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Apple's Director of Machine Learning Resigns Due to Return to Office Work
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That doesn't mean that mental health services and drugs don't work, though. We used to institutionalize folks and these days, with proper medication, a lot of them can live fairly normal lives.
If your workplace has people reusing cups/mugs more than using disposables, then that's great. I think this is more common when the coffee is made in the office, by the employees working there, rather than with coffee bought in shops. Carrying reusables around in public, when eating at restaurants and such, has been a thing people remark about when I and my companion have done it, because it's rare for them to see it. My last workplace had a commercial coffee shop inside the building and most people used the disposables (which I noticed time after time, especially when I started utilizing a reusable container myself).
Yeah, I've investigated extensively into sleep hygiene, neurology, etc. My situation is not typical. There's no treatment. I HAVE put out effort to get regular physical exercise, and it does not affect my sleep disorder (currently this is suffering because of the bureau of disability determination suddenly challenging my disability, when they've incidentally revealed to me to be based on entirely the wrong issue from the start).
I really don't want to go down this rabbit hole here, so please accept that I appreciate your suggestions, acknowledge what works for you, but also that they're not necessarily appropriate for my situation.
My father worked for NASA for many years on interplanetary probes, so the stargazing thing has deep roots.
Where I live in Scotland you can still see the Milky Way at night with the unaided eye. I've seen comets, impressive meteor showers (including an impressive outburst of the Leonids in the early 2000's), occultations of planets, both solar and lunar eclipses, the aurora, and a bunch of wildlife I wouldn't normally see if it weren't for stargazing. It has a way of putting things in perspective.
How do you reconcile working for a company you despise? I'm living in poverty and I don't think I could work for an entity that I realized is literally harming society. Not that I have anything they want to pay for.
There were, at NUMEROUS game publishers/studios. At this point, I'm not sure which ones did NOT have that kind of thing going on.
Piss off with the elitism on job types. It's as real a job as any other.
ANY JOB worth doing at all should pay a worker a LIVING WAGE to do it.
Here, again, is the job type snobbery and elitism. Knock it off. Every time you lick the elite boot to piss on those below you, you're just strengthening the grip they have on EVERYONE.
I showed up, followed directions, and learned... for which I was punished and disposed of.
I was at the very tail end of "graduate high school, get a job, work your way up". It was a trick. A lie. It was a goalpost that was being moved under my feet, even as I tried to travel with it. Several types of employment I considered in my 20s went to the scrap heap of "not worth doing", and it was all "you should have a degree" just to get in the door. I WAS in the door, several times, in several places, but the game playing and greed just kept ratcheting up and moving those goalposts.
The jobs were going from specialist positions to "one person does 12 different job titles" generalists, being paid far less than any of the individuals who used to have one of those specialist jobs. Output quality went down, but nobody cared because quality no longer mattered. The death of expertise and craft has been expanding into every area because of the demand to devalue the work to squeeze more profit from the product. Hell, I was unknowingly part of that: I was once hired to be a design specialist, but I was actually the cheap alternative to another guy who had much more experience and training. I benefitted in that moment, but the screwing of skilled workers eventually caught up to me at the same damned place when they laid me off, eliminating my position, and then putting me in the call center, and asking me to "occasionally do a few design tasks" anyway.
It was abuse, and I was too naive to know to walk away before being driven out.
I was pushed toward "practical work" by family, and I hated it. But I obeyed. No matter what area I attempted to become proficient in, it was made worthless by the 800-pound gorillas of the market. My life was watching people move the goal posts beyond where I was able to be at any moment in time. I was sick of it before I was barely in the "professional" space 6 years.
What's left to aim toward? High paying jobs are now only for a very small percentage of human beings with the appropriate neurology, obsession, and luck. Even programmers aren't worth anything to corporations that have realized the "coder boom" resulted in a market flush with competent programmers they can hire and then dump at the end of a project, to boost quarterly profit numbers.
I was inculcated and then betrayed by the society I was brought up in. "A four year degree is the new high school diploma" is just moving of goal posts to extract more money from the masses to line the pockets of the wealthy few.
I'm not against higher education, but it did not work for me due to disabilities nobody acknowledged until it was too late. I may have started with some lower-middle class privilege, but every goddamned thing I worked hard at was never enough for anyone, and here I am in poverty, with callous jerks telling me I don't deserve to live and it's all my own fault. That's why I'm on this thread: an attack on workers pisses me off, even when that worker is privileged themselves.
People like me who fall through the cracks (or are outright pushed out by abusive systems) grow greater in number as the access to jobs becomes worse. This is not a sustainable civilization. People who want to work can't make a living, let alone "pursue happiness" or thrive. Eventually they realise there's no place for them and they give up. Then some jackass calls that "laziness", while also calling this now-former Apple guy (a literal rockstar in a specialist field that cannot [yet] be made irrelevant) "lazy". It's disgusting.
Maybe it could teach them that our leadership finally acknowledged how rigged the system is...
SO MANY people need to learn about their survivorship bias cognitive blocks.
I didn't agree to anything. Every contract I signed was because I needed to work and that was the option available to me at the time. Everything was a take-it-or-leave-it scenario, with ALL of the power in the hands of the employer. There was no negotiation. Every time I pushed back on an employer, I was beaten down and disposed of.
MOST employment is this. If this isn't YOU, you're not the average; you have more agency, and that's great for you, but it's a type of privilege most people don't get to enjoy. This is not an attack. I do not harbor resentment toward people who are doing well (I harbor resentment toward those who take advantage of their privilege to punch downward on others in society, and I'm not sayin that's you).
I know people who live in large cities for no reason other than they were born into it and could not afford to buy their way out. I am in an urban environment because I was inculcated into the "work your way up to better" mindset by everyone around me by the time I bough the house in which I am now financially trapped. You can say that was "my choice", but then we'd have to have a serious discussion about why the term "informed consent" uses the word "informed", and why the term was brought about.
Back to the changes topic: COVID19 did major damage, much of which is still under-appreciated. Some of the damage comes from what we tried to do to ameliorate the pandemic's threats. I would hope that we can separate the outcomes of "emergency responses to a pandemic" from our expectations around "plans to change society for long term sustainability".
I am not a work-from-home person. I'm not even IN the work force (because of abusive employers). I'm only on this thread pushing back against anti-worker rhetoric. In the process of which, I have gotten into so many other points on here, and it probably makes it hard to follow the subtlety of what I feel about work-from-home.
I agree that not everyone has the type of job to work from home, and I also agree that sometimes working face-to-face can be beneficial. I'm not here to say everyone should always be remote in every job ever. I DO think that MOST office-based jobs can go mostly, if not entirely, WFH.
As for the office buildings question, look to how other buildings have historically been repurposed. It's a "but the jobs" panic button, not a societal collapse issue. It would probably make billions for real-estate companies. Local services that only exist to support office building populations will adapt to serve their new inhabitants, or not, and society will change as it always does. Or used to do.
We are stuck in a rut that serves a tiny minority of people at the top of the socioeconomic hierarchy, leaching all value from the majority and throwing them away like used toilet paper. The screams of "but the jobs" rhetoric is almost never about anything but the wealthy elites' desires to maintain the status quo, from which they benefit.
You've just indicated you know nothing about the person or the situation, with your three-word toxic masculinity simplistic nonsense. Good work.
The larger the structure, the slower the changes, sure. No argument. But there's a point at which the reluctance to change just becomes a terminal problem all of its own. We are at that point in so many ways.
We already have a caste system, and it is already built around people's wealth. Here's the problem with arbitrary equality:
This isn't bad... unless we're talking about dense population buildings. I know tons of people who don't think there's anything wrong with them... until they get to live differently. So even with apartments for their employees, I think plenty of people are going to still want to choose a better living arrangement for themselves, especially if they have families.
There's literally a full thread of people being corrected on these very same mistaken assumptions that you've now just repeated...
Oh yay, yet another thing that's being arbitrarily classified as a Republican vs Democrat thing...
There's certainly room for difference...
I don't want to dive through the history of posts. I think I've mostly just been challenging the notion that creativity will always suffer. Maybe for some. Maybe not for others. But here above you said "often". Okay. Maybe. I will drop it and hope that, if I've misunderstood/mischaracterized your statements, that I haven't offended you.