What current workplace trend do you think we'll look back on in 20 years and wonder, "What were we thinking?" Maybe it's the constant video calls, or the overuse of corporate buzzwords?

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Today's office trends: Future cringe material?

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Today's office trends: Future cringe material?- Grapevine

Have seen atleast a couple of trends die out, which were introduced to us as "future" i.e blockhain / crypto - we aren't seeing people talk about it as much they did in 2021-2022.

Remote work - they said it will be future. 
Now many offices firing if employees not reporting to office

Is generative AI going to be next on the list? Or which other trend do you think belongs to this list

Future of trends!!!

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Imagine a company where people come to office only because the office is Instagrammable

Operations Analytics

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Lately I have been going to office often and every time I try to focus and work, some or the other person is on a teams calls talking out loudly. It was really very difficult to work for me. Just curious if you guys also feel the same way or have I just gone all very comfortable working alone at home so even a work calls of other people are annoying me?

Has the workplace become noisy due to hybrid culture ?

Management Consulting

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Software Developer

System, process, people or thoughts? What was the thing that made you go, shit I can't be here anymore!

Whats the most ridiculous thing you have seen in your office?

Full fledged PPTs and Business Cases are being made for initiatives that will be forgotten about in 3 days, everyone trying to appear busy while adding no real value.

Have seen this across multiple departments where people are spending full days doing god knows what. 

This activity becomes more frequent after first round of layoffs, post which people are trying to justify their jobs by doing essentially nothing.

‘Fake Work’ epidemic

Corporate Strategist

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We used to have so many cool concept designs for products, many of them were actually useful, many seemed within the reach of possibility and many even made it to prototypes to be showcased at tech conventions. What has become of them since? Where have these exciting things ended up? Worse part is no one even thinks of cool stuff anymore, a decade ago you could see all these cool renders of "technologically advanced" gadgets online but that seems like a forgotten art these days.

What happened to the future that has become the present?

The future of work looking bad

Business Development Manager

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What are your thoughts on future of work? Is it necessary for employees to be in office?

TCS asks employees to come back to office!!!

Consultant, Investment Banking went from sought after careers to fads post 2008 crisis when the world realized that these folks are crooks due to their role in propogating the Great Financial Crisis.

Given the backlash tech companies has been getting and global layoffs, will Product Manager also become a passing fad?

Seeing lot of anti Product Manager sentiment on this app off late. Was Product Management also a fad?

Someone here said engineers can become PM but PM can't become engineers. It can't be more correct than this. But reality is, it sounds goods only in theory.  
  
  I asked this same question to my director, why have you hired us when engineers clearly know more about products than us and are capable?  His answered that before the organisation formally created a team of product managers, it was only engineers that were handling product for decades. But that resulted into substandard products being developed, chaotic product release and consistent drop in revenue. The reason being engineers became backlog managers and engineers beging engineers, never focused on business value. Instead, they focused on technical aspect heavily. Engineers never bothered to check if what they were developing will actually sell in the market or not.  
  
 And mind you, this was a product that all of us use in daily lives. The numbers of users in India alone would be millions. So to summarise, yes, engineers can become PMs but generally they stay loyal to their pedigree of BE/B.Tech and become very shitty PMs. They like to have more technical conversations than strategic discussions and hate things that are not quantifiable, subjective. And business facing people here in forum would know, things are always not quantifiable in business planning, market outlook. It is based on assumptions.  
  
 An excellent PM would be someone who is an engineer but knows how to focus on business value of the product, make it customer oriented etc. I had the pleasure of working of one such PM in my last stint and he was truly outstanding. CEO knew him personally and this is in an organization with thousands of employees

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Program Manager

Companies have started posting bad things about wfh. Stuff like cultural integration is not achieved in this model. I call it bullshit. Asking employees work from the office is the easiest way to control attrition. COVID WFH saw record attrition , all thanks to remote work. Models are faster becoming business centric than employee centric , which is good , but competent employees must be given a chance to support their families by remote work.

Goodbye wfh

Security Engineer

All the pseudo intellectuals will now talk about VR 🥲

I'm not ready for WWDC cringe fest on linkedin

I am going to make a jargon dictionary, please give your suggestions

Corporate is more about jargons☹️

"per my last email" → "In case you can't read" 
 "To reiterate" → "for the last fucking time" 
 "moving forward" → "Don't try me again, bitch!" 
 "I've CC’d" → "Let's see you lie your way out of this, bitch" 
 "Kind regards"→ “Fuck you" 
 “Warm regards” → “Fuck you”, but warmer

Frontend Engineer

Why are companies restarting this shit?

The video is such cringe 🙄. Been contacted by multiple HRs within a week stating urgent joining.

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Disclaimer this is not a rant or this has nothing to put in bad way someones hard work.

With so many ppl making tutorials and selling courses online, I had my few observations. I welcome ppl to join on this discussion with their point of views as well.

The most important things is you need a solid company name on your resume, doesn’t matter what work you might have done there. Everyone knows the meatiest work in google is done at west coast office(just an example).

This gives you the starting point, I would not disagree to the fact that these guys put on the hard work to crack the interviews, but that doesn’t mean you start selling a dream to everyone. It will be like what harshad mehta did to his clients during the days.

If a person is working in some unknown company and even though the person teaches really well, I bet there will be hardly any takers for his/her course. 

Teaching is an art as per me, not everyone can be a great teacher. There are some good ones out there but majority of them don’t fall under above category. I would say they are social media influencers with a bit of tech knowledge. 

We have already lost a generation with rot learning and now with the rise of these ppl, the day is not far way when a person aceing the interview knows jack shit when given an actual problem to solve at workplace.

Rise of bhaya didis selling courses

Everyone wants to get rich. To know more, I have a course you should buy

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Computer Operator

Open offices are a scam, designed to save space for companies, and violate our privacy (I wanna hide and work/scroll Instagram)

Am I the only one who would prefer offices that looked like this?

Analyst

What are the most useless and abused acronyms at work which doesn't add any value and just sounds dumb. 

Or a few you heard and never could use it.... 

Eg. SGTM, sounds good to me
ASAP, just over abused
jeep, just expect every problem
TMO, too many options 
OTP, on the phone

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Head Of Marketing

Do you guys know any similar insta profiles with daily dose of corporate memes 😁

Love humansofcorporate

Product Designer

Come at me, I'm not scared. There is a reason why FAANG engineers are top-rated VS some random startup engineer.

Here are the reasons why I think that Indian Startup culture is pure cringe:

1. The random use of the following emojis- 🚀💰📈📊💡
2. Fake enthusiasm for every little thing - "Wow! 25M people ordered condoms WOWOW!!!🚀"
3. Claim that you are a verb("company name"): "I am a (Zoman, Flipster, Swiggster or whatever)" but no one really knows about it outside of your company.
4. The HR is a proper softie in the name of Employee wellbeing but will end up being a sadist the moment layoffs happen.
5. Think hard if you really want to work in a place that is your LinkedIn feed on Steroids.

Indian startup culture is the cringiest thing ever

Bruh you high? 
 Have you not seen the infinite amount of cringe generated by so-called faang engineers on blind?  
 Startup or faang, shit is the same everywhere.

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