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  • djdarren@piefed.socialtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What do you honestly hate about work itself?English
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    5 days ago

    I was a welder who was promoted up to quality manager, and I can tell you that while my current role is nowhere near as physically demanding, it is absolutely harder.

    Perhaps it’s my ADHD, perhaps it’s because I’ve never really been trained for office work, but the thing I struggle with most is prioritising tasks, making sure I’m doing enough of all the things required of me. I never had to do that before. My foreman would assign me tasks, I’d do the tasks. Easy. Also, my current role intersects heavily with health and safety legislation, so I’ve had to study for (and pass) a NEBOSH qualification. I never failed a welding test, but I had to resit the NEBOSH.

  • djdarren@piefed.socialtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What do you honestly hate about work itself?English
    10·
    5 days ago

    It’s the feeling that ultimately what I do is meaningless.

    Thing is, I work in quality management and health and safety. From a manufacturing perspective what I do is about as meaningful as it gets. I’m one of the people who makes sure that no one gets hurt! Trouble is, most people in the company seem to have offloaded their responsibility to our office, regardless of how often we tell them that isn’t true.

    It should be trivial to roll out a new measure that will ensure a reduction in incidents and accidents, but that measure is only useful while the folks on the shop floor actually pay attention. And they don’t. Not until someone gets hurt, at which point we get asked why we aren’t doing more to ensure things like that don’t happen.

    It’s demoralising

  • djdarren@piefed.socialtolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•First stepsEnglish
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    9 days ago

    This has just reminded me that I’ve been running Sunshine/Moonlight for the past couple of months, using the CPU to encode the video stream and wondering why it keep throttling and dying.

    In my defence, I’m a dumbass and I know basically nothing about how to build software, and I’m running Kubuntu 25.10, which Sunshine doesn’t officially support. So I built it wrong.

    Anyway, I’ve fixed it now and even with my venerable GTX 1060 it runs like butter.

  • djdarren@piefed.socialtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Is entertainment getting worse or am I getting old?English
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    19 days ago

    Television and Radio are 75% advertisement.

    This won’t help you, but this comment leads me to believe you’re in the US, where everything you talk about is almost certainly significantly worse than pretty much any other country. Because the US is essentially lawless when it comes to advertising.

    Here in the UK, we have the BBC, which only runs promos for its own content, and only ever between programmes. The BBC isn’t perfect by any means. It feels to me like its management has become steadily worse over the past 10/15 years, as the board of directors was filled with Conservative appointees. And the news department really ought to be made to answer for consistently encouraging the worst voices on air.

    But in the end, that £175 a year for the licence fee acts as a bulwark from the worst excesses of commercial broadcasting. ITV, for example, is lousy for advertising, but is kept reasonably in check by the BBC because comparison is easy. If they allowed themselves to become too much like the US model, people would be rightly irritated when they switch over from watching something on BBC1.

    The same is true of BBC vs. commercial radio. The BBC keeps the other broadcasters reasonably honest, and they don’t necessarily have to turn a profit.

    So in answer to your original point; the problem is - as ever - capitalism. The perpetual need for maximising shareholder profit means that the US entertainment industry aims 90% of its output at the lowest common denominator, and it’ll only get worse while that’s the predominant driver.