An acquaintance at work (in Australia) went to work as a developer for Amazon in the US a few years back. According to him, the hours he was expected to work meant that his really great salary actually translated to a quite shitty hourly rate. And he never got to go sightseeing and tourist-ing with his wife and kids because he was always working.
My friend and her husband also worked in the US for years, in mining, and said similar things. Terrible leave offerings, and a culture where even if you have leave you feel extreme pressure not to take it.
Krauerking@lemy.lol 1 week ago
You can easily overwork devs, and while their salary is higher than others a difference between 60k and 120k salaries is less than 60 employees to do manual work and 15 to automate it.
Plus when devs create a digital item that can generate a profit nearly indefinitely they are viewed as cost productive to MBA types. Versus janitors where for some reason we dont see a value at all in cause of no immediate profit from their position.
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 1 week ago
“Janitors’ content output is terrible.”