That’s not value. That’s a grifter.
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Synnr@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
You work on computers, they work on people. Part of their job is working on their bosses for more money, just like you write a bash script.
If you want, you could develop those people manipulation coding skills and be twice as valuable as them.
melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 8 months ago
IMongoose@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You’re giving some of these people way too much credit. I work IT and I deliberately avoid watching some people whose job it is to use a computer use a computer. Any deviation from the norm and they are lost. ANY deviation. I’ve seen people get confused when a box opens up in a different spot. I completely understand that everyone has different skill sets but some people have not progressed very far into their skill tree.
Synnr@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Some of them, sure. Usually old people that ran out of neuroplasticity 40 years ago. But there are a lot more that function well enough and IT guys have a tendency to think of them as useless, where if they had to do their job for a day they’d be as lost as an old guy spooked by the window location change.
melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 8 months ago
But a lot of them are useless.
Like, all the places I’ve done IT were engineering offices and stuff, where me trying to do the job would get people killes, but most people’s jobs, especially above a certain point on the pay scale, are genuinely fucking useless. They do nothing, stuff would function fine without them; maybe better.