A turning point in my perception of the culture around software engineers (from mostly positive to negative) occurred   during the last garbage strike when I witnessed the majority my overwhelmingly well-paid and relatively (compared to people who sling garbage cans full of rotten food and dog poop into trucks in the hot sun...) not-hard working coworkers rant freely about how overpaid garbage workers were. The sense of entitlement was obnoxious. That strike and the public&#x27;s reaction to it turned the mayoral election results from left to right, and we had to suffer through Rob Ford for the next four years.