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

  • Auzy@beehaw.org
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    1 month 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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      1 month 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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      1 month ago

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

      • NorthWestWind@lemmy.world
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        1 month 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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    1 month 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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    1 month 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.