It really sucks that culturally we're wired to only give feedback to developers or projects when things are broken.
A product with 15M users gets 100 complaints and only 1 nice "good job" message per month.
It's really demoralizing that we accepted the fact that "if you don't hear from them it means things are good".
People need positive reinforcement and to know that folks are happy about their work.
I understand it's fashionable to bitch about everything because hate brings views
@TheFrenchGhosty wow...what an incredibly privileged and toxic statement.
I do thank the people I interact with. I always say hi to the shop workers and thank them when they help me.
I might be crazy in your eyes, but when I pass an intersection where a construction worker stops digging to let me cross, I thank him.
It's called being a decent human being and not assuming that "You're getting money so I can treat you like shit".
What kind of a sad world do you want to live in?
Your argument boils down to virtue signaling.
You're a "Director of Product Engineering" at Mozilla (I didn't know that before). Your argument would actually be worth something if you were working for free (and not for 100 000+ a year - and I'm being generous considering you're literally corporate).
I did/do software as volunteer and got thanks. Here's the reality rich guy, a thank is almost worthless to me (and most of those people you mentioned) because it doesn't pay the bills.
You're mad you're not getting thanks, while receiving something (a massive thing) that pays the bills.
You're just massively entitled.
Aleca
TheFrenchGhosty