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I'm about to do it because I recognized early on that the vast majority of people in tech don't actually do anything except try to ride the backs of software en
by codeonfire 11y ago
I'm about to do it because I recognized early on that the vast majority of people in tech don't actually do anything except try to ride the backs of software engineers and other technical people. There are so many people that just go to lunches and conferences related to a specific field like network technology, for instance, but that have never ever worked with network technology. They are only experts because their friends decided to get together and call each other experts.
There is no end to the people who think they are going to fake it until they make it to the point they can hire people beneath them that actually know what they are doing. Because of how group dynamics and social calculus works, they are able to ride a business all the way down to bankruptcy and then do the same thing somewhere else. Why the hell does anyone want to be a software engineer in an environment like that.
What's worse is these people think that software engineers must work for them because engineers are desperate, stupid, and inferior while they themselves are smart and superior for their proclivity to exploit people and organize.
- littletimmy 11y agoAm curious, what career do you have now that is freer of labor exploitation?
- NoCulturalFit 11y agoYou're confusing internal politics with labour exploration just to create a straw man for the parent.
- AnimalMuppet 11y ago> What's worse is these people think that software engineers must work for them because engineers are desperate, stupid, and inferior while they themselves are smart and superior for their proclivity to exploit people and organize. What part of that doesn't sound like labor exploitation to you? (Yeah, it's not as bad as it gets in some other situations. It's still very much exploitation of those who do the actual work.)
- NoCulturalFit 11y agoI switched to carpentry, but it's only temporarily. Everyone involved in my day to day job is a skilled labourer. We have clients we work for. No product managers, no product owners, no product marketing, no business developer, no corrupted tech-site that shoves their own vested interests down our throats.
- turk- 11y agoThis seems like more of a gripe about life in general, capitalism and 80/20 rule. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle
- bbcbasic 11y agoI've never seen this faking it thing going on. Maybe it is a USA problem? I have seen plenty of bad managers etc. But none were pretending they were experts in anything technical. Rather they would pretend they knew everything about running a business.