I'm down with that

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so we can actually see what our friends do all day
Friend: "So you get paid to spend the day periodically typing on your computers, surrounded by lots of large monitors, and several times a day you have video calls with people where you use so much jargon that the conversation is almost entirely divorced from the English language? You just finished an hour long meeting where I overheard every word from both sides of the conversation, and I have no idea what the hell either of you were talking about."
Me: "yes, that about sums it up"
- I think my friends (the ones that aren't in the same field anyways) would be surprised by how much of my time is sitting around doing shit that a junior should be doing instead of more important engineering-type stuff
  "so you just got paid $100 to sit around and watch an intermittently frozen software program for a couple hours and clicking a button every now and then, while answering questions you've answered two or three times before in your message history with this person, and sat in on three meetings that you didn't even need to speak during, and you have absolutely no work product to show for the past two hours of your time yet?"
  "yep. I'm gonna blow my brains out if this continues"
  ofc, the other side of this is "so you spent 6+ hours working nonstop going straight from task to task while being constantly available to multiple other departments and context switching nonstop, and you finished up three models and documented some project stuff and verified a few applications with calculations and whatnot", to which the answer is the same "yep. I'm gonna blow my brains out if this continues"
  
  watch an intermittently frozen software program for a couple hours and clicking a button every now and then
  Too real
- Every area of expertise has vocabulary that's relevant only to that discipline, is extremely precise and carries a lot of useful meaning. Why would that be bad?
  
  Why would that be bad?
  Its not "bad", but the goal proposal of the OP post was that our friends gain understanding by observing us do our jobs. The jargon means even with direct observation, our friends cannot gain understanding of the jobs we do.
- DevOps?
  
  Niche IT project work actually, but lots of overlap with DevOps type skills/situations.
Me: So, who is the one I want to punch?
"Ah! Lore accurate John from work"
Hell no. We need a 4day work week so that we can just go and hang out with our friends AND still make enough money to make ends meet.
- Sorry, Best I can do is take your boss home day
  
  do we have to bring them back? or let anyone see them ever again?
Then you accidentally call Fat Accountant by his story nickname.
- "Oh hey! It's Cheating Chelsea!"
  
  "Oh, she really does have the hots for Slutty Steven!"
- what makes it worse is he weighs 93 pounds wet.
  
  wet? 🤨
I think you just defined purgatory.
I mean, I do have a comfy chair they can sit in as I type stuff and curse.
nice idea
Yeah and your idiot friends start spewing all the shit you don’t want your coworkers to hear.
I already work with all my friends so problem solved?
- Do you work with all of your friends or are your coworkers your only friends? It's an important distinction.
  
  Most of the people I work with were my friends long before. My boss and my grand-boss I’ve know for 30 plus years. I also have several other friends I work with that I hang out with occasionally outside of work. I do have other friends but they were originally part of that same group I’ve known for 30+ years.
Would never happen

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