i don’t get it either. i get why people who don’t have the opportunity of credentials and access to a professional career work for whoever, because survival is something else.
but the people with options? imagine spending half of your waking life choosing to work for the evil blob. what kind of shit ass hell is that?
“who gives a fuck” is a navigational system that guides the traveler into a dark pit.
Someone I know got real offended when I said half of the employees at Microsoft deserve to be arrested for enabling their genocidal bosses. Software Engineers can work at literally any type of company, anywhere in the world. It’s one of the most privileged degree types. They do not have to choose to work for one of the few most evil ones. Try telling a CS major to work at their local public school.
i’m not CS, but i’m something else that has choices and could always work for the dark side. i see postings periodically and frankly the pay wouldn’t even be close to worth it. i usually frame my choice for public service as a benefit with a stinger:
“sure, i could work for [asshole corporation] and make 15-25% more, but then all my bosses and coworkers would be myopic, dissembling assholes who don’t give a fuck about anyone except themselves. no thanks.”
i haven’t worked in a for-profit entity for approaching 20 years. the corporate ones were cliquey, alienating and isolating. the smaller “family” ones were all toxic, nepo-hives, and incestuous. non profits can totally be all fucked up, for sure, but generally people are there because they give a shit about something. and not like “i want to help Elon Musk realize his dreams” type shit, but more like community, resource conservation, literacy. those are people with whom i can eat lunch, have a conversation or share a carpool and have a good time.
i don’t get it either. i get why people who don’t have the opportunity of credentials and access to a professional career work for whoever, because survival is something else.
but the people with options? imagine spending half of your waking life choosing to work for the evil blob. what kind of shit ass hell is that?
“who gives a fuck” is a navigational system that guides the traveler into a dark pit.
Someone I know got real offended when I said half of the employees at Microsoft deserve to be arrested for enabling their genocidal bosses. Software Engineers can work at literally any type of company, anywhere in the world. It’s one of the most privileged degree types. They do not have to choose to work for one of the few most evil ones. Try telling a CS major to work at their local public school.
i’m not CS, but i’m something else that has choices and could always work for the dark side. i see postings periodically and frankly the pay wouldn’t even be close to worth it. i usually frame my choice for public service as a benefit with a stinger:
“sure, i could work for [asshole corporation] and make 15-25% more, but then all my bosses and coworkers would be myopic, dissembling assholes who don’t give a fuck about anyone except themselves. no thanks.”
i haven’t worked in a for-profit entity for approaching 20 years. the corporate ones were cliquey, alienating and isolating. the smaller “family” ones were all toxic, nepo-hives, and incestuous. non profits can totally be all fucked up, for sure, but generally people are there because they give a shit about something. and not like “i want to help Elon Musk realize his dreams” type shit, but more like community, resource conservation, literacy. those are people with whom i can eat lunch, have a conversation or share a carpool and have a good time.