11h ago

Screen size & your importance

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Importance, or lack of work contribution? Smaller screen = works less.
- Importance as in payment, probably
- They'll say that their work is mainly talking to other people
  
  Disgusting.
  
  Which is why they believe AI is the future.
  It does everything they do.
  Produce slop
- Well, if the company gets fined for mismanaging or committing fraud, who do you think they will fire?
  A scapegoat is very important.
  
  who do you think they will fire?
  10 to 20 percent of the workforce, so the CEO still can get a bonus.
- True for the phone and tablet, but for any sort of computer that is not true
  I work on a laptop with virtual desktops and I am much more productive that way than with a big screen... Or two big screens.
  Everything is in the center of my field of view, I know which VD of my 3x3 grid holds what. It's much more efficient for me than bigger screens could ever be. And that is not for lack of trying!
  It just depends on the person.
  
  Grid VDs club. Although I only use 2x2 because toggle up/down/righ/left is complicated enough for my brain.
  
  You just changed how I think about virtual screens. I feel like Khan being unloaded on by Kirk.
  I decided long ago that I liked the single monitor with multiple desktops. But in my head they have always been a line of desktops instead of a grid.
  Somewhere there is a mathematician who uses a hyper cube array of desktops…
  
  Exactly, this is why the most 'important' person just uses a phone they are the most efficient with the smallest screen
  
  VDs arranged in a grid ? Why ?
- The job of people around the CEO is primarily to make decisions. All this huge chain of managers is needed only to aggregate information so that the CEO can make an informed decision. This is how many large companies operate. I would even say that there is a direct correlation between the size of the campaign and the number of monitors at the bottom.
  The flip side of sitting behind a huge monitor is that you won't stay outside with a huge number of your employees if you make the wrong decision. It's just a different job.
  
  Your description is basically of a "spherical CEO in a vacuum", ie. the ideal and abstract version of how corporations should operate. It has very little to do with reality

Its almost as if the more real work you do, the less you matter.
I wonder what would happen if the higher up in a company you get, the less you got payed. I'd imagine more actual work would be accomplished.
- It saddens me the fact that there are people out there wanting to do more work.
  The game is rigged. Do nothing and get paid.
  
  I wouldn't be in the field if I didn't enjoy the work.
  However I've positioned myself to make sure no work is ever unpaid, unless it's for my own future startup idea.
- But then people would lose their incentive to improve themselves!
  
  Perfecting the art of brown-nosing.

I feel wrong.
I have an iPhone, and a laptop and 2 screens.
- That's four screens total. You're first on the chopping block.
  
  Fact is, in my company, higher ups have more screens than me. Like phone, desktop, couple monitors and huge wall monitor.
  
  Nah, actually, in a typical company the lower down the ranks you are the less likely you are to be fired, statistically speaking (to a point, of course you're more likely to be fired while on probation or something).
- Hello my brother/sister/velociraptor/etc in screens. We're worthless together 💖

and yet... if it's a company that's a bit slack on security, the right command in the right place by someone with 2 monitors can kill the company dead.
- A few well placed commands by a few lowly 2 monitor types are always the kind of things that derail companies on a fundamental level.
  What senior management always forget is that they need us vastly more than we need them...
  
  If all the two-monitor people get up and walk out, the company stops.
  You can lose any other single rung there and still push on.

Oh fuck, I have 5 27-32” monitors, phone, 2 laptops and a wall TV. Based on this I’m half fired already.
- Why would anyone fire someone who works so much for so little?
  
  That's at least 9 separate jobs right there!
- Are you sure you're not a NOC?

"Importance™"

Kinda reminds me this Game one plays in Theatre which is to Play The Status (you're given a number between 1 and 10, with 1 having the lowest social status and 10 the highest, and you try and act as such a person).
Alongside the whole chin-down to chin-up thing, people tend to do more fast and confident moving the higher the status, but the reality is that whilst indeed up the scale in professional environment the higher the status the more busy and rushed they seem, the trully highest status people (the 10s) don't at all rush: as I put it back then (this was the UK) "the Queen doesn't rush because for everybody the right time for the Queen to be somewhere is when she's there, even it it's not actually so, hence she doesn't need to rush".
There was also some cartoon making the rounds many years ago about how people on a company looked depending on their social status, were you started with the unkept shabbily dressed homeless person that lived outside the vuilding, and as you went up the professional scale people got progressively more well dressed and into suits and such, and then all of a sudden a big switch, as the company owner at the top dressed as shabbily as the homeless person.

Compensation is inversely proportional to productivity.

Apparently I'm off the end of the chart. My last workplace set up had:
primary 15" laptop with two external monitors (so 3 screens in use simultaneously)
secondary 15" laptop with external monitor (so another 2 screens) when the primary one was tied up doing heavy processing (I was lucky and managed to hold onto my previous laptop when we did the usual rounds of device upgrades whereas most people just returned them to IT to be retired, so I had a spare that I could readily take home for WFH days without messing with my main office setup)
a standalone PC monitor (for automation stuff, so the screen was there just for monitoring as needed)
- You are actually the chart itself.
  The all-too-common Load bearing IT
- Damn, according to the chart, I bet you were working over time and logging in on weekends.
  
  I avoided overtime like the plague since my employer didn't like to deal with it (so if circumstances required me to work overtime my supervisor was pretty good about allowing me to take it as time in lieu the following week), but unfortunately there were definitely times where I had to log in on the weekend (the challenge of having customers that require support 7 days a week).

CRT = cafeteria worker

4 monitors & 2 compiters at my last job; 1 computer and 3 monitors at this job... 🎵movin' on up...🎵

Here is the expendability graph
📉
If the guy with the "don't-turn-off"-server gets fired everyone know that the ship will sink

Executives are the ones that could easily be replaced by AI.

I must be some sub Spartacus worker. I have three monitors on my desk and two on the management network workstation behind me.
- it's a bell curve, at some point you have access to procurement :)

I have 3 monitors, what am I?
- The Front Desk Night Guard
  
  Front desk night guard unpaid intern
- A two-monitor person who works so hard, they're willing to give you three to make you happier.
  A four-monitor person has access to inventory/procurement (it)

Depends how lucky you are. There is a guy who works in upper management and he has the privilege to order new equipment for his office, which is all expenses paid by the company. He built a gaming computer complete with neon lights and four monitors right in his office.
"Honey, I will be late from work! I will be back at 3am!"
teabags scrumballs69 in Call of Duty

The CEO also has the big screens. Their peons have two why would they only have one? What screens they're on the most is a different question.

This is so accurate, it hurts.

I'm at "iPad and enormous curved monitor connected to a laptop" so I guess I average out to upper-middle management. Which is shockingly accurate.
- iPad, 2 phones, 2 laptops, and a double monitor. I own my own business with no employees so I do all the jobs.