Wandering Adventure Party

@brennen @eloquence

They always have a bias towards recent date -- need to pick a date in the next couple weeks? No problem.

God forbid you want to schedule something out in a year. Or need to select a date back in last century. Be prepared to click forever.

@eloquence

I hate all calendar widgets myself and whenever I build an internal tool, it's just a text field that takes ISO-8601. But trusting users to actually type out the date themselves seems impossible.

(Judging from the amount of days wasted adding support for $users-favorite-date-format; people are very opinionated on date formats)

@bexelbie @jzb

TPS reports is just an example.

No, bureaucracy is the bullshit. See James C. Scott's "Seeing Like a State." Doesn't matter if it's required to meet regulations or because of under resourcing. Push the decision making to lower tiers and trust the experts in those lower tiers to make the decisions. Get rid of hierarchical systems of control and you get rid of the bullshit jobs.

@jzb @bexelbie

My answer to "why not both" is that workers adopting AI to undercut employers doesn't resolve the underlying problem which is bullshit jobs.

I'd much rather work 20 productive hours in the week and create high quality work during that time instead of filing TPS reports for my corporate overlords.

@squishymage42 @calcifer and it’s nothing new, I remember looking into this all the way back in 2008 as an unemployed person with a humanities degree and no idea about the topics at hand.

It’s just filler, because they feel obligated to have some content there.