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houseofprimetofu t1_j5dax6b wrote

Reply to comment by Dissenting_voice in What High Tech and Media Layoffs Say About the Economy by PleaseThinkFirst

I watched my partner, who does recruiting in high tech, do literally nothing but check Slack and still get paid. I was dumbfounded. No software tracking on the work MBP, he was playing Hearthstone and on Twitter being a troll the entire day. As long as he attended meetings (in bed at 11am after having just work up with the sound on loud to hear his name while he drifted back to sleep) he skated by.

Got praised for doing good work. Got handed new projects.

Blows my mind that employees like him earn as much they do while I died making $25 an hour managing a 24/7 vet hospital.

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charlottespider t1_j5ex4ig wrote

These jobs aren't the norm, though. I'm a software engineer, and I work 40 hours, plus much more when deadline crunch time comes. I work hard on my off hours to ramp up skills because everything becomes stale really quickly. Like, I completely agree that most workers are underpaid, and some tech workers are overpaid, but no one I know has a job like you describe here.

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