Linda…

I mean, everything has tripled in price and the reason is corporate greed.

I know they make a joke about Tom in office space being the one who brings the specs from the customers to the engineers - as much as it looks like he’s dead weight, there really is a skill in being able to explore the customer’s needs (and frequently manage their expectations of what the proposed software should be and do) and parse them into something more technical for the engineers, because you might not know how to program, but you’ve got a good idea of what the capabilities are because you communicate with the engineering team on a daily basis.

Throw it on the pile of solutions we’ll never have because the treatment is more profitable than the cure.

I definitely thought they were talking about Amazon the company and not The Amazon.

Yeah, I definitely had a knee-jerk reaction to that headline but the follow-up thought was “Well, if NASA is commissioning them it’s probably with more justification than a fashion statement.”

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When I started at the company I currently work for, my then manager saw how hard I was working and negotiated an 11% raise on my behalf during my first annual review, and another 10% following. She was cool as hell and protected me from the upper management bullshit that was going on at the time. She left because they had her working 65+ hours every week for a CEO who was/is pissing away the company’s capital and goodwill with clients.

My current manager is the bullshit, I haven’t had a raise since my old manager left three years ago and I’ve been looking off and on for something else while I steadily lower my effort to be commensurate with my effective pay.