Honestly now: does anybody actually like that style of emojis/avatars? They create a strong negative reaction in me but I am not sure why.
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They are a fake as the people who use them?
They perfectly illustrate the Corporate Mindset. I like to imagine they were designed by a conclave of neurotypical and painfully unfunny and uncreative MBAs who got together in a coworking space and brainstormed the most consensual and least offensive avatar tech they could fathom. Likely none of them ever had a passing thought about what makes for compelling character design. Certainly none of them can stomach the idea of emergent phenomenon in communication. And above all nothing must stick out; to them the idea that users would want to make a non-human, cyborg, furry, green-skinned, or whatever avatar is abhorrent. Jane's quirky facial expression is the full extent of allowable creativity (and even then you know they had a 30 minute debate about including it).
These avatars do a better job of inspiring dread in me than half the shit in Severance.
Tangentially, it reminds me of when we went from Geocities/MySpace/custom reddit CSS/custom youtube pages to "you can change your PP and banner". ..... okay? Was a unified design language really worth crushing all visual creativity?
... and now I think it's a shame that Lemmy and Mastodon's default clients don't support (AFAIK) custom CSS for communities/user pages. I think that would be very iconic for the Free Web. Is someone working on this? I feel like someone should be working on this.
It's like the Corporate Memphis of emojis.
I'm really glad that I discovered the phrase Corporate Memphis, because it works really well as an out of context pejorative. E.g.
"Ugh, that's so Corporate Memphis"
That could refer to something that isn't at all like the corporate Memphis art style in a literal sense, but has all of the vibes.
Damn that was on point. Thank you for reminding me what I miss about the old web.
Instance admins can add whatever css they want. I've seen since cool ones
Sure, but community moderators can't. Spinning up my own instance shouldn't be a requirement to use custom CSS.
This seems significantly harder to achieve here. I believe Lemmy doesn’t have a unified frontend across instances, or does it?
Lemmy does come with a standard web interface that you could apply custom css to. If that custom css then federates, other instances could show it on their end.
Might clutter the Lemmy API with stuff that less than half of users actually wants to use though. Maybe it's better to make a separate system of fediverse user styles with a browser plugin. Then someone on Mastodon could also see it without having to extend the entire ActivityPub standard.
If it's a browser plugin it won't receive widespread adoption. I don't know what the actual numbers are but I'm willing to bet well over 95 % of desktop lemmy users are using the default frontend despite the many alternatives.
Old Reddit+RES did it right IMO: custom CSS but an easy-to-use toggle on a per-community basis, plus (IIRC) a global toggle in case one doesn't want custom CSS at all.
Custom CSS wouldn't even necessarily have to federate, though it would be better if it did (but there are probably security concerns to address). It's CSS, it's supposed to gracefully degrade; if CSS federation isn't supported, it doesn't break the user experience. That doesn't have to change anything in ActivityPub either, you can just add a custom field for the styling and let clients figure out what to do with it.
Kind of the whole spirit is to give users a tool and no worry so much about the rough edges. Custom CSS doesn't have to work perfectly, it just has to work for most users.
They look like they're designed for young children
They’re made to be inoffensive and generic, in a way that shelters companies from being sued.
Yes they do. You're sane. Most people aren't.
Never thought about them, I guess it is weird that someone would take time out of their day to use the built in tool to create an avatar for work like in teams or outlook
I feel the same.
We had to fill out a "personal biography" at work a couple years ago. Under "Thing I'm Most Proud of" I put "Time Magazine Person of the Year, 2006".
We had to fill out a “personal biography” at work
What reasoning did mgmt give for this? I'm weirded out
Oh, no reason. But I was called into my manager's office because I hadn't turned it in early. I told everyone around me that they were looking to cut employees by figuring out who could handle more jobs.
Under "Hobbies" I put "Privateering". Under "Fluent Languages" I put "None".
Haha, nice job helping your fellows cut thru the crap and protect themselves.
Unrelated but i remember being called into my managers office for not completing an "anonymous" survey (one of those where all the questions are how much your love your job) and when i asked "how do you know that?" She didn't have an answer. Eventually i filled it out larping as a bootlicker.
Corporate surveys are nakedly searching for exploitation avenues... Luckily corporate is also dumb as shit
What is the point in surveys when we can't trust them enough to fill them in honestly? It is just a complete waste of time, then again that would describe most things HR send my way.
People who were born in 2007 will be adults now. As we age, it will become a more rare achievement to have been "Time Magazine Person of the Year, 2006". What a weird thought.
That's a fun thing to put in your bio though. It's edgy enough to be clear that you were exasperated to have to fill out a bio, but not so much that it makes you seem like an asshole. Very wry
I mean, this is just normal resume building tactics taken to an extreme. The first thing I was taught when I was building my first resume was to focus on the most skillful tasks I handled while at work, rather than the most frequent. It doesn't matter that I only helped train a newbie once for a couple hours, my resume said that I trained and oversaw new hires. It doesn't matter that 99% of my job was sticking tags on clothes - few people care about that skill, so I didn't mention it on my resume at all.
This is what people are reduced to when forced to become a shelved product in order to justify their existence.
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15 year old account that hasn't been converted to a Bot yet.
It's an arms race, it's all silly and I mostly have made the choice of not participating, even if it's definitely making my career harder, but if you are trying to participate, what else are you gonna do when everyone else is doing it I guess?
Be honest about your skills, then when you get a job (might take longer) its so easy you can spend like 90% of your day looking at memes and management still praise your output. Sure the pay isn't the best as I am not pushing higher, but work life balance is great. I had 3 lunch breaks yesterday. Still earn more than enough to live comfortably.
I have been here for almost half a decade. While I can keep this up I am never leaving.
It feels so fucking icky. I feel everything related to finding work and presenting oneself to find work fucking degrading.
I block anyone that has a sentence instead of a job title, or lists a bunch of buzzwords as their job title.
The first one will add "Thought leader of the dark enlightement" the moment she gets a backlash for her AI art.
I'm managing director of a crane maintenance company responsible for the continuous uptime of freight logistics at an international port with multiple clients across the Northern half of Australia.
I.e people ring me and infix their shit.
No employees and work out of a ute. But it sure sounds better when I word it the first way
Not to mention when I'm out and about i don't let on that i own the company. People ask what it's like to work for them and I say good haha
Hey, I faked it until I made it. My first software contract was for something I’d never even attempted before and I nailed it
Lying, the secret to success that THEY don't want you to know
Meanwhile I rarely tell about my skills to anyone. I would rather make them find out and be intrigued.
Also as you could tell I am unemployed.
I must be using Linkedin wrong, I only embellished a bit on my profile, like calling myself a Full Stack Developer, at least I found out that it's not what I was interested in working as.
If you go to the right company, they'll adjust to whatever you enjoy and are good at. We hired a couple "full stack" engineers and now one's a frontend and the other is backend. They'll occasionally work on the other end, but we keep them where they prefer to be as much as possible.
I'm probably the closest to a full stack we have, and I spend maybe 10% of my time on FE.
Why did you not like full stack work, I used to work in full stack roles years ago but that was before all the front end framework boom. Recently I've mostly been working as a backend engineer and now that I got laid off I'm looking for new roles but I find most roles are either full stack or expect you to have some knowledge of front end work like react or typescript etc. I'm debating if I should try to go for these roles just to have the experience on my resume and make it more future proof or stick to backend
I found that I was more into embedded C/C++/Linux and jumped on that when I could.
And plenty of the full stack roles I saw were C# which I have worked with but happily avoid.
I've seen people with " Evangelist" in their official job titles. I never asked any of them what that meant, like did they go around and talk at seminars or something? I have no idea.
That’s my understanding of it. They go around speaking on the product and extolling its virtues publicly and probably internally too.
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If I owned a business I wouldn't bother with standard interviews and resumes. They're such a waste of time and really teach you nothing good about the person, except how good they are at lying to you on the spot.