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Re:Salary transparency at Stack Overflow by caminante on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @01:46PM (#12174958)
From a "job security" lens, the sysops crew needed to keep the site up will be the last to go during downsizing.
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Re:Salary transparency at Stack Overflow by Sharlin on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @02:50PM (#12175538)
There are plenty of managers with the "why are we paying them when everything just works?" mentality.
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Re:Salary transparency at Stack Overflow by Natsu on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @06:15PM (#12176902)
Yeah, firefighting is a more visible show of "value" to those not directly involved than reliability is, because nobody at too many places likes to ask why we're always fighting fires in the first place.
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Re:Salary transparency at Stack Overflow by bpchaps on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @02:38PM (#12175439)
Not always. I was one of the only devops/linux admin at a past job and was in one of the first rounds of layoffs. It's a bit dangerous to think that just because you're critical, you're immune - on paper, you're probably also one of the most costly.
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