Forgive the hastily made meme. All too common with us engineers.

  • Auzy@beehaw.org
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    5 months ago

    Ahh yes. I switched companies because some new sales guy I discovered was getting paid more than me after I was there 9 years.

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techOPEnglish
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      5 months ago

      I mean, I completely understand them. You just build the products. Running and building them doesn’t bring in money - that costs money! You know what brings in money? Sales. That’s why they deserve such huge amounts of money, because they’re bringing in money!

      /s if that isn’t horribly obvious. They never seem to connect that without a product there’s nothing to sell, do they?

    • MotoAsh@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      “… by the way, we’ve already sold that feature I made up to two customers, so …”

      • NorthWestWind@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        In an open source project, I worked with another younger dev who did this. It was not the way I wanted so I just didn’t do it.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Eng: so we were discussing this concept, and it’s something we might be able to put together in 6-8 months. Would th-

    Sales: HEY JIM LETS GO SELL THIS FUCKIN THING

    Eng: …what.

  • boonhet@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    Eh when sales says “we made this” it means the whole company in my mind, not them stealing the credit.

    Now we sales says “we’ll make this” is when you have a problem.