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550 points polskibus | 3 comments | 08 Feb 19 16:04 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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locklock ◴[08 Feb 19 16:47 UTC] No.19116039[source]▶
I'm really thankful I haven't yet had a job where all I'm developing is new ways to force people to see ads. Imagine working on a 'feature' like this for weeks or months, and the end result is simply that people who don't want to see ads now have to see ads.
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badgers ◴[08 Feb 19 16:58 UTC] No.19116176[source]▶
That reminds me of a quote about dentistry: "You're in a career where nobody wants to see you and you're the last place they want to come back to and it's depressing." (https://tonic.vice.com/en_us/article/5344jz/are-dentists-rea...)
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1. ethbro ◴[08 Feb 19 17:48 UTC] No.19116760[source]▶
One of my father's quips, "There are only two kinds of jobs: those where everyone is happy to see you, and those where everyone is mad to see you. Be the UPS delivery person, not the process server."
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2. majewsky ◴[08 Feb 19 18:47 UTC] No.19117393[source]▶
That was from a different time, right? By now, package delivery people also has a pretty bad reputation due to the profit pressures exerted on them by capitalists. I don't really feel happy seeing a delivery guy. If anything, I feel sorry for them.
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3. ethbro ◴[08 Feb 19 19:59 UTC] No.19118073[source]▶
It was a quip, not a 20 page treatise on absolute accuracy. ;)