Current Events > Beware of the I.T. Industry

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For some reason they all pursue this same ideology even though it only works for a few CEOs who all engage in wage fixing to prevent others from rising up those corporate ladders. It's pretty sad what has happened to IT all-around, it has turned into a semi-bullshit advertising industry with tech used as the punchline.

and if it's not a semi-advertising industry, it operates today like some wild west robber baron capitalist scheme where they try to get a few steps ahead of the law in order to make big bank then the business model is that as soon as laws are put into place to prevent the kind of abuse they have been up to they will have all the money to be able to buy off the politicians and insert the loopholes necessary to continue doing what they do (aka Amazon).

what's also annoying is that they all hop onto the same trends at the same time they see Palmer Luckey making a deal with Facebook now all of a sudden every company and his dog wants a VR headset never mind that none of them have an idea how to make this a lasting business. Nintendo makes a bit of money with a NES Classic - all of a sudden everybody and their dog needs some stupid mini classic console as well there is scarcely few out there with an original thought or strategy in their minds and the same 'pundits' that would tell you 'oh a NES Classic won't ever sell - niche'.

as soon as it sells they are all going 'oh yeah here's where the crazy money is at - let's make a clone immediately'

When it comes to Open Source Software, Valley/big IT players ever proving much use to us or helping us in any way they just exploit and parasitize off open source software, they don't do anything to support it. In fact the entire aim seems to deprive it of oxygen and then redirect it so there is something for them to monetize.

Just look at OpenSSL, No one cared and was happy to leech off the unpaid labor until the devs couldn't keep up and then all of sudden big tech puts on this show.

If anything I think these companies are cynical and taking the piss along with the employees that work for them that want to blow smoke up your ass about this BS. That is why some people are taking no shit anymore from these guys. There are no bridges to build here anyways with these types - there is only a bridge that leads to an abandoned house where as soon as you enter, you get trapped in it and you get engulfed in flames and burned alive that's all you have to look forward to.

- Someone I know who has been there, and knows the ins and outs of the industry
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For any of you interested in the I.T. Career, I'm just giving you a heads up because I don't want you all trapped in that situation.

Just be careful who you work for is all.
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I work for a general tech support / web development company and I can confirm 100% that the prices customers get charged are absolute ripoffs. The worst of all is when it comes to SSL certificates and antivirus programs; what you're paying for those is something like 90% profit for your tech person (or their boss) in most cases.

I've actually been wondering whether I should go solo. I could charge half what the big companies charge, produce a comparable result, and still be raking in the $$$.
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DarkTransient posted...

I work for a general tech support / web development company and I can confirm 100% that the prices customers get charged are absolute ripoffs. The worst of all is when it comes to SSL certificates and antivirus programs; what you're paying for those is something like 90% profit for your tech person (or their boss) in most cases.

I've actually been wondering whether I should go solo. I could charge half what the big companies charge, produce a comparable result, and still be raking in the $$$.

If I recall I think they tried or (may have) laws preventing people from tying to undercut companies but I'm not entirely sure if that is countrywide or just by specific states.
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Kaliesto posted...

DarkTransient posted...

I work for a general tech support / web development company and I can confirm 100% that the prices customers get charged are absolute ripoffs. The worst of all is when it comes to SSL certificates and antivirus programs; what you're paying for those is something like 90% profit for your tech person (or their boss) in most cases.

I've actually been wondering whether I should go solo. I could charge half what the big companies charge, produce a comparable result, and still be raking in the $$$.

If I recall I think they tried or (may have) laws preventing people from tying to undercut companies but I'm not entirely sure if that is countrywide or just by specific states.

I'm not in the US, and there's no such law here. As long as I'm using my own codebase (not stealing it from the company I previously worked for) I'm pretty much able to do whatever the heck I want.

The biggest issue is that I'm too lazy to bother.
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