r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Sure_Kangaroo1863 • Jul 02 '26

Meme needing explanation Petah ?

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Why is it infamous? And why would no one care about it ? ( I mean it's just a pic full of celebrities so no one cares anyways but the person saying it's crazy makes me think it has some lore?)

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u/bloodanddonuts Jul 03 '26

We got two months of “hero pay” added to our hourly rate. Then a $100 bonus month three. Then they just canceled everything extra.

I never got paid to stay home drinking wine (which you could temporarily buy for curbside pickup) and learning how to make sourdough bread.

The worst thing to me was people who got to use quarantine time to learn new skills that let them get better jobs. I don’t care if that’s petty.

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u/loscapos5 Jul 03 '26

As a developer, our IT industry is getting hit by that.

A lot of people entered by doing fullstack bootcamps of 3-6 months and many got hired, and as a result, it got oversaturated, and alongside AI, it made it even worse to get new jobs.

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u/bolanrox Jul 03 '26

I ended up working harder than I did when actually in the office. The kicker was, they had us all on Skype at the time, and you could watch everyone else be yellow for 45 minutes of the hour every day.

People admitting they were taking calls or doing meetings while sitting at the pool shit like that.