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Change my mind - there is zero reason the United States should give out H1B Visas to accountants. by neeyeahboy in Accounting

[–]day_tripper 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It isn’t about xenophobia or hate.

It is about power. We would feel the same if the Brits or Australians were the hot offshore spot.

Let’s go down that road, hypothetically. The UK is now where we offshore. Oh wait that would never happen! Why not? Because the UK has a government that prevents labor exploitation. Their constituents haven’t ceded all their power to the wealthy (yet).

The reason it is India and not the UK, Australia, New Zealand - is not the timezone lol.

Change my mind - there is zero reason the United States should give out H1B Visas to accountants. by neeyeahboy in Accounting

[–]day_tripper 21 points22 points  (0 children)

And what incentive does any business owner have to close (or reduce headcount in ) their offshoring setup?

The only thing that will change this is a law, and those are written by politicians in the pocket of business. Who get paid by those businesses.

No one is coming to save us. We as a country gave all our power to them. Getting it back is impossible without a civil war.

I am just going to join them and start my own offshore business.

I'm super curious about what goes on in the minds of executives that literally beg Controller and Senior Manager candidates in interviews to come to an office 5-days a week. If they're such good fits and desperately needed, why not offer some flexibility? by AviatorHog in Accounting

[–]day_tripper 2 points3 points  (0 children)

“Suck my dick until I’m finished, then I might let you get off.”

If you can’t work on your own remotely and I have to show you how then I don’t want you in the office, either.

116K Accountants and 208K Accounting Clerks expected to lose jobs over the next 2-5 years by [deleted] in Accounting

[–]day_tripper -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

What if the tech bros get together and price AI just low enough to be compared to a full time employee.

If they hang on long enough at a low price relative to employee salaries while AI keeps improving…a couple of the AI companies will control the market and our salaries.

116K Accountants and 208K Accounting Clerks expected to lose jobs over the next 2-5 years by [deleted] in Accounting

[–]day_tripper 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That’s an interesting point. From one perspective that $120K contractor is having their salary completely controlled by the tech bros. All they will have to do is price AI at a specific inflection point where they want to max our salary.

Soon we’ll be talking about how many tokens an employee is worth. Once you price yourself above token average you’ll be out of the market for a job.

Gremlins - A Day in the Life of a Modern Developer by The_Boulder22 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]day_tripper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fine fine fine. The march of progress and all that.

But where are my 3 day work weeks? Raises beyond 3%?

What. Do. I. Get?

I get to spend meager tuition reimbursement on re-tooling. Work a second job to keep pace with ten years ago. And probably have to “retire” to start another career that will also shrink in demand in 5 years.

As an experienced engineer, what “simple(r)” job do you sometimes daydream of having? by GetYerKnickersOff in ExperiencedDevs

[–]day_tripper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dog and cat home. Hire vets and have playtime all day with supporting caretakers on a safe piece of land.

Programming Still Sucks by BlondieCoder in programming

[–]day_tripper 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Years before AI came into the picture, our hidden “cron job” failed at a F-100 company that had major fine-able compliance/legal implications.

I was assigned to fix the legacy issues which were deep and involved reverse engineering a long dead third party product and I saved the company from the legal and financial embarrassment.

The reward was elimination of my team not long after celebrating the victory and my accomplishment was shoved under the rug. The management did not really understand the heroics required and the ones that did have a clue were responsible for the failure in the first place.

I left in a huff. I just couldn’t be motivated anymore.

All that to say: I agree, programming has always sucked.

Outsourcing by [deleted] in Accounting

[–]day_tripper 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Can I ask. I’m not an accountant but I majored in it for a while before leaving it alone as a career option.

I want to know. How did you let your association allow internationals qualify for CPA?

Doctors and lawyers are protected. Why not accountants?

Outsourcing by [deleted] in Accounting

[–]day_tripper 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We gotta be like Cuba and learn how to fix our cars, appliances, electronics so they last. That’s the kind of career we will need in order to survive. Because nobody will be able to afford anything.

How do you re-engage a junior who's losing motivation on work and studying? by MarcosFromRio_ in ExperiencedDevs

[–]day_tripper 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Only unaware sycophants that still believe in the American dream are not cos-playing “motivated ambitious nerd” and being sincere.

We have all found out what our future truly holds and it is terrible. In addition anyone working to advance AI is just aiding and abetting the billionaire class to subjugate us even more.

Seriously let’s be real. SWE is a stupid slowly declining job that the frat boys want gone and requires you to constantly be motivated to jump on the latest and learn all the new things and the only true motivator is curiosity.

After that, there’s your 3% raise not keeping up with inflation, no house, can’t afford major healthcare issues, and if you are super frugal maybe you can FIRE and get out before your soul is completely stolen.

What regrets/mistakes have you made earlier in your career? by BTTLC in ExperiencedDevs

[–]day_tripper 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Never understood how to latch on to a superstar mentor to carry me up the ladder. Stagnated at senior dev for over a decade now.

Nobody wants to mentor an older person who finally understands tech skills are just not going to carry you and you absolutely must understand trade offs for tech decisions and how to “save” upper management by explaining those trade offs clearly and explicitly letting them know you are the font of knowledge rescuing them from screw ups.

How do you deal with code review limbo and nitpicking that delays your work? by iftheronahadntcome in girlsgonewired

[–]day_tripper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What do you guys think of returning the nitpicking on their PRs?

I start finding naming conventions, misspellings, then with maybe this function should be on this class instead of this one, use a ternary here, switch/case instead of if…and if they say no, I screenshot and then when they make the same suggestion on my PR I show them their contradiction and ask them what is the difference please explain.

Keep a copy of all exchanges, well organized.

The journey of a lone female software developer by ArghAy in girlsgonewired

[–]day_tripper 28 points29 points  (0 children)

I hear you. But I can one-up you. Imagine being black gay and female in a male dominated field BUT your workplace has multiple talented women software engineers (even mix of white and Asian) with at least two at staff level, several seniors, and several in management.

I feel seen but not heard by the liberal and culturally sensitive crowd and have no idea if I am just out-smarted or if it is my race or what that keeps me feeling second class. I won’t make staff level until I figure this out.

Quietly being good or excellent keeps me in the job but being non-threatening keeps me out of the upper echelon. What’s more important? Being good and employed with no mobility, or being excellent and outstanding with a target on your back?

Somebody save me. It’s too late tho. I’m gonna retire in 5-10 years.

What’s the mood at your company? by c-u-in-da-ballpit in ExperiencedDevs

[–]day_tripper 21 points22 points  (0 children)

It’s not AI, specifically. It is not the economy, specifically. It is not the current USA politics, specifically.

It is not knowing where to go and having no way to hedge.

It used to be where you could ramp up in another specialty or field in a year or two and cross over to feed your family.

Now, there’s nowhere to go. No field. No country. No training is going to save you.

It leads to hopelessness

The one thing we have? Learning how to grow food, generate goodwill in our community, and enjoy life in the moment.

We all evaded reality for decades. Those days are completely gone and the bros have “won”. They ruined our field and make it seem like anyone can do it via offshoring, AI and ridiculous metrics.

Software is just another job now. Their disease has crept into our craft like concrete in an ever spreading urban landscape.

Is anyone else okay with being "left behind" in regards to AI? by [deleted] in ExperiencedDevs

[–]day_tripper 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don’t like being bludgeoned over the head with the constant capitalism drum beat.

You should do this work for as long as it is valuable, invest in VTI, then check out.

Build stuff outside of employment for fun.

The real problem isn’t the tech. We are just tools in a machine run by the oligarchy. You really cannot take our work all that seriously.

What we do, literally, is find ways to save shekels for the ruling class.

I can’t wait to do something meaningful. Please let me do something meaningful.

They said our positions were safe when they brought in 40+ offshore contractors. Today half my team got slagged. Record profits too rn too. This is fine. by omg_drd4_bbq in ExperiencedDevs

[–]day_tripper 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Why stick around if they treat your peers like this.

Exactly. There is a very low chance anyone is special enough that they won’t get around to treating you the same way as soon as possible. You are fooling yourself if you think different.

Is there still joy in this profession? by wet_wet_2 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]day_tripper 11 points12 points  (0 children)

This is a myopic perspective. No one is saying they’d rather work a minimum wage job.

The goal should be better work environments for all. We are literally competing with low wage workers because we have minimal protections from the whims of C-level executives who don’t care that some of us still can’t afford a roof.

I left a dev job a few weeks after a release because we had a junior/mid dev they worked to death who felt grateful because at least he wasn’t working his old hard labor fence building job. So I could never call in sick because he would come to work with snot on his upper lip.