Month: April 2023

Open office layouts are the bane of my existence. When I come to work I want to put my headphones on and just focus on working through my backlog of tasks. The manager understands the work we do, but for some reason being a Manager has corrupted him into thinking we work better as a team when we're all stuffed into a single room with no partitions. At the slightest inconvenience someone faces, they feel the need to broadcast this to the entire room and there goes another 5-35 minutes of chatter and interruptions. Not to mention there is much less resistance to people bugging others for things that should be a Google search away. Why bother spending 30 seconds thinking, when you can instantly blurt a question to the 5-6 people at arm's length? The workforce stops being a group of individual contributors and becomes something much less. My…

I’m a 24f who is about to complete my BS degree in psychology. I’ve realized that I don’t want to go to grad school now and I don’t really want to work within the field of psychology in general so I’m trying to find a different career path. Now I’m contemplating going into Cybersecurity but on this sub and in other places I’ve seen a lot of people warn about IT jobs being offshored in the future/taken over by AI. I’m just worried that I will put myself in a bad position for my future. So, what jobs/career paths do you believe will have the best chance of not getting completely fucked over by all the issues with our current economy and job market?

When industries face challenges with attrition and knowledge retention, it can push them to rehire retired employees as contractors at a higher salary. While this can help address immediate knowledge gaps, it is not be a sustainable long-term solution. Unfortunately, this practice can create intergenerational tensions in the workforce, as younger employees may feel undervalued, and eventually be left with no way to fill the knowledge void, especially if the contractor is not a good mentor. Industries need better approaches, such as investing in skill development program and knowledge management system to support a more balanced and sustainable workforce. Before anyone retires we need to make sure they are a decent mentor to the runner up, which benefits everyone involved, including the company.

Maybe I shouldn't be really complaining since I have a fancy IT job with 405k, FSA/HSA, insurance for the whole family etc, but I find it alarming that even though I make several times above the average in my area, we are struggling to save up even 20k$ and I'm living in supposedly inexpensive city in a supposedly inexpensive state (Cleveland, Ohio). We spend almost everything I earn even though we buy most of our clothes at a thrift store, own single 20 years old car and rent 1/2 of a house for 1600$. Most of my family expenses are food (~1500$ for 3 people), daycare (1000$) and rent. My wife is struggling to find a job even though she has an engineering degree (last time she was rejected by some upper HR manager because she is “lacking international work experience” whatever that means) which is a part of a…