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Tech workers react to UPS drivers landing a $170,000-a-year package with a mixture of anger and admiration
(www.businessinsider.com)
this post was submitted on 10 Apr 2024
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Okay, I don't doubt there's a lot of snotty smug tech workers, but I will say this article is just reporting on anonymous posts on a forum. I know tech workers and while they can be douchebags I don't think any of them would be this AGAST at learning delivery drivers were making about as much as them. They'd probably just shrug it off and say "well I guess they have a good union".
Absolutely. Pretty funny that a respected news source is just like here's some anon posts we found.
I also have tech worker friends don't worry
One criticism I have for myself and others here is that we often make these statements without really knowing what insert whoever were mad about do on a daily basis.
We look bad when we say something proudly and it's flat out wrong but feels good.
That being said there are obviously tech workers who hate the idea of someone not doing something the way they did it exactly so it's undeserved. Fuck those guys.
Big difference between the average tech worker and SV tech workers
Blind fairly accurately represents SV tech workers IME, I actually figured out one of my direct teammates' account on there because his opSec sucks ass and he's made multiple transphobic comments right after I came out at work, complaining about DEI and other random incel stuff
But yea, like SV tech workers regularly shit talk their own teammates because they code too slow or whatever and that they don't deserve to have their job. Some even cheer when they get laid off or fired