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muskrat's data eng expert's hard drive overheats while processing 60k rows (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 4 points 10 hours ago

If you work for a boss that fundamentally misunderstands what you are doing, then misleading them into thinking you're 'hard at work, making decisions with consequences' is the theatre you put up to keep the cash flowing.

It's one of the fundamental flows of autocracy, people try and represent what you want them to