You should feel neither, because that post has a zero percent chance of being true.

I said in my original post you replied to: "someone who knows how to use the appropriate tools would generally take about 15 minutes of actual work to repair one." - since you use tools so infrequently than you just shoved them where ever when you moved and don't even know where they are, and the concept of having a small toolbox or even just putting tools in the same closet is a complete mystery - this is clearly, obviously not about you or other people lacking this skillset. I know there are people that don't want to fix it, or are incapable of fixing it, otherwise I would not have qualified my original statement. You were not trying to explain that point to me, you gave a detailed list of why what I said was false, and that it clearly takes more than 15 minutes, ignoring that I was clearly not talking about you, or people who are as unfamiliar with tools as you. Then you kept moving the goalposts. I've done nothing but stick with my original point that I was talking about "someone who knows how to use the appropriate tools". You called me a "god of organization" (completely irrelevant AND completely wrong) for having a known cabinet with a toolbox in it, and not putting tools into a random location after every use. Now you claim that you were trying to teach me that the exact category I delineated in my first post was a subset of all humanity and not everyone, which is pretty obvious that I knew since I specifically named that category and didn't say "everyone".

Because you won't clearly are incapable of stopping until you think you were correct all along, I'll just say all your points were clearly right, and this distant point you have attempted to move the argument to was obviously the point all along. Happy now? You can rest, those goalposts you've been hauling around are heavy.

Being able to put tools back into a tool box does not make anyone a "god of organization". Do you just leave your dinnerware and clothes all over the house? It's really no different. Your dad and grandfather doing it has fuck-all to do with anything, you are not them.

Sorry your ego won't let you finish without a tortured adventure in the twisted logic of how you were right all along, despite none of your post having anything to do with my original point. I was talking about fixing things makes financial sense for competent people who have the time, not how difficult it is for a non-competent person to conceive of putting a screwdriver back in the same place twice.

"Don't judge me" says the guy who has been basically calling bullshit on everything I've said, despite having zero knowledge or experience of anything I was talking about. If you really don't want to be judged, stick to opinions you have at least the tiniest bit of knowledge about, and, if it is pretty clear you are wrong, either admit it or shut up. Don't dig in, then switch to sob stories of your life as if that makes your wrong statements somehow correct.

Putting a screwdriver back in a drawer does not, in any way, shape, or form equate or even loosely imply "living to keep my tools all in one place". Are you also living to put the milk back in the fridge? Living to park your car when you get back home? Living to pull your pants back up after you crap? These take the same amount of time or less.

I was mistaken when I thought you were on the first peak of Dunning Kruger, you're off the chart on the upper left, you know less than nothing but somehow think your incredibly ignorant and stupid concept of tools applies to those with even a sliver of knowledge and/or experience. This last post lead me to believe that you have an inability to grasp even the most basic, minimal, organizational skills of everyday life, or are one of those irredeemably egotistical idiots who keep making decreasingly rational points in an vapid attempt to prove their original, completely false and idiotic point somehow was justified.

I take it all back, my last job wasn't so bad now.

I wouldn't want to be him, but I really feel sorry for the person he replaced.

See previous post "Your opinion is worthless if you don't know how things work or how to repair them." 15 minutes total is average for tasks like this for even the marginally competent.

If you put the tools away, you don't have to "gather" them, you just take them out of their known place, probably where you are going to fix the coffee maker. And you don't have to "get" tools that even anyone even marginally competent at fixing things already has, a coffee maker rarely needs anything more than a screwdriver or two to take apart, and most take less than 2 minutes to take apart or put back together. There's not that many parts, it's fairly easy to tell which one is broken. Soldering takes less than 5 minutes even if you both have the cheapest soldering iron and wait until the last second to plug it in to heat up, but most would recognize a probable electrical problem before even taking it apart and would have plugged it in as a first step.. Cutting, stripping, soldering and heat shrinking a wire takes less than a minute. Metal parts bent out of shape take seconds to bend back, broken plastic parts take a couple minutes to epoxy (and, again, you are not working while the epoxy cures), checking for voltage at the heating element takes less than a minute, etc, etc, etc. If it needs a part, ordering a part takes a minute or two. You aren't working on it waiting for it to be delivered.

You would know all this if you were marginally competent, but it is clear you aren't. Stick to subjects in which you have some sort of minimal ability. Don't keep shouting from the first peak of Dunning-Kruger that those at the second peak don't know what they are talking about.

There are not that many parts in a coffee maker, someone who knows how to use the appropriate tools would generally take about 15 minutes of actual work to repair one. Spending 15 minutes to save $50 is definitely worth it since there aren't a lot of $200/hour extremely short term jobs available to compensate.

Your opinion is worthless if you don't know how things work or how to repair them.

There are some large caveats to this "study".

This is only for Denmark, which has actual, effective worker protection laws, not the US where you can be fired and replaced at any time for any reason.

These categories are very specific - Do they have many call centers in Denmark? What are "Marketing professionals", is that just the ones doing market research and media strategy, or does that include visual and audio artists? It matters because the latter ones are the people that got their business cut off at the knees by AI. Teachers are a bit difficult to replace with AI, as kids will run wild without an adult in the room. Legal professionals need to be people, as judges do not take kindly to AI generated court filings. Financial advisors who were not already replaced by app-based trading platforms are mostly dealing with customers who specifically want a human, so not much danger there. There are only a few categories they studied that were ever actually at risk for being replaced by AI.

And again, this study does not cover the US, but a country where it is legally required to have a signed employment contract within 7 days of hiring.

What twisted, idiotic, childish fever dream would require a face on an AI? It's a computer, it does not need a face. It does nothing but add confusion to idiots, as this article shows.

The only possible use would be scenario based training for knuckle-draggers like this guy to not immediately comment on the appearance of a coworker when first meeting them in a professional setting.

"This might be an inappropriate and unprofessional thing to say" - If you know it's either of those things, then don't say it. Don't even bring it up. How the fuck do you begin a conversation this way? I doubt it's the first time, or even in the first hundred times this guy as used this line, unfortunately the other ones would have all been in person. That sentence does not let you off the hook for what follows. It doesn't give you a magic free inappropriate, unprofessional comment.

"And if it annoys you or makes you uncomfortable, I apologize, and I won't say anything like it again" - If you can delineate exactly why it would be a problem, then you don't have any valid excuse for saying it the first time. Promising beforehand not to do it again later does not let you off the hook for what you do now. This is dumber than Ricky Bobby in "Talledega Nights" thinking starting a sentence "with all due respect" lets him say whatever he wants without any consequences. That was a comedy about a race car driver who was otherwise a complete idiot, the moron in the article doesn't have that excuse.

"But you look great, Tess." - Was the job modeling? No? Then your opinion of her appearance is completely irrelevant, leading off with a comment like that just lets that person know that your judgment is based on appearance first, and everything else is secondary.

The fact that he calls it a "human moment" instead of the pants-shittingly stupid, total douchebag move means he shouldn't ever have been trusted with an assistant manager position at a burger joint, let alone be CEO of a company.
 

You want specific examples of actions that are so pervasive and expansive, it is clear you have not seen a reliable source of news in 5 years, and apparently have been asleep for the last 2 months. All is a simple google search away, but you will never do them or believe any link I posted if I did them, so what is the point?

And since my last sentence went so far over your head, you decided to argue and completely validate my point without even noticing, wasting any more time with you is absolutely pointless.

Good luck in life, you'll need a lot of it.

It looks like a dystopian novel come to life. You have to find jobs on your own, comparatively very few companies actually recruit at most colleges. In the USA, you have zero protection or guarantees as an employee. Forget everyone deserving a career out of college, you have no right to the job you have right now, and can be fired at anytime for any reason except a rare few which employers can easily avoid by inventing any reason whatsoever. Or just giving no reason at all.

Or, you can just continue to go to school, probably racking up an insane amount of debt in the process.

And when your country is flooded with finance or no experience MBAs, once several get in place at a company, the "apparent value" of MBA knowledge over everyone else's knowledge skyrockets, and you end up with clueless MBAs in charge all over the place, with little regard to their employees opinions. And then universities start hiring those MBAs to teach their MBA program, and the vacuous circle is complete.

Not all MBAs here are in this category, but a massive amount are, with predictable results.

For starters, I think it's based on their tenuous to non-existent handle on logic, on their tendency to make up facts with no justification, ignore evidence to anything they don't like, removing funding from science at an unprecedented rate, and their fictional view of how vaccines work. So, other than basically everything they say and do, I can see why you're skeptical.

Huh, I seem to remember a lot of discussion about it, publicly and privately, for the last 5 years. Maybe you lived under a rock, but that was a incredibly ineffective "Nigh-unto prohibited".

Ah, defending science by pushing social media platforms to take down completely made up, not in the least bit scientific, outright lies which could kill people about a deadly pandemic facing the world is somehow "anti-science".

Yes, with the added benefit of being pro-human, and not actively pro-virus as the trolls ;whose posts were taken down.

Yes! It is a fascinating psychological experiment where the perception of the state of someone else's genitals overrides every single other neuron in the person's brain and precludes all rational thought, thinking prejudicial retribution is far more important than their own self-benefit or human rights for anyone.

WTF? You can get an MBA degree straight out of college. Some of the top universities might require work experience, but there are hundreds of MBA programs that don't, including Stanford, Yale, Dartmouth, Rice, Cornell, etc.

There are tens of thousand of MBAs with no experience matriculated every year. And for the others, the vast majority's only work experience is in "Finance".

I'm sure you met all those diverse career paths in getting your MBA. But what is important is the fat part of the bell curve, not the tails.

I have to wonder about the pilot's relationship with his mother here.

"When people think of the most violent, deadly act of war in history, I want them to think of you Mom."

Oh, I've managed, and replaced someone like you several times now. It's amazing the productivity increase when you eliminate daily meetings with the boss and stop micro-managing.

If your employees need help and won't ask for it, then you are 100% of the problem. Talking with them once a week is fine when you have a functional relationship with your employees.

Daily meetings imply daily roadblocks, and are for people who have universally terrible employees, or are convinced they are the expert in all of their employees fields, and nothing can get done without their brilliant management. The latter is by far the most common, and always results in a significant part of the workday spent preparing what to tell the boss, especially the people working on the hardest problems, since daily progress is frequently not something that can be seen on those. Daily interruptions do not help, especially since they seem to be for the benefit of your ego and little else.