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by 908B64B197 1891 days ago
> Yes, it is common for data center workers and tech support to move up to sysadmin or something similar sometimes even SRE.

It sounds like they isolated tasks that are performed frequently enough and need no specialization and decided to outsource these. Maybe as a stopgap before they get completely automated.

I don't think these were ever intended as entry level to something else.

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> I don't think these were ever intended as entry level to something else

They said in the article that there was a chance you could get hired into corporate originally but that process was removed.

> It sounds like they isolated tasks that are performed frequently enough and need no specialization and decided to outsource these. Maybe as a stopgap before they get completely automated.

Yeah but that doesn't mean we should be treating workers like shit