It’s a bit hard to generalize. Many of those people were on work visas and couldn’t jump ship easily. Others knew that the job market at the time was terrible and they would be unemployed for several months or more before finding something at a much lower pay, and they knew they couldn’t afford that.
You’re right that people shouldn’t work somewhere that abuses their workers. But it’s also sometimes not as easy as saying “just go somewhere else.”
For software engineers it really is though. I was looking for a job at that same time and had several offers that I turned down because I suspected bad working conditions, settled on one that was lower pay but actually good work life balance.
We have very different experiences. My friends also had a very different experience to you. We were all pretty desperate for jobs, and we weren’t even dealing with visas. Thankfully I landed one at a healthy place, but I would have taken anything at the time and jumped ship when the market was better.
It’s a bit hard to generalize. Many of those people were on work visas and couldn’t jump ship easily. Others knew that the job market at the time was terrible and they would be unemployed for several months or more before finding something at a much lower pay, and they knew they couldn’t afford that.
You’re right that people shouldn’t work somewhere that abuses their workers. But it’s also sometimes not as easy as saying “just go somewhere else.”
For software engineers it really is though. I was looking for a job at that same time and had several offers that I turned down because I suspected bad working conditions, settled on one that was lower pay but actually good work life balance.
We have very different experiences. My friends also had a very different experience to you. We were all pretty desperate for jobs, and we weren’t even dealing with visas. Thankfully I landed one at a healthy place, but I would have taken anything at the time and jumped ship when the market was better.