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melony on Jan 17, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Work Somewhere Dysfunctional

People who study earthquakes also get paid peanuts.

tonyedgecombe on Jan 17, 2022 | [–]

Sometimes they even get sent to jail:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/oct/23/jailing-italia...

marcosdumay on Jan 17, 2022 | [–]

Yeah, but learning about earthquakes is a high priority to them.

Learning about dysfunctional organization can be high priority to administrators, not to technical careers. It's basically useless knowledge for technical careers.

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