I was shocked beyond belief at how employees are treated as machines and worse for not much pay.
My brother is a long-distance driver, and while on a short vacation (I'm a programmer) I took the chance of accompanying him in one of his job trips. While you sit in the right-sit as a passenger everything seems nice and beautiful, but then you notice the driver's stress of not making it in time, or how he just tries to "trick" the system "just that little" so that he'd make to the destination without exceeding the allowed gas limit, and lots of things like that. For comparison us programmers have it relatively easy.
It can be really stressful. Once I had to detour due to an accident. I forgot about it but was called in 3 months later and threatened with a firing if I couldn't explain it. Fortunately I remembered, but I learned after that to keep a personal log.
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My brother is a long-distance driver, and while on a short vacation (I'm a programmer) I took the chance of accompanying him in one of his job trips. While you sit in the right-sit as a passenger everything seems nice and beautiful, but then you notice the driver's stress of not making it in time, or how he just tries to "trick" the system "just that little" so that he'd make to the destination without exceeding the allowed gas limit, and lots of things like that. For comparison us programmers have it relatively easy.
It can be really stressful. Once I had to detour due to an accident. I forgot about it but was called in 3 months later and threatened with a firing if I couldn't explain it. Fortunately I remembered, but I learned after that to keep a personal log.