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Stack Overflow Survey: 80% of developers are unhappy (shiftmag.dev)
submitted 13 hours ago by mesamunefire@lemmy.world to c/programming@programming.dev
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[–] explodes@lemmy.world 61 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

I would say 80% of employees are unhappy, but I don't have any data to back this up.

[–] sorval_the_eeter@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Every job lately seems to have been infected by Meta/google "data driven" leadership. Its so painful and wasteful sometimes.

[–] SpeakinTelnet@programming.dev 25 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

Can confirm. Was quite unhappy in my mechanical engineering job, had an opportunity to develop something nice in python, was told we'd do it in excel/vba instead, still unhappy.

[–] sorval_the_eeter@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Nice. You can put that on your resume so you can get more of those kinds of jobs.
(/s. I like excel to a point but i really feel your pain too-- and fuck vba)

[–] lime@feddit.nu 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

excel has python support now! you may still get away with it

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

It's cloud based though... Not ideal. I get why they had to do that (they didn't want to expose people to the Python infra shit show) but it's still kind of a shame.

Would be better if they added Typescript support IMO.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 1 points 3 hours ago

...like the js infra stuff isn't it's own special nightmare?

[–] MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub 10 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Or maybe 80% of people are unhappy. No data here either

[–] Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 7 hours ago

80% seems too high, but the US Surgeon General declared a loneliness epidemic https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/surgeon-general-social-connection-advisory.pdf

And Gallup claims that 29% of Americans have been diagnosed with depression at one point: https://news.gallup.com/poll/505745/depression-rates-reach-new-highs.aspx

So... That is not good. It is almost like humans evolved to live in tight knit, walkable communities.

[–] anonymous@lemm.ee 1 points 7 hours ago

80% of beings in the multiverse