Dumb story time from web fishing:
I join a server room titled as a women's zone
Convo is lighthearted talk about furries and how cringe is good and fun.
A man joins the conversation.
Convo turns to older gacha games.
Guy casually mentions he has spent 24k on gacha games.
He immediately gets dunked on.
I say he sounds like a spoiled cybertruck owner.
Dude gets mad not at the cybertruck comment, but at being called spoiled.
Says I don't know any better because he calls his work a career while I call mine a job.
He openly admits without anyone nudging him on that he's a 26 year old veteran that got free college and now gets paid 300k a year to program... if he's to be believed.
We start calling him a war criminal.
Guy thinks he can own me by buying games for the chat. I tell him I don't need his blood money.
Some gal gets like a $60 game for free and he tells me how owned and mad I am.
I tell him I would feel sorry for him being this lonely if he wasn't a war criminal.
Guy starts misgendering everyone that called him a war criminal.
He immediately gets kicked and everyone is relieved.
I get to stay and naturally the convo becomes a lot more relaxed and gay.
I'm getting ripped off
The guy I replaced got a job making about 250k and for a moment I thought I could do it, but then I remembered that guy is actually smart and understands everything he does while I just copy other people's code and beg copilot for answers. I might be able to trick someone into hiring me for one of those high salary gigs, but surely I would expose myself as a fraud and get fired.
This is how you advance in white collar jobs, not get fired
Just dump any actually difficult work onto the junior engineers
A lot of you are