I’m a software dev aswell and I think they do try to look after us because our wages are a pretty big investment. For the other people on minimum wage, they do not give a fuck.
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ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Are most white-collar work environments unpleasant? I’m a software developer and I have never worked somewhere that didn’t make a reasonable effort to keep me happy, properly rested, and in good health in order to improve my productivity.
DrCake@lemmy.world 11 months ago
smeg@feddit.uk 11 months ago
Sometimes the management is clever enough to realise it’s much more cost effective to keep your knowledgeable employees happy than to have to go through the process of hiring replacements. Sadly there are plenty of later-climbers and egotists who don’t get this, and that’s even when they consider the workers they’re fucking around to be highly skilled. When the powers that be consider their employees to be easily replaceable then they lose all motivation to treat them like anything other than human resource.
AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 11 months ago
In my experience, corporate structure almost always sees workers as liabilities that must be micromanaged, prodded, and scrutinized about productivity.
A good manager who wants happy, productive workers that don’t hate their employer knows when NOT to enforce the standard corporateHR bullshit.
It sounds like you’ve either worked for small organizations or had good managers that recognize the reality that skillled workers like you are more competent and important to keeping the paychecks flowing than the narcissistic idiots on the top floor that get off on flexing power and punching down for its own sake.
MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Pulling together all the resources and ideas to make something happen is itself a valid skill. They’re way overpaid for it, but it is real work.
Steve Jobs, in particular, created with help the original Mac and was screwed over by other powerful people in the business. He created the Mach kernel and the NeXT workstation before Apple crawled back to him for help salvaging the business.
He might have been an arrogant prick, but he did have the ability to bring vision into reality, and he helped make a lot of people other than himself wealthy.
We have this thing called specialization in modern society. Do you think an electrician can design and produce a microchip or a math teacher can manage a large corporate entity? We all make choices. Some of us have more options or more help.
AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The accountants and lawyers pull together resources to make something happen, the one that barked the order didn’t. And as for ideas, the world would be a better place if that was left to the scientists and engineers that have the beneficial ones that might actually create or improve something of worth.
“Turn a product you could buy into a subscription you have to rent” has been the most widely implemented “idea” the modern CEO has been inspired to have, aside from laying off the people that made them their money the same week they report record profits. If you call that a skill of any use to society, then we’ll just have to agree to disagree.
MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 11 months ago
And yet, he’s the one who got those products to the public, and many love them. I’m not fond of Apple, but I have to acknowledge success. I’m not claiming he’s a good person. Heck I agree with much you said, but being a business leader is a legitimate role and requires real skills.