Work is work they give me a paycheck to write code.

Rather write some code than deal with a chickenshit leader who wants 100 iterations of project plans for work we will never do or generating reports that no one will ever read.

Being paid to sit at a computer and not doing real work all day is more torturous than simply having actual tasks and work to do.

Excellent; thank a for sharing the rules of the 3D chess you’re playing; belief your output is meaningful relative to others.

The person generating project plans is motivated by the same. They need to look busy outputting to obfuscate how busy you are.

No one cares that much about your code, either. You engage in vacuous attention seeking toil just like management.

Ah, and what are the rules of your game, where you create new accounts to make shitty comments?

What you're missing is that organizations ultimately have people that they serve, human needs that they fulfill. There is actual meaning to them, and we can measure various labors by how much they help create value for people.

Code can of course be pointless or valuable. As can managerial activity. But the further we get from direct value creation, the more skeptical we should be about value creation, because the feedback loops get more tenuous and corruptible.

You can float measures but they’re always incomplete models.

I did not say all code is useless.

You generalized based upon a specific conversation. Generalization I have heard over and over from speakers who, when measured, do not measure up as highly as they think they should.

I am aware of various studies that measured what technologies are increasing productivity. The variables were too numerous to make meaningful conclusions.

We cherry pick and make small models at jobs to obfuscate and debate who is pulling their weight. But it’s just toil to stay employed. The future value of any given for loop is zero; it’s just hustle to crank them out regardless of their use case, and denigrate others cranking out senseless reports.

There is no model that says the poster I replied to, or you, are outputting more value. It’s just toiling to make it appear so at a small scale (within the business).

14% of working adults in the US has better than a bachelors. Public opinion polls indicate the public thinks it’s almost 40% of working adults have better than a bachelors.

What your missing is how deluded the general public is about its accomplishments.

Those are not the rules of your game.

If you thought logins didn't matter, you'd create one and stick with it. You're going to extra effort because you know they do.

And still, you dodge the question. You claim to be incisively dissecting other people's motivations via various negative assumptions and broad-stroke insults. But you can't even glance at your own motivations, even as you work to hide them under a series of new accounts. Which tells us a lot about your game.

That's my view. Going to pointless Zoom meetings and updating associated spreadsheets is much worse than actually doing real work. Of course, much of the "real work" is also quite uninteresting, but that's life.