They romanticize these jobs in every form of art and media so that suckers, I mean brave young people, will sign up for those jobs. Because the media caters to the average dumbass, the media goes along with the narrative.

Hot and Sour soup always makes me feel better.

Can only speak for myself. I use AI tools almost daily to help me pursue my hobby. I find it very useful for that. But when I enjoy art produced by a human, on some level I want to connect with the human experience that produced it. Call it parasocial if that helps. But I’m always at least a little interested in the content creators, not just the content.

I know some people consume content like a commodity or product. I’m not judging those people at all. But I’m generally not like that myself. I want to know the story behind the creation.

Here’s the top 3 things most people in the US have not heard about:

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In the book of Job, Satan is depicted more like a friendly prosecutor or advisor to God than an enemy. He and Yahweh are like frat bros torturing the poor schmuck.

Sorry I wasn’t more encouraging. I guess I have become a bit jaded regarding overly extroverted coworkers over the years. I do think going to management would probably do more harm than good. Only you can judge how obnoxious the gossiping folks are, and your own tolerance threshold for it. I’m just some rando on the internet. But I do completely empathize with your situation.

Some extroverts assume quiet people are “weird and creepy”. They gossip and pry into your business to test you, to see if you’re “safe” to work with. It’s a common form of hazing. They are filtering for who they think they can trust.

If you want the job: try to “gray rock” them until they get bored with you. They’ll never trust you, but they might leave you alone or assume you’re a harmless boring weirdo. Or they might decide to make your job a living hell until you transfer out. Depends on how vicious they are.

You can’t control them, but you can refuse to engage at their jr high level.

Thanks. I have wasted my time yet again!

Are you just looking for things to be offended about? Is that any way to live?

Enshitification is a method, greed is the motive, AI is an accelerator.

This is not an ability the Jedi of Lemmy will ever teach you.

I have no clue what it will look or sound like, but my guess is it will be a massive artistic rejection of AI generated content.

I have a few friends at work where we’ve learned to trust each other over many years and many conversations. We enjoy each other’s company and are comfortable joking and talking shit about the job and bosses.

Outside of that very small group I practice “gray rock” tactics with all of the rest of my coworkers, especially people in management. I just act as boring and uninteresting as possible, so they don’t see me as any kind of threat and it greatly limits the “attack surface” they can use against me with others. Outside of my inner group of friends, my coworkers have almost zero knowledge about my family, my hobbies, my pets, anything at all.

This is not a good way to be if you are ambitious and want to climb the ladder. But if you just want to clock in, do your job, and clock out (like I do) then gray rock is the way to go.

Were you sealioning? There’s little tolerance for that kind of move.

The only time I’ve heard it said like that is when the person is being passive-aggressive and sarcastic. I’m not saying it’s always used in that way, just my experience.

I’m sure you’ve seen how twitchy and coked up he looks in some of the video clips. It’s all too easy to imagine this scenario as real.

So much is explained about policing in the USA with a simple one liner an older friend once told me: cops are just guys who want to drive fast and shoot guns.

A lot of crafts and trades can be done in small teams or solo. Leather-working, furniture making, blacksmithing, etc. If we’re talking before the printing press, being a scribe could be solitary (or at least quiet, if you were a monk). Tending livestock (especially sheep) was often a solo job. Fishing, trapping, the list is long.

Software that’s easy to use will enable people to crank out content. Most of that content will be bad. But there could be a few gems hidden in the “ocean of gray goo” of cheap content. This has been going on for a long time. People were talking about this happening with music tools decades ago.

Most pet dogs are attracted to humans generally. Some bond with one favored human and don’t care much about other humans. Other pet dogs are more sociable, and enjoy the novelty of a new human and being around lots of humans.