Submitted 1 year ago by soyagi@yiffit.net to workreform@lemmy.world
https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-workers-comments-170k-ups-driver-deal-anger-admiration-2023-8
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/2936916
Tech workers react to UPS drivers landing a $170,000 a year package with a mixture of anger and admiration::Some tech workers questioned whether UPS drivers deserved high pay — others jumped in to note the importance of the jobs and harsh working conditions.
Great, good for them. Tech workers who are unhappy are welcome to switch career I guess.
Yeah. I’ve said it enough times in Tech - “Anyone jealous of my staff is welcome to come interview. We’re often hiring.”
I’m glad to see a difficult and important job get some fair pay. Good for them, and good for all of us.
To get a base salary of $170k you know you need to work hard as an Engineer, this sucks.
LOL - this motherfucker talkin about hard work. You actually think sitting in an office for 8 hours a day is working harder than the guy delivering packages? GTFO with that shit.
Bro. I’m an engineer. Have been for more than 20 years. This guy, talking about how his job is harder than someone who delivers packages for 10 hours a day is fucking lying. Either that, or he’s completely divorced from reality.
Yes, you need more schooling, and yes, solving puzzles all day is mentally draining. But you know what? I’ll take being mentally drained over having my body completely fall apart by 50 because of the toll my job took on it. Being an engineer is in no way harder than any blue collar job I’ve ever seen.
I sat and read for 8 hours yesterday. It was my day off.
Now just imagine how much us techbros could make in engineering if we unionized.
I cannot even imagine how quickly entire systems would come crashing down to the tune of billions of dollars if tech workers ever decided to strike.
The amount of leverage they could have is they organized is mind boggling.
Its not like the companies can just replace them with cheap labor. Tech requires skills that are built over years of dedication. These companies wouldn’t even be able to get foreigners to replace the tech workers because 1) language barrier, 2) culture barrier, 3) legal barrier (taxes, labor laws, etc), 4) immigration barrier, 5) time to onboard and learn the codebase. Then it would inevitable lead to unmaintainable code because these companies will want the work to be done yesterday and see no value in maintainable code.
This is dumb. Are these angry tech workers less able to feed, clothe and house themselves and their families? It’s like the crabs in a bucket thing but these crabs already climbed out and are sad to see others making it over the rim.
Tech worker here making less than a UPS driver. Good for them, a rising tide lifts all boats.
👏 unionize 👏 yesterday 👏 techbros 👏
You can get all that and even more if you pressure your libertarian peers to nut up or shut up
The only appropriate reaction is to congratulate them on their success and continuing fighting until EVERY worker is receiving not just a livable wage, but a thriving wage. Anything less than full-throated support for across the board pay raises is class treason.
UPS is actually somewhere I’ve wanted to work since my uncle works there, I have a bunch of certs though so I’m going to at least try to make the tech world work for me post military
Bipta@kbin.social 1 year ago
Always tearing each other and ourselves down instead of wondering whether the billionaires deserve so much.
Eezyville@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I don’t know who some of these tech workers think they are to have the audacity to think they have a say in what someone else “deserves”.