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[Anonymous No.21861816]

>working from home still since COVIDshit
>have no idea what the fuck i'm doing at my new job
>was only in the office for 1.5 months before COVID started
>maybe work 4 hours a day
>should feel really comfy
>actually fucking terrified because i'm afraid i'm going to get in trouble and get fired every single day because i have no idea what to do / what i'm supposed to be doing

[Anonymous No.21861919]

>>21861816
Who cares? Calm the fuck down and ride it out.

[Anonymous No.21861921]

>>21861816
Yeah I feel like I don't actually do anything and don't understand how no one noticed and/or cares.

[Anonymous No.21861978]

What do you think you're supposed to be doing? Do that.

[Anonymous No.21862008]

>>21861921
that has been my situation for almost 3 years. i used to give a shit and make an effort. then i realized management is retarded. work maybe 2 hours a week

[Anonymous No.21862118]

>>21861978
I'm really not sure half the time. I'm afraid of fucking something up.
>>21861921
>>21862008
should I just quit giving a shit?
>>21861919
I don't know, no one I guess. I'd just hate to get fired

[Anonymous No.21862314]

>>21862118
>I'm afraid of fucking something up.
do what you are told well and otherwise shut the fuck up
>should I just quit giving a shit?
most likely
>I'd just hate to get fired
just use the time to work on your skill set so that you can a better job at a hopefully not retarded company. with a better skill set your anxiety will fade because you can always get something else/better

[Anonymous No.21862376]

>>21861816
Do you have to bill hours or are you considered overhead?

[Anonymous No.21862641]

>>21862376
overhead. don't have to bill hours anymore thankfully at this new job
>>21862314
fair enough. it doesn't help that i'm in the healthcare industry. shit is inherently 30 years behind the modern age

[Anonymous No.21862705]

>>21861816
2.5 working as en electrical engineer, working from home for the last 6 months. I literally have no idea what im doing, get paid $80k a year, spend my days drinking vodka and smoking pot and playing video games on mute during conference calls

[Anonymous No.21862851]

>>21861816
>work in manufacturing (BSME degree)
>literally can’t do my job from home
>shit salary
>CANT WORK FROM HOME
>CANT WORK FROM HOME
>take turns working weekends because big boss man made absurd commitments to customer
>weekend shifts are 5am-1pm and there’s literally no work, just have to be present to “support”
Fucking kill me. I actually fooled myself into thinking college was going to be worth it. I could have just taken out (less) loans and learned IT/programming shit full time for 4 years and I’d make triple the salary and work from home. I don’t see a way out besides suicide, a lottery ticket, or a crypto miracle

[Anonymous No.21862904]

>>21862641
Then I wouldnt worry about it. Maybe ask your supervisor what your priorities are, just so they know you're working. As long as you asked, they should know you're making an attempt and would be less likely to let you go
God I wish I was overhead, I hate having to bill hours. The longer we go into this pandemic the harder it is to fake something believable, then randomly I'll get a fuck ton of work that's impossible to do in the given timeframe, but I'm expected to work long days to get it done.

[Anonymous No.21862926]

>>21862641
>i'm in the healthcare industry
what do you actually do though, just out of curiosity?
>>21862705
>playing video games on mute during conference calls
that's how it's done. i'd spend a year or so making a good impression before fucking off completely, though. once you establish yourself as competent, you can pretty much do whatever

[Anonymous No.21862950]

>>21861816
>>21861921
>>21862008
glad Im not the only one kek

[Anonymous No.21862974]

>>21862926
Data analytics. Mostly related to supply chain but there is a lot of ad hoc shit.

[Anonymous No.21862983]

>>21862851
I have a BSME degree as well. Working in plumbing/hvac design. Interviewing for government engineering job though. Hoping itll be less stressful and it sounds like I'd actually get to work 40 hour weeks instead of salary'd 50-60 hour weeks (bullshit)

[Anonymous No.21863013]

>>21862851
you're like the 18th person i've seen with a BSME that says that they regret their career choice.

[Anonymous No.21863028]

>>21862008
>work maybe 2 hours a week
Top fucking kek, what's your role?

[Anonymous No.21863029]

Anon, it’s like that for just about everyone that works from home. You quickly realize that there is not actually 8 hours worth of work to do in a day. I’m usually done with my day by 2pm, but sometimes I’m done before noon. I spend the rest of my work day playing video games and shitposting. I have been doing this for almost a year straight now and all I get is praise from my bosses.

[Anonymous No.21863045]

>>21861816
>maybe work 4 hours a day
Why are you working that much? kek I'm around 1-2 max

[Anonymous No.21863094]

>>21863045
its probably 1-2 desu. i just try to flub around for the extra 2 to lessen my anxiety, lul

[Anonymous No.21863100]

>>21862851
>could have just taken out (less) loans and learned IT/programming shit full time for 4 years and I’d make triple the salary and work from home. I don’t see a way out besides suicide, a lottery ticket, or a crypto miracle
what's stopping you from learning programming now? just do it while you have to be present for support

[Anonymous No.21863154]

>>21862983
>>21862851
BSME was the biggest mistake of my life. I thought I could work on cool shit and solve problems. But it's all politics, ass kissing, reading specs, data entry, and drafting. If I was charismatic I'd have been promoted twice by now at this company with an associates degree.

[Anonymous No.21863171]

>>21863028
programmer

[Anonymous No.21863186]

>>21862851
Lmao I have a civil engineering degree. Graduated for a 2.6 GPA and I'm working as a power delivery engineering making $90k/yr in the Florida panhandle which is like $250k anywhere else. I work from home and don't do shit.

[sauce plz No.21863306]

Isn't walberg a racist against asian?

[Anonymous No.21863571]

>>21863154
I dont even belong in engineering desu, I am 100% fake it til you make it. I knew after my first engineering class that I chose the wrong major but went through with it to not disappoint my parents (my two older brothers fucked up in college). I wish I went into CS, computer/software engineering, or even accounting. At least then I'd either be making way better money (programming) or at least wouldnt feel like I have to be smart to do my job at a minimal level (accounting).
These other anons are right though, you can still do programming with a BSME. I just wish I focused on it more during college, I'm way behind now. Tbh during college I just wanted to pass my classes, I had no fucking clue what I was doing

[Anonymous No.21863631]

I also have an intense fear of being laid off or fired. Been working in banking for 6 years. It's been so debilitating sometimes, but have recently come to terms that it would probably be something out of my control. I've been working in my current role for 3 years and most of it is pretty meaningless. Some things I have no guidance or direction or other people to ask as resources because no one else is doing it. Management is chill but are boomers a don't care/looking at retirement.

[Anonymous No.21863771]

>>21863631
are you me? except minus the 6 years. current role for 8 months lol. its mostly the company i'm at. just complete chaos and disorganization from top to bottom, its kind of unreal. I went from a very notable tech company to this one (better pay) and the lack of organization here is astounding

[Anonymous No.21863811]

>>21863571
>just wish I focused on it more during college, I'm way behind now
you already have an engineering degree. all you need is to learn a language/framework and write some bullshit open source packages to build up a portfolio. then apply for remote positions. can be done within a year

[Anonymous No.21863905]

>>21863154
>>21863571
At this point I’m just hoping my degree and experience and social skills can somehow luck into some other career path. If covid didn’t ruin everything I was going to just move somewhere with nice weather and work a menial job. At least I could be broke and miserable on a mountain and not pretend like I’m an engineer.
>>21863100
With the little free time I have, it would take years to catch up with 19yo Patel. I’ve been trying to figure out a path into IT stuff but entry level positions are hard to come by. Feels like a dead end in every direction. My only experience is manufacturing so far and it sucks. I seriously need a connection or a bullet in my head

[Anonymous No.21864181]

>>21863811
I know pretty close to nothing about programming. Always felt like theres some pajeet who's a wiz at programming that would be 100x better than me and work for half the salary
An exaggeration but that's my sentiment
I also dont know what language is used for what and shit like that. I'd be starting from ground zero

[Anonymous No.21864217]

I feel the same. I wfh in IT and don't know what the fuck I'm doing or supposed to do. I don't have strong passion for IT or anything else. I just want to stay in my basement and play vidya all day. Every day I fear that I will be found out and will be fired. I daydream every day about making it in crypto and starting my real life.

[Anonymous No.21864382]

>>21864217
pretty much me. Am a dev who does 2 hours of work a day at most, have been wfh sinch March. If it wasn't for end of day summary emails, it'd be even less.

I'm lucky I can save >80% of my income. Plan to gtfo of the US next year before it implodes and hopefully continue wfh w a US company

[Anonymous No.21864411]

>>21863771
When I started working I learned right away that they like it when you take initiative and come up with solutions/processes yourself, rather than waiting for direction (i know, im socially retarded). Taking the bigger picture and figuring it out yourself. So I overcome this, take initiative, but get no feedback until the performance review where they rate me highly. However, what comforts me is seeing people in the same position for 20+ years and people browsing FB at work (insane, but company must be doing well). For you I'm sure healthcare industry is also well oiled machine that has no issues with solvency issues unless it becomes socialized.

[Anonymous No.21864496]

[Anonymous No.21864507]

>>21861816
Yea honestly I've been following this board for a while and would love to get into crypto but I learned absolutely nothing and my starting capital is in the hundreds...
Guess wagecucking is my only way

[Anonymous No.21864525]

>>21863631
I've been contracting for a bank since March. There wasn't much work then, now there's nothing. My incompetent work from home manager has a budget for 12 staff till December and doesn't want to acknowledge the reality of the situation. The only problem is an uppity negress can't get it through her thick fucking head that if you rock the boat and draw attention to the fact that there's nothing to do then we find out how dire the job market is now. She thinks she will get everyone else fired and then she'll have job security. Stupid fucking niggers

[Anonymous No.21864556]

why are people worried about being fired?

[Anonymous No.21864596]

>>21863905
How old are you now?
>not pretend like I'm an engineer
That's literally how I feel every day at work lol

[Anonymous No.21864616]

>>21864556
Because a significant amount of my income goes towards investing in stonks and crypto which is my only ticket to not being a wagecuck. If I lose my job thats more time I'll have to wage to gain capital to invest

[Anonymous No.21864654]

>>21864525
Damn, good luck anon. I wish I can just work with a couple chill dudes around my age. We'd get so much shit done.

[Anonymous No.21864686]

>>21864556
I am not really, as I don't need the to survive for at least a couple of years. But it's nice to have a regular income, and there's a personal pride in leaving on your terms, not someone else's.

[Anonymous No.21864696]

>>21863154
That’s life as a wagie fren. It sucks but you can adapt

[Anonymous No.21864725]

>>21862974

This is something I’m interested in (data analytics + supply chain).

Any recommendations for schooling or things I can do to get started?

[Anonymous No.21864779]

>>21864556
nigger have you noticed the global pandemic/economic recession these last few months? losing your job now means you have to compete with double the normal amount of people applying and if you get picked a quarter less of the normal salary

[Anonymous No.21864800]

>>21862008

Are you me? I do literally the same. Management really doesn't care, do they. And they can't fire me because they would have to pay a shit ton of money here in Europe, feeling blessed

[Anonymous No.21864829]

I feel you

Making 6 figures and putting in less than 20 hour weeks the last few months (minus a few crunch weeks)

Feels like I'm getting a too good to be true deal and it's kinda freaking me out

[Anonymous No.21864879]

>>21864725
school you can just get a basic bitch IT degree as long as you study on your own and learn something like pandas or R because they probably won't teach you any sort of scripting thoroughly in class, you need to really teach yourself to learn the good shit. also if you can pirate a copy of tableau and learn to make beautiful dashboards your boss WILL suck you off. I could honestly automate a 'decent' amount of my job but i don't have much motivation at the moment. some of my time is spent once a month presenting my modeling and variances in supply chain that we're experiencing which is the worst part of the month (heavy introvert) but its not that bad. I get paid very well for where I live and my experience level.

[Anonymous No.21864905]

>>21864779
Just collect wuflu neetbux and ride the wave of societal collapse. Burn motherfucker burn

[Anonymous No.21864962]

>>21862118
>I'd hate to get fired
how big is the company? how high up are you?

if you're a worker drone and it's more than say 100 people, there's an HR department that will have to weigh in before they can fire you.

if the company is still making money and not hard up, they'll have to find a reason to fire you (non performance, insubordination, etc). To do that they'd have to notify you in the form of a performance discussion so they can justify not paying out unemployment benefits if they decide to fire you (if you're fired for cause or quit you don't get unemployment benefits, in America anyway).

so, if you're not on their radar or on a performance plan, you're golden, don't worry about it.

[Anonymous No.21865027]

>>21864879
Thanks for following up and providing some advice anon.

[Anonymous No.21865165]

>>21864905
That's partly why I started pouring money into crypto. They won't give you neet money if you've given got money, so why not just squirrel it all away in magic internet tokens.. and to be honest I thought I'd be laid off months ago and need mail order drugs to get through "lockdown".

[Anonymous No.21865268]

>>21864800
>Are you me?
maybe. also from europe
>Management really doesn't care, do they
it appears not
>they can't fire me
unless the company goes belly up, i'm feeling pretty comfy myself, too. i'm the only somewhat decent programmer who knows all the in-house legacy software but there is actually not much to do day to day

[Anonymous No.21865344]

>>21862705
>spend my days drinking vodka
Stop that

[Anonymous No.21865473]

>>21864596
25

[Anonymous No.21865528]

>>21864905
>wuflu neetbux
Read the news retard. They can’t make up their minds and they’re gonna start fucking everyone over with these bullshit relief bills. Even if I got the $2-400 a week I couldn’t pay my bills.

[Anonymous No.21865558]

>>21861816
>Work from home
>Actually work 50 hours a week. Since I get energy from actually achieving some next level shit in this boomer company
>Feels like 80% of my team is like this thread. Can't get anything done with them.
>At home but actually all of my time busy with working, working out , being a good dad and trading shitcoins

I'm pretty stressed anons, at least I get an promotion, I'm in good physical health and making money trading.

[Anonymous No.21865956]

>>21865558
you are probably just starting out. i was like that in the beginning, too. working nights and weekends just because. only for the projects to get shelved one after another
>that looks pretty cool, anon. let me get back to you on that
>never gets back to me
>repo ready for production. nobody gives a shit
fuck it. i'm happy to collect money doing nothing

[Anonymous No.21866145]

>>21861816

Anon are you me?
>get new job at bank Feb 2nd
>new dept, zero understanding of new job duties
>performance is based on productivity, so the longer you've been there and know the proceess
>COVID happens, work from home.
>first productivity report comes out
>top 3
>wut
>no idea what im doing, waiting everyday to get yelled at and fired
>people keep telling me what a great job I'm doing
>boss told me I've exceeded all expectations, her boss is glad i was hired
>do 3-4 hours a day and surf biz
>feelsgood

[Anonymous No.21866184]

You guys really shouldn't worry. I have a team under me that is all working from home and I know they don't do shit and I sincerely don't care. The management above me is the same way. In a corporate / government work structure, there is really no incentive to work hard. Sometimes you have sociopaths and tattletale twats, but the majority are welcoming the free pass to fuck off for months.

If you have a job description or contract, just get the stuff under your responsibilities done. If not possible due to COVID, you really can't be held accountable. Anyone who scolds you is toxic and retarded and you are better off finding a new job or getting that person fired on sexual harassment or racism charges.

[Anonymous No.21866415]

Why is middle management so fucking useless?

[Anonymous No.21866468]

>>21866415
they're garbage. my current manager is trying to groom me for middle management and I have no idea what to say to get out of it. I'm purely interested in a technical career path.

[Anonymous No.21866803]

>>21866468
I'm a software dev too. Is it normal to have a non technical manager? Mine has no clue about what's going on and is basically happy about me whenever the senior dev in my team is happy, which sucks because he's a cunt

[Anonymous No.21867151]

>>21861816
you work 4 hours a day?

lmao I work maybe 4 hours a week. Fuck my wage cage, I'm never going back.

[Anonymous No.21867231]

>>21862008
Yeah as an accountant there have been weeks recently that I literally have done nothing for the entire week. I probably average 10 hours of actual work a month and get paid $50k a year. I hope this work from home shit never ends.

[Anonymous No.21867330]

>>21863186
Would love to make that much if I could live in the Destin area.

[Anonymous No.21868322]

>>21863029
>there is not actually 8 hours worth of work to do in a day
This is so true for so many jobs.

I wish the pandemic would helped change the outlook of worlife or maybe encourage workplaces to adopt more home office positions, but so far I see nothing but normies begging to return to normalcy.

[Anonymous No.21868838]

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