Noah Hurowitz, formerly a reporter with DNAinfo before billionaire owner Tom Ricketts pulled the plug on the money-losing operation on Thursday, is miffed at the suggestion that he learn how to code now that he’s looking for a new job:
the next person who tells me or my recently fired coworkers to learn to code is gonna be coding themselves pretty quick if u catch my drft
— Noah Hurowitz (@NoahHurowitz) November 3, 2017
Apparently learning new job skills is only for coal miners and such and not for New Yorkers:
progs: stupid unemployed Appalachian hillbilly whites, they should move, get some new skills
progs: how dare you tell me to get new skills https://t.co/Rq77Mdo6FD
— Lucifer's Handplane (@ClarkHat) November 3, 2017
If it's good enough for off-shored 50-year-old rural factory workers, it's more than good enough for former journalists. https://t.co/0tLBOXoUaO
— Free Northerner (@FreeNortherner) November 3, 2017
Learn to code bruh, it's what smug citydwellers always tell the rural to do!
Too good to get your hands dirty in a lil Java? https://t.co/5hrsNPlVCl
— ԟϻϻ (@archaeofuturist) November 3, 2017
yeah it's actually pretty fucking insulting isn't it
try being a 45 year old metalworker who used to make 50k a year https://t.co/GeeYGAfhpo
— atomickristin (@atomickristin) November 3, 2017
Hey, coding would provide steady income:
Those journalism jobs aren't coming back though, maybe learning to code would help you not be a jobless waste of life. https://t.co/YZOXy8FlAl
— Culture Warlord (@NoSlackDelta) November 3, 2017
Or is coding a job Americans just won’t do?
we need to increase h1bs twofold to do the coding that our (((fellow americans))) aren't willing to! https://t.co/YsNiLDvlRh
— fellow white person (@fellow_whiteman) November 3, 2017
Does he not see the problem here?
Buggywhip maker's mad https://t.co/yKfr1MMlQn
— Tom Knox (@Tom_Knox_) November 3, 2017
And:
Journalist unhappy when told to take own advice. https://t.co/u1LzO2YGOD
— SirAnglo ???⚪ (@SirAnglo) November 3, 2017
lmao imagine being part of the social class that's gone 'just learn how to code bruh' for years and being too much of a pompous prick to take your own advice https://t.co/jgzmsASY04
— Miss Timed (@missbullpup) November 3, 2017
Well, if coding isn’t a viable alternative, how about some other sort of trade?
I have a friend who can hook you up as an apprentice electrician. https://t.co/hFEByK0iJy
— bdunbar (@bdunbar) November 3, 2017
Or the service industry:
learn to make lattes https://t.co/SqvcIyDgiz
— Immortal Duck (@Jokeocrazy) November 3, 2017
If you're not into coding, there's always Walmart. We're a service economy now. Journalism, like manufacturing or coal, is never coming back https://t.co/0tLBOXoUaO
— Free Northerner (@FreeNortherner) November 3, 2017
Tough, but fair.
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