Rising anger over widespread layoffs, disillusionment with Big Tech, and threats of mass displacement by AI have tech pros taking a good, hard look at unions.
What I hate about IT is that you have to wear multiple hats. Not unique to IT in the slightest, but IT often has to do weird shit that IMO should not be at all in the job description. Management for some reason is convinced IT should be ok with doing physical labor to move shit around, should be ok to be part time logistics department, should be part time project manager, should be part time janitor, should be like HR, should be sales people, should be public speaker, should be part time QA, should be part time in legal, etc etc etc. It’s fucking ridiculous.
I just want to work with the tech. Get the people out of the fucking way. All I want is the tech ffs. It’s in my fucking title.
Omg, this. The part time legal thing is happening to me right now.
I’m building a small app for a (multimillion dollar) company. Nothing major. I tell the project manager: “hey, you guys need a EULA to publish in the app store. You can use the std apple one or write your own. Tell me what you want to do.”
This woman comes back to me with: “what do you think we should do?”
Like b#%^!, I don’t know! Why would you want me to tell you how define the legal relationship between you and your customers?
After some prodding, she forwards the request to legal and sends back a DRAFT EULA asks: “Can you review this?”
NO. I cannot review legal documents. I’m horrendously under qualified for that!!!
What I hate about IT is that you have to wear multiple hats. Not unique to IT in the slightest, but IT often has to do weird shit that IMO should not be at all in the job description. Management for some reason is convinced IT should be ok with doing physical labor to move shit around, should be ok to be part time logistics department, should be part time project manager, should be part time janitor, should be like HR, should be sales people, should be public speaker, should be part time QA, should be part time in legal, etc etc etc. It’s fucking ridiculous.
I just want to work with the tech. Get the people out of the fucking way. All I want is the tech ffs. It’s in my fucking title.
Omg, this. The part time legal thing is happening to me right now.
I’m building a small app for a (multimillion dollar) company. Nothing major. I tell the project manager: “hey, you guys need a EULA to publish in the app store. You can use the std apple one or write your own. Tell me what you want to do.”
This woman comes back to me with: “what do you think we should do?”
Like b#%^!, I don’t know! Why would you want me to tell you how define the legal relationship between you and your customers?
After some prodding, she forwards the request to legal and sends back a DRAFT EULA asks: “Can you review this?”
NO. I cannot review legal documents. I’m horrendously under qualified for that!!!
/end rant