The Great Tech Resignation

https://bloomberg.com/news/videos/...

maybe finally tech bubble will crash again and we will back to pen and paper

I think 7/10 tech workers have been considering (but never doing) this for the last 20 years.

Speficially for the US: many companies think it's cool when their employees can't even afford an appartment despite crazy high salaries, or that they have to commute two hours one way to have a shitty appartment (but at least not a shared one).

That's just so that some fucking middle managers can feel important overseeing busy offices instead of allowing remote work from cheaper areas of the US.

Guess what, the employees don't like finding themselves on the shitty end of that plot. Tech companies will have to decide whether they can do with these wannabe-important middle managers alone and without tech staff.

Tech sucks. Let's return to monke.

@localpost you have my vote. And my banana.

@localpost finally someone that speaks words of wisdom.

Let us all abandon humanity, return to MONKE

@ComputerToucher @localpost two people that will goo "oh oh ah ah" If i do a monkey screech.

Love u both

Douglas Adams got it right.

Reject Monke, return to the oceans

"Many were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans."

@nibor Though dolphins obviously had made that mistake - it's just that they corrected it afterwards. Now they end up in tuna fishing nets.

The supply demand ratio is rigged.

Where's this survey conducted? My wild guess is the US (because everything is US centric for the average American sample set).

There are a lot of people who are willing to work for a lot less from the third world nations (especially India).

And even a shitty suburb apartment having 2 hours of travel will be a major life upgrade for many of them (including myself?), given the political and general life circumstances here.

I kid you not but until last year, my salary was $7K/year and I was single bread earner for my family. Very recently I got a major bump and reached a respectable salary.

That doesn't mean I'd accept an underpaying job overseas but if I was super desperate to leave my country, I could consider FAANG or any company paying me minimum IT wage to get my foot in the door and then move on from there.

And this is a case with many from third world nations.

Companies have more resources waiting to join them. Mass resignation is a myth.

@Floydimus In my experience, many if not most devs in India are grossly overpaid in relation to what they deliver as long as they get any salary at all. Even working for free would arguably still not cut it. The exceptions usually leave India, or at least drop development as quickly as they can.

@Fast-Nop hah! That is accurately true. The work quality, being delivered by any Indian employee (tech or not), is astonishingly low.

I have countless examples of people not being able to format a word document or even a spreadsheet well. All the information is dumped in without structure transferring the burden, of figuring out, on to the reader.

Those who leave India are not significantly better. With "higher education" route, it is becoming increasingly easier for Indian work force to relocate to the US and that is scary because that is damaging culture in those companies and reducing the overall work quality average.

There are some smart people I know and I can count them on my fingers. Trust me, I am very active in my local ecosystem and know a lot of people.

All of this comes from 'chalta hai' attitude. Which translates to 'it okay because it works' and in India this phrase is used by everyone quite often. So only self awareness we have is of how fucked our work quality is.

@rutee07 I have been a huge fan of quality and detailing. I kill myself over smallest of small detail.

That is paying me off because now it comes to me naturally and that is being valued by employers. Hence, even in PM role, I have higher job prospects and conversions as compared to my peers or anyone of same profile and work ex.

Having said that, back in days, I didn't have enough money to afford a beer bottle, so a swimming pool would be a dream.

My parents and I have lived a very very frugal life. And because of that I was able to manage and save some for winters.

Things got better with a lot of work. There is no alternative to hard work.

@Fast-Nop Yeah, we've had a real mix. All our offshore devs come through a consultancy, and it varies - we've had some who work tirelessly and really know their stuff, and others who barely show up, and can't do anything when they do.