Thread by @gravislizard

a pet peeve of mine is that about 3/4 of the people i work with call our primary voice platform "broadsoft" which is not the name of the program. the softswitch is Broadworks. broadsoft makes it, *among other things*

like first, i think it rolls off the tongue more awkwardly
second, where did they *get this*? knowing our training, knowing our software, i don't understand how completely disconnected they could be in order to not have noticed that the program is clearly called Broad*works*

imagine if you worked with a bunch of supposedly highly technical people and they all called Outlook "Microsoft." like, if the people named "engineer" at your workplace, who literally make everything go, talked like 56 year old bank tellers

if someone you work with was supposed to be in charge of a massive nationwide IP network and all the hardware and fiber routes comprising it, but said "my Microsoft won't connect," *while looking at a dialog that says "Microsoft Outlook" at the top*, you would shit

that basic level of reading comprehension is *extremely goddamn important* in technical jobs. I feel like I would be a bad hiring manager because I would wash people out for stuff like this and that's why it's good that I'm not ever going to be a manager

i think about this a lot: you can't be a good leftist and run a business - even being a manager is thin ice - because capital forces people to take jobs they shouldn't, and forces owners to remove peoples necessary income because of that

Half my coworkers should not be working technical computer jobs. I don't think they have the head for it. not just because of this - this is the tip of the iceberg. i work with a bunch of people who just have bad reading comp, but it's immoral to do anything about that

i could have obtained a position at this company where i could "improve" our department, at the cost of kicking people out of a job they thought they could depend on, but have no passion for and would not have if they didn't need it

most of the people i have worked with at this job should have been fired within three months. some of them I could have gotten fired, and it would have made everyones life so much better. except that punishment doesn't fit the crime.

business is a huge clusterfuck of people taking jobs they don't want and aren't good at and managers noticing that and firing them so they can go get other jobs they don't want and aren't good at

this shit isn't fucking working