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0 pointscausi3y ago0 comments

Especially if you've done it your whole professional life. The type of people who see a major tech company charging for lunches in the company cafeteria and then write articles about them trying to starve their employees would curl up and die the first time a customer screamed at them because their pizza had black olives on 60% of it instead of half.

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KyeRussell3y ago

I work in tech, but not for a big tech company or a hip funded startup, and this weird “unionist language bastardised by the developer on $300k/yr not getting his (yes, his) butter chicken paid for” stuff is just endlessly cringey to me.

Whilst I wouldn’t be seen dead working in a place like that, y’all really don’t know how good you’ve got it.

SavageBeast3y ago

YUP! Came here looking to see if anyone called this out and you did. If you didn't I was going to.

I don't love working in tech the way I used to but I do still love cashing those paychecks! You can do what you love sure... or you can make the money you want. Almost nobody can do both.

As for me - I know theres bullshit every where you go and all jobs have sucky parts and I prefer this devil because I in fact do get paid enough to put up with this shit.

How about compartmentalizing your job and being happy after putting in 8h of work? Also, reading HN kinda bums me out on tech too at times. The Instagram Effect where you feel like everyone besides you is doing something cooler than fixing bugs in the CRUD application your company sells.

benjaminwootton3y ago

I’m not proud of it but I really hate black olives and really wanted that extra 10% of pizza.

causiOP3y ago

They do it every time, don't they? If my brother and I get a single pizza I know he's getting two thirds of it because his black olives are going to be all over the place and they taste like poison.

Pigalowda3y ago

You guys don’t have to pay for your lunches? That’s pretty cool

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