I don’t need to know exact companies, no need to unnecessarily expose yourself or anything, but as we are a workers rights instance of Lemmy, I safely assume we are all proletarians. I for example work at a unionized grocery and I work outside. I have many complaints but I try my best to work as little as possible while getting my paycheck. Customers are usually fine but occasionally just dumb af to the point where it’s annoying(I have millions of stories) managers are very kind, only ones who were dicks left(unfortunately they probably got promoted if I remember correctly) and my coworkers are eh. Some are great to confide in and joke with, while others are rude or annoying, some are very nice but have garbage politics (libertarians who don’t understand their benefits from being in a union/don’t care enough about the differences to advocate for it). I plan on becoming a firefighter, not only for the pay, job security and union benefits, but it’s also an essential job that doesn’t exist just to create capital (no judgement to those who work in corporate environments, I’ve never done it and can’t judge it). I like my job overall but Goddamn the weather. Edit: Kinda cool to see so many people who are in tech.

  • CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Would you be willing to describe your ideological relationship to your industry and your job?

    Completely mercenary. I started working there before I was class conscious, and pretty much the only thing keeping me from changing jobs sooner is because I’m also doing a masters degree on the side and I don’t want an unexpected change in workload to completely drown me.

    How do you reconcile the contradiction of directly developing the economic base of capitalism while presumably being a communist?

    By using up as much as my employer’s resources for as little work as possible. If I play my cards right, I can work six hours or even less when eight hours is expected without management knowing or caring. It’s not quite as absurd as those “day in the life of a tech worker” videos that were popular not long ago, but there is a kernel of truth in them. On a slow day, I might even sneak in work on something that isn’t for my employer.

    I think its also easier for me to justify because most of the stuff I’ve worked on there never reached production because upper management shit canned it several months into development.

    Finally, I think the software my employer sells is more useless societally than outright harmful. It’s wealth management software used by porkies and their financial advisors. Still not great, but at least it’s not making drones better at killing or doing spooky behavior manipulation shit for a big tech company.