Comment on Tech workers react to UPS drivers landing a $170,000 a year package with a mixture of anger and admiration

• DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Also make sure you add the amount of schooling, training, and certifications that you as a Tech industry worker are expected to shell out for to get ahead, gone are the years where a high school diploma and some skills gets you in the door in Tech. Also the hours we need to put in.

  So sure it’s not as physically demanding as delivery driving, but it is absolutely mentally demanding and time consuming.

  Either way, good on the UPS folks, now it’s time to take that and leverage it across the board for all of the other career paths.

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  • Jagger2097@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Your response implies that tech workers are mentally more for than those who work for UPS. This is flatly untrue, if tech workers are so damn smart, why didn’t they unionize? We would make a ton more money, have better work life balance, and job security! It’s the same story for every industry, unions are the antidote to capitalism death cult.

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    • Angry_Maple@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think they were more so arguing about the costs of the training itself. Those loans aren’t free for a lot of people, and scholarships aren’t unlimited.

      A lot of people don’t have time to work while they’re in school, so those loans can take on a pretty nasty interest rate.

      I’m of the mindset that people who work hard deserve good money. If a job is something that most people can’t or won’t do, companies will usually have to pay more to encourage people to stay and do those jobs. Otherwise, why would people go into debt for schooling and training? Why go through the stress and expenses for no reason? Yes there’s passion for some people, but that doesn’t pay tuition lol

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