If you still get paid for a job not well done… it’s still hurts the company. Believe me, there has been an attack on tech workers by the industry. Firing people during record profits, using LLMs to upset the negotiating power of artists and software people alike, not giving inflation adjusted pay hikes, etc. You can even see the billionaire owned media grind their gears trying to come up with words to discredit workers doing their bare-minimum such as “quiet quitting”.

It shouldn’t be a conspiracy theory to claim that a few people control the reins of a lot of workers… in reality it’s a community of few thousand billionaires cooperating to oppress workers.

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Just because we don’t physically picket in front of our offices, does not mean we are not protesting. It’s just not visible in an outward manner.

And just because we all seem to be doing our own thing, doesn’t mean we aren’t organizing. We just consider organizing as just quietly aligning our wallets and behaviours without being overt about it. I am sure there are a lot of organization for software developers for people who do want to be loud about it too.

Labour is physical work but working your eyes and brain is also taxing. It’s just a different set of muscles/organs. Sitting at the desk all day is also taxing. it’s just not evident enough to people who see an AC and think that’s comfortable. It’s not healthy long term. Leads to all sorts of health issues.

Many of us tech workers joke that we will make our bag of money, retire, and go do farming. But you must understand why we joke like that.

For a lack of physical activity, desk workers suffer numerous health issues due to sitting all day/lack of movement. We are deprived of natural sunlight and wind in our badly lit offices staring at bright screens.

My point is that I said i felt isolated by blue collar workers not considering tech workers as the same class. You just went ahead and proved my point.

this is one of the reasons you don’t see class solidarity from tech workers. The blue collar bunch think we are somehow same as the capitalist class.

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I also think the definition of labourer is not as myopic as you make it out to be. If one sells their time/works for money then they are labourers. Only those who make their money/capital/resources work for them cannot be considered labourer. Even a manager is a labourer. I would exclude CEOs because they invest and are also board members in their buddies’ companies. Their employ is just a facade to maintain control and keep the power “within the family” so to speak.

you should try to get off of your imaginary high horse or you might hurt yourself.

A strike is a refusal to commit labour to the company. Same as not doing a good job. In japan the ticket checkers had a strike where they did their job as usual but did not collect the payment for issuing tickets. THAT was considered a strike.

why must quiet quitting not be considered too? We don’t participate in whatever greedy venture by doing the bare minimum.

I didn’t blame blue collar workers. I said I was isolated because even though both white collar and blue collar workers sell their labour for a living, somehow we are never accepted as real labour just because the elite among us make $500k a year for instance.

So we get to the problem you have with the comic.

if we can’t control our births might as well joke about it to ease the pain. Where does racism factor into all this?

Eh… having unions sounds good to me… a white collar worker. I am just not considered part of the labour class by blue collar workers. So it makes me feel isolated. Don’t be mistaken, we keyboard thumpers already fight corporate bullshit daily. Th e disdain is from blue collar workers.

we all ARE striking daily. We’re fighting bullshit RTO mandates and quiet quitting everyday

Its not a joke if it is true… even if it is because of artificially induced conditions. Nobody argues that it wouldn’t be a boon being born in the EU for instance.

america used to develop for density. Go read the book “Strong towns” to understand how. Technological development alone doesn’t explain the car-centric development. There was active lobbying and dismantling of alternative methods of construction and zoning just to support automobiles.

Americans have been brainwashed into accepting there is no solution to a problem that was introduced by car makers in the 1960s. American cities were dense and had lots of alternate modes of transit before all of it was ripped out under the guise of technological “development” and “freedom”

oh this tired argument again!

You don’t drive across the country daily do you? How long does it take to drive across the country? that’s irrelevant.

the whole of zoning and design of US is bad.

You can’t bring this up when the argument is how far is your local grocery store is to your house. Unless you drive cross country for your groceries!

“Not everyone lives in dense urban areas or suburbs”

Your argument is “that’s how it has always been and we have to solve around it” when the solution is to not to have it that way.

the US is hopelessly into spread out development. There’s no solving your way out of having to drive 10 minutes to get groceries without substantial changes to mindset and zoning policies. It’s so absurd!

sounds like American problems that you created for yourselves! Enjoy! (or not)

man, it’s so wild hearing that the nearest grocery store is 20 miles away. You guys have created unnecessary problems for yourself. It’s so shocking how rough you guys have it and how non-chalant you are about something which is a no-brainer for the rest of the world.

never seen more chumpier chumps than Americans.

sounds like hell

yeah something like “if new candidate in employee DB == hired”

the downvotes are only because you seem to think shouting out that YOU don’t want a feature in a thread where everybody else wants it is not hypocritical

No the interviewer is personification of the naive backend that checks only that a specific row is present in the DB, or that’s how I read it.

Americans are the only creatures who don’t understand the concept of a grocery basket outside of a car

that’s not a good thing buddy

what’s the next boogeyman? Is there a criminal raffle every other month that you believe is stealing your jobs?

pray tell me how would you change the name in every script of an automation system that refers to master? Remember, you have to justify the time and cost to your manager or director!