> Any time you have to give special titles to isolate office work out as “different” you already know you are dealing with garbage.
> Office work is office work. HR, admin, finance, maintenance, executive assistants whatever, higher office workers and they can do it all. Hire receptionists and you are stuck with an employee who can only use a small tool set to solve problems.
Well... yes and no. I agree that's how things should be. But I have seen perfectly good backend devs flummoxed by react and front-end devs completely lost as to the subtleties of various back end components. Our organization has a few "DB subject matter experts" who have been optimizing relational db's for decades. We don't ask them to build web pages.
Specialization is a thing. Saying "everyone can do everything" is sort of like "with enough eyes, all bugs are shallow." There's some truth to it, but you quickly find corner cases which disprove the assertion is universal.
orf|2 years ago
> Office work is office work. HR, admin, finance, maintenance, executive assistants whatever, higher office workers and they can do it all. Hire receptionists and you are stuck with an employee who can only use a small tool set to solve problems.
Sounds about as ridiculous as your statement.
retrocryptid|2 years ago
Specialization is a thing. Saying "everyone can do everything" is sort of like "with enough eyes, all bugs are shallow." There's some truth to it, but you quickly find corner cases which disprove the assertion is universal.
Reticularas|2 years ago
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