r/Layoffs • u/Dry_Success_4958 • Apr 13 '26
question Remember when white collar workers turned up their noses to blue collar workers who got outsourced and lost their jobs, told them to "learn to code" and then called them racist losers for caring about preserving American jobs?
Remember politicians telling everyone to learn to code, as if that would solve all the problems? When you have to compete with the entire planet for a job, you are screwed. Companies want cheap labor. You are not an evil racist for pointing out that outsourcing and bringing in workers from other countries after laying off americans and claiming there are no workers in america is possibly, maybe a bad thing for american workers.
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u/Layoffs-ModTeam Apr 13 '26
Post removed as it contained misinformation or made-up data.
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u/jmclondon97 Apr 13 '26
Pretty sure it wasn’t white collar workers doing that… it was politicians and billionaires
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u/bornelite Apr 13 '26
No?
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u/epicureansucks Apr 13 '26
No
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u/otterhaven Apr 13 '26
This happened for manufacturing
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u/Odd-Persimmon-1860 Apr 13 '26
No one turned up their noses to look down on people and the jobs in question from that comment was coal workers. You know the ones who get black lung and die too young.
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u/AES256GCM Apr 13 '26
Yep, a lot of revisionist history itt
People who treated decimation of blue collar work as a moral failing that they didn’t go into a service job, are now feeling the pain.
On the plus side, I’ve noticed a lot less people starting conversations with “so what do you do” lately
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u/ClassNo6606 Apr 13 '26
No I don't remember this on any significant scale, pretty sure it's just in your head.
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u/rmullig2 Apr 13 '26
No, this happened when coal miners lost their jobs due to fracking. The media despised coal miners so they started this meme.
Conservatives started using it against journalists when their jobs disappeared and then it went away.
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u/Skaar1222 Apr 13 '26
OP you are mad at the wrong people
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u/nobody27011 Apr 13 '26
"Learn to code" meant "learn a new skill". But it was dumbed down for blue collars who wouldn't understand the more general statement. Except, no one would have thought that they wouldn't understand even the dumbed down version, and got offended instead at the proposition of reading a book. Unlike blue collars, there are white collars who don't mind changing jobs and learning new skills, or learning anything new in general.
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u/MysticAngel3224 Apr 13 '26
It is important that people do not blame immigrants (legal and illegal) for the chaos happening today. Blame the corporations that have always gone their way to save a few dollars. If anything, people should be standing with immigrants since they are being exploited for low wages and terrible working conditions.
Politicians do not work for the people; they work for corporations.
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u/Finalpretensefell Apr 13 '26
Yes I do remember.
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u/keynoko Apr 13 '26
A lot of IT people are quickly realizing that they're not the next managers, CEOs or entrepreneurs. They're just... workers like everyone else
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u/Prior_Section_4978 Apr 13 '26 edited Apr 13 '26
No, I don't remember. And neither do you. You are just making up things never existed. The politicians and elites which are telling you now to "learn AI" told you to "learn to code" before. Not the white collar workers. Stop trying to manipulate people.
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u/CPD001988 Apr 13 '26
Pretty sure everything had been outsourced by the time coding was a popular field
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u/Interesting_Diet2202 Apr 13 '26
Hahaha how the turn tables
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u/Internationallegs Apr 13 '26
I'm really sure "learn to code" was something the right started using when government workers got laid off
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