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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote] This attitude has got to stop. It has been taken to an extreme, to the point where my peers have such a sense of entitlement to their high salaries that I want to shake them and wake them up. How did this happen?[/quote]

I don't understand.  If someone is working to earn a salary, why wouldn't they be entitled to it? Why shouldn't they get paid for their work? Should they be working for free?
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The are entitled to a salary.  They are not entitled to the salary they desire.  Hell, I would like to make $1,000,000/yr.  I settle for my 200K.  That is what I am worth.  When I was the age of a millennial, I was paid from 11K + grad school tuition to 60K.

What pisses me off is when people come out and assume they are entitled to earn what I earn, but they are lacking the perspective and can make huge mistakes through the lack of experience.  As an example, a friend was working on an embedded systems project.  A junior programmer, on his own, decided that a different memory allocation function would be more robust.  That function brought in about 300Kb of libraries.  So what?  it is only 300Kb.  Well, this embedded system has to run for 2 years on a couple of D-cells, and thus only had 512K memory.  Every byte was precious.  It cost about 80K to find the problem.[/quote]

That's neither here nor there. I should be entitled to more if I work more.  If I work less or not at all, I should make less. [/quote]

How many hours you work is immaterial.  It is what you produce that matters.  [/quote]

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