>get first real job out of uni as GIS technician at large company
>all the data is stored on an enterprise server
>administered by ethiopian dude
>total fucking dick, doesn't even understand what he is doing
>boss asks me all the time to commit stuff to the DB
>apparently every single thing i do breaks one of his 1000 unspoken rules
>boss frequently has to come over and tell him to fuck off an make the commits
>boss one time asks me for a printout of all the table names in the database
>just write a python script to list all the names and print them to an excel table
>db admin finds out and flips his shit
>starts insisting that i have hacked into the DB because only he has the ability to do that
>nope.avi
>always has it out for me from that point forward, grumbling about how im trying to take his job
>it was just a fucking python script
>months later, oil crash happens, people getting canned left and right
>he's got shit all to do because nobody is writing to the master DB
>eventually he gets fired
>i get to move into his cube (was a nice one by the window)
>a few weeks later i see he was peeping my linkedin profile
>it's a picture of me in his old cube
>mfw
>work in canadian government
>have statistics degree
>garbage pay because boomers
>we all have two double-wide monitors
>old boomer fart needs to transponse a 50x50 matrix
>he is literally typing in values one and a time from one open workbook to another
>ask why he doesn't just use the transpose function
>"oh i don't trust all that coding stuff"
>he's not even using the two monitors, just minimizing and maximizing workbooks on the same screen
>why
>"you can't copy and paste from one screen to another"
>yes you can
>"anon ive been doing this since you've been in diapers, i know what i'm doing. you should just be paying attention to pick up a few tricks from the old guard before we're gone"
>this person makes 80 thousand dollars a year and has a full pension
>there are a dozen just like him
>they could all be replaced by a python script
it's no wonder this country is falling apart
>>60853170
Wew that's fucked up
>>60853170
Damn.
>>60853170
And that's how socialism ensures zero unemployment
>>60853170
He's smart and you're a retard.
You never EVER let people know that you can do work much faster than everyone else.
The only reward for hard work is MORE WORK.