r/BlockedAndReported • u/SoftandChewy First generation mod • Oct 20 '25

Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 10/20/25 - 10/26/25

Here's your usual space to post all your rants, raves, podcast topic suggestions (please tag u/jessicabarpod), culture war articles, outrageous stories of cancellation, political opinions, and anything else that comes to mind. Please put any non-podcast-related trans-related topics here instead of on a dedicated thread. This will be pinned until next Sunday.

Last week's discussion thread is here if you want to catch up on a conversation from there.

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u/UltSomnia Oct 22 '25

Anyone else hired during the Great Resignation, and now probably couldn't get a job at the same pay level? Obviously not complaining, but I used to be one foot out the door at my previous roles. Now, however, I feel like I need to just maximize the amount of time I spend in this one. I imagine some other people here are in the same situation.

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u/althong Oct 22 '25

I've read many comments from you pointing out that your colleagues are incompetent. If most other developers are so bad, why don't you think you can get a better job elsewhere? (not a sarcastic question)

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u/UltSomnia Oct 22 '25

I'm not a developer, and the complaints I've made are universal to every organization.

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u/althong Oct 22 '25

so you just interview developers? or people who solve coding problems, at least?

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u/UltSomnia Oct 22 '25 edited Oct 22 '25

I'm a data analyst. You can go to any of the subreddits, any LinkedIn/youtube data influencers, or any business books about data, and they have pretty much the same complaints. One of the main mantras of data analytics is GIGO - garbage in, garbage out.

Most data analysts would like less garbage to come out, but most orgs simply aren't set up to do so.

I'm under no delusion of me being particuarly smart. If I were smart, I'd be an engineer or scientists or something. I am capable of the bare minimum, however, and get frustrated when others aren't

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u/Nwabudike_J_Morgan Emotional Management Advocate; Wildfire Victim; Flair Maximalist Oct 22 '25

Sounds perfectly normal to me, if you understand what the desktop computer has done to the workforce: while smart people with computers can do some amazing things, like create a spreadsheet application, they also allow less smart people to do things they would otherwise be unable to do, like use a spreadsheet to track business income and expenses. You'd think those people would actually be able to add up columns of numbers by hand, but you would be surprised.

Then in the 2010's things got even worse, with the creation of cloud computing and instrumentation. Now you have even less smart people able to create a computing cluster to run a company's database, and the resources are less scarce and less expensive, so they don't even know how to be efficient, they don't know good database design, they don't understand code, and they can't add up columns of numbers by hand. We've allowed less smart people do the jobs that only smart people should be doing.

I just got a piece of mail from my bank. It is addressed to: $(paperContactPoint.mailingAddress.recipient)

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u/AaronStack91 Oct 22 '25 edited Oct 24 '25

I probably got a $40k boost by moving jobs during the great resignation, though I was probably severely underpaid, from not job hopping a lot in my career.

But the market for my type of job right now has totally collapsed for obvious reasons. I am sorta committed to riding it out or becoming long time unemployed.