The software industry has done everything in it's power to reduce technically competent people to Ticket Jockeys. Get The Ticket, Fix The Ticket, Push the Ticket. If you're very lucky the team will all get together and have Ticket Meeting, lead by an experienced Ticket Manager.
Typical coding day with Claude (Opus 4.8)
- explain to Claude the task (5 minutes)
- Claude implements task (10 minutes)
me: "Why is this necessary?"
Claude: "You're right to push back! I over-engineered this!"
- Repeat x87 times (13 hours)
Club backed a coach with nothing to his name over one of their own. Froze him out, stripped his shirt number while he was still contracted, sent him on loan, and fans prayed he’d fail so the “he’s washed” agenda sticks.
He’s a better man than me honestly cuz that betrayal hurts
Another clear example of the generational divide.
For many people, a job is exactly that: a job. You clock in, clock out, and use the remaining hours to build a future that actually belongs to you. The old social contract of "time in exchange for stability" effectively died the moment housing became unaffordable and meaningful career progression stalled out.
Gen Z understands this intuitively: they don't tie their identity to an employer, especially given most roles are viewed as temporary placeholders anyway. When the traditional path to ownership is blocked, the only rational move is to stop treating a cubicle like a career and start treating it like a specialized cash-flow hedge.
After all, if the employer has no loyalty to the person, isn't it delusional to expect the person to have a spiritual connection to the office?
Jobs need to understand that the only way to make me feel appreciated is to pay me what I’m worth and increase my salary over time. No amount of “lunch on me” or one-time bonuses is going to cut it.
🏴🗣️ Wayne Rooney: "If you brought in a Luis Enrique or Thomas Tuchel and they won 10 of of their first 14 games you would say that's incredible. So, just because Michael Carrick is a young, English manager it means it's not the right place to look in a lot of people's eyes."
"Michael Carrick is a clever person, he's a really good coach, and I think he can lead the team for however long he wants if he gets it right. It will be an interesting summer. For the first time in a long time Manchester United seem like they have a bit of calmness around the whole place and that's a good thing." (BBC)