The biggest card this article palms is by starting out talking about tech companies, and then switching into a survey that's not primarily about tech companies: "A survey last year of 5,000 such workers at both tech and non-tech firms... found that many of them feel alienated, trapped, underappreciated and otherwise discombobulated."

Because, sure, if you're the person who does Crystal Reports at Bob's House of Widgets, or the VB person at Gary's Lawncare, or even (to some extent) one of the J2EE horde at MegaBankCorp, you're in a place where you're not core to the business, you're viewed as a cost center, you have a limited career path, and the main people at the company probably have you lumped in with HR and Accounting.

But I really, really, really doubt you're going to find that same sense of alienation, underappreciation, etc. at a tech company.