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Anon falls through the cracks (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 week ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I heard many similar stories like that from friends and it's always a bit shocking to me. I'm no go getter or anything, i run my own business, but even then, i don't want to work more than i really have to. But i just really can't imagine what that must be like.

I had a friend who worked as a static engineer. He then worked for a company that made bearings for big machines, which wasn't his line of work but he liked it. The company got bought by another company who did something different and he just fell through the cracks. At first he was super anxious and just pretended to draw on his drawing board and had excel open on his computer. But no one cared, a lot of people switched jobs and suddenly he didn't really know anyone anymore and after a few month he told me that he doesn't really know what his job is.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

I’ve had jobs that amounted to sitting around waiting for work and hated it. I’m the first to tell people that I work just hard enough to not be bored and to keep everything under control

[+] _____@lemm.ee -10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

disclaimer: I'm not a bootlicker, all's fair game for how you earn your keep

but there's no way a competent person finds themselves not knowing what their job role is

that being said: a dubs a dub I guess ?

[–] KaTaRaNaGa@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Have you ever worked in corporate?

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

'Systemic dysfunction? Sounds like a personal failing.'

[–] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

From what i gathered, the whole company was a huge mess. It was basically a very small company buying A big company that was going under. It was kind of the inverse of how these things would usually go. So the new company moved their things into the old factory so to say. With the merger, new people working with old people and new working spaces and what not. He shared his little office with another guy who quit in the merger because he was 62 and wasn't gonna have it. People kinda just started working.