I’ve never had an office job and I’ve always wondered what it is a typical cubicle worker actually does in their day-to-day. When your boss assigns you a “project”, what kind of stuff might it entail? Is it usually putting together some kind of report or presentation? I hear it’s a lot of responding to emails and attending meetings, but emails and meetings about what, finances?

I know it’ll probably be largely dependent on what department you work in and that there are specific office jobs like data-entry where you’re inputting information into a computer system all day long, HR handles internal affairs, and managers are supposed to delegate tasks and ensure they’re being completed on time. But if your job is basically what we see in Office Space, what does that actually look like hour-by-hour?

  • @stoy@lemmy.zip
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    389 days ago

    I am an IT technician, I get paid to solve problems.

    A user can’t send emails? I’ll check the logs and error messges, find the problem and is I am allowed to, solved the problem.

    Oh, we need to setup up a new firewall rule?

    Ok, I’ll log on to the Palo Alto appliance and have a look at the logs.

    We need to configure our systems so that we get our logo as the avatar of sent emails?

    Ok, I have no idea on how to do that, so I’ll start googling, ah it is all BIMI, and shit, I need to speak with legal, and set up a new certificate vendor? Crap… Shit, our logo isn’t actually trademarked? What? Fuck, we need to do a DORA check on the certificate vendor? Crap…

    • @egonallanon@lemm.ee
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      69 days ago

      I’m still not convinced the BIMI is all that useful as email security. Feels more like a marketing exercise to me but I am in an exclusively B2B org so it probaly doesn’t matter as much.