Cube Dronemy wife's company is trying to convince people to return to the office because one of their executives thinks its embarrassing when clients come by and the offices are empty, anyways, theatre students always need some pocket money and if someone wants to join my exciting new "potemkin village as a service" startup
seatfillr is gonna be huge
Avenue 5 nailed this, with a deck filled with attractive, well-dressed actors pretending to work on a bunch of high-tech-looking panels for the sake of the company's image while the actual engineers worked on a bunch of regular computers in a dingy, crowded, messy office.
as a dumpy ADHD man who wears a robe for most of the day and who has built a tremendous amount of real actual software I feel like if I had to operate in a traditional corporate environment, having a productive looking actor representing me would actually be a real career boon
he could go in, look attractive, and attend all of the meetings and report back to me and I could do all of the actual work and cyrano de bergerac for him in key moments, I think we'd be a productive team
pretty sure we'd be VP of Engineering before long
"why are you always wearing that bluetooth headset?"
Curtis's Actor, Handsomely: "I'm very busy with all of my job"
this did well
follow me on mastodon y'all, I'm funny some of the time
Rick Rae@cube_drone
90% software humor, 10% cat pics?
I'm in.
(Also, I was WAY more productive during lockdown than before or since. Commuting to work just for "butt in seat" is a waste.)
N.B.: Autocorrect REALLY didn't want me to type "butt".
Richard Spenceley@cube_drone I misread that as Hemsworthly and I think it fits perfectly
Joyce Bell πΊπ¦π¨π¦π²π½π¬π±π«π§@cube_drone a la Bridget Jones βShut up, please. I am very busy and important.β
βHelen Fielding
βHelen Fielding
Konfetti ππ³@cube_drone
It scares me how people get more distant to each other. I believe we need community. Pandemic reduced social interaction in all parts of life and virtual interaction is just not the same.
It scares me how people get more distant to each other. I believe we need community. Pandemic reduced social interaction in all parts of life and virtual interaction is just not the same.
Flamekebab@Konfettispaghetti @cube_drone at least at my job, no, most days I don't need community to do my work. I need to be able to ask for input from colleagues occasionally and the rest of the time it's a distraction. I'd happily spend time with them, they're lovely, but it wouldn't help me accomplish my work tasks.
I compromise by travelling to the office for dedicated social time where we give talks and generally chat about once each month.
@Flamekebab @cube_drone
I understand that for completely individual work you don't need colleagues around. But I guess mostly you need input and I am a lot more reluctantly when interaction happens digitally and that's what I perceive with my colleagues as well. Maybe the lack of finding solutions in a team also contributes to the decreasing usability of software solutions? I am not convinced that a big part of work is better done without interaction.
I understand that for completely individual work you don't need colleagues around. But I guess mostly you need input and I am a lot more reluctantly when interaction happens digitally and that's what I perceive with my colleagues as well. Maybe the lack of finding solutions in a team also contributes to the decreasing usability of software solutions? I am not convinced that a big part of work is better done without interaction.
@Konfettispaghetti @cube_drone my point was more that it depends entirely on the nature of the work. There's plenty of work I've done where team work is super important and doing it at a distance is significantly harder. The work I currently do doesn't need it most of the time and so distance is no hindrance.
tensei@Konfettispaghetti @Flamekebab @cube_drone I think that hopefully in person work will make more sense now that the FAANG talent drain has decreased.
Prior to the recent layoffs, the standards line for most devs was pretty low due to difficulty hiring at all- which means that you end up working with people who drag you down in productivity and quality vs hacking it alone
Aaron@Konfettispaghetti @cube_drone I got to know my neighbors better than ever before since I started working from home. When I take a break, I can go for a walk in my own neighborhood instead of some corporate park.
Commuting rips apart communities.
wirehead@cube_drone to be fair, you can probably have him take the earpiece off somewhere before he reaches VP of Engineering.
Nerd That Talks Good@cube_drone where do I apply?
Phangurl Di π@cube_drone if I hired a male actor I'd get paid so much more!! Whoohoo!
John Schrag@cube_drone This was the actual plot of the TV show βRemington Steeleβ.
Daniel M Karlsson@cube_drone "cyrano de bergerac for him"
[chuckles]
Jonas Trostle@cube_drone It worked (for a time) for Milli Vanilli
@cube_drone lol yep! I should've scrolled down before posting. Lololol I was thinking the same thing.
Iwillyeah@cube_drone dibs on the village idiot!
π ππππΌπ ππΊπ²π ππΈπ²πΏπ@cube_drone never heard of this avenue5, gonna check it out. thanks.
Jocelynephiliac 
@cube_drone i worked as a lab tech for this HP refurbishing company for a few years where the owner ran it like a tyrant. Everything in the lab was organized for looks because he liked to bring investors and clients through to show off. He required that we wear labcoats at all times, even though they served zero actual practical purpose and often got in our way.
He hated me because they had to buy me a special labcoat since I was too fat to wear the one-size-fits-most coats that he got cheap.
@cube_drone One time when I had just got back from lunch and was still clocking in, he walked into the room and SCREAMED at me βPUT ON YOUR FUCKING LAB COAT.β It was so loud that even the sales department on the other side of the building heard it.
People were coming over the rest of the day to ask if I was okay.