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gurt

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  1. I'll never understand why there is a preference of 20 somethings over 50 somethings in tech.  I guess they think if you aren't using the latest BS language you're somehow not valuable? Or that a 55 year old can't possibly learn something new despite being in an ever changing industry for 3 decades?  All the most valuable people in my org are 50+, and no, we aren't using Fortran or COBOL.

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  2. 13 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    Honestly, clerical and admin staff are the hardest to effectively manage and use via WFH.  Creatives, people with defined long-term projects measured by milestones, IT, number crunchers….sure, they can crank out stuff at home.  But the fact is you need the clerical and admin staff to be available to take stuff that just comes up, shift quickly when needed, and just in general be “admin.” Of course, clerical and admin is a big range and I don’t know the team specifics. 

    It’s easy to say “just ask managers to plan better” but the fact is that piling up more emails, Zoom calls, check-ins, etc means that you’re shifting work from lower per hour to higher per hour and that is rarely a good value proposition.

    I guess I follow you, but their job is to pull items out of a queue and work on them alone, with a Teams slack channel to ask any questions that might come up.  About as ideal as a WFH job could be.  Yet, because they are in the provost office, they have to fall in line with what the president wants.  

    And regarding flexibility, there is none at UT.  Butts in seat 8-5.  If you have nothing to do and it is 430 and would like to get a jumpstart on beating traffic?  Tough, you're sitting there clock watching.

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  3. My wife's team, despite being completely clerical/administrative and never needing to interact with students or faculty, is likely to be forced back 5 days a week.  So stupid.  She is going to leave, they can take their 2% raises and shove it up their ass.

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