Employee shortages: Where have all the workers gone?

Re:Employee shortages: Where have all the workers gone? by FooBarBizBazz on Saturday July 31, 2021 @09:53AM (#28018135)

I dunno. I get the same vibe from medicine. MDs in particular. Less so the further down the food chain you go. (Part of that is culture. The bottom is composed of immigrants who still act like normal human beings.) I think it's something that's more broadly acculturated among the highly educated and high-achieving. Or just selected for whenever competition is fierce.

I also did not get this feeling from other technology industries that weren't "Tech". Places full of PhDs, but disconnected from the SV culture. And frankly, less motivated by money and more by lifestyle.

Maybe it all boils down to money. There's too much money in Tech. It attracts the worst, and brings out the worst.

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Re:Employee shortages: Where have all the workers gone? by ChrisMarshallNY on Saturday July 31, 2021 @01:29PM (#28020041)

> There's too much money in Tech. It attracts the worst, and brings out the worst.

That is my thesis.

In New York, we have the finance industry, which is just as bad (if not worse).

It has also been like this for most of a century. That does not bode well for Tech improving.

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Re:Employee shortages: Where have all the workers gone? by shrimp_emoji on Saturday July 31, 2021 @05:39PM (#28021783)

Web dev, specifically.

That's where ALL the money is, and it's where the worst culture (and worst tech) is, imo. :p

I mean, hell, why else would anyone learn React? $$$$$$

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