Re: Everyone at work seems dumber than in the 90s
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Overworked and Underpaid
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Date: March 02, 2020 02:18PM
Fairfax OG Wrote:
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> I grew up in Fairfax and started working at age 21
> in the mid nineties. Back then everyone seemed
> not just 'soft skill' smart in terms of spelling,
> grammar, recognition of process mistakes etc., but
> also smarter in 'the business' having a very solid
> foundation of base level engineering concepts and
> terminology.
>
> Nowadays, the people in my business just seem
> fucking stupid all around. My colleague just
> replied twice to the same email and wrote the same
> response twice. Almost as if there were two of
> him. What the fuck is wrong with this guy? He's
> a good guy and all, but geez. That's just today
> and there are many more instances from other
> people too. We're all supposed to ignore it and
> not point it out for fear of hurting people's
> feelings but I've had enough of this shit.
If your business is like my business, your colleague has so much fucking work on his plate, that he simply forgot that he sent out the first email. I do that shit all the time because I have five times more work than I should. Also, in the 90's, you didn't have to respond to hundreds of senseless emails a day.