I wasn’t thinking about actual white collar jobs in [current year] but the gen-x 90s - early 2000s pop culture trope of someone working in the corporate middle strata and getting an existential breakdown from it
Companies know how much revenue an employee generates.
Yeah for me I work in a team with 10 other devs, corporate knows how much revenue we as a department make, but breaking it down accurately per individual would be pretty much impossible, quantity metrics like tickets closed, commits or lines of code written are useless because some tickets are more important than others, some code is better quality which its not something you can really objectively measure accurately, and I’m sure similar applies to many other jobs
I wasn’t thinking about actual white collar jobs in [current year] but the gen-x 90s - early 2000s pop culture trope of someone working in the corporate middle strata and getting an existential breakdown from it
i don’t know, not always
Yeah for me I work in a team with 10 other devs, corporate knows how much revenue we as a department make, but breaking it down accurately per individual would be pretty much impossible, quantity metrics like tickets closed, commits or lines of code written are useless because some tickets are more important than others, some code is better quality which its not something you can really objectively measure accurately, and I’m sure similar applies to many other jobs