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Comment on Welcome to 'The Great Detachment': Workers are checked out—and so are their bosses
ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
I manage a whole team of engineers. Last month, some C-level asshole with an MBA told a bunch of developers, to our faces, that our volunteer-run hackathons that we operate for the general public should instead be the general public contributing code to us directly.
We run those programs to build good will and help train new developers into the field. And this suit wants to milk them for shitty code we can’t even use (legally). This is in an industry which continues to get massive layoffs.
So yeah, as a boss, I’m absolutely checked out.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 weeks ago
In a conversation with a friend, I finally touched upon why I no longer think the tech industry is enjoyable. When I got into it, it was filled with people like me. Now, it’s full of people who saw the options to make money: doctor, lawyer, tech. They aren’t nerdy and passionate about tech. They’re just filling a role. I fucking hate that.
fubbernuckin@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I hope the crumbling job market for programmers will make those people look elsewhere.
Soggy@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I hope it convinces white-collar workers that unions are a good thing for everyone.