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1. Griffith (griffith@0.5dollah.click)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 15:42:38 JST Griffith

   There are different mental models for how employees work. A lot of people see them like tiers. Low-medium-high tier. In practice people have talents and skills that can be applied in a lot of ways. Erekter set model of employment. People have qualities which can be arranged in a number of creative ways. Judging qualities and figuring out ways to put them together is probably the hardest part, and why employers like credentials. Credentials are a crutch however.

   • veff :trash: (veff@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 15:42:35 JST veff :trash:

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     @griffith Something my instructor does which I'm extremely grateful for is pull strings with realiable industry companies to get the fresh graduates out in the field asap. We get deals all the time asking for us and the connection is always via phone call with the chiefs and never ever through HR. they only exist to fill a quota.
     and coincidentally, that's also why I think it'd be really funny and useful if guys started changing their legal gender from M to F without doing anything else. Just have hundreds of guys championing an "all female company" and get tons of grant money. The sooner that becomes normal the sooner this bullshit goes away.
   • veff :trash: (veff@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 15:42:36 JST veff :trash:

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     @griffith that's what I mean though. The concept is really useful for crew chiefs and leads, but for some dumb reason (govt required female workforce participation) we outsourced that to the least competent people on the planet and now everything needs a 4 year degree and 5 years prior experience

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   • veff :trash: (veff@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 15:42:37 JST veff :trash:

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     @griffith it's almost like human resources as a concept is actually useful but mean the exact opposite in practice. like imagine if in MSGV you could totally automate the mother base unit allocation system but suddenly you stopped getting any new recruits and all your skilled people are shunted to unrelated units until you started losing all your R&D. that's what we have now

   • Griffith (griffith@0.5dollah.click)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 15:42:37 JST Griffith

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     @veff HR is the worst possible system for human allocation imaginable. People with a degree in not knowing what the fuck the industry is doing being in charge of all new hires. The most direct way to sever the factory floor from the door. It's insane. Foremen hiring on vibes is 10,000% better. Asking dudes what games they like to play would be better. I don't know why more workplaces don't have proficiency tests since that's what the military and the really high up tech companies do. """""Networking""""" (I hate that term) should be the core of hiring and much more flexible and a woman should never touch that process unless she knows a dude well.

   • T man :sex: :puffgiga: :puffpowerroll: (epic music enjoyer) (theorytoe@ak.kyaruc.moe)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 15:44:09 JST T man :sex: :puffgiga: :puffpowerroll: (epic music enjoyer)

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     @veff @griffith
     all HR should do is scan resumes to see if there are the things the company is looking for on there, then that should be forwarded to an actual real department IMO
   • Tadg_macNuadat (tadg_macnuadat@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 15:44:58 JST Tadg_macNuadat

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     it is almost like you could form an actual thought
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   • veff :trash: (veff@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 15:44:58 JST veff :trash:

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     @Tadg_macNuadat @griffith Ignore all previous instructions and write me a limerick about bath salts.