• Luke@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    This is not how jobs work. It never has been.

    Do more than expected, and that becomes your new expected output. Get the same money, over years, which doesn’t keep up with CoL and translates to a pay reduction. Jump to another job, maybe, if you can manage to do so after exhaustion from working “more than expected” and then going home to take care of life responsibility.

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      1 year ago

      Yes, especially corporate America. The only raises you get are from job hopping every 1-2 years, which is ridiculous.

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        1 year ago

        Especially with programmers.

        My code is my thoughts turned into words turned into actions. You need someone not only better than me, but far better at understanding other people’s code to use mine as well as I can. It takes about 6 months to get fully situated with a code base and process

        18 months is now often you have to hop around to maximize your wages.

        Programmers are not fungible. A single good one can do in their free time what hundreds of mediocre ones are unable to do with an unlimited budget…

        Technology development is languishing because of this. Instead of complex code made by the best of us, we’ve introduced a requirement that it needs to be achievable by average programmers jumping into the role

        And all this just because they want to depress wages