I know the leftist in me is supposed to have sympathy for these people and get them to unionize. But only after I stop laughing and enjoying this moment. For years these fucks told the rest of us to “learn to code” and pretended like studying anything else at uni was a fucking waste of time.
GUESS WHAT FUCKERS. SO WAS CODING. Looks like we’ll be baristas together, only I’ll have three years of experience!!!
probably? it's just the only place to get work right now. if/when the money spigot turns back on, I'll go back to something with fewer ethical issues, but right now I just need work. plus my position is pretty bullshit so I'm pretty sure I'm just receiving money. like my job is so abstracted away from what actually earns them money and so focused idealistic platitudes that it's hard to see how it improves their ability to do much of anything. but yeah, not claiming it's ethically great.
That's fair enough, sorry if my comment sounded judgemental.
no it's all good, I went through this with my wife when I took the job. I was against it until I realized this. it also helped that their majority money maker is "providing liquidity to the market" - which means they're doing arbitrage against other financebros and I give way less of a fuck.