agressivelyPassive

It's all the other parts that might get dirty. Mine has a tendency to form bubbles, which means starchy foam can get around this metal disk above the pot and starches everything. I have to disassemble everything to get it really clean again.

This seems to be more about finding instances, less about actually posting localized.

BTW: why is feddit.uk hosted in Germany according to this site? I thought they brexited?

On the other hand, reinventing the wheel isn't really great, either.

Part of the reason for bloat is the fact that frameworks and libraries became huge, a basic Spring Boot webserver is already gigantic.

I think, you completely misunderstand how jobs work for most people.

Your direct boss most likely can't fire you directly, but they assign you work. There's tons of boring, mind numbing work nobody wants to do. Guess who just volunteered for that? Same is true for shift planning. Just assigning you the shitty shifts nobody wants to do is perfectly legal. Even just completely ignoring you as a person is possible, and will grind you down.

You won't get a union to go on strike for that. And where is it (legally!) discrimination? Someone has to do the shift, after all!

You can rave about unions and laws all you want, but being an asshole is not illegal, so if your boss acts like one, there's nothing you can do.

Some.

We're not talking about total conversion of all office spaces. Even if just 5% of the vacant offices can be converted, that's already 5% less office space to worry about. Let the market decide.

Not really. The office market is not that huge and the vacancies overall are also not that bad. It's not like every single office is suddenly empty.

On the flip side: where these offices are located, housing is extremely expensive, so you could transform some offices to apartments, pivot projects currently in construction and maybe even demolish some older buildings.

These headlines are just a sign that the current management class is utterly incapable of reacting to anything but "line go up". They can't understand that they can't exploit their way out of this for once.

I'm not sure whether it would work better today.

What seems odd about the glasses is that they're essentially bodycams, but just unobtrusive enough not to be identified as such from a distance.

Someone walking around with an AR headset makes it very clear they're wearing a tech device, someone holding up a phone in front of them signals "I might be filming", but someone wearing slightly unusual glasses won't catch any attention. And that seems very weird to a lot of people.

In theory.

Any boss with half a brain will find other ways to either fire that person, make their life miserable, or simply make it very clear, that they're not going to get any promotions, pay rises, etc. from them.

A bad boss can make your life hell, complete within his rights.

The problem is, that many employees are not in a position to ignore their bosses. Making it downright illegal to call after-hours is the only way to enforce this.

I think it's also a question of how you position yourself. Without noticing it, I've developed a kind of "will to power" in the sense that I want to shape the product we're working on. So instead of just sitting in my corner and working on ticket after ticket, I'm actively seeking conversations with stakeholders to find out, whether it even makes sense to implement it as described in the ticket, or propose new ideas, etc.

Also, my mother taught me (by virtue of being completely untechnical) how to explain complex problems and systems in a way that non-technical people understand. So if "a developer" was needed, management often enough volunteered me.

I could pull myself mostly out of this stuff, but I'd get even more frustrated not being able to at least try to make things a bit better. So I'm putting on the headset once more.

But programming is definitely more open to the idea of people just showing up and claiming to know stuff. You wouldn't trust Steve to build a bridge just because he watched a bunch of engineering videos on YouTube.

In my experience, you're rather inaggerating. I'm not even 10y into my career and if I get to actually code for 2h a day, that's already a success. Most of my time nowadays is documentation, meetings, jira, research and calls with the clients.