#Job in IT sector

[banglakhobor]

কমছে চাকরির সুযোগ! ঘোর 'সঙ্কট' IT সেক্টরে, ভেসে থেকে আসছে খারাপ খবর

নিউ দিল্লি: দেশে সর্বাধিক সংখ্যক চাকরি প্রদানকারী আইটি সেক্টরগুলি বর্তমানে বেশ চ্যালেঞ্জিং পরিস্থিতিতে রয়েছে। গত এক বছর ধরে তথ্যপ্রযুক্তি খাতের কোম্পানিগুলো ছাঁটাই ও নিয়োগ সংক্রান্ত বিভিন্ন কৌশল গ্রহণ করেছে। ভবিষ্যতেও এর প্রভাব পড়তে পারে। একটি প্রতিবেদনে বলা হয়েছে, আইটি কোম্পানিগুলো চলতি আর্থিক বছরে নিয়োগ অনেক কমিয়েছে এবং ভবিষ্যতেও একই ধরনের পরিস্থিতির সম্ভাবনা রয়েছে। প্রতিবেদনে বলা হয়েছে,…

[kalamity-jayne]

In case you were wondering where things are at in the film and television industry here's how post-production folks (editors, VFX, Colorists, etc) are doing. These screenshots are from The Blue Collar Post Collective's FB page (they are an International professional network for folks working in post).

This one is from a few months ago...

These are all from the past few days (from 2 separate Anon posts re "where to find jobs")...

My former post-supervisor really fucked me over and I've been unemployed for months. At this point I'm applying to jobs in grocery stores cause it's just dead dead dead out there. Winter is always the time of year you don't want to be without a film or series to work on but this just abysmal.

[reasonsforhope]

Crowdsourcing a question

Okay totally personal post here because, now that search engines suck, my research is failing me. So I'm crowdsourcing my question about the residential care work industry!

Hoping at least some of my followers have experience in/with the industry and some intel on this:

Actual question: How common is it for jobs in residential care work (residential centers, btw, not home care) to actually have two people on the night shift? vs. just saying they always have two people on the night shift in interviews and their official policies, and actually it's not true?

Because my current job was, it turns out, apparently totally lying about "you'll never be on shift alone with clients" at orientation (when it comes to the night shift, anyway). Which, holy fucking safety issues, Batman!

Suffice to say this was a very fun thing to find out like three days before my first regular shift

So, I'm thinking realllll hard about switching companies, and I'm trying to figure out if I could expect to actually have a coworker at a different company, or if it's like an open secret in the field that actually, basically all the night shifts end up being solo shifts, because the industry is so chronically understaffed or w/e

[tangibletechnomancy]

The shitty thing about the AI voice acting "agreement", beyond the fact that it was done without the input of the majority of people who would be affected, is that a lot of people have exactly WHY it's such a raw deal exactly backwards. It's not labor being eliminated to cut costs; it's labor being CHEAPENED even when there may very well be more of it involved.

There are lots of claims going around that AI voices are TOTALLY different from other voice synthesis we've had before because they let you just plug in a script and get the perfect read out, and that's just...not true, at all, unless you're really, really lucky. Sure, it's smoother and more intuitive work (generally) and more natural-sounding results than older iterations of voice synthesis, but there's still a LOT of specification and tweaking involved in getting it to consistently sound more like a person than a computer, let alone actually sound like a decent director might want.

In fact, one of the most effective ways to get an affect more dynamic than slightly-better-than-TikTok-TTS, is to.........have an actual human person perform it and use the synthesizer to follow along with it in a different voice!

In other words, in order for this to actually be a thing, you still need a voice actor who can give a convincing performance. And you need them to be willing to work for peanuts because their voice won't be in the final product. You need them to be willing to be denied credit because their voice won't REALLY be in the final product. But you also need them to be competent and give a good performance, because the synthesizer will follow along with them, whether they do it right or wrong. The only thing they can skimp on is things like vocal technique - you know, the way you do action scene after action scene without losing your voice by the time you're 45?

In order for this to be cheaper than just hiring a fucking actor, people in the process necessarily have to be criminally underpaid.

And yet, somehow, it's been given the go-ahead anyway!? Genuinely, fuck that.

[phantomrose96]

I think it's not surprising that monarchies create violent fucked up people. We basically invented a breed of human whose only career prospects are sitting around and hoping their mom dies.

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[mariacallous]

My supervisor and I had a good conversation and review of our portfolio and work in prep for meetings and planning and she complimented me on how productive I was today, which I think seemed like more than it actually was. And just feeling good about upcoming stuff and our organization which was nice.

Almost made me regret planning on leaving and trying to go elsewhere both within the agency and in general. Almost.

[faelapis]

so uhhh just moved to one of the most northern cities in norway. i now live in the actual arctic circle.

[ladyelainehilfur]

I personally find AI art concerning. It was cute at first with the "nuns skateboarding" thing but now that it can replicate real people's art styles....naur, some type of law has to be passed that makes it illegal to artificially recreate someone's art style without their consent. And even then, art will be devalued so much if it becomes commonplace to just *insert* a prompt and come out with high-quality results in a matter of seconds.

Artists have enough of a hard time making money as is without computers learning the one thing only humans can do: making art. Also ripping and tearing apart ai writing because what the hell, that's actually dystopian and scary af for creatives everywhere.

[soldier-poet-king]

Once again I am going to lose my fuckin mind at work over this rfp which isn't even an RFP. They're like. Oh direct specific questions to the vendor. MAAM THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE A GENERAL REQUIREMENTS LIST. If you want me to just sit and chat with the vendor then SAY SO ffs it's not MY FAULT y'all are doing everything ass backwards and decided to commit to a vendor BEFORE even outlining what you want from the solution

[a-scary-lack-of-common-sense]

Oo interesting do they out them in a little bunker so they all came 'Live' in a sense? Because that completely puts my What if in a whole interesting (and hopefully many comical shenanigans)

Yeah, I suppose you could say that! Both RED and BLU alike have about 5 or 6 massive underground bunkers/factories scattered across the globe entirely dedicated to creating these clones. Obviously, they're secret. I'm very unoriginal, so I just made the clone test tube babies, because I don't really know any other way clones could be made?? These big underground facilities are scientist safe havens! Just imagine: biology teacher by day, and evil clone scientist by night where you can practically do whatever experiments you want. You're living the dream of every mad scientist out there!

[petit-papillion]

Charles's post-race comments | Japanese Grand Prix | 23 September 2023

🎥 Scuderia Ferrari

[thedreadvampy]

oh boy the depression hole is deep and it is muddy

hahaha I fell into the classic trap! overidentify with your job and considering leaving it will trigger an existential crisis!!!!

[geminipdf]

um hate hate hate hate hate hate my fuckass boss fired my favourite lovely amazing coworker. with literally no apparent reason. IM literally #opentowork

[sourkitsch]

Oh to be the train guy who rides around all day and checks peoples tickets and yells out station names and sits and reads his little master and commander paperback