What's The Most BACKWARDS Things That Happens At WORK?

[@notmuch_23]

This proves that a _lot_ of companies will ignore actual extra money just to hide their incompetence.

[@RufusReadit]

For real. It's like they'd rather sweep their mistakes under the rug than actually fix things and make more money.

[@milkymilk53]

Make the company more money, or give up embezzling? Hmmm

[@KenshiImmortalWolf]

This entire video just proves that if everyone where to genuinely upgrade to modern stuff we've probably improve so much but so many companies either cause of 'cost savings' or stubbornness just, don't

[@RufusReadit]

Imagine how much smoother things would be if they just let go of the past. But nah, let’s keep the old stuff ‘cause it’s cheaper. 🙄

[@trilight3597]

@@RufusReadit I'm on the fence myself. But for different reasons. There are times we should upgrade but now other companies that make software and products for said companies just make worse products sometimes. Worst case scenario was the CloudStrike incident. But genuine upgrades sure.

[@starspaceschool587]

As someone who has been on the receiving end of failed “upgrades” you need to realize that everyone proposes their “upgrade” as save time/money whether the person proposing is internal or external. What you have is a system that could improve everything or could break everything. Simple examples are digital medical systems. They are great but paper charts aren’t susceptible to ransomware, cloud strike, internet outages, power outages, or massive HIPAA violations. There are other issues I’ve seen as well such as the dose put in by the doctor may just auto put in gram instead of mg etc. The “upgrades” have a few modern snake oil salesman in there along with incompetence.

[@phyrath5]

It's more understandable to the ghouls who command our economy that to increase profit you overwork and underpay the employees rather than make employee labour more efficient. They're just the enemy either way. Either way, they want the worker to receive as small a fraction of the value of their labour as possible, but the contemptable bastards also want the workers to be more stressed and more tired when they finally are off the job.

[@friscofoolify]

Old people don’t like learning new things . Especially the ones who are in charge.

[@itskhaotic]

This video told me most people refuse to learn new things.

[@co-jt6gd]

Especially conservatives. The think the old way was better because it’s what they grew up with, except they want everyone else to think that way so that the conservatives can “return to being the most important people in the world”. That kind of propaganda writes itself!

[@stangace20]

As someone in the tech field I can't stress enough how much I want the boomer "that's how we've always done it" mentality to die off! And like I'm not even a young guy myself, I'm in my 40's! And yet it still drives me insane at times when I encounter it like in these stories! It's one of the reasons I know I could NEVER work at an IT help desk, cause I know I would either be banging my head against the desk or losing my patience with any old people giving me attitude and simply telling them to F off! Cause the fact is no matter if it's social, technological, or whatever THINGS CHANGES OVER TIME! And your options are to either keep up with that change to stay relevant/competitive OR stay stuck in the past where your way of working/thinking soon become redundant and then obsolete!

[@RufusReadit]

Totally get it. That ‘stuck in the past’ mindset is beyond frustrating. Like, evolve already

[@TERMINATOR101-b8j]

My first job out of college was a help desk job for power sports websites. I got fired one day because some old guy couldn't grasp basic instructions and said I "got short with him."

[@UstraMage]

I used to work for a pizza place that has the dude with the toga, as a manager. Every night, we had to manually print out the day's sales from the old analog till. Then we had to grab a single page of paper and input all of the day's sales, the net and gross and taxes into this thing and manually put in the total sales. Then we had to take this one page and fax it to the main office so they could have it. O and there were 18 other stores trying to fax and only one could come through at a time so we had to wait until it went through before we could leave for the night. Almost forgot, we also had this book we had to fill out with the same basic info that the owner would come around every quarter to take and drop off a new book to fill out. We had computers in every store but did nothing with them . Btw, this guy refused to advertise anywhere.

[@transsnack]

Oh, hey, I just started a new playthrough of Stray too! Freaking phenomenal game!

[@kellifurr]

I fell like homework is the most unreasonable thing we do in the school system. They already have to get up at dawn to get ready to go, spend all day in classes and then to be a “good student” you have to spend half your evening doing more schoolwork. Imagine if your boss sent you home with paperwork to do at home every evening!!

[@Noredlac_]

It’s so you don’t just go home and forget everything you learned that day, if you put your phone down it usually doesn’t take that long to finish

[@DoesNotConcernYou]

That’s not the point. In the real world if your are sent home with work to do your expected to be paid for it. Has nothing to do with how long it did or didn’t take. Hell we have laws against this kinda shit. And correct me if I’m wrong but did they not tell us over and over for 12+ years that we were going to school every day to prepare us for the real world. Nearly every study they have done has proven that how we conduct our educational systems is extremely back asswords.

[@SoulDevoured]

Lots of people take work home man. That's not the problem with homework or school the problem with it is how inefficient it is while Also burning children out before they even reach their working years.

[@Martyn_Wolf]

Archaic education system was designed to create sheep's and ants after all

[@jamesonweimann4720]

Don’t diss old school German engineering they built shit to last

[@RufusReadit]

that old school German engineering is like the OG of durability. Built to survive anything.

[@dcarbs2979]

@@RufusReadit Roman engineering should have that title. Much 0f it is 2000 years old and still doing it's thing.

[@jamesonweimann4720]

@@dcarbs2979 I am of course referring to more modern engineering because everyone knows about the Roman’s already

[@Benjamin1986980]

I find something so annoying and frustrating. People always insultingly deride a traditional high school education as stifling, robotic, and assembly line. However, effectively every single attempt to innovate significantly has been hugely expensive and a complete failure for the majority of students. Quite frankly, I had a better education in the 80s and 90s with these outdated methods than what most kids are getting these days

[@RufusReadit]

I get it. The old ways weren’t perfect, but they worked. The new stuff’s just trying to fix what didn’t, even if it’s messy.

[@milkymilk53]

Source? How many years have you spent in school since the 80s and 90s?

[@Geeky_Riley]

I can actually understand the fax machine lawyer. It is instant while keeping a paper trail. When it comes to legal stuff, having physical proof of communication is very and unless you screen shot it and print it out, you can't bring a computer into the court to show you shared the documents with the other side.

[@RufusReadit]

True, fax machines are still clutch for that paper trail. Sometimes the old-school methods just work.

[@bensmith5262]

"Rmail" solves this problem. Basically it's certified email.

[@IzzyPR2010]

These days a lot of courtrooms have their own computers and video displays.

[@cmcordoYT]

I disagree that a paper trail of medical records should be eliminated and replaced with digital records only. Medical records should also be entered digitally, in addition to the paper records. I can't imagine the disaster that could happen if all the information was hacked and all the digital information was deleted.

[@RufusReadit]

Totally get where you’re coming from. Digital is convenient, but having a paper backup feels like an insurance policy against tech disasters. Redundancy might be old school, but it’s definitely safer.

[@moonshade9860]

Anything digital can be made to have backups too. That aren’t that easy to delete…. Especially if you create it such that you take the backup offline after creating.

[@wschnabel1987]

My fast food establishment was built before it became common practice to build them with a dish washer in my area. We have to wash an entire shfits worth of work by hand each day. In all fairness it would probably get broken within a month of it being installed if my work did put one in.

[@SirberusKhaos]

Remember that homework basicly exists because administrators and parents expect so teacher who dont assign"enough" are judged as bad teachers. even if their student are involved in their teaching and are learning everything in class...

[@RufusReadit]

Yeah, it's wild how homework becomes a performance metric. Like, who cares if kids actually understand the material as long as they’re buried in busy work, right? 🙃

[@templin7]

Story 28 pisses me off. The owner definitely should set up an ATM at the very least, but it makes sense why he wouldn't take credit or debit, because of those fees.

[@flowercrown-eevee]

I will say i hate how people want to just digitize EVERYTHING. but life has shown me that relying only digital resources is dangerous and can lead to catastrophe real fast. Its the idea of not putting all your eggs in one basket. We just had a good example of why it is bad to rely totally on computers. if you have a paper copy you can also prove if something was changed at one point. paper trials are a good thing to have. and im not some old boomer i just don't trust wide spread computer storage.

[@johnclaybaugh9536]

Most digital programs keep track of changes. And there's the option of a screenshot.

[@missnobody8378]

NHS medical notes all on paper in files, often loose sheets because the punch holes break and people take the sheets to o something and forget them

[@missnobody8378]

Also hand written and can’t tell you how much info I’ve had to guess/ read between the lines of what it says as writing is so bad

[@rachelwatson3339]

I'm surprised the students don't take it higher for the stamp thing cause if everyone needs it why is it only available once a year? Couldn't they take it to a local bord of education or contact someone else to force the university's hand?

[@sclemmons1]

I worked for an organization that had lots of arbitrary and arcane practices. I worked there for only 7 months and when I left, my manager's manager asked me for an exit interview. I explained that I was leaving for a multitude of reasons. I gave examples of policies and procedures that needed to be revised, and when I suggested they be revised before I put in my notice, I was practically vilified for it my half my coworkers, the other half worked there for a few months before me and seemed to not care one way or the other. I also told my manager's manager that on my first day of employment, my trainer told me they have a high turnover rate. After I left, one of my old coworkers told me lots of changes were implemented.

[@princessmarlena1359]

I work at this old movie theater, where I have to pump the pedals of the melodeon piano 🎹 (typically playing “The Ragtime Dance”) while turning the crank handle on the projector 📽️ and reading aloud the dialogue and script 📑 from the silent black and white movie held in my other hand, illuminated by either candle light 🕯️or by an oil lamp. 🪔

[@Isamu1416]

the first guy has absolutely no understanding of how it works you use modern technology save for your own work since you spend 30 minutes to get the work done into the desired format and the remaining 7 hours of the day you play Raid Shadow Legends on your mobile

[@jackiewepps4694]

Speaking of Japan, turning in papers was not quite as tedius when I was studying abroad there two years ago, but finding anywhere to charge your laptop was a bit of a pain. When we had to do presentations, our teacher had to book one of the computer rooms, something I hadn't seen for the past 15 years or so in my own country. When you were in these computer rooms, there was no space for you to bring your own laptop. Every single desk was equipped with an old-fashioned computer that you could not move. And again, there was nowhere to charge your laptop if you needed that! As for paying bills, like ensurance and rent, that was a cash payment only, even if the convenience store did take credit card and a billion other digital payment forms, this was always cash, and they wouldn't accept any other payment for rent and ensurance. To top it off, as late as 2018, I was at a convenience store where I tried to pay by card, but the employee didn't know how to do that, so she told me that the system wasn't working and asked me to pay in cash. That was when the employee had to scan your card for you. I guess that changed after 2020 to limit the number of objects the employees had to touch.

[@kariann430]

yes to school systems, i reach preschool, and it is si different than normal school it is nice. I also suffere from not great spelling due to how it was taught in my school. Also when in a college class taught us about the different styles of learning it made things so much easer for me and how to do teaching plans.

[@KaeYoss]

That's how a lot of companies go under. Fantastic developments in convenience and productivity are made, they ignore the advancements because of "tradition" (i.e. peer pressure from dead people), and the competition leaves them in the dust.

[@mitchyitchy3]

ok i can kinda see why most companies dont switch to newer systems. it is a pain to switch and sometimes the newer stuff is missing things or doesnt work right right off the bat but outside that its just bonkers most places wont update. like ya dont use the stuff that just came out but atleast use things that are a year old with a track record of working perfectly for what they need.

[@RufusReadit]

Yeah, I get why they’re hesitant to switch, but clinging to outdated systems forever is just nuts. There’s solid tech out there that’s been working fine for years. no excuse not to upgrade.

[@MysticMae21]

Lots of new things are also subscription based. While they straight up own all the old stuff they already have.

[@mitchyitchy3]

@@MysticMae21 true. kinda forgot and didnt really want to remember so many things are "rented" these days

[@MysticMae21]

@mitchyitchy3 and if you stop renting, your whole system goes down and you lose everything.

[@MKoldbern]

Gmail may still have a "Post Office Protocol" (POP) setup in which emails are delivered to one specific computer and removed from the email servers, like it's still 1992 or something.

[@bensmith5262]

Even though IMAP is objectively an upgrade in every way.

[@chloeleau]

i just started working the front desk at a bank, and the majority of my job is data entry, printing and filing. on like my third day i taught my supervisor what keyboard shortcuts are and it blew her mind

[@HarlowRisk]

Story 7. Since they were a raw material supplier to J&J, I assume they are FDA regulated. You cannot make random changes to equpment that is regulated by the FDA without a change controls and approval by costumers and regulatory agencies of each country you sell/provide product. If the machine is running slow, is bevause it was validated that way. To make improvements (liek increasing speed and adding parts) you need a project to ensure its properly challenged. The whole process takes years.

[@PabloGonzalez-hv3td]

I worked for the Canadian Federal government. Had to take multiple online government finance courses. In order to avoid "cheating" by helping other employees in training on what's already a randomized exam. The results only display a score and doesn't reveal what you got right or wrong. The pass mark isn't 100. You get the position with absolutely no idea what's 100% right or wrong. Nobody can help you because they also have no idea what they got right or wrong.

[@patmx5]

19:10 Having someone work with hydrofluoric acid without training is a disaster waiting to happen. We used that stuff in semiconductor manufacturing and it’s incredibly dangerous. Look up HF exposure treatment.

[@godinogirl]

My job is document and record management, these hurt my soul

[@MastersOfRs]

The issue with a lot of the upgrades is they reduce labor needed. I guarantee if you went around and upgraded efficiency at everywhere especially in the government you could layoff 50% of the work force but now you have all those people unemployed. Automate your job, look busy, constantly complain about how hard your job is. Why wouldn’t you want a position where you don’t have to do anything?

[@monkyman404]

The Resturant that was CASH ONLY cant take credit cards because they didnt report all their $ to the IRS. When you start taking Cards it takes as little as 6 months for the IRS to put you in prison and shut the place down. Saw it happen to a resturant in my home town and my barber said he couldnt take cards becuase he and his sister only reported $15K to the IRS and could never take cards as they didnt want to retire to prison.

[@eliblessed]

I worked at an apparel decorating buisness (think graphic tees, branded polo's, custom hats, etc). We had to print each order off on paper twice: once for the order, and once for reciving. Thing is, reciving had a PC right there. But no, the boss wanted to visually see each and every order waiting on products. So each order (both reciving and production) was printed off and placed in individual colored sleeves and hung on a wall. The main isse happened when, of course, one of the papers got mixed up, or forgotten to be taken down. Let's just say it was a mess

[@whatgamesweplay]

I'm not sure whether to say oh god it's not just my company or thank god, it's not just my company. We're a low tech industry, been around for more than half a century. whenever a salesman writes a quote he has to call the company secretary to get a quote number which she wrote down in a notebook along with the customer's details. When I came to work there I tried pointing out that a shared excel sheet would work much better because they wouldn't need to wait for her to answer the phone plus some secretaries handwriting was terrible, but was shot down with "but then how would you write a quote during a power outage?" The company also used some obscure DOS based software for all company contacts and only moved everything to something modern when the software's creator couldn't get it to work with windows xp and shut his one man company down

[@danielpalecek4090]

in 2010 I got an IT job offer at NASA, walk in, no job for the day because the fax machine wasn't working and emails are too big security risk.

[@Angel-Dust-The-Prostitute]

That just because I have my job as freelance, that the clients assume I always like it... Have had some cases with some real ugly bonnies and clauds (male impromptu for a ugly bonnie) that honestly made me want to just pay them off to skip to the next clients who are... passable by comparison... Gotten some real weird requests in my line o' work... But the fact remains that I do not always enjoy it.... it is just a means to an end to pay my daily bills and expenses...

[@RufusReadit]

Yeah, freelance life isn’t all creative freedom and dream clients. Sometimes it’s just about getting through the weird requests and paying the bills. Gotta take the good with the bad, I guess.

[@Angel-Dust-The-Prostitute]

@@RufusReadit Thanks for being understanding. You truly are an dynamite pal.

[@Auriorium]

I didn't work there but a friend did. So there is this credit card company in my nation that has all its customer data in a database, that takes the form of an Excell spread sheet. So imagine if you will you took one of the old phone books for the US and started transcribing all the information into an excel document. You will not get far before the thing stops working. To any IT guy who had this experience I am sorry for giving you a Vietnam level of PTSD flashback.

[@lonerkyle02]

I work IT technical support. Really good job so I can’t complain a whole lot but My department has some really odd work from home policies. We have to be in office when we are training or being trained because it’s believed if we aren’t in office then we aren’t learning. We also have to be in office because some people have difficulty using computers and can’t message for assistance and need to walk over to us to ask for help. let you know, using a computer is a requirement for higher in this line of work. A little annoying but livable.

[@NarwahlGaming]

If it's not the boss owner, but a mid level boss that requires paper everything it's because he needs something to do in order to not lose his redundant and obsolete job.

[@jellysquid8077]

"Excel was not designed to replace a calculator" WHAT DO THEY THINK IT USES TO CALCULATE THIS STUFF?? 😂

[@videopsych7838]

Yeah at my work place we used to have prisoners that worked here though not anymore after my second year of working there. But even then we've had to still use electric id cards to get in and out but if that isn't bad enough our cards only work for a few parts of the day to let us in and out because they don't want people having smoke breaks to much during the day/evenings and we still don't have an official break time we still run through break sometimes and they still will not change the work place policies since the prisoners used to work there.

[@katwhite9066]

The string one made my eye twitch is I made something fast and more efficient for someone to change it back I'd lose my mind

[@HarlowRisk]

Since they were supplying a Raw Material to J&J, they are regulated by the FDA (and other regulatory agencies). In those cases, you cannot made changes without the proper documentation and getting that approved by you customer and regulatory agencies. His intentions were good, but that could have cause a huge issue in the company.

[@yeighseph1976]

I do think we should modernize a lot of things but a lot of people don't realize the impact. The story with like 20 cart pushers with sensitive info, if they go modern, only a couple would be needed so now 18 people are out of a job. Or, a job that takes you 6 hours to do that you now get done in an hour. Your job will cut that 5 hours out and now your not making as much. And let's look at Walmart and their self checkouts. Less people are needed to work while the customers are required to take on the job the company refuses to pay people for.

[@BarfusWOW]

my work insists on keeping people who cannot do there job correctly and then complains about production being bad.. we have a ton of people wanting to work there, and they won't fire these slugs and hire new people, and no we're not unionized so it would be pretty easy to "make it happen"

[@Icalasari]

Keeping paper backups IS a good idea, just because you want back ups in as many formats as possible, and paper is immune to blackouts and the like. Otherwise, yeah this is full of annoying

[@KaeYoss]

Story 19 about casinos is weird. Do they have to print something out to give to a manager when someone hits the jackpot and the casino claims there was a malfunction or the player was actually trespassing?

[@Pixel-Cheese-Cake]

So fines for lack of automation could help

[@joeellis9095]

I'm skeptical about online ads being so crucial. Very rarely have I bought anything as a result of any ad. Am I really in the minority?

[@wclark3196]

Digital rectal exam.

[@nickroepke2964]

So the blue sheet is actually a legitimate one, whenever you submit bids uncertain projects if it’s for the state, depending on what township and what jurisdiction you’re in it is required that you have a blue sheet kind of a summary of the project in the submitted, bid, a lot of states and townships still use Hardcopies, we actually lost a job over this, we were $50,000 under the competitors bid so we would’ve won it however our submission did not meet the physical configuration of The bed requirements, meaning we submitted it without a blue sheet, this stupid little carbon copy piece of crap that Grainger doesn’t even supply anymore

[@EvilGremlin100]

Pointless outdated stuff Army: whiteboards.. I WAS a mechanic/inspector in the workshop. We had civilian repairers who had been working there for like 50+ years.. We had a whiteboard to stick all the vehicles on, their squadron owners, what it was in for, what state it was in, when it came in and when it was due to leave the workshop. It was NEVER up to date so all the information was all over the place, and caused like an extra hour or 2 of work every day just checking the system and relaying it to the board.. why? Because the old dinosaur civvies didn't know how to use computers and refused to retain any information every time they did their annual refresher training.. none of the civvies would update it because it was beneath them, despite the board only existing for their benefit (as the inspector, i looked up each vehicle i did on the system prior to inspecting, so i had no need for the board) the whole thing could be switched to a shared to a liveshare spreadsheet which pulled all the data straight from the system.. i was happy to create the spreadsheet, they'd literally just have to open it.. but no.. that's too technical.. I evem suggested a huge TV screen with that live data on it so they just have to walk in and look.. nope, they might accidently try to write on it, thinking it's still a whiteboard and ruin it.. Now I'm in recruitment, we use a whiteboard for upcoming events. There IS a spreadsheet we all have access to, but someone decided they wanted a visual board to quickly check. That person left before I got there, but we still use that whiteboard for no reason.. we have one of the private soldiers update it every couple months, but still.. what a waste of time.. I HATE whiteboards now..

[@DoesNotConcernYou]

Anyone else get pissed off listening to this ?

[@bensmith5262]

I've never gotten second-hand anger this fast!

[@autobotjazz1972]

A lot of the sort of thinking highlighted in this video are just " If it ain't broke don't fix it " thinking and it leads to company and even the US federal government using increasingly obsolete tech and using operating systems and programing languages fewer and fewer people know how to use.

[@silverhawkflash]

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