Post #3832276

2026-07-08 04:54 UTC

The software developer job had to go through the meat grinder. Your salaries have been so inflated these past 20 years that it has kept the entire economy afloat as the rest of the jobs in every other sector have been dragged through shit in every way possible and we’re all miserable. We all hate our jobs and we all have friends in tech who can’t see what our problem is. We need you to hate life to be in the muck with us. We need you to reject the behemoth management industry - lower management, middle management, and upper management, until finally the goddamn message gets to C-suite that the workers of the world are unhappy. We need you to revolt and force upheaval in the entire tech industry before anything will change.

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@lobut@lemmy.ca 2026-07-08 05:21

I actually agree with a lot of what you said. Software engineers didn’t want to form a union and stuff because they had high salaries and we’re so sought after. lol, to be clear, I’m not one of those crazy useful or overpaid tech guys (not anywhere close to FAANG). Although overpaid is always relative. Regardless, I think all workers should unite beyond tech … it’s the “tech bros” that are also making the world worse right now and I’m not happy these chuds are holding that moniker.

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@one_old_coder@piefed.social 2026-07-08 06:08

Your salaries have been so inflated these past 20 years That’s only valid in some countries like the USA. In France, the salaries of developers are a tiny bit higher than other jobs, but not that much.

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@Waterpumpee@lemmus.org 2026-07-08 06:23

Tell me any other profession that expects sample project work during application. Keeping up with ever changing tech in your private time. Have solid / strong understanding of dozens special tech only XY company uses, do dev ops on weekends and night. Meanwhile managers bullshit their way into jobs and waste our time with useless meetings earning notably more. Also this is not about SWE only. Any office job will be changed by AI. Then people will flock to non AI jobs deflating their value and so on.

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