A lot of people with poorly developed social skills like to pretend that poorly developed social skills don't make them a bad coworker. I don't think I agree with that. Your job isn't just the stuff you like. Organization, prioritization, collaborating and interacting with your coworkers, attending meetings and making useful contributions, just generally not being a dick...all of those are your job. Interviews often take place after they're already convinced that you have the required background, so they're largely interested in discovering whether you're a good chemistry match for the team.

Can't really speak to grueling tech interviews though. That's a whole different category of thing.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 9 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

I get this, and being good at customer service helps a lot in interviews.

But on the other hand it's really fucked up how we are all expected to go to work and always be pleasant when most of us don't want to be there and are only there so they don't become homeless. So I don't care if my coworkers are pissy, it's healthy to act how you feel.

At 18 years old US society puts a gun to our heads and says "work or die", with no guarentee of being able to find work that pays for a life.

[–] CidVicious@sh.itjust.works -1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

On the one hand the way corporations expect loyalty and devotion all the time in return for a very small percentage of their profits being paid out to us as salary sucks. On the other, having to work if you want to eat is just kind of...life? Not saying we couldn't work on something better as a society, but there's been very few people at any point in human history who didn't have to work hard to survive. I'm glad that I get to at least do soulless work in an office which is mostly just boring instead of hard labor or something actively dangerous.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago

Nobody is saying work isn't required, but if we only forced people to pay off the debt their existence incurred most people would probably retire before 40

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