• Scrubbles
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    8916 days ago

    God it’s so transparent. I’m a software engineer, and I have first hand built software that has made my business teams and execs wealthy. I have sat there and watched them buy new audis and new houses while I’m told “sorry we can’t afford a raise this year”. And I know I do better than most being in software, but man do they want to keep us arguing about that while they go and buy everything while we squabble.

    • @[email protected]
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      5516 days ago

      I make my company 100-200k a month. I make around 4k a month. No performance bonus, nothing.

      Meanwhile the higher ups that do bare minimum are raking it all in. I love our society.

      • rockerface 🇺🇦
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        1616 days ago

        So I figured I’m also going to do the bare minimum. Good thing my managers aren’t actually competent in IT so I can set my own deadlines (with a big juicy margin for doing fuck all and getting money for it)

    • @FireRetardant
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      4016 days ago

      Release an “update” with a “bug” that can only be fixxed with a raise.

      • Lost_My_Mind
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        3316 days ago

        Nothing goes wrong:

        “Man, what do I even pay these IT guys for???”

        Everything goes wrong:

        “Man, what do I even pay these IT guys for???”

    • @[email protected]
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      2816 days ago

      I worked for a small company that saw growth year after year. We’d have a staff Christmas party towards the end of the year where the boss would thank us for our work and give everyone a bonus of $500. One year the boss was super excited to tell us that we helped build up his company to the point that he would now be opening a new location. He told us this new location was a large investment for him to open and so he would not be giving us a bonus that year and there also would be wage freeze. Thanks for the hard work! Merry Christmas! He sold the company the next year for a few million and retired at 50. I quit after that.

      • Scrubbles
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        1716 days ago

        Congrats everyone on this spectacular growth! As a thank you, fuck your Christmas! And a happy new year!

    • @sunbrrnslapper
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      616 days ago

      Serious question: have you considered starting your own business? Maybe there is a way to shift some of that wealth back to you.

      • Scrubbles
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        716 days ago

        I have, but no major ideas. I’ve started thinking later I may do some consulting and just charge an insane rate, but that’s many years away

        • @sunbrrnslapper
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          216 days ago

          I’ve started a biz. Hit me up is you ever have questions - could be closer than you think.