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Re:A note on programmer salaries by acchow on Friday August 11, 2017 @03:10AM (#14987297)
As software engineers in America, you have quite a great deal of financial freedom. No one is coercing you into accepting a job offer because life is hard and you just don't have the time to shop around for job offers.

If both parties sign an agreement with complete agency, who is getting abused? How can it be "unfair" if you both parties freely agreed to the exchange?

Re:A note on programmer salaries by majewsky on Friday August 11, 2017 @05:33AM (#14987967)
That's assuming that job openings are aplenty. The reality in most cases is that if the company doesn't like me, they can just wait for the next candidate. But if I don't like the company, it doesn't really matter because I need to pay the bills next month.

(inb4 "What happened to your fuck-you money?" As if it's always the employee saying "fuck you".)