For fuck sake can we please stop with this childish generational blame?
So many articles speak as if any generation had the ability to set the standards of employment in the industry.
Management, and what our government allowed them to get away with plays a far larger role than individuals do in a decentralized economy that is tech.
It isn't like there is a plant we could picket, or even an assurance that our jobs would stay within our own country.
Many people who have entered tech today, never saw the massive waves of outsourcing, this seemingly has normalized now, they weren't around for the dot com bubble that burst.
Arguable the worlds strongest unions (automotive) got their asses handed to them, because it became much easier to move manufacture than ever before.
It wasn't developers that had any control or recourse when we got placed in the exempt bracket, and workloads sky rocketed.
I remember lots of people quitting because of it, but I also remember a flood of people on work visas coming into replace them (to be clear I don't fault those that came in on visas, but did prevent labor from having any sort of strength in numbers or ability to force policy change.)
We had a toxic environment forced on us, through the same vehicle that almost every shitty thing has, greed, our government had no idea how to handle when labor stopped having physical bounds, and they opened up the flood gates to let companies do what they want as long as they didn't leave.
So many articles speak as if any generation had the ability to set the standards of employment in the industry.
Management, and what our government allowed them to get away with plays a far larger role than individuals do in a decentralized economy that is tech.
It isn't like there is a plant we could picket, or even an assurance that our jobs would stay within our own country.
Many people who have entered tech today, never saw the massive waves of outsourcing, this seemingly has normalized now, they weren't around for the dot com bubble that burst.
Arguable the worlds strongest unions (automotive) got their asses handed to them, because it became much easier to move manufacture than ever before.
It wasn't developers that had any control or recourse when we got placed in the exempt bracket, and workloads sky rocketed.
I remember lots of people quitting because of it, but I also remember a flood of people on work visas coming into replace them (to be clear I don't fault those that came in on visas, but did prevent labor from having any sort of strength in numbers or ability to force policy change.)
We had a toxic environment forced on us, through the same vehicle that almost every shitty thing has, greed, our government had no idea how to handle when labor stopped having physical bounds, and they opened up the flood gates to let companies do what they want as long as they didn't leave.