Well, maybe your workplace wouldn't put up with these people but I can confirm that besides them not being able to use SAP to check the quantity of a BOM, to like I said - they have access to the other functions / data but prefer to delegate them to others.
So it ends up going down a hierarchy until someone else does what these managers could do themselves in the first instance.
I have direct experience with the management that only work days since I work continental hours, so get to see how we run during the night without them.
Like I said, half is probably a number we could run with at my place. Sorry state of affairs.
The old; how do you know someone is a software developer? Yup, they tell ya!
I think I really touched a nerve with that guy though, and it seems like they want to be an office drone instead of working from home (this is the bit where the "senior software devs + team manager" argue they need to collaborate, in person) with a nice life balance.
I prerecord like a minute ahead of the show starting and sound / video are both well.
But what happens is the audio mutes as soon as the starting credits roll. I don't exactly get how they're doing it since my TV's DVB receiver plays it just fine.
I checked my HD recording of the new Attenborough Mammals show, and that did have audio so I'll have to keep an ~~eye~~ ear out for it happening again.
I know exactly what those emails are because I have to deal with them asking me if a wagon that I'm looking at has arrived yet.
So I email them back telling them that it's arrived (they knew that already because goods-in already updated the checking in sheet) and they get to validate their job somehow by asking me, shit.
It's quite amazing how they keep their jobs.
I once worked in an office doing what I described above.
I absolutely hated it stuck in a cubicle, and now work outside with lots of other people grafting, instead of listening to gossiping over the cubicles all day long. Think I lasted 2 months.
The thing you're not accounting for is that work that primarily involves thought, which is what "office drones" are doing
Found the office drone.
Our office drones are not "thinking" for half the day like you, and input and manipulate data. You could also include half these "managers" too who sit in an office sending emails all day, and never hit the shop floor.
You're absolutely spot on, and it's evidenced by house prices here in the UK where they're next to or near a rail line.
They are noisy fuggers and people do not like living by them.
Absolutely!
And when you have a finite amount of money / time left on this planet I uphold my values of buying the best bang for buck.
Whether that's my Xiaomi router, phone, scooter, or even the cheapo Amazon basics fleece the first thing I do is look at the price and not if it comes from a country that others don't like.
Being a consumer means I don't attribute others ethics, nor ideology, when making a buying decision.
I buy things because I'm a consumer of goods that tries to save myself from having to spend more, to line others greedy pockets though.
If those are my ethics, call me a dirty consumer perhaps? But people getting paid minimum wages whilst people who do nothing other than tell their sales department to up their price "just because" it doesn't come from a certain geography is like chopping your nose off to spite your face IMO.
edit: I found a perfect example of this. Berghaus fleece Vs a Amazon basics, or hell, even a Regatta fleece. Just the badge, and nothing else.
All you need to do is pay a bit extra.
Like I said in another comment in here, I find it odd that we need/want to pay more for things that don't actually cost that more but do because some companies can't run the books right (ie: fat cats and excessive profits) and end up with massive corps having to submit a First Gazette Notice.
I had no idea what that meant since I found out last night my company I work for here in the UK, has done just that :/
Nah, I wouldn't want to become an office drone because I'd go from calling people on the internet liars to then trying to give others career advice when they don't even know 2% of my job.
Hilarious, the self-righteousness must come from being an office drone, right?