Bosses mean it this time: Return to the office or get a new job! — As office occupancy rates stagnate, employers are giving up on perks and turning to threats::undefined

  • makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    We posted for a support team member. Got over 200 applications. Many were programmers. Some quite senior. This is in Australia.

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      From certain perspectives it’s very hard to feel like it’s a job-seeker’s market. Programmers clamoring for a support role is a sign of people desperate to get a paycheck.

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        1 year ago

        Indeed. The position went to the most appropriately qualified for the job (great people skills, self managed, loves writing, good phone manner, etc). The overqualified / differently qualified (programmers for example) didn’t get a look in.

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          As it should be. But I feel bad for people who are forced to jeopardize their career to keep food on the table. The tech industry has some serious problems right now with the massive stock buybacks and executive salaries at the same time as layoff after layoff is happening. It’s all optimized for short-term stockholder value but not establishing a stable and cohesive workforce.

      • Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        I’d be curious to see how many of those programmers are overemployed (working multiple jobs secretly) and just blast their resume out to every IT job.

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          I know that’s a thing that happens but man, I like my free time too much to imagine ever doing it.

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      That’s crazy. We can almost never fill our support positions. Granted, the pay is nowhere near development salaries, so why would decent devs lower themselves to support roles?

      Source: been in support for almost a decade, not good enough to be an actual dev