There's a term for the bizarre behavior and thought processes (read: justification) by the person you're responding to. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupational_psychosis>
> you are being extremely reasonable
They're not. If there's nothing wrong with it, one could ask whether the person here would be okay sitting in a room with their supervisor, the head of the company, and 10 customers, say the same things they're saying here, and get a consensus that this is how this should all work out.
It's a reasonable request given the unreasonable nature of my working conditions, a thing I have no power to change.
> One of these will allow you to[…] get a raise
> given the unreasonable nature of my working conditions, a thing I have no power to change
You know that there are people who experience actual hardship, right?
You completely missed the point of the blog post. Apple was in the process of developing macOS 26.4 beta 4, and they wanted me to install the beta just to "verify" the bug.
Apple could test my bug with 26.4 beta 4 a heck of a lot easier than I could. Nobody was asking Apple to install some ancient version.
> my effectiveness is measured by how many tickets I close.
That was one of the points of the blog post: this is a perverse incentive from management.
Note what you did not say: "my effectiveness is measured by how many bugs I fix." So engineers are incentivized to close tickets even if the bugs they report are unfixed. This is how a company ends up with crappy, buggy software.
The parent comment is talking about the broader practice of people telling you to update and then repro again. That's a completely legitimate thing to ask, given both the perverse corporate incentives and the basic reality that version toggling makes a tech far less efficient at solving all tickets, not just yours.
I also ask to say what company you're working for so I can avoid your bullshit attitude.
And hey, you will have less bug reports that way so please tell us