My most recent job wants me to buy a new laptop “so my Webcam will work”
It works fine. I taped over it when I got it because I never had planned need of it. Anything requiring video can be handled on my phone.
Why do they NEED me to get a new laptop?
So the managers who don’t use their cameras can see my face during their boring ass bullshit “I’m so important look at me and crave my input” team meetings every week.
No. If you want to see me, you can come talk face to face, or stare at a picture you would have had to cyberstalk to find.
Funny thing is, in my training I’ve had to do other team meetings with other people in the company, and nobody mentioned my lack of camera.
If it’s “job critical” like you claim, then you need to put that requirement in the job listings and On-boarding. Since I’m 48 hours away from my final training with a physical person, and I have yet to see anything that makes me think it isn’t just a manager trying to flex their tiny iota of tenuous power.
I love that feeling, it’s strange but fascinating to see my face melt and age like that, if you look for long enough you might even feel like your reflection is falling at you
I don’t ever remember my dreams for longer than an hour but I do know that they are often incredibly surreal. Afaik I haven’t looked in a mirror but it doesn’t sound pleasant. They’ve always made me uncomfortable even sober. Passing by mirrors at night as a kid was always a very stressful experience
“Neither of us know shit. But I have an advantage! I know that I don’t know shit. But you still think you know shit. Arrogant dumbass!” --Socrates, Probably
I tuned into the NYC new years, and I guess it’s been awhile since I saw images of NYC - holy shit, it looks terrible! HAPPY KIA NEW YEARS! seriously? every inch of building is a scrolling screen. wow.
Tfw I paid for a subscription to access my textbook this semester.
Granted, it’s not just a textbook. My Spanish classes use VHL Central, which includes a textbook with videos, audio files, virtually endless practice assignments, and pretty much all of our assignments and course material.
It’s a really great tool, I guess I just wish I could keep access to it after I graduated. (I think you can purchase a textbook, but definitely not the full program.) Ah, well. ¯\(ツ)/¯
That kind of model is unfortunately common for university courses. I had it for my language courses, and a couple of the core maths courses.
The online platform justifies a subscription by providing additional resources, homework grading, etc. Fair enough, honestly, if they want to charge you $15 or something reasonable. But when textbook access gets rolled into the bundle, it tends to inflate the subscription cost and also have the convenient-for-the-publisher side effect of temporary access to the text. Lose-lose, from a student perspective.
I had a course that required we buy a license to Pearson’s service in order to submit homework. $100+ to view a pdf for a semester and submit homework through a buggy form interface. I still hold a grudge against everyone in the department for that decision.
With that model the company can afford to offer far more content than with a pay-once model. With a pay-once model they only generate enough income to be able to offer a book, and maybe a smattering of supplementary material. Go subscription-based however, revenue increases, so output increases and now they can afford to create and maintain a whole lot more while keeping the price affordable to those who need it during the period that they need it.
It’s a similar principle to renting vs buying. If they were to offer all of those materials as a one-off purchase at a price that would allow their business to be sustainable, it would cost more than most are able to afford.
If we go back to one-off purchases, we go back to getting less for life as opposed to a lot for a limited period of time. It’s a trade off, and clearly one that most people are willing to make.
People get so angry (OP) about the way things are just because they’re unhappy in general and looking for something to blame. Not all companies are fair with their subscription models, but most are. Not every company cares about their customers, but most do. Some companies are run by sociopaths, but most are run by normal, nice people.
When I was in elementary school, I read a narrative of this event written from a kid’s perspective. I think about the molasses flood event at least once every 6 months.
I always hated this - why are we all winners. Tell me exactly why. Was it because we practiced a lot and did the best we could? Was it because it was a close race?
You know how it’s said that children are narcissists or psychopaths or whatever? I actually remember the moment that stopped being the case for me.
It must have been kindergarten, and we had a raffle style drawing in class. I knew I would win of course, I remember thinking that.
Then some other kid won. Blew my mind. It was at that moment that it really hit me that other people have fully independent lives and minds, just like mine, and the universe didn’t exist for my benefit. (Of course before that, if you had asked me I’m sure I would have said those things, but didn’t actually feel it intuitively until right then).
I feel like experiencing a loss (which wasn’t my own fault) was a very significant part of my mental development at that age, and I think it’s important for people to get that while growing up.
We can’t in fact all be winners. To quote a great philosopher:
“It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life.”
Children’s development was super interesting to learn about in psych - self actualization and its development is truly the closest thing we have to religious/divine touch to me.
The universe shits out all kinds of “life” and “functionality” but to truly see yourself removed from physical confines and to understand that and crystallize that immaterial essence into the physical realm is truly awesome to me. Have a great day 💜
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