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If you want evidence I can provide it.

Infantilizing for sure.

You're describing a flophouse and/or SRO. They were slumlord-specials for a long time in the US, but where mostly regulated away.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flophouse

Cool tech.

As an aside, I HATE the saying "Do, or do not. There is no try." Perhaps the best response I ever heard to this dribble was in the miniseries where piece-of-human-garbage Elizabeth Holmes is played by Amanda Seyfried in "The Dropout".

Professor Dr. Phyllis Gardner, played by Laurie Metcalf, responds, "That's all science is: trying."

Have fun in prison, Liz!

Tell me your a DEI Director without actually telling me you're a DEI Director.

Juicero raised $118.5m, the other shoe was bound to drop.

I don't think the current landscape of VC funds actually knows how to spot value even if it sat on their face and called them daddy. They're throwing darts at a board, basically.

Google looked at how sailors share space on a sub and were like "yeah, that's the ticket".

Hot-desking is the worst way to be in-office, on top of the worst way of working which is in-office.

What happened to being a forward thinking and innovative company? These "geniuses" can't use their superior big brains just barely hiding under those infantilizing propeller hats to figure out a way to make remote work effective? You're literally a tech company, you make all kinds of collaborative technology.

I'm selling my Google stock. They've gone full IBM and are legacy tech.

In other news, Google has been taken over by High School Principals.

You know a company behaves extremely poorly when even notorious corporate simp Gergely Orosz calls them out.

All software, frameworks, etc is a reflection of the creature that created it: a Human, with all our faults, affectations, and prejudices.

A lucky few have a come to Jesus moment and realize that nothing is perfect and that fighting the tide by swimming upstream is a fool's errand, they swim sideways to the shore.

Did we just become best friends?

This reeks of "Morgan Stanley VP's angry that it costs more to lease their Chris Craft, therefore we must tank the economy".

The plain fact remains that corporations are price gouging the shit out of people right now, which is the primary driver of our current inflation, and people have rightfully responded with pulling back their spending.

People who do great work in the past will typically do great work in the future. It's called "being a high performer", and someone who establishes a good track record of being a high performer will provide more value in the future compared to someone without such a track record.

This is why I never go "above and beyond" anymore. Companies only care what you did for them yesterday and will drop you like a bad habit because it'll make their stock price go up by 0.000000001%

Have a bad day? Fuck you, you're fired. Doesn't matter that you saved the company tens or hundreds or even millions of dollars last year. That was last year. What have you done for the bottom line today, peon?

Don't bother. I knew this guy from Solo and to say he's a company simp is putting it mildly.

And yet it's only my side of the story that's getting buried

And that is more than livable, even in NYC.

No, it's not.

150k...for a staff engineer... in NYC?

I stopped following Gergely Orosz a long time ago. His tech stuff has/had been pretty great, but he's always simping for corporate tech to the point of obsequiousness and it's a huge turn off for me to read any of his stuff. This tone-deaf, pro-management, anti-worker post just further seals the deal.

I'd venture to say a lot of companies based in 2nd/3rd tier locations simply did the math of hiring freelancers vs opening an office in those 1st tier locations and it was cheaper just to pay the remote workers.

It's almost as if remote work is good for the worker bees and good for the business, but bad for the useless middle managers who's only job is to make sure people are working performatively.

Yeah I'm sure Altamn can't see the problem with commuting. He only has a luxury condo in Russian Hill that he gets picked up from in a chauffeured SUV, and is then driven to OpenAI's headquarters in the Mission. All of 20 minutes...in traffic.

I fucking hate tech billionaires.

So a normal Friday @ Shopify it sounds like

That's literally every tech company. Middle managers, product owners, project managers, etc can all go.

Their main issue IMO is that they are not really bringing anything major to the table in exchange for the very high cost of breaking compatibility with nodejs.

This is why my money is on Bun, just like a safe bet in Carbon. Both are designed to be drop-in-capable in large codebases where the bean counters aren't going to budget a total rewrite that redelivers the same functionality.

My old boss got written up in the local business journal's "40 under 40".

To say that she's a miserable ass of a charlatan who made my work life (and pretty much anyone she's encountered) hell, this comment jives.

Best to leave that earth-sized zit unpopped.

I can't wait until you get laid-off/fired unjustly. I had this same attitude until I got laid off even though I was a high-performer (4/5 and 5/5 on all my bi-yearly reviews).

Now, I'm in it for me and only me. Fuck these companies, they don't care about you so why should I care? I perform to the expectations of my job description but forget going above and beyond.

Tools like Donut help a bit but the magic is still lost.

You can keep your magic, I'm gonna stay in my home office.

Work multiple jobs that you do the bare minimum at.

Always be interviewing, Q1->Q3 is the best time.

Companies will drop you in a moment like a freshly pooped turd into a toilet bowl. Give them MORE notice?!?! Lol GTFO.