This isn't abuse, a large part of this is your own view of how you wished people acted combined with being a mid-tier contributor where nobody gives a shit. In software development if you are good this is only the first 5-10 years of your career. If you aren't good this is your entire career. Even if you are good, if you work someplace bad they still may not give a shit.
It is what it is, if you consider this abuse then you have no future in this industry. I would advise you that the majority of employers in the majority of industries don't give a shit in the way you are concerned with. Wherever you land it is on you to prove you are not a replaceable cog.
Maybe it's the way my father raised me to believe work was torment and thankless misery, and that it should be, that I ended up being pretty pleasantly surprised with a normal tech job. His favorite phrase was "If you EVER were seen doing that on a real job you'd be fired on the spot" (insert hour long lecture about being useless at this stage).
I can remember the time he told me I did a good job at something with crystal clarity, because it only ever happened that one time in my whole life.
I absolutely hated him, but I'm thankful for him being the miserable source of anguish and preparation for harsh reality that he was.
Whatever happened to the 40 hour week? Wages are stagnant and hours just climb up and up. More and more people have to commute long hours to crawl into ridiculously overcrowded and overpriced cities. At this rate we are going to turn into Japan.
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4 u/MegaMan 13 Jan 2016 01:49
Thanks for self promotion and linking to yourself as a source, very unbiased.
The only thing I learned is that you can't hack it.
2 u/chrimata 13 Jan 2016 01:05
OP: I can sympathize with your disillusionment with the corporate world.
Unrelated, but Maslow's hierarchy is not empirically verified. It's made up. Don't strive for it
2 u/dirething 13 Jan 2016 02:57
This isn't abuse, a large part of this is your own view of how you wished people acted combined with being a mid-tier contributor where nobody gives a shit. In software development if you are good this is only the first 5-10 years of your career. If you aren't good this is your entire career. Even if you are good, if you work someplace bad they still may not give a shit.
It is what it is, if you consider this abuse then you have no future in this industry. I would advise you that the majority of employers in the majority of industries don't give a shit in the way you are concerned with. Wherever you land it is on you to prove you are not a replaceable cog.
2 u/GumbyTM 13 Jan 2016 17:22
Oh look another whining millennial who can't understand that the reason you get paid s because jobs aren't inherently rewarding.
0 u/feistylemur 14 Jan 2016 20:49
Maybe it's the way my father raised me to believe work was torment and thankless misery, and that it should be, that I ended up being pretty pleasantly surprised with a normal tech job. His favorite phrase was "If you EVER were seen doing that on a real job you'd be fired on the spot" (insert hour long lecture about being useless at this stage).
I can remember the time he told me I did a good job at something with crystal clarity, because it only ever happened that one time in my whole life.
I absolutely hated him, but I'm thankful for him being the miserable source of anguish and preparation for harsh reality that he was.
1 u/Porphyrogennetos 13 Jan 2016 14:49
I had no idea that this was something unique to the software industry.
Here I was thinking pretty much every company operates this way, but I had no idea that software engineers had it so much worse!
1 u/asdghjklfghasldk 14 Jan 2016 02:55
one of these days I'm just going to go off the rails and pull an office space at my initech.
I'm really just waiting for when the bobs show up
0 u/J_Darnley 13 Jan 2016 13:48
If you don't like your programming job, quit. Make some space for the rest of us to get hired.
0 u/redditor1255 17 Jan 2016 08:12
Whatever happened to the 40 hour week? Wages are stagnant and hours just climb up and up. More and more people have to commute long hours to crawl into ridiculously overcrowded and overpriced cities. At this rate we are going to turn into Japan.
Its a sad state of affairs.