Class consciousness for programmers
As programmers and IT professionals are high-skilled professionals it seems that class consciousness gets hidden away from us in most part of the time mainly because there's a shortage of IT professionals what make companies find alternative ways to explore your force of work, they offer perks that are not necessarily good for example dinner but to get it you need to stay until late at work, you get mental-health support because you will certainly need it to not get burned-out after the high demanding amount of work you need to perform on tasks that don't make any sense and have no purpose besides letting a few people rich, companies make millions to trillions exploring our qualified workforce and gives just a few thousands per year, by the end of the day it doesn't matter if we are high-skilled or just a factory worker we are explored the same way.
Alienation
One of the main concepts for programmers to understand is alienation, it started with the industrial revolution and basically, a work of building a product as a whole in previous industrial models get changed to each worker in a line responsible for a single part of the project that at the end of the line gets assembled together and forms a product.
These companies explore their workers by alienating them because now they are not the ones that build the product they are the ones responsible for an insignificant part of the product, and they can easily get replaced if they don't agree with the terms of the company they work for.
In software development, this happens a lot but in a different way, for example, working in a big bureaucratic company that uses microservices and has thousands of employees each one responsible for a few services or projects doing irrelevant and insignificant tasks in each one of them to make sure to convince you that you are a part that can be replaced and that your work is not as worth as you wanted it to be.
And with alienation also explains why the easiest way to get a raise is by quitting your job and going to work for another company because for them once you get on the line you aren't more special than any other worker.
Bureaucracy
Let me guess the company you work for has a lot of kafkanian bureaucratic processes not just to join but to do anything in the company. Kafka depicts bureaucracy as something immoral and obscene because this is what it is. For example, when you log in on social media this is a step that is bureaucratic but necessary, and it's not obscene if you work for a company that puts lots of layers of bureaucracy that look obscene to you and makes you think the reason behind all that, well it is because they want you inert in the process that wants to take out your energy and will to react little by little because for them to get rich they need you in your place in the line getting less than you deserve doing meaningless stuff to make money for a caste of corporate a**holes.
Now that I'm on vacation out of the rat race, I see that I almost got burned out for doing meaningless stuff and everything is so clear to me that they want to eat my liver and think I should say thank you to them after it.
The corporate ladder is a rat race where's the winner(you little mouse) dies in the rat trap, companies can not take the hit of pressure now that the market is begging for IT professionals It's time to show them that the ones who have the power to dictate the rules are the workers that made the company grow and profitable, being them high skilled or not.
I'm not taking this shit anymore!!
