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@GyroGearloose You are evidently overworked and underpaid.
Why is this happening in Portugal? Are companies going the US model of labour exploitation or is there a lack of job supply leading to employers taking unfair advantage of their employees? -
@Floydimus I think most of the southern Europe countries (portugal, spain, italy, greece, albany, ...) are quite in deficit and are really having hard times with money, so everyone is keeping its money quite tight and company pay less
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@Floydimus @ZioCain besides, there is this gigantic pile of qualified workers in MENA, SA and LATAM that are willing to do great work for minimal euro-pay. North European countries usually pay more because they are looking for the best devs, and not just the regular stil-pretty-good ones. But for the masses, salaries are bottoming.
So...
Paying minimum wages as become the norm in Portugal.
No matter that I have the same formation time in my area, plus experience, than a doc or engenheir everyone wants to pay minimum wages...
I'm so tempted to ask the next interviewer (usually an engineer) if his also getting minimum wage....
I'll do one year at my corrent company and will probably get out of this Europe's Ass.
Sorry for the bad typing. Working till 8 am
rant
minimum wages does not = good work