TIL Less than a quarter of U.S. workers report using math any more complicated than basic fractions and percentages during the course of their jobs. Blue-collar workers generally do more advanced math than their white-collar friends

I feel for you all. A LOT of the the it’s upper management engineers turned MBAs who stopped learning code about 5 years after school, and can’t draft worth shit. They’re constantly pushing over the top software because they see everyone else using it and assume they have to keep up, except they have no clue how to use it themselves. It’s like meeting after meeting of trying to tell someone you can’t put a square peg in a round hole, and meanwhile you could be being actually productive. Highly paid good old boy idiots. I’m just waiting it out in hopes that in another 10 years the people who actually know how to get shit done will start being seen for their value. Jokes on me. I hope that includes you poor contractors too, not just the worker bee engineers.

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