Our office drones are not "thinking" for half the day like you, and input and manipulate data. You could also include half these "managers" too who sit in an office sending emails all day, and never hit the shop floor.

[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Given that office drone would cover any job that isn't service, manufacturing or laborer, it's not exactly surprising that you'd find one. I'm a software developer.

It's almost always best to assume that other people's jobs actually take some form of skill, because they always do. People get paid for a reason. Otherwise you fall into the trap of calling huge swaths of work "unskilled labor" and thinking they don't deserve much pay, just because they're just moving stuff around on the shop floor.

What do you think those emails the managers are sending are, if not work?

[–] Minotaur@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A software developer!? On Lemmy!? Say it ain’t so

[–] ladfrombrad@lemdro.id 1 points 1 year ago

The old; how do you know someone is a software developer? Yup, they tell ya!

I think I really touched a nerve with that guy though, and it seems like they want to be an office drone instead of working from home (this is the bit where the "senior software devs + team manager" argue they need to collaborate, in person) with a nice life balance.

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