Best raise I ever got was getting another job lined up and using it as leverage. Immediately there was a couple thousand more on the table. And this was immediately after "merit" raises went around.
Join a union of you can, build one if possible. Never think for a second a boss isn't lying thru their teeth at you. Steal from work as much as possible.
steal from work as much as possible
it baffles me how anyone DOESN'T do this.
To the modern lib brain, a starving person stealing to feed their family is wrong and they shouldn't do it, so of course they wouldn't -- dontcha know stealing is bad
ugh right the whole harry potter=lib philosophy thing, where "a wizard did it" is basically their whole explanation for politics because staring into the abyss is scary.
Yeah, you definitely can't be bluffing. It's advice for a very specific sort of white collar job and people that are able to move around.
My company uses AWS to provision high-performance servers in order to run a bunch of cpu-heavy simulations. The first week i got there, i was like, why are you guys renting servers from AWS. If you always expect to be using x amount of cpus, you should just buy that much and use AWS for overflow if needed. I was shot down, of course. Two years later, we are now working on getting our own servers, after wasting hundreds of thousands of dollars on renting from aws.
Even just renting bare metal instead of AWS can save hundreds of thousands a year
At my new job I have to use AWS extensively. It is like a cult. They have cannibalized open-source projects and have vendor lock-in. Absolutely the case that management doesn't give a shit about running instances being billed passively, but if you ask for a pay increase or even hint at unionizing, you're informed that it's isn't possible or even fired. They pull these bullshit metrics about "generating value" using panopticon time tracking surveillance from scrum/Agile daily standups. Paying a team of parasitic micromanagers/project managers to bust the developers balls every morning to make sure they're getting their money's worth is unquestioned. The biggest salary bump comes from having another job lined up and using it as collateral. Like a hostage situation.
Underpaid at my current job so as a benefit I steal whatever I can and take multiple breaks. Yesterday I fell asleep in my car for 40 minutes and no one knew I was gone.
It's not even that I want to do this, it's just that any decent job is only accessible through nepotism and I don't have the connections.
I'm rewriting my resume and lying my ass off tho so we'll see what happens.
You see, its not that they don't want to compensate employees well, it's just that, at the end of the day, we'll surely they can afford to pay them, but you see its just the precedent of paying employees well. They don't want new employees to have such high expecatations, you see.
Nobody wants to pay poorly, but, of course, what if an employee takes 5 minutes off? That time and pay is then entirely wasted, unconscionable. But AWS services? They don't take breaks so the exorbitant costs to the company are completely justified and not wasted my good man.
So much money gets absolutely thrown away into AWS it's absolutely mind boggling. This is the case at literally every company I've ever seen using the services. Every single project blows thousands of dollars on instances they don't need bc otherwise a developer might have to know how to run a database server out of the office closet.
I’m just a poor, lowly data analytics guy but I know our tech team uses AWS and has like 3 or 4 instances running atm. Reading this thread is making me question the efficacy of that lol
almost as if capitalism is made to optimize for the worst least efficient result that benefits the fewest possi-NAH lol no capitalism's great and everything's fine and there's no such thing as global warming. everythings fine.
May I suggest copying this over to a post on r/antiwork? It is very good for anticapital propaganda purposes
I always got a bad vibe from them, not sure what it is. Maybe it's like they Are anti captialism without an ideology and that easy for them to have some bad takes. Maybe it's just me.
You're definitely not wrong.
From what I've seen it's full of people who are just realizing that the US is in decline and the machine is soul-threshing everyone in an attempt to maintain itself. Especially since it's reddit, they could really go any direction.
But it has like 225k subs and they recently put [this] on the front page with 55k votes, that's some serious momentum. Anything that can get the concept of exploitation within a socialist framework to the FP on a social media site is worth a look IMO
of all the awful things amazon does, taking money from small/medium business parasites is possibly the one I’m not mad about. fuck these people. fuck their aspirations. anything that lets them fuck themselves over is Good Actually as far as I’m concerned.
I'd agree except the people getting the money are somehow even worse.
Serious post: the two reasons that middle management care more about labour costs vs server costs are as follows.
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It's much easier to justify tech expenses to upper management than it is to justify salary increases. This is because even if middle management is tech smart (unlikely but happens sometimes) their bosses definitely won't be. All those people see are a spreadsheet with % increases compared to last year, where one figure is 'that fellow down the hall who sits at a computer all day' and the other figure is 'money we pay Amazon so all our shit works'. Getting gouged by another business is familiar territory; big raises for employees isn't.
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Two years down the line, you've spaffed a load of money up the wall. If you've given everyone raises, you might have to cut shareholder profits. If you're wasting all that money on AWS, you can always look to negotiate a reduction or switch services. (It doesn't really work out that way in practice, but from a tech-illiterate perspective that seems like a more palatable option).
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The minimum DigitalOcean VPS is $5 a month for 1cpu, 1gb RAM, and 25gb SSD. I can easily scrape better than that out of a dumpster for free. Its basically the consistent high-speed network connection that's what's needed. But ISPs suck shit.
How much is AWS default?
Around 11$ for the same on AWS.
If you go for bare metal servers, AWS is actually over four times as expensive because they sell hyperthreads and not actual cores.
Do people buy that because they perform better over the network or is because they include all sorts of tools?
It's not really any better over the network, and in most cases the tools aren't used, but part of it is brand recognition, another part is to say that you have experience in AWS, and sometimes it is indeed the tools - though you should never use them.
I would've compensated myself with that amount of ignorance displayed by whoever does the accounting. 2k/m on servers can get you some nice GPU instances to mine on 😈
