Does anyone else frequently not know what they should be doing at work?I work at a large bureaucracy and I moved to a new team recently. In theory I should have the power to say what work should go on but I'm not technical enough to really know what should be done. In theory I could ask for metrics or something but it would be pointless.Almost everyone but me in my team is from an external consulting company. The more senior person overseeing things is very remote and I think works on applications for more funding or something rather than pay attention to what's being built.In my previous team I said what should be done and work was done but it was all very pointless. In theory I should be using all sorts of frameworks to do my job but the situation was never complicated enough.I feel like (in some teams I've worked on), the only way to contribute is to be part of a normie groupthink hivemind. I think office work has reverted (I use past tense but I'm not old enough to know) to a pre-literate state where online white boards and diagrams and slideshow graphics are used to draw out contributions from people and convey information when those methods are so fucking wasteful and puff up small amounts of signal.Pic kind of related. I did well at college but I sometimes wonder if I ingested lead at the age of 22 or something and would be better suited to brainless shit.
>asian kids in the background It's so over for unc
sounds like youre in a population control program meant to keep you uncertain and unconfident in your future
>>61035607the human brain is running up against its limits in the modern era. people cant manage things they dont understand with a mental model, and they try all sorts of retarded tricks to get around this with matrix environments or flow charts and whatever. i work at a fortune 5 company and right now we're paying deloitte probably 8 figures to oversee this massive process initiative push. they're currently at the phase of trying to map out processes with names and explanations of what they do. it's going to end up being a $10 million dollar vizio flowchart or powerpoint slide deck. at my job the real problem with IT/IS/ERP systems inefficiency is a refusal to use our ERP system correctly. in fact, there are rumors of them bringing in another outside SaaS niggerscam product to "augment" our ERP's functionality instead of just making the ERP do what it is designed to do.
>>61035607imagine being broke as a boomer, pathetic.
>>61035607>Almost everyone but me in my team is from an external consulting company.Find the non externals and ask for their job description>The more senior person overseeing things is very remote and I think works on applications for more funding or something rather than pay attention to what's being built.Ask himIs the large bureaucracy your local government ? What does the company do? What product do they make ?
>>61035607>work at a large bureaucracyyou do busy work and waste productive people's time
>make good money, ample benefits>have to do some dumb shit and pretend to be busy the rest of the time>oh the inhumanity!There are people out there who are ass-naked and dig through toxic dumpster fields looking for scrap they can sell. It’s so exhausting to hear people like OP complain. Find purpose outside of work. Log off. Touch grass.
>>61035607Just sell everything and buy a one-way ticket to a tropical paradise... how can it get any worse?
I think this is pretty normal for corpos. That’s why I left. I got stuck with the boomer mentality that I don’t feel useful if I’m not doing something productive. I can neet and feel more productive than being at a corpo, that’s my experience after being in a fortune 100
