Most of it is going to be vestigial skills like sending faxes and spilling out shitty SAP things soon. But some skills like gently herding people and activities with sheepdog emails, defusing conflicts etc might be lost. You pick up a lot watching older people do this stuff.
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I’m a decent manager when I’m motivated enough to be. It’s just a lot of thankless work.
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I guess Gen Z won’t even get TPS report jokes. Office Space might have been the last good office movie before offices themselves began vanishing slowly.
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But overall it’s good that everybody is wfh and bringing the office to where free agents are. Hope it partially doesn’t go back. WFH culture can be alt office culture.
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A world where working in offices is a weird single-digit minority thing like farming,... that would be fascinating. Right now farm labor is like 1%. Used to be like 80% a few centuries ago. In 2220, people might pay to work-vacation in a real, organic office
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yes, this is me
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I want to get more into remote work over the years too. Given my lack of basic life skills. :(
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trying to learn the good things (professional people/communication skills) and explicitly not learn the bad things (toxic workplace politics) from my regular job but i think it might be a losing proposition over all
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Second this observation - some are doing this out of choice, many out of a lack of choice, and yes, most lack the “soft” skills (more than the hard skills) to be effective right out of the gate...
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The ones trying to get “real jobs” lack these skills too though. I’m unsurprised by it by apparently according to older workforce this was not always the case of entry level applicants
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A nontrivial part of my early career edge was "responding to emails" and "knowing how meetings work" (imbibed from my dad)
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