• Bosht@lemmy.world
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    The disconnect from reality here is just mind blowing. Dude needs to go overseas and witness how utterly terrifying a threat on your life you have no control over actually is. Sidenote: punchable face.

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      Yeah actually mental.

      What he calls ‘dedication’ is actually fear at having to hold your job down during the middle of a fucking WAR because if you disappoint your corporate overlords you will be both getting missiles rained on you AND unable to support your family.

      It’s desperation, and desperation which is very intentionally baked into the system so dickhead ‘leaders’ like these can get the slaves they are looking for and label that slavery as a ‘positive work ethic’

      So out of touch with real people.

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      Just set him on fire here, no need to launch a rocket with all the pollution that will create.

      End result is extra crispy lunatic either way.

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      Silly domestic remote employees want a livable wage and are less tolerant to being paid less because they don’t live in an overpriced area.

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      That’s weird. It’s almost like they don’t actually care about “incentive structure”, “attracting top talent”, “work/life balance”, “team cohesion”, etc. But they wouldn’t prioritize exploiting workers by seeing who they can control the most for the least amount of pay, would they??

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      Isn’t it. It has a strange implication as though being in the office is the proper place and one day we all just forgot to be there.

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      My employer has stooped so low as to call it “return to work”. Like, what the fuck have I been doing the past 5 years!?

      I’m currently in the final round of interviews for a new employer. I don’t expect that they will be nearly different, but at least they will pay more.

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        In my salary calculations, office days will attract an added cost and is part of the negotiation. MDA , with its multiple sites and janky schedule, for instance, was a 100k job with 300k of attracted bullshit.

        We didn’t come to an agreement.

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      This guy seems to have no clue that introverts and neurodivergents are way more sensitive to the hot/cramped/bright/loud environment as the toxicity it is - fun fact: open plan offices are considered sexist - and if he can’t engage his people at their fullest simply by enabling people to self-select work environment, then he needs a little more mentoring.

      But that went out of style 20 years ago with technical writers and putting employee health before workload as required.

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    The reason they are cheap and dedicated is because they are desperate, living in a country where if they didn’t have this job they would literally be starving and in poverty.

    So CEOs like this are simply capitalizing on their desperation to save money from hiring domestic workers who have a better safety net. Absolutely disgusting pieces of trash.

    Also why does this guy who looks like a 19 year old frat boy believe anyone should listen to his advice?

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      why does this guy who looks like a 19 year old frat boy believe anyone should listen to his advice?

      No, I get it. He reminds the bosses of their kids who they’re ignoring. He tells them what they want to hear so they can pretend their kids love them.

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        This sounds like the most convincing reason why this guy (or bot maybe) makes these posts. It is posts on LinkedIn afterall.

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          I looked this guy up. In addition to having the most generic white person name ever, and a face that I’m starting to suspect is an AI composite from the prompt of “generic professional white boy”, his website is a shitty SquareSpace template where the links don’t even work and the images are all generated as well.

          His only claim to fame is owning a no-name storage unit business which anyone with some land and Pods can do.

          I think this is a scammer who preys on “entrepreneur” wannabes.

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    Yeah, when you’re easily replaceable and need the job, you tend to work yourself to death. It’s really hard to get a tech job in India, and I assume the same is true for Pakistan.

    So yeah, dude has no EQ.

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    This kinda shit is one of the smaller reasons we all cheered on Luigi.

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      Luigi is a ‘big hammer’ solution and

      • it didn’t make a real difference
      • getting to where ‘small hammers’ will fix the issue seems so far off

      We have so far to go, and farther by the day.

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    Great, another 26 year old that stumbled into wealth and thinks that makes him an authority.

    Like those 20 something “executive coaches” fresh out of school I always seem to stumble upon on LinkedIn. They think they are incredible, but in reality they are only incredible in the literal sense.

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    I’ve managed people in India before - not to save money but to handle overnight tickets - and to me they work too hard.

    One of my reports was affected by some pretty significant flooding and asked if maybe they could have a day off.

    I told them to not worry about work until their house was no longer filled with mud and water.

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    I was managing a project with contractors in Ukraine when the war broke out. They had some equipment of ours on loan for around 10.000 euros. While I was handling their employees suddenly scattering all over Europe, my upper management wanted me to ask them to keep our equipment safe. I told my management to get fucked. Luckily they understood how insensitive they were being.

    I continued the project, we even paid our invoices earlier to help them out. The company was so grateful. Later in that project, my coworker who is originally from Iran expressed his sympathies when Iranian drones were raining down on Ukraine, how he was ashamed his country was doing this. What a moment

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      That reminds me of 2015 when there was a big flood in Chennai. We were working on a project and the software team was located there. When the floods happened we didn’t hear anything from them for a few days. A middle manager sent a very angry email to them complaining that we would not be able to make the milestones if they didn’t work during that time and he actually asked us to send an email every few hours asking for updates (we all ignored the order except for one guy)

      Thankfully upper management and the CEO office knew better and sent a support email to them and I believe they reprimanded the other manager.

      After a few days we learned that some employees actually lost their lives and the office itself was affected and they’re were not able to return to work for a few weeks

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        My former company had an offshore team in Bangalore (actually, 90% of our company was located there). We had a morning meeting right before a critical release, and the offshore leader told us that nobody there would be able to do anything or even be in contact for the next two or three days. Turns out they were moving to a new office building but nobody there had told the US team anything about it - even though they knew our project schedule. This was completely representative of our communication with them.

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    This is the most monstrous human being I’ve witnessed here. There is something fundamentally broken in him, and I’m terrified that this diseased thought process will spread through speech. I pray it’s genetic, and therefore quarantinable.

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    Because it’s so important that you physically sit here in the office, we’re replacing you with people on the other side of the planet.

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      Bonus points if your company mandates return to office, lays off people after they return to office, and then builds a nice new office overseas in a completely opposite timezone to fill with replacements. Then make the people there physically sit in that brand new office… and make them report to the people here.

      The job? Data entry.

      I just… I don’t… Why

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        Something something a lot of people falling for talking points put forward by people invested in commercial real estate because if companies start going fully remote the value of commercial real estate will collapse. Combine that with a mix of people who own these companies also being invested in commercial real estate so it’s self serving and companies just in general wanting to have more control over employees.

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    I have been in tech for almost thirty years and this August will mark the 20th anniversary of the company I started.

    In my experience, there are two predominant types of tech exec. On the one hand you have the folk who invest in “human capital”, which makes it sound awful but it is meant as a way to acknowledge that your workforce is your main asset, not a liability to be trimmed for cost savings. The other are douchebags like this guy who start and run companies putting out sub par garbage on the cheap. Some of these companies do business at a loss, just so they can show an active book of business so they cam borrow even more money. They are rarely profitable and produce nothing of value…but they do love to circle jerk each other to no end.