Honestly, I find these emails more amusing than infuriating. Is that $800 per week? Total? I guess I’ll never know, because I didn’t become a software developer just to work in a warehouse.

  • Dr. Wesker
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    Famous last words of a software engineer who ends up working in a warehouse.

      • Dr. Wesker
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        631 month ago

        Chase your dreams. The warehouse will always be there.

      • Coolcoder360
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        71 month ago

        You could probably make $800 doing game dev too. Maybe not with only one game, but $800 with game dev hobby sounds better to me than $800 to be a warehouse associate for an unknown amount of time…

    • @SeattleRain@lemmy.world
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      51 month ago

      So you think you’re too good to eat shit? Wait until you have to like I do.

      Bro, maybe I don’t think you should have to eat shit either.

      • Dr. Wesker
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        It was a topical joke revolving around the numerous rounds of tech layoffs since 2023, as well as the current state of industry hiring, which is pretty depressing and toxic if you’re a software engineer currently looking for work.

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        I’m a software engineer who was recently laid off.

        • @SeattleRain@lemmy.world
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          51 month ago

          Oh I see. Well your anecdote completely debunks statistics that show people without degrees get laid off nearly three times as often as those that do. I kneel.

      • @Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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        11 month ago

        Not this year lol, tech has been hit hard.

        Which, I mean, no one has any sympathy, those guys have been coddled and overpaid for a decade.

        But yeah, this year, lots of tech layoffs.