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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I... am paid less than a Google code monkey... I’d... tell him"That’s stupid and you should feel bad for suggesting it.”

I feel like these things are connected.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe it was unclear. If I get fired for insubordination or whatever, I would be in much more pain than a Google code monkey, because I'm paid much less.

Are you thinking about it another way, where because I'm paid less, I wouldn't care if I got fired, which makes me more emboldened to push back on my higher ups?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sadly, salary and loyalty to the corporation are often proportional is what they meant.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Right, gotcha. In my experience, software developers are a bit more principled (maybe fickle is a better word lol) than that. Sure there are some dedicated "company man" types, but for the most part software devs are more loyal to the work/end product than the company

Of course my experience doesn't speak for anyone else's, take all this with a grain of salt, etc, etc