is no excuse for that iPhone failure. or maybe the Job poster was a time traveler who had his dates mixed up. 😂

      but it’s not as bad as the job postings for part time job offers at big companies where they clearly copied and pasted the job descriptions from a template… as in it still had stuff like --insert company name and store location here-- and – insert full time benefits here–. 💀🪦 – looking at you Lowes and Sysco.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10 hours

    Speaking as someone on the inside of this right now… Indian subcontractors + AI. They think it can be done cheaper that way.

    Meanwhile our 2026 roadmap is blown up because they let go of everyone who actually knew anything. 🙄

  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
    9 hours

    “The thought had occasionally crossed my mind: ‘Are we building tools to replace ourselves?’ But I’d convinced myself we were just automating the mundane to free everyone up for more strategic work.

    “That narrative came crashing down when thousands of colleagues no longer had jobs.”

    Our industry is full of naive motherfuckers like this. I see them daily at work.

    Whenever you see someone or yourself repeating corporate talking points, remember that the core interests of the corporation contradict yours. The corpo only has you there because it can’t make as much money without you. It only pays you as much because it can’t get away with paying you less. There’s plenty variance and nuance between cases but all that’s overlayed on top of the base interests, it doesn’t obviate or replace them. The core interests are enforced as times get tougher or there’s other opportunity that promises to further them against yours.