I work in IT and we have truly self steering teams without formal hierarchy. Not everyone is used to it and IT people can be interesting characters, so it’s quite a process to get the team to perform well.
Not a job but a internship that recently ended.
Helping Ex-entrepreneurs with getting their administration right and filling taxes for them (with them). The unfortunate thing is that they’re usually heavily in debt, varies between 15k to 80k.
After we help them, they can go into an official project - to help them pay the debt for 3 years and the rest will be waived.
However the interesting part is majority of these people refuse to actually participate well. Often not coming to appointments, refusing to pick up calls or text back. Even though what we do is free. They don’t have to pay anything for our help.
The amazing thing is whenever we actually manage to help people, some of them really show gratitude. Such as baking stuff for us, purchase cake and such. One time, a woman even cried out of gratitude and another time told me his life story which was wild (as in nearly died but stayed alive).
It was an stressful but very interesting internship.
well, I’m still in the training process, but I’ll be drawing blood. I think that’s interesting as hell!
Just how ungodly unstable almost every towns infrastructure is. Water mains failing at alarming rates, massive sewer backups, people in charge of this shit have no idea what they’re doing and the ones who do, won’t spend the money until something catastrophic happens.
Definitely not haha. I won’t name the town sauce I don’t wanna doxx myself or upset said town but, they had 39 main breaks last month just due to old failing mains and bad valves. You’d think maybe as you’re turning those mains off and hit find that those valves are leaking, you’d wanna maybe note that so you can replace them later? Naaaah why do that? They mostly shut the main off. It’s fiiiiiiiiiiiine.
Seeing how the banking industry runs on the inside. I work in ATM rigging. Banks operate in a state of complete chaos if you were wondering. I’ve never seen an industry where money wasted/lost just doesnt matter to them. Join a credit union. Seriously.
I used to be a senior system analyst at a major financial institution. You are so right.
The wiring money system is so rickety it’s amazing it functions at all. Zero accountability.
Can you elaborate? Any links you can point to that explains more? I’ve always wondered how that all worked. Seems like there way more human involvement than there probably should be for something which seems like it should be as simple as sending an RPC…
At least at our institution, the code to track and manage incoming and outgoing wires was so old that it ran on at least 4 layers of emulation. Of course, not a single person knew how to maintain it (and this is a billion dollar financial institution).
But after a wire is sent, especially to smaller, non-us banks, it can literally be received via teletype or fax with relevant account information and recorded by hand at the receiving bank.
If you send to the wrong route or account in that instance, it basically disappears for you and you need to contact the receiving bank, which sometimes uses and intermediary bank,. If that’s the case, you need to find the intermediary bank and find the exact person who wrote it down, who then can find, hopefully, what account the money went to and fix the problem. This does not work 100% of the time.
It’s ludicrously analog and prone to errors and it’s amazing it works at all.
