Idk man, I work with some people who have the skills and intelligence of a moldy jock strap, and they get paid very well. One if them just got promoted, but can barely run basic Linux commands. I don’t understand the world sometimes.
Do they have hobbies/beliefs/sycophantic mannerisms similar to the bosses in charge? Because that’ll get you promoted. A lot of management are lonely people who don’t view others as equals unless they suck up or never argue, thus useless people get promoted so they can hang with “friends” in meetings all day.
That’s life. I’ll always give a prior service person a bit more grace - at least at some point they volunteered to serve. Plus they are usually team players who can follow simple directions.
I also believe in mandatory state service (civil or military).
Choices like what? Having a blind favorable bias towards people who served in the military? The consequences of which, are an incapable workforce that coast through life on past merits. I’ve worked with lots of them and most have a sense of entitlement, but are only mildly capable in the role they’ve been hired for. They have developed this sense of entitlement because people like you give them handouts.
Joining the military helped them get a job.
That was a choice because they sure weren’t drafted. Seems like you didn’t do that and now you’re bitching about how life actually works.
I mean, I wish magic was real and/or that the average person wasn’t basically fucking retarded, but I don’t go around crying because wishes aren’t reality.
Whatever you do in life, please stay true to your username. We don’t need more dipshits like you contributing to the collective stupidity of the world.
That’s life discriminatory favoritism. I’ll always give a prior service person a bit more grace of unfair special treatment - at least at some point they volunteered to serve the military industrial complex. Plus they are usually team players who servile and can follow simple directions orders without questioning.
I also believe in am wrong about mandatory state service (civil or military)
Using Linux isn’t that difficult. You have to remember a few commands, their syntax, and how to look things up on the web or read a book. Speaking a language is probably harder than using Linux for basic stuff.
IMO the built in documentation is kind of hard to digest, but it gets easier with practice and I’m glad that it’s there. Thinking about it, some good search engine for manpages that doesn’t require messing with VIM or emacs would be good. That probably exists somewhere.
Apart from the online manpage archives, there’s man -k and grepping the manpage directories, but that’s not really ideal (although that’s what I did when I started Unix a long time ago).
There are help browsers like in kde which are kind of nice but I’m not sure if they do a full text search. But they’re nice for info pages.
Idk man, I work with some people who have the skills and intelligence of a moldy jock strap, and they get paid very well. One if them just got promoted, but can barely run basic Linux commands. I don’t understand the world sometimes.
Do they have hobbies/beliefs/sycophantic mannerisms similar to the bosses in charge? Because that’ll get you promoted. A lot of management are lonely people who don’t view others as equals unless they suck up or never argue, thus useless people get promoted so they can hang with “friends” in meetings all day.
Or good old nepotism.
Yup, prior military looking out for each other.
That’s life. I’ll always give a prior service person a bit more grace - at least at some point they volunteered to serve. Plus they are usually team players who can follow simple directions.
I also believe in mandatory state service (civil or military).
I see you perpetuate the problem
Welcome to life - your own personal choices actually have consequences.
Choices like what? Having a blind favorable bias towards people who served in the military? The consequences of which, are an incapable workforce that coast through life on past merits. I’ve worked with lots of them and most have a sense of entitlement, but are only mildly capable in the role they’ve been hired for. They have developed this sense of entitlement because people like you give them handouts.
C’mon man. I was good at shooting people, running fast, and taking orders. That means I’m management material for an office for an insurance firm.
You’re hired!
Turkey feed technician. Night shift. Final offer.
Joining the military helped them get a job.
That was a choice because they sure weren’t drafted. Seems like you didn’t do that and now you’re bitching about how life actually works.
I mean, I wish magic was real and/or that the average person wasn’t basically fucking retarded, but I don’t go around crying because wishes aren’t reality.
C’est la vie.
Whatever you do in life, please stay true to your username. We don’t need more dipshits like you contributing to the collective stupidity of the world.
Don’t worry, I balance your biases out by throwing every CV with military service out before the first round.
I didn’t choose to be born dipshit
Fixed it for you.
Just so you know, the fact that they are capable of even using Linux puts them in the top percentile of intelligence.
If you met these people you’d rescind that statement.
Using Linux isn’t that difficult. You have to remember a few commands, their syntax, and how to look things up on the web or read a book. Speaking a language is probably harder than using Linux for basic stuff.
This comment here is peak Linux, and a perfect example of that xkcd comic.
99% of people probably couldn’t even tell you what a syntax is. Let alone how it’s relevant to using Linux
Linux, like all Unix systems, even mostly comes with built-in documentation.
IMO the built in documentation is kind of hard to digest, but it gets easier with practice and I’m glad that it’s there. Thinking about it, some good search engine for manpages that doesn’t require messing with VIM or emacs would be good. That probably exists somewhere.
Would explainshell.com suffice?
Apart from the online manpage archives, there’s man -k and grepping the manpage directories, but that’s not really ideal (although that’s what I did when I started Unix a long time ago).
There are help browsers like in kde which are kind of nice but I’m not sure if they do a full text search. But they’re nice for info pages.
Can confirm, I’m an idiot and I have a couple machines running various distros.
Those that can’t do become management
People who actually do work, especially in the technology sector don’t get promoted. You get promoted based on popularity