Market the company and, for smaller companies that want funding, beg and network.

Leadership is often removed from how work actually gets done. This is part of why they often make bonkers decisions.

They don’t understand that most of the time isn’t going into typing code into the computer. It’s figuring out what the product guy and CEO actually want. It’s pulling answers out of them (eg: what do you want to do if the user’s name is null?) or dealing with it when they don’t like your decision (eg: you didn’t say what to do when I don’t have their name, so the email just says “hey”. I really don’t think this is a crisis)

Many executives are also board members.

Paywall, but going by the headline: good

The world is burning and these assholes are making it worse.

Cool. Fuck Microsoft

Workers skeptical of unions in a survey of 1,900 tech professionals conducted by the career site Blind cited specific concerns: that unions are “not meritocratic,” “prevent innovation,” and “hold back earnings of top performers.”

Looking at my non union job where idiots make millions and it has taken years to get even the basics of ci/cd implemented.

That can be scaled horizontally and is just a matter of building more data centers.

At one of my old jobs “just” was considered a bad word

100%. I think a lot about one of my friends when trying to think about that kind of user. Smart lady. Advanced degree. Has her life together. Would absolutely not want to try to install an OS. Wouldn’t even know how to start.

But I’m confident if I handed her a Linux laptop, she’d use it just the same as a Mac or Windows machine.

Right. Inertia is the metaphor I used to express that idea.

I don’t think that’s actually very many people. Not for their personal computers. Most people don’t run much more than a web browser, if they don’t play games.

I think sometimes about two of my old coworkers. Mid six figure salary, straight white guys. Didn’t go to even the most basic protests. They’d say they cared, but when it came down to showing up they just made excuses, stayed home, and played dota. They just didn’t care that much.

I don’t speak to either of them anymore. If they think about me at all, they probably think I’m just annoying for making them feel bad.

Good. Fuck Microsoft. No regrets about running Linux for the past few years.

It’s not the PC games keeping people so much. Proton solved a lot of that problem. It’s inertia.

Most people don’t care about things. They just don’t. Their brains just don’t have the juice.

Good. Break them up. Criminally charge their leadership.

I’ve had a conversation with several coworkers trying to get them to connect the dots between “you get paid by the hour” - “if you produce more per hour, you don’t get paid more” - “the owners keep the profits” - “they’ll never let you just work less”

Ed Zitron wrote a whole thing about these people. Calls them “Business Idiots”

I worked with several former teachers in my software career. They were all smart patient people. Software jobs making shit for rich people to get richer paid more than double for less work.

I knew another teacher who was on food stamps because her salary was so low.

Our society values stupid shit. It invests in stupid shit. We are lead by assholes and fools.

Microsoft will continue on inertia for years. but it’s basically a walking corpse full of parasites at this point.

|| has a similar “oh that’s how it works in other places” behavior. I didn’t realize that for a while.

My hypothesis is that the least competent people use AI the most, and it’s a big multiplier on their incompetence.

You should be allowed to pin him down and diarrhea in his mouth, if they make you come in sick.