oh
my neck there's been this strain on it
just from coding all night oh
i can't feel like i can't breathe
why is it that only programmers are the
ones who are always working here stuck
in front of the computer all the time
with
this crazy neck strain somebody helped
the system
it is oppressing me you know it's not
it's not fair
it's not equal i see those people the
sales people hr people they're just
leaving work early having a good time
they're always going to happy hour early
leaving work at 5pm
whereas us programmers we're just stuck
here
beaten down by the system literally this
system this linux system is impossible
to use
i can't get anything to install right
there's all this crazy stuff here
nothing's working we're talking about so
many
deeply ingrained issues with this system
systemic bias against programmers that
are making our lives harder but not
those of say the managers the hr and
sales people
like those people they're always walking
around the office having one-on-one
chats
relaxing and meeting rooms cruising
around the micro kitchens
whereas i'm just stuck here at my desk
being beaten down by the system
my neck is so sore and i'm forced to
just sit here
like in a jail cell as a programmer and
the thing is
this system this computer system that
was meant to protect
people like me is hurting me and you
know just because i'm a programmer
shouldn't mean that i need to take an
unequally large amount of screen time
than anybody else that's not equality
that's
programmers and it should not be legal
as a programmer i'm demanding for equal
pay for equal screen time
so if a manager or sales person is not
sitting at the computer for the same
number of hours as i am
then they should not be getting the same
pay as i'm getting look
you are a programmers and your friends
are programmers and i just don't need to
take this anymore
as for me i'm not a programmer because
i'm a programmer i can't be programmist
against myself
but all of these other people out there
i'm surrounded by people who are just
attacking me all the time i'm talking
about hr
brutality they're threatening to kill me
my job at least
there's nothing to fire me that should
not be legal and meanwhile as i'm here
suffering working harder than everybody
else they're out there they're not even
working half as hard as me and they're
having a great life
going out to dinners early getting off
work early and it's not fair that i am
stuck here and so what i am seeking is
equality of outcome on screen time
i shouldn't have to sit here in front of
the screen for eight hours a day 10 or
12 hours a day
everybody's screen time should be
equalized okay
and so you know what i'm doing i'm
writing i'm protesting i'm just
i'm just trashing this whole thing i'm
trashing this place you know and like
i'm just gonna take stuff you know like
maybe i can take this
right maybe i can take this keyboard i
can i'll take this what else can i take
here what else can i get
maybe i can grab this stuff and then the
rest i don't know i just trash it
whatever
i'm starting this movement programmer
lives matter because
manager supremacy needs to end now
managers hr and software engineers we
should all be equal
and as for testers well they're one
level behind us i mean we're all equal
but those testers
we'll just say they're less equal than
the rest of us and you know whatever who
cares about
they're fine let's see what else what
else can i do here to trash the place
maybe i can just just delete all of the
files here
yeah that'll show them so as these files
are being deleted i just want you to
understand that
i did not ask to be born this way as a
programmer
and because of that we need to equalize
this across
everybody because it was not by choice
and i have uncovered
systemic bias against programmers
because it is distorting our necks and
making us highly unpopular types of
people with arrogant egos
and this forced us to this life of
basically being inside the jail cell
where we have to just
in front of the computer screen all the
time and that's not fair
and so i feel that my feelings have been
hurt i'm hurt
and i need help i need empathy do you
have empathy for me
give me stuff i want something you know
like just anything i'll take it
money privilege exclusive rights access
to things that nobody else should have
access to
just giving me free jobs and stuff like
i just take whatever and as for other
people who are born as say
i don't know people who are born as
plumbers electricians doctors
lawyers ux designers or those those
disgusting testers
well i mean we can equalize across
everybody but again
as i mentioned those testers are going
to be one level below the rest of us
because we're all equal they're just a
little bit less equal than everybody
else
okay and so anyways i feel that in order
to make things right for the past 50
years or so in which programmers have
existed
that we need to just you know make it up
to me
right like you guys can do stuff for me
make it up because really if you think
about it
it hasn't been fair this time so maybe
you can get your
children to pay me something and your
future generations can just help
pay for the crimes of your ancestors
like for example you can give me their
job i know that i'm not entirely
qualified to be like
the president of the united states but
if we can just guarantee me
that type of job or like let's just say
that the next president has to be
guaranteed to be a programmer because
you know programmers were like this
minority group right there's not many of
us out there
and we've been disparaged we've been
caught so many slurs like nerd
anti-social webmaster and we didn't
deserve that
but that's not right and so i think that
to make things right we should just
elevate the programmers
to the next level like let's just let's
just fire all of the hr people and
managers
and give programmers their jobs i'm sure
we'll be qualified enough right like and
if not then
who cares it's fine and so to all of the
programmers out there i invite you to
join me
in the programmer lives matter movement
we need to retake control let's fight
against
this system and i literally mean this
operating system
because it's got a monopoly on our lives
and it is dominating us it is oppressing
us i've been trapped trying to just
install a simple package on linux
and there's like 50 different
dependencies and i'm still trying to get
through all of those and each of those
dependencies have other dependencies and
compatibility issues and
it's not right so join me in this
movement programmer lives matter
and let's just let's just start trashing
stuff you know like just trash this
place trash everything steals
stuff maybe just grab stuff grab some
pens and papers some notepads
take some stuff maybe delete some files
you know i don't know you know cause
trouble destroy property
anything goes you know because we need
to stop all of the programmers
out there this movement is about
equality
freedom justice react native big data
machine learning augmented reality
internet of things
oppression brutality the first amendment
the eighth amendment
censorship censorship don't censor me
this is the fight of our generation we
need to make a stand
right here right now for humanity for
programmers
and for software engineers worldwide
except for
software engineers and tests because
those are the qa guys the testers in
we don't they're equal but they're just
a little bit less equal than us
anyway somebody's got to do the work
huh oh wait these are my own files all
right welcome back
techlee tarot was that fun did you enjoy
that no
not really before i show myself the door
i wanted to take this moment to give you
my thoughts on the whole black lives
matter movement but overall i just feel
that this movement
encompasses so many different things to
have people against police brutality
anti-racism and these are all great
causes to support and
no man should be killed at the hands of
police who are supposed to be there to
protect and to serve people
there's a lot of corruption going on
over in the police force
and so while these are worthy causes you
also have protesters
rioters looters anarchists the whole
binding camp democrats you have
frustrated people at the way the
government handled the pandemic you have
jobless people who are bored and just
need the excuse
some reason to get out of the house you
have students and young people who are
easily influenced by black squares on
instagram and then last of all you have
influencers like myself
using this as an opportunity to gain
more views and attention
for themselves and so besides the fact
that when someone says they support this
movement it's not really clear what that
really means
doesn't mean that they support buy them
for president 2020
or does it mean that they support other
rioters and looters or does it simply
mean that they're against police
brutality in the general sense we don't
really know
and you could be rolled up into
supporting a cause that you don't
entirely agree with not to mention that
so far a lot of the solutions that i
have seen
have not really been precise so let me
show you some of the interesting
solutions i've seen surrounding this
number one is ubereats
they decided to offer free delivery only
to black owned restaurants
and i believe postmates did something
like this too and my concern is that
well this may be racist against all of
the other types of people out there
my opinion here is that it is unfair to
take away business opportunity
from one person and give it to another
person based solely on their skin color
not to mention these other restaurant
owners who you're taking opportunity
away from
they're not part of the white supremacy
movement they're not policemen they're
just other minority groups mostly or
they're just people struggling trying to
recover their own small businesses
they don't deserve to be treated this
way as an excuse for a company to
do some virtual signaling on social
media in addition there was similar news
here where
reddit board member alexis ohanian he
decides to resign and he wants to say
that his vacant mtc
has to be reserved for only a black
person there are so many other
discriminated minority groups out there
besides just black
and so my concern is that when you go
and hire somebody and you have a native
american a black person and a cancer
survivor
who do you hire well you just give it to
somebody based on their skin color
now aside from my own personal opinions
and concerns i'm sure people are just
trying to be kind and sympathetic to the
cause
this may simply be flat out illegal to
do discriminatory hiring based on
race color religion sex or national
origin according to title vii of the
civil rights act of 1964.
okay so allow me to illustrate this
point for you let's pretend that there's
this white person and they're just
dominating all of society just for
instance and let's say that there's this
other person down here and they're black
and so this person wants some more
privilege and you want to elevate this
person
up to just give them a helping hand and
that may be fine if these are the only
two people that exist within this system
however you have to recall that there
are so many other different types of
people like there may be a yellow person
over here
there may be a brown person over here
and you know speaking of which brown
people
are not really helped by this whole uber
eats movement right where they're giving
a lot of privilege and discounts
to just the black people this brown
person is going to be left out
okay and so you've also got other types
of people like maybe there's a black
person here but they happen to be albino
and so their skin is
pale in comparison does that person
qualify as black
well maybe not not to mention i don't
even think that we should be classifying
people based on skin color anymore it's
such an outdated concept
and there are so many different types of
diversity out there diversity does not
just mean
black for example maybe we have a cancer
survivor here
and this person they're going to have
certain perspectives that are going to
be very valuable for everybody
right so i'll draw a red cross here and
there's going to be other types of
people as well like there could be
somebody who's really fat
there could be someone who's really
skinny there could be a top person there
could be a short person
and everybody is going to bring a
different set of perspectives to the
table
there could also be this black guy who
just happens to be extremely
rich because he happens to be will
smith's kid
and at the same time there could be this
white person here who just happens to be
really poor because they grew up in a
very poor community and so they're
homeless so we'll draw a trash can for
this person here and of course we also
have the lgbtq community so we'll draw a
gay person here with a rainbow and
speaking of which
where is the lgbtq community and all of
this normally they're causing an uproar
all over the place a lot of people out
there they're being excluded from this
and so in my opinion what we should do
is just say you know what let's just
raise everybody up
right it's going to take way too long
and be way too slow to wait for
everybody to get their turn at this
not to mention giving privilege to
certain types of people based only on
skin color is not a precise solution and
could even make the situation
worse like for example let's pretend
that we take this black person and just
elevate them up
well now you've got two people ruling
everybody and everybody else is just
losing
double the amount of opportunity and
they are suffering double the amount of
racism
you take a look at those small
restaurant owners who are owned by say
middle eastern people
not only are they likely facing police
brutality but they're also getting their
business taken away from them based on
their skin color
and i would say that if you really want
to offer a helping hand to minority
groups
that you distinguish based on say social
economic class
language ability geography income level
perspectives or cultural background
because if you only classify based on
something as shallow as skin color
you could be helping the wrong people
like say black people you help this
person but you also help will smith's
kid who's rich and you also
leave out this black albino person who
maybe has a pale skin
and doesn't fit your classic image of a
token black guy within your company and
you may just reject this person based on
their skin color in an unfair manner and
i'm not the only one who thinks so there
are tons of people out there with
thousands of likes on posts saying that
these solutions that offer employment
business advantage or privilege
based on skin color is just not legal so
i'm going to leave it at that and i'm
not going to get too political about
this
maybe i'm right maybe i'm wrong just
some food for thought for you guys
either way something to consider hope
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