Random Thread - Anything Goes
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What you are seeing is why senior people do the training and get paid more money. If humans became more useless over the course of their careers we would pay more to new hires and less to experienced people. But, again, outside of mind-numbing manufacturing this does not happen.
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I can do the work of several newbie IT pros. I have a broader range of experience, more clout, experience, have seen more issues and know how to make things get done faster. I've learned how I work best and can adapt workflows. I have the ability to pressure companies to let me work effectively instead of them telling me how they think I will work best. I have incentive to do so because I am invested in the companies where I work. I know how to troubleshoot more effectively, how to speed up processes and how to run things in parallel where someone young might be scared to do so or not realize that they can.
Seniority and experience alone help to make me more productive than some twenty year old would be even though, in theory, a twenty year old could do anything that I do.
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Potatoes!
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There is also a general consensus that twenty year olds are just lazier than forty year olds. I don't know if this is true, nowadays it has become common for the younger generations to be shocked by how unproductive the older generations are. We are going through one of the first times in history when there wasn't a consistent "older is better" thing. Lots of companies are talking about how they are seeing much higher productivity from younger workers in many cases.
But as a general, historic rule, getting "kids" to work is a challenge. Partially because they have less to worry about - no mortgage, no kids, no spouse, etc. They just do it for the beer money. As you get older you tend to care more.
I don't think that that is tied to anything. It wasn't the introduction of newspapers or telephones in the past that made that happen and not social media making it happen today.
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Does this seem familiar @Joyfano ?
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@nadnerB Bowling Shoes!
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@dafyre Elephant farts!
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This is SO me!!
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@bsouder will appreciate this.
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Testing new images....
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Yup, that works.
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Good thing windows updates doesn't give these options... they would likely be used.
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Thought this was a more appropriate thread to post this than in one of the other "serious" threads...
Everytime @JaredBusch mentions Bundy, I think it's in reference to Bundaberg Rum... Commonly referred to as Bundy... but it's not what us being referred to. Then I have a quick giggle and move on.
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This reminds me of a StarGate SG1 episode where they put a math problem into a game to 'get help in solving it'.
There was also some Bruce Willis movie where the NSA put a code in a puzzle book, and if you broke it, it told you to call a phone number and they would then know the code is broken.
Crowd sourcing to gain access to resources not ordinarily available is probably an excellent idea.
