• Dr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.org
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    3 months ago

    Well, we’re getting laid off en masse, while our employers report record quarterly earnings. So there’s that.

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      3 months ago

      Yeah absolutely.

      I would go a step further and point to how a lot of companies these days supplement their workforce with low skill contractors from places like India who are like 13 hours ahead, do not have any actual investment/commitment to the project/company.

      Why pay high prices for competent developers that can work alongside each other when you can have a just few competent ones and outsource the rest for those competent workers to corral, right? 🙄

      Generally this results in more work for the full time devs. When you ask for senior developers and get a team of ”seniors” that write code like juniors…. That’s just more work for the full time devs. Ask me how I know.

      Maybe I just need to stop working for Fortune 500s

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        3 months ago

        TFW half my development time is stolen by helping this guy who I strongly suspect is just an interface for chat gpt.