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Kinda interesting that a lot of fresh grads are diving straight into free-agenting these days without working at a regular job first. I’m noticing that many lack what we consider basic workplace skills. They are the workforce equivalent of unschooled/homeschooled.
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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.
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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Understand a cultural norms: where flexible/not. Understand direction: what is real/not. Who to pay attention to/ ignore. Who to trust/avoid. Etc.
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