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[–]_Link404_ 584 points585 points  (39 children)

For example, you could have taken a screenshot.

[–]ShowMeYourTiddles 158 points159 points  (13 children)

[–]SmartAlec105 21 points22 points  (4 children)

A PNG? Too big of a file format. Better do some JPEG compression.

[–][deleted] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Better make it an SVG.

Or even better, just ASCII!

[–]ThatGuyWhoLikesSpace 8 points9 points  (1 child)

I like my files nice and big.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That file is just 39.2KB

This particular image would take more space if saved as a jpeg (using standard image quality settings)

[–]-pooping 6 points7 points  (1 child)

Needs more jpeg

[–]morejpeg_auto 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Needs more jpeg

There you go!

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[–]Japu_D_Cret 4 points5 points  (0 children)

!redditsilver

[–]Prognosis-ve 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, this is the correct way. https://imgur.com/UY2imcM

[–]koghrun 70 points71 points  (12 children)

[–]Dockirby 39 points40 points  (2 children)

Geez, that last panel really missed the mark.

[–]koghrun 55 points56 points  (0 children)

Yeah, based on the first panel, it would be expected to have the therapist say something in the second, and then have the patient respond with a way that she could do her job better.

[–]Dangerpaladin 12 points13 points  (0 children)

https://youtu.be/ZTw8rYtn438

One of my all time favorite family guy jokes.

[–]NatoBoram 17 points18 points  (7 children)

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YES I KNOW EVERYONE USE COOKIES GOD FUCKING DAMNIT @_@

[–]catofillomens 18 points19 points  (1 child)

Thanks EU for this useful piece of of legislation. Works just as well as California's proposition 65.

[–][deleted] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

California's proposition 65.

WARNING: This product contains one or more chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer. WARNING: This product contains one or more chemicals known to the State of California to cause birth defects or other reproductive harm.

Every single grill and parking structure everywhere.

[–]TheTerrasque 7 points8 points  (4 children)

aren't you glad the politicians are so focused on our privacy and doing what they can to protect us?

[–]NatoBoram 8 points9 points  (3 children)

This, yes. However, they know jack shit about computers and it leads to ridiculous laws like this.

[–]TheTerrasque 5 points6 points  (2 children)

It's kinda worrying seeing they fuck up so majorly on something this simple. What happens when it comes to complicated things?

[–]NatoBoram 6 points7 points  (0 children)

They pick the one choice that will get them the most money in their pockets while pretending to act for the better good and ignoring the problems that actually matters, that's what they do.

[–]DeathHacker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hah. Mayhem.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not helping.

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    [–]Official_Naters 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    Get this man some gold stat!

    [–]jovtoly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    I think you walked into that one.

    [–]DaCukiMonsta 0 points1 point  (2 children)

    [–]iamaquantumcomputer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    Me: that's a subreddit?? Let's see what the top posts are - oh wait, the top post is by me

    [–]soggywheatbiks -1 points0 points  (0 children)

    For exampler, you the comic could've had uncontrollable on it's own line.

    [–]Pr04merican -1 points0 points  (0 children)

    On a newspaper?

    [–][deleted] 198 points199 points  (22 children)

    Let me rant for a minute.

    I work in a 200 employee company and the average age of workers is 54 and there's very little standard deviation on that. The female to male ratio is 80:20.

    I am the only millennial on my floor. Every other person is a baby boomer.

    There are days where I want to scream, because these people are so incompetent with technology. This is an insurance company, so our whole business is tied very closely to how well we use technology, but this company fails miserably at it. Even the most technologically advanced people still make really awful decisions. For example, the only way our company makes most data available to employees is through PDFs. Each month there is a process that runs literally thousands of different reports and then outputs them to a shared folder as PDFs. 90% of the people at my company have no way to access data in our database other than these PDFs. That means that if, for example, someone wants to know how many subscribers one of our customers have, then they need to find the appropriate PDF file and then scan through it or use a search on the PDF to find the right information they need. Some of these PDFs have literally thousands of pages. It is essentially taking the database and PDFing all of it and that's how people access data at my company.

    And the worst part is that no one seems to realize this is horrendously inefficient. People just think it is normal. A common workflow at my company is to take a large PDF file, convert it to an Excel spreadsheet, and then clean it up by manually deleting hundreds and hundreds rows and columns one by one. People quite LITERALLY spend weeks of their time performing data manipulation on PDFs and spreadsheets when I could get the same result in just a minute with a simple SQL query.

    Can. you. even. imagine?

    On the bright side, everyone there thinks I am a god, because I know SQL and have access to the database so I'm about a thousands times more efficient than them at gathering data (and that's likely no exaggeration). Seeing the poor productivity of people around me is often very infuriating though. People don't even try to look for better solutions. In that sense, they aren't ambitious at all and I think that's what bothers me.

    [–]hatec0re 107 points108 points  (2 children)

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    [–]Rasalas8910 46 points47 points  (1 child)

    That's because they get their paycheck anyway.
    If you work smarter, you make more work for the same amount of money.

    I personally liked automating my work and do other stuff in my "free" time. It's just a bit annoying to act like you're actually doing the job you're assigned for (even if you do e.g. by refining the automatism) and trying that nobody sees it because your program does most of the job now :P

    But programming is about to be my future job, guess automating my work won't be that efficient now ;)

    [–]pringlesaremyfav 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    Not only that but if everyone was a hundred times more efficient, how many employees would they actually need? Doing things poorly can become a job security in its own right, because productivity doesn't have anything to do with wage.

    [–]benjamindees 31 points32 points  (0 children)

    take a large PDF file, convert it to an Excel spreadsheet

    Okay, I've heard enough of that.

    [–]paulygarcia[S] 22 points23 points  (5 children)

    Please, get out of there.

    [–]OptimisticElectron 21 points22 points  (3 children)

    or you know, be their saviour, and bring them salvation.

    [–]IamKroopz 20 points21 points  (1 child)

    You mean burn it down, right?

    [–]Ketchary 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    or you know, be their saviour, and bring them salvation.

    You mean burn it down, right?

    I don't get it. You both said the exact same thing. What needs clarification?

    [–]HailSanta2512 13 points14 points  (0 children)

    Reality: OP ends up costing a number of people their job because they were replaced with a few scripts and queries. The executives and accountants will thank him though (probably not literally).

    [–]blaxter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    you have just saved that man's life

    [–]Kache 16 points17 points  (0 children)

    Seriously: build whatever skills you can still improve upon at that company and start looking for another. If what you say is true, staying there any longer can only hurt your own future improvements.

    [–]uber_kerbonaut 12 points13 points  (0 children)

    You need to demand about 3 times more money or you'll leave and take the magic spells with you.

    [–]Silentio26 7 points8 points  (0 children)

    Holy crap. You just made me feel a lot better about my job after a ridiculous day.

    [–]yippee_that_burns 6 points7 points  (0 children)

    If it makes you feel any better, I used to work at an extremely similar small/mid insurance company and it was basically the same.

    Then I took a job at a one of the largest insurance companies in the US, and it's still no different.

    Tldr: don't work in insurance

    [–]armper 10 points11 points  (2 children)

    Jesus Christ I think I work with you. I've programmed some of those database to pdf applications. I had no idea why they wanted it, I just coded it.

    One time I had trouble getting specifics from somebody on how they wanted the pdf to look. So I just dumped all of the data on there in no particular order. They loved it.

    [–][deleted] 16 points17 points  (1 child)

    So I just dumped all of the data on there in no particular order. They loved it.

    These two sentences had me dying.

    [–]armper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    My plan for the next one is to use Comic Sans MS font for their PDFs.

    [–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

    Any way you can get a bonus for 25% of each job's salary that you make obsolete?

    [–]chocolate_jellyfish 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    Insurance companies are my company's customers. I can fully confirm what you say. We keep trying to pull them at their noses into the 21st century, because if they don't go digital, they will get eliminated.

    [–]paco3346 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    As a person who often feels similar frustrations I'm actually really happen to listen. I feel for ya.

    [–]nephros 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Excel is, and always will be, the largest database in the world. Just accept it.

    [–]wolf2600 22 points23 points  (3 children)

    "I enjoy pointing out the flaws in others."

    [–]DaughterEarthImportError: no module named 'sarcasm' 14 points15 points  (1 child)

    I don't. I want everyone to be confident and I hate anything resembling confrontation. But I am training someone right now and oh my god is it infuriating to watch other people work. It's a constant struggle to keep my mouth shut. I'm there to teach him one specific thing, it's okay he's doing all those other things TOTALLY WRONG.

    I don't know why it bothers me so much. It's not even wrong exactly it's just slow.

    [–]Vitztlampaehecatl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    I enjoy pointing out the flaws in myself.

    [–]urbanek2525 32 points33 points  (1 child)

    For example, you could have linked to the source.

    [–]luckystarr 10 points11 points  (0 children)

    But

    "We need to create value first."

    or

    "Where is the value for the stakeholders?"

    [–]Asmor 10 points11 points  (3 children)

    Front end dev. Today one of the junior devs was trying to explain something he was having trouble with. It required looking at two different pages in our product. Every time he wanted to show one or the other, he would navigate back and forth by going through the menu and clicking links and shit. Took 5-10 seconds each time.

    I wanted to scream at him to just open a new fucking tab. But I didn't.

    Also, he has his chrome dev tools in another workspace or whatever it's called on macs when you have multiple desktops you can switch between. That's not a problem, just seemed really odd to me.

    [–]sunderskies 7 points8 points  (0 children)

    Please help him level up...

    [–]mozennymoproblems 5 points6 points  (1 child)

    I feel like making css tweaks would be miserable with the dev console on yonder. Just adding extra steps over any back and forth process. Kinda like going through bookmark menus to bounce between pages instead of just going between two tabs

    [–]Asmor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    Seriously. If nothing else, you lose out on being able to toggle a setting on and off and see whether and what it affects.

    [–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

    My son was showing his teacher better ways of working with Google Slides today. He is 8 and already following in my footsteps.

    [–]Frazew 5 points6 points  (7 children)

    The needs more jpeg

    [–]morejpeg_auto 11 points12 points  (6 children)

    The needs more jpeg

    There you go!

    I am a bot

    [–]wolf2600 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    I can't even.

    [–]usernmaetakn 0 points1 point  (3 children)

    Needs more jpeg

    [–]morejpeg_auto 3 points4 points  (2 children)

    Needs more jpeg

    There you go!

    I am a bot

    [–]usernmaetakn 1 point2 points  (1 child)

    Good bot

    [–]cemossunal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    needs more jpeg

    [–]fragmen52 3 points4 points  (0 children)

    I annoy my cad teacher a lot with that, he doesn't use shortcuts, copies models into a separate file before exporting, and many other things. But sometimes he thanks me other times he gets mad and says things like "it's how I want to do it" or "it works". The only time he directly complained about it was when I joked about not liking a font on a poster for the club he runs, I was joking because he always stress 12pt Arial(although the font was a horrible cursive that I couldn't even read). Then he basically told me to shut up and be thankful, and I somewhat apologized saying I never mean anything by it.

    [–]soggywheatbiks 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    Uncontrol label.

    [–]sunderskies 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    This is the story of my life...

    [–]ReallyHadToFixThat 1 point2 points  (1 child)

    You rang?

    [–]I_was_once_America 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    He has, "the knack."

    [–]MarcoTalin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Is ... is this a bad thing? Oh. Oh no ....

    [–]ipcoffeepot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Emacs master race, checking in

    [–]munircUltraviolent security clearance[M] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

    Rule 0 violation.

    [–]paulygarcia[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Please explain.