Post #1991758

We really need to organize to take back control of our technology and our jobs and our profession. We are failing ourselves, the people who use and are affected by our systems, and the generation that is entering the field. Until we build more solidarity than a bucket full of lobsters, this BS is just going to keep happening. I'm lucky that I had my original profession to go back to when I left ops in 2008. Not everyone can or wants to work on literal radioactive sludge cleanup and ideally nobody should have to make that choice given how soulcrushingly awful dev & ops have become (OTOH it's a really easy choice if you've ever managed Blackboard. Beyond all probability, the company is worse than its software. As an example, radioactive sludge has never intentionally and actively made my life worse. Sludge mostly just sits there emitting energy and hydrogen.) Nobody should have to choose between using broken black-box automation that risks their code, systems, and skills and quitting their job. But people do every damn day - how do we break this cycle of abuse and incompetence?