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The comments on that post are deplorable. However, I’ve been working in web development for many years and I have to say I am not surprised. I started my caree

The comments on that post are deplorable. However, I’ve been working in web development for many years and I have to say I am not surprised. I started my career working in paint stores, then moved to home renovation for low income families. I feel like I have a unique perspective on qualifications and worthiness that have been hard earned. I’m an engineering manager now for a large enterprise company; I worked my way up the ladder one rung at a time. I feel like I’ve earned my position and that I’m good at it. I also feel like basically anyone can do what I do with just a little bit of support and training. The idea that delivery work is beneath a developer is infuriating to me. It shows a lack of respect for an essential part of your business, and a lack of empathy for people who are realistically just not quite as lucky as them. Because that’s the major difference between the classes most of the time, luck and privilege. I don’t know why I felt the need to type this out, it just makes me so angry to see people show such contempt for each other based on trivial bullshit.

Akronymus 5y ago
I personally don't want to do what the cleaning staff does at work. But to me, that just indicates that they do it so that I don't have to, which in turn indicates that I should value them a lot.
jelliclesfarm 5y ago
Sadly no one cares if it’s infuriating to you. Your personal peaks are your own. For someone who got a PhD at age 17, a slow student is infuriating. Imagine if they said…if I can do it, anyone can.. We can’t go about imposing our lives and our life experiences upon others. We can’t expect everyone to ‘be like us’. By that notion, everyone who has an American passport has immense luck and privilege. You are showing a lack of respect to those who came up in life due to grit and hard work. Immigrants who have left home and often circumstances of hard grinding poverty and inequalities in their home countries..to make a prosperous life in a far away shore. It can be borderline trauma or PTSD. What is the point of leaving behind parents and friends and a social circle if it means that they can’t be feted for their hard work and sacrifice? I will tell you what’s more infuriating ..how lazy people who do gigs for ‘the experience’ cutting into a valid income stream for Americans who are uneducated, unskilled and poor. And I am not talking about the employees in the Door Dash gulag. I am talking about the guy who is insulted and throws food at someone’s doorstep and makes a TikTok video of it because this customer didn’t tip him according to expectations. Because anyone who needs a job and has mouths to feed isn’t getting bad reviews. The whole sector is exploitative and it must be addressed at the root rot. Classes exist. Status exist. Human psychology doesn’t change for some core attitudes. Because humans beings regardless of whether they live in Calcutta or a cave ..in Bay Area or Japan ..we are all status seeking animals. No one is going to go to the top rung and then come back to the bottom rung except to feel smug and experience gratitude for their better status. Of course..someone who spent years and years studying and specializing and working hard is not going to want to food delivery. Their drive and competitiveness comes from the same place in their psyche as the feeling of ‘looking down on delivery jobs’. It comes from the same well of self worth. It’s all connected. So your anger is your problem. The real problem we should all be worried about is the exploitation factor of menial jobs…and the virtue signaling companies who are pulling stunts like this for optics(which begs the question..what are they hiding?).

Akronymus 5y ago

I personally don't want to do what the cleaning staff does at work. But to me, that just indicates that they do it so that I don't have to, which in turn indicates that I should value them a lot.

jelliclesfarm 5y ago

Sadly no one cares if it’s infuriating to you. Your personal peaks are your own. For someone who got a PhD at age 17, a slow student is infuriating. Imagine if they said…if I can do it, anyone can.. We can’t go about imposing our lives and our life experiences upon others. We can’t expect everyone to ‘be like us’. By that notion, everyone who has an American passport has immense luck and privilege. You are showing a lack of respect to those who came up in life due to grit and hard work. Immigrants who have left home and often circumstances of hard grinding poverty and inequalities in their home countries..to make a prosperous life in a far away shore. It can be borderline trauma or PTSD. What is the point of leaving behind parents and friends and a social circle if it means that they can’t be feted for their hard work and sacrifice? I will tell you what’s more infuriating ..how lazy people who do gigs for ‘the experience’ cutting into a valid income stream for Americans who are uneducated, unskilled and poor. And I am not talking about the employees in the Door Dash gulag. I am talking about the guy who is insulted and throws food at someone’s doorstep and makes a TikTok video of it because this customer didn’t tip him according to expectations. Because anyone who needs a job and has mouths to feed isn’t getting bad reviews. The whole sector is exploitative and it must be addressed at the root rot. Classes exist. Status exist. Human psychology doesn’t change for some core attitudes. Because humans beings regardless of whether they live in Calcutta or a cave ..in Bay Area or Japan ..we are all status seeking animals. No one is going to go to the top rung and then come back to the bottom rung except to feel smug and experience gratitude for their better status. Of course..someone who spent years and years studying and specializing and working hard is not going to want to food delivery. Their drive and competitiveness comes from the same place in their psyche as the feeling of ‘looking down on delivery jobs’. It comes from the same well of self worth. It’s all connected. So your anger is your problem. The real problem we should all be worried about is the exploitation factor of menial jobs…and the virtue signaling companies who are pulling stunts like this for optics(which begs the question..what are they hiding?).