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    3 months ago

    You’re were hired for a backend team. They started learning React as you joined.

    Ye that is when you strike. Build a guillotine if necessary. The fuck.

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    Imagine if you had to abandon your social life some years ago for the job and the only people you talk to on a daily basis are your coworkers on Slack.

    Thanks for the reminder that my life is garbage, I guess. Unless you count the pleasantries I exchange with the person who makes my coffee in the morning?

    I’m not employed by automattic, but this thread still cut deep with similar work culture.

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        And sadder still, no friend or family can feed and house me. Economic coercion is very effective.

        Even worse, this is still better treatment than when I worked state sector.

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    The encouragement of a situation where you disconnect with those outside, the sleep deprivation, the drip of hints that you’re not meeting the standard, the trust in the great leader.

    It also sounds corporate, yes.

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      yeah I read that and started thinking of the various ways it’s dependency-inducing

      stopped after the first 4~5 big ones because that already really hurt to think about

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        In France it was standard for the 7 month trial period and that was just horrible. Just horrible. So many firings would happen within days of the period ending, the barrier between no warning required and a shit ton of notice and compensation. Political nightmare and 7 months of anxiety in the backstabbiest of tech workplaces I’ve seen

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    Great And Wise Senior Founder Leader Father McManperson mullenweg is goin’ real hard

    at this point starting to feel like there’s a need for leaderboard of companies eating themselves