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Shel @shel3/28/2023, 6:29 PM

Not that I'm a tech worker but it's very clear to me that most successful tech industry projects are just white men exploiting the labor of autistic trans people who get really excited about computers and will hyperfocus on improving your shit because it's fun for their brain until you throw them under the table and stand up on the front cover of the Verge in a suit calling yourself the CEO take credit for all of the labor you exploited. And if your project is Free Open Source Software™ you don't even have to pay anyone for their labor!!!

And that's why tech workers should unionize

frankie boyle's beanbag chair of death @micolithe3/28/2023, 6:38 PM

sometimes they are exploiting first generation immigrant tech workers also

Jane @jnnnn4/21/2023, 8:21 AM

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@Janet4/21/2023, 8:43 AM

maybe we could have like some sort of mid-yearly weeklong holiday/festivities to appreciate our work by turning it off and on again repeatedly like the old customs require?

#supportweek #technically thanksgiving #thanks4working #ernstesdanke

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multioculate @multioculate3/28/2023, 7:16 PM

I would even go out on a limb and say that pretty much all the technological progress capitalism has achieved has been the straightforward result of some neurodiverse person at the bottom of the org chart creatively misinterpreting their instructions so they could work on their special interest, then C-suite swooping in to take the "excess" value generated once the entire principle has been proven. Capitalists are almost totally uninterested in actual R&D because it's risky and requires sharing power with neurodiverse weirdos who value things above simple accumulation of capital.

To further extend that, this is why I think a lot of attempts to get the folks working at Raytheon to quit fall flat -- for some (many? Certainly the ones who're actually contributing) it's the only way they get to work on their special interest and and get paid. I'd love to see anarchist academia become a thing, to make sure those people have somewhere ready for them to walk away to.

fictive @artemis3/28/2023, 7:46 PM

oh yeah. and they do it to autistic cis people too

fictive @artemis3/28/2023, 7:52 PM

there's a weird feeling you get sometimes where you can tell you're going all in on a project, but you don't stop yourself because if you stop yourself when you're having that much fun then all that's left is doing work in misery, and that's a recipe for burnout.

there's a balancing game you can learn to regulate this in more useful ways while still keeping yourself interested but it's hard for me to articulate how that works

Irenes (many)@ireneista3/28/2023, 11:29 PM

yes indeed.

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full-quack webbed developer @Webster3/28/2023, 6:55 PM

saw a post on a cs career subreddit discussing interviewees cheating on remote whiteboard questions and you didn't have to go very far into the comments to find "yeah, most of the time they do this because the alternative is being deported."

frankie boyle's beanbag chair of death @micolithe3/28/2023, 6:57 PM

On the job I can just Google shit! It's a core aspect of being a coder! it in fact tells me you know enough to know when you need to reference some information.

full-quack webbed developer @Webster3/28/2023, 7:01 PM

The cheating in this case involved sharing your screen with a secret group chat that would feed the answer to you, but you definitely don't have to convince me that tech interviews designed around memorizing algorithms miss the point entirely.