The thing youāre not accounting for is that work that primarily involves thought, which is what āoffice dronesā are doing
Found the office drone.
Our office drones are not āthinkingā for half the day like you, and input and manipulate data. You could also include half these āmanagersā too who sit in an office sending emails all day, and never hit the shop floor.
Given that office drone would cover any job that isnāt service, manufacturing or laborer, itās not exactly surprising that youād find one. Iām a software developer.
Itās almost always best to assume that other peopleās jobs actually take some form of skill, because they always do. People get paid for a reason. Otherwise you fall into the trap of calling huge swaths of work āunskilled laborā and thinking they donāt deserve much pay, just because theyāre just moving stuff around on the shop floor.
What do you think those emails the managers are sending are, if not work?
You donāt understand though, because itās not physical (software of any kind) and even if it is (any hardware) because you arenāt constantly doing something itās not work!!
As an admin who got push back from the sales team, everyone hasā¦ Unique perspectives on what is and isnāt work.
The old; how do you know someone is a software developer? Yup, they tell ya!
I think I really touched a nerve with that guy though, and it seems like they want to be an office drone instead of working from home (this is the bit where the āsenior software devs + team managerā argue they need to collaborate, in person) with a nice life balance.
I know exactly what those emails are because I have to deal with them asking me if a wagon that Iām looking at has arrived yet.
So I email them back telling them that itās arrived (they knew that already because goods-in already updated the checking in sheet) and they get to validate their job somehow by asking me, shit.
Itās quite amazing how they keep their jobs.
So you can dismiss someoneās job because you, a person whose job it is to look at wagons, got an email you didnāt see the point of?
If they have the sheet, why do they need you to work there and look at the wagon at all?
Now, I know your job definitely has more to it than looking at wagons and confirming their existence.
My point is that the person who sent the email does too. Itās rare for a job to actually have no point and no work associated with it.
Experimental solution proposal:
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Fire all management. Theyāre expensive and exponentially less productive. Their stupid large offices and pricey desks also waste space.
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(Office) workers collectively do the thing they do without being micro managed and stuffed into pointless meetings.
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Probably profit, actually. But then how would the āin-clubā kids reap all the rewards without working? :( :( :(
If it is so easy to be an office drone, why werenāt you able to get a job like that?
Is it maybe because it involves skills you arenāt aware of?
