▲ 125 ▼ What is the technical hill you are willing to die on in your industry? (lemmy.world) submitted 8 months ago by slazer2au@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world 278 comments fedilink hide all child comments Every industry is full of technical hills that people plant their flag on. What is yours?
[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 1 point 8 months ago (1 child) I was thinking the same thing. otoh, the post does say 'technical' permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago* (1 child) Lots of trades are starting to use more modern equipment, to the slow embracement of older more “established” tradespeople. An example from a couple decades ago, when auto leveling tiling systems were coming out, more “prestigious” companies refused to use them since they think it’s cheating. It’s like a calculator, a tool to make your life easier though. Anyways, now you won’t catch tilesetters NOT using them. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 1 point 8 months ago This was my introduction to the 'wonders of tech.' With great fanfare and joyous noises, we were promised a wonderful, fully modern system that would solve a problem no one knew we had. I was a new supervisor and had to learn a system that seemed to be designed to frustrate and annoy everyone who used it. the tl, dr is the city wasted lots of money on a project the Mayor's daughter was pushing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CityTime_payroll_scandal permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago* (1 child) Lots of trades are starting to use more modern equipment, to the slow embracement of older more “established” tradespeople. An example from a couple decades ago, when auto leveling tiling systems were coming out, more “prestigious” companies refused to use them since they think it’s cheating. It’s like a calculator, a tool to make your life easier though. Anyways, now you won’t catch tilesetters NOT using them. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 1 point 8 months ago This was my introduction to the 'wonders of tech.' With great fanfare and joyous noises, we were promised a wonderful, fully modern system that would solve a problem no one knew we had. I was a new supervisor and had to learn a system that seemed to be designed to frustrate and annoy everyone who used it. the tl, dr is the city wasted lots of money on a project the Mayor's daughter was pushing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CityTime_payroll_scandal permalink fedilink source parent
[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 1 point 8 months ago This was my introduction to the 'wonders of tech.' With great fanfare and joyous noises, we were promised a wonderful, fully modern system that would solve a problem no one knew we had. I was a new supervisor and had to learn a system that seemed to be designed to frustrate and annoy everyone who used it. the tl, dr is the city wasted lots of money on a project the Mayor's daughter was pushing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CityTime_payroll_scandal permalink fedilink source parent