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It’s not unreasonable to expect at least 2-3 days of throwing out most of what a new person produces, and most people won’t be half decent until mid season. Even picking berries needs technique and experience to separate the unripe from the ripe, to avoid crushing the fruit, and moving quickly. But compared to some office jobs I’ve had, where because of politics and large org structure, it takes 6-12 months to figure out what’s going on…
Malicious incompetence is way too easy in this kind of work.
I too think that 80% of all office workers are useless and the rest are likely working in projects that are useless, but that's the world we live in right now, and with office work, in most cases people aren't doing anything useful in general, compared to e.g. agricultural work.
I've worked in enough places as a software developer where all we do is develop in circles and develop useless garbage that I can confidently say, you could cut entire departments of large corporations and it would probably take a few years before anyone noticed that they are missing.
I worked at Broadcom for a year. During that year my team was moved across 4 different products. All of them old and complex projects. We bspent close to our whole time onboarding before being moved to the next project. First we were at a cluster that had this huge project where they were unifying a bunch of microservices into a monorepo. Half a year of work planned, took a full year. Then we got moved into a different cluster with this huge project, similar amount of effort, where they were picking apart a monorepo into microservices.
It's occupation therapy to make some managers look good, nothing else. That's what most office jobs are.