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[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's interesting that you write this because the last place I worked focused on unspecializing by having almost everyone do every job.

In fact, they relocated across the country to save on building costs, and instead of hiring actual technical writers and office staff, they pushed the extra work down on their engineers because it's more profitable to bill for the engineering time.

I spent much of my job editing papers and I'm not even good at it while getting paid to do embedded design. It was weird. It was basically fraud but walking the fine line of technically legal.

I observed this happening multiple times throughout my career. Sometimes, inefficiency is the point in this case driven by capitalists and market forces.

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