Gitlab to lay off 7% of staff

Re:Gitlab to lay off 7% of staff by mardifoufs on Thursday February 09, 2023 @12:02PM (#34727126)

Engineers are still not proles lol. And they will never be, so it's always funny to hear a bunch of highly paid SWE talk like they are class conscious workers. In reality, most are thoroughly professional managerial class, with 0 connection to anything close to labor.

It's even funnier when that discourse seem to mostly happen when firings happen, as if losing your highly-paid cushy job makes you a proletaire.

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Re:Gitlab to lay off 7% of staff by ye-olde-sysrq on Thursday February 09, 2023 @12:08PM (#34727217)

"with 0 connection to anything close to labor."

Except for the part where if you get fired, a countdown starts for when you become homeless and then starve? Especially in the US?

"professional managerial class"

are still labor, since their primary expression of economic power is through the sale of their labor.

Stop trying to drive class division.

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