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Tech workers react to UPS drivers landing a $170,000 a year package with a mixture of anger and admiration::Some tech workers questioned whether UPS drivers deserved high pay — others jumped in to note the importance of the jobs and harsh working conditions.

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[-] ZombieZookeeper@lemmy.world 107 points 1 year ago

As a tech worker, I say good for them.

[-] rhokwar@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago

As a fellow tech worker, I agree. Probably most tech workers would agree, but since that's boring, this article focuses on the opinion of just "some tech workers on social media". So dumb.

[-] chakan2@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Like 3 ancient jaded guys that are working on network infrastructure for a small hospital in Montana posted on Xwitter that they're upset. 10000 bots reposted it...now it's newsworthy.

[-] Jagger2097@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Xwitter

I'm going with Xitter pronounced sh-ITT-er That makes tweets Xits pronounced sh-IT-s

[-] vixven_random@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

“some tech workers on social media”.

“some tech workers on blind”. Even worse

[-] realharo@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As a tech worker in Europe, the concept of "deserving" or "not deserving" a specific number has always been a total joke. Your salary is like 80% determined by location alone.

Any notion of "merit" (whatever that even means, there isn't even a good way of measuring it in many industries) has always been only very loosely correlated with compensation.

So if you can get it, go get it.

this post was submitted on 09 Aug 2023
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