I had an epiphany today, and it was a kind of frightening one. I resolved that there are only a finite set of problems that my job entails, that I review them each day, and that they can be easily remedied. I repeat these same problems over and over and the input is nearly identical for each solution for each given problem. I realized: any smart coder, or programmer could make this job doable by a set of very fast computers.
There are very few times when a machine could not do my job. Now that I've realized this though, I'm almost positive I'm going to have to get into another line of work pretty quickly. I know some people go "well any job can be done by a machine Dan" but I'm of the mind that if that's the case humanity wouldn't have much of a case for existence. Not that it DOES have much of a case for existing in the first place - but we're here, so we gotta go with it.
Anyway, when I realized that my job is really mundane, and has few problems - I thought why hasn't someone coded a solution to all this overhead? Why hasn't some skilled programmer put fingers to keyboard and started hacking at this job? I figured basically it was because of all the proprietary lies that the software companies are spewing forth here at my job. There's Oracle, which owns Peoplesoft - which I'm sure is instilling pounds of doubt and fear into the top brass that they need a chode-like system to monitor their employees. It is bad though because there's ANOTHER system that gathers our hours and feeds them to this other Oracle managed one. It's much like watching a shit demon feed crap to a boat full of spastic worriesome flies. Looking at the situation you realize pretty fast that it doesn't need to be this way.
The only reason why the company lets the turd-monster exist though is because they believe it to expensive to get rid of it. I've looked at the fines, the costs, and overtime involved in maintaining its full belly - and yeah I know I'd be putting myself out of a gig here - but the damn thing is not less cost efficient by being around. I'm sure any proposal to eliminate my job though would be totally met with a slap to the face, and a prompt dismissal.
Hell maybe the top brass have put it together that people do not need to control the paycheck cycles of our system. If they have maybe I'm only biding my time by typing this out. It might have been something they realized a long, long, long time ago. I do like my job right now, I admit, but it is certainly not mentally engaging when you get it down. At first it was, and the problems were fresh. But when the problems have been penned, fleshed out, and defined - the mystery - the sex of it - its done. I think that's a huge problem in my opinion as I want to keep on thinking.
My father stated to get in charge of someone bigger than me and say I was interested in corporate planning and development. Truth be told, I'm really not. I don't like having to lick people's asses to get a task or idea accomplished. I like pitching sound ideas, hearing 'yes', and then moving on them b/c I know I think about an issue for a half-year before actually doing something. Of course no one around me knows that, and it sounds all nice and new. New enough to be shot down, questioned, and poured over a million times by fuckwits with nothing better to do that think retarded ways to keep their gigs "meaningful."
I have come to the conclusion, I might be one of those people though if I keep on doing this job. Which pretty much kind of scares me.
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