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what does the engineers salary have to do with anything

by VWWHFSfQ 5y ago

asimpletune 5y ago
That they get paid a lot? And sometimes it’s to deliver groceries.
- wiseowise 5y ago
  Getting paid a lot means you can demand anything now?
  - dymk 5y ago
    Yeah, and they can quit and work somewhere else that’ll pay them just as well if they don’t like it. They’re not being asked to scrub toilets, they’re being asked to exercise the company’s product. The thing that pays their salary. Let’s see how many actually quit over this. My guess is few to none.
    - wiseowise 5y ago
      > Yeah, and they can quit and work somewhere else that’ll pay them just as well if they don’t like it. I think that's the main sentiment in those threads and the main response to that is "oh woe how dare you think like that, you prima donna".
  - Volundr 5y ago
    It's not exactly anything. It's actually using the product they are developing. Is that really so crazy? While not exactly the same, we were responsible for developing an in-house app used by our retail employees. Every single engineer working on the app would every so often shadow one of these employees to see firsthand how it was being used in the real world.
windowsrookie 5y ago
"what does the engineers salary have to do with anything" The engineers salary (actually total compensation, not salary) was quoted in the article. "An engineer with a reported total compensation, or TC, of $400,000 a year griped about the responsibility of having to do a once-a-month delivery. “What the actual f—k?” the engineer wrote on the platform. “I didn’t sign up for this, there was nothing in the offer letter/job description about this.”" I am suggesting that if you make $400,000 a year, one minor inconvenience a month by actually using the product you are working on really isn't something you should complain about.
- Fire-Dragon-DoL 5y ago
  What if the engineer doesn't have a car or a disability? That would be a problem, if it's not on contract
  - azinman2 5y ago
    That’s clearly not the issue at hand.
  - Brian_K_White 5y ago
    Addressed in the article you must not have read yet somehow have opinions on.
    - Fire-Dragon-DoL 5y ago
      Nope, sorry, i read only the first part. Thanks for addressing that

what does the engineers salary have to do with anything

asimpletune 5y ago

That they get paid a lot? And sometimes it’s to deliver groceries.

wiseowise 5y ago
Getting paid a lot means you can demand anything now?
- dymk 5y ago
  Yeah, and they can quit and work somewhere else that’ll pay them just as well if they don’t like it. They’re not being asked to scrub toilets, they’re being asked to exercise the company’s product. The thing that pays their salary. Let’s see how many actually quit over this. My guess is few to none.
  - wiseowise 5y ago
    > Yeah, and they can quit and work somewhere else that’ll pay them just as well if they don’t like it. I think that's the main sentiment in those threads and the main response to that is "oh woe how dare you think like that, you prima donna".
- Volundr 5y ago
  It's not exactly anything. It's actually using the product they are developing. Is that really so crazy? While not exactly the same, we were responsible for developing an in-house app used by our retail employees. Every single engineer working on the app would every so often shadow one of these employees to see firsthand how it was being used in the real world.

windowsrookie 5y ago

"what does the engineers salary have to do with anything" The engineers salary (actually total compensation, not salary) was quoted in the article. "An engineer with a reported total compensation, or TC, of $400,000 a year griped about the responsibility of having to do a once-a-month delivery. “What the actual f—k?” the engineer wrote on the platform. “I didn’t sign up for this, there was nothing in the offer letter/job description about this.”" I am suggesting that if you make $400,000 a year, one minor inconvenience a month by actually using the product you are working on really isn't something you should complain about.

Fire-Dragon-DoL 5y ago
What if the engineer doesn't have a car or a disability? That would be a problem, if it's not on contract
- azinman2 5y ago
  That’s clearly not the issue at hand.
- Brian_K_White 5y ago
  Addressed in the article you must not have read yet somehow have opinions on.
  - Fire-Dragon-DoL 5y ago
    Nope, sorry, i read only the first part. Thanks for addressing that