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Mocker-Nicholas t1_ivtk006 wrote

Reply to comment by PaperbackPirates in [OC] Tech Layoffs in 2022 so far, percentage of total workforce by PieChartPirate

I’ll rant a bit here and say it’s because PMs are people who want to work in the tech space, with tech people, with the tech lifestyle benefits, without the downside that is knowing how to do the technical stuff lol.

Disclaimer: I feel like I’ve worked some PMs with a ridiculous sense of entitlement.

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PaperbackPirates t1_ivtk90s wrote

Yeah, that is for sure it. Fwiw, I hate working with non-technical PMs lol

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Mocker-Nicholas t1_ivtlxon wrote

“I would like to work from home, show up at 9:00am, never have to talk to an end user, isolate myself from any non technical team in the organization, and also don’t want to learn any front end, back end, or dev ops, technologies”

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h737893 t1_ivtkmz1 wrote

What if your boss asked you to be promoted to pm. Would you accept?

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Mocker-Nicholas t1_ivtlmsb wrote

Depends on the money. I guess if the salary was higher I would consider it. But I just moved from a role that was more “coordination, planning, and meetings” to “actually doing the thing that needs to be done” because that’s where I see the value add from technical staff. If I wanted to go the PM route I could have, but chose not to because of my experience with them.

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