Doing the Bare Minimum at Work

>work hard >keep learning new things on my free time because I enjoy programming >my code gets noticeably better over time >people that have been working here for longer than me get the same raise when they have shown zero improvement in years That was it for me. Now I do the bare minimum and slack off as much as I can while learning technologies we don't even use on company time.

A dark-themed text post lists a programmer’s dedication to hard work, learning, and improving their code, followed by the realization that less productive coworkers receive the same raise. The punchline is that the programmer stops overachieving and begins doing the bare minimum while studying irrelevant technologies during work hours. It is used as a cynical reaction to unfair workplaces and the lack of reward for extra effort.

• @gentoomemes / 5676 2023-08-05