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this explains so much tbh

9:45 to 6:30 work day? Weird.

@sj_zero with like 3 hours of actually working

@kaia That... was not my experience of working at Microsoft.

@foolishowl do you think this is bait video or just someone lucky?

That explains why you still have to go to the windows 2000 network connections screen they keep on hiding in a different location to do 85% of all network operations in spite of having a settings app that is ostensibly for that purpose for well over a decade.

"network binding order, protocol information, and device properties are so ugly and lame! Let's just hide the button for those, who would possibly need to use any of that? Let's go have ice cream instead!"
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@kaia @foolishowl @foolishowl @sj_zero Certainly bait for people who don't know how most thinking people actually get things accomplished.

Note the "Focus Time" section ... in an open office. Back in the day, when Gates was running things, one recruiting advertisement they ran for its picture was simply a closed door. As in, they explained, everyone got their own office, so they could think when they needed to. Office buildings were X shaped etc. etc.

For another example of this sort of thing, see Apple's open office edifice complex new HQ. I've read the head of the chip design part told the higher ups that they were never going to move to that office, no matter how much prestige their job in a hardware company had.

Got to admit, most nuts and bolts people that I've ever met would also be eating at their desk, probably while working over lunch since you don't need to stop working to eat.

But I never worked for Microsoft or any of those companies and prob never will, so it's hard to say from my perspective.

But all of this is probably advertising for hiring for a potemkin village anyway. Get the beautiful people with the correct attributes working in nice offices where they barely do any work ever, so then you can point to them when the komissar comes around.

@kaia No wonder Outlook sucks so bad

some people are expected to work
some people are expected to not cause problems
@kaia

@p how can I get paid for not causing problems??

@kaia
>LIFE IN THE ME OF WORK
>5 AM:: WAKE UP SHOWER
>6 AM:: GYM
>7 AM:: RETURN HOME AND WORK
>10 PM:: STOP WORK
>11 PM:: WORK ON PROJECT OR PLAY STARSECTOR
>12 AM:: GO TO SLEEP

I find it helps to know people who have too much money
@kaia

@theorytoe couldn't do that for a single week tbh

@kaia it depends on what i get thrown at at work
sometimes i barely get hours
sometimes i get too much

I'm impressed

Obviously lots of messing about and enjoying the free food, but it seems like she actually did some work

@kaia

Most jobs are do-nothing paperwork

@kaia In reality, if a fangm*-company has gyms/snacks/games, it's about "free time at work". You are supposed to work 8(+) hours not using them, spend your free time hanging out with colleagues (free team-building), then sleep in an apartment across the street. Repeat.

If they could give you a pod-bed in your office and the "option" to not leave, they would.

@Nicro wonder why they don't do work apartments yet like in China

>inb4 zoning laws

CC: @Nicro@fedi.absturztau.be

@kaia tbh sounds ok. if those 3h of work are productive. depends on the mental intensity of the work 3h are plenty.

there is a difference between teaching kids 3h, answering annoying emails and doing math for 3h. 2 of those are exhaustig, one just sucks