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Tech workers react to UPS drivers landing a $170,000 a year package with a mixture of anger and admiration
(www.businessinsider.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Because the engineer is being exploited and refuses to unionize.
Bitch, UPS workers work harder than I ever did as an electronics engineer.
As someone who has worked as a UPS driver and now as a software developer, I can say that the UPS drivers definitely work harder than your average engineer.
That quote is also deftly ignoring the fact that you’re generally paid for the value you generate, not how hard to you work.
Generally you're paid the least they can get away with (with some variance in what they think that is).
It generally requires a union to get paid closer to the value you generate.