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God help us all

Fun story: I’m an electronics engineer and have been working as a manufacturing engineer for the last 15 years. The company I’m with right now is basically forced me into software development. I learned c++ and python in school but never really did much with them professionally, work on a bunch of side projects at home but software development has never been a part of my career until the last year and a half. I’ve been asked to start developing production tests and other production applications in our electronics assembly department. Mostly this is creating small python applications that program and test pcbas, nothing large maybe a half a dozen files and a couple thousand lines of code. But now they’ve asked me to start developing an integration with our erp and they want it to real time push production data from each bench, operator scans a PCB loads it into a jig presses a button it gets programmed and tested, “my” software reads the erp and pushes all of this information back into the erp slowly moving jobs forward eventually closing them out as operators hit counts. My new manufacturing execution software was written entirely with cloud code and is now two dozen files and almost 100,000 lines of code. No one at work cares. But it all works, we haven’t found any real problems yet. I’ve been encountering bugs as operators use the mes but it’s dumb stuff like not understanding operator behavior and trying to code around that, ie I didn’t log out I didn’t scan a unit I forgot to do x y or z… I am both incredibly impressed and insanely worried. This new system changes money in our erp, and no one who actually knows software development has ever looked at this ever.

And I am proud of you for that! Here here!

That’s not my narrative at all. What I am saying these people CHOSE to work at meta, hense are likey devoid corporate moral standings and would likely get swooped up by the next shitty company that wants to treat humans like profit cattle and since they’re STILL at meta, they would likely be okay with it. I’m not generalizing about high skill workers, I’m shitting on people who work at meta.

What a bunch of BS. Yeah, I’m sure people working at FACEBOOK are destitute and have no options for any other jobs or employment, they’re completely unskilled and just have no fucking options. /S with a CAPITAL S

Fucking disgusting. The people making these decisions should be responsible for every person this causes harm too.

Wow, what a way with words… Deadbedroom? Love it.

Got a non paywall version!? I am SO FUCKING TIRED OF PAYWALL ARTICLES. GET FUCKED IN TEN THOUSAND ASSES.

I wonder what the active dev community on Lemmy looks like? These are problems that could potentially have solutions?

I knew it was the beginning of the end when they dropped the free API access. Corporate enshitification.

I did not know what Lemmy was a couple weeks ago. Reddit pushed me out. I don’t want to be logged in or have an account with the way they harvest data. I got tired of weekly rotating ublock origin scripts and using incognito mode. You don’t want me if I’m not a willing data whore? Fine, I’m gone! I am now actively trying to NOT even look at reddit when a random Google search sends me there!