• ZeroCool@vger.social
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    You will never be rewarded for your loyalty by any corporation. Ever. This isn’t your grandfather’s fabled job market. But it should probably be considered doubly true of anything involving Elon Musk.

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    Guy traveled an hour and a half each day, fuck that.

    Also he found out he was fired 30 minutes into his drive and verified by his ex-boss, and still drove another hour to try and go to work‽

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      I’m not going to criticize the guy for having a long commute. Depending on where you live, that’s really not unheard of. I had a 90 minute commute in L.A. for a job that was only about 30-40 miles away, but I really loved the job, so it was worth it to me.

      Criticize the guy for buying into the Elon dream.

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    Shame this poor guy wasn’t born into a family with an emerald mine or he could have exploited an intrepid young worker just like himself.

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    The reality of “If I work really hard I’ll surely be rewarded”.

    Bet that dude would have 100% ratted out union organizers too.

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    Murillo mentioned that during his commute, he usually checks his email while his vehicle is in Autopilot. However, on this day, he received a devastating message stating that his position had been eliminated.

    Idiot is lucky he wasn’t in a devastating crash. The company he worked for said not to do that.

    This is exactly why I think the FTC needs to get on them for the names ‘Autopilot’ and ‘Full Self Driving.’ It’s just false advertising.

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    This is why (large) companies love hiring young people. They know they can get them to do stupid shit like this, because those new to employment don’t yet know that being loyal, sacrificing their personal life, working unpaid overtime and going above and beyond often won’t be properly rewarded. Once you’re a bit older, you know there’s no point.

    My advice: if you’re a fresh grad, go work for a big corp, do the 9-5 and don’t bend over backwards. Make connections, then find a job somewhere else ASAP and get promoted that way.

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      The problem is that you can’t unilaterally decide “I’ll do my 9-5” when everyone else is doing something else, there’ll be ramifications to your career one way or another.

      That’s why you need unions, to make things like this collective action.

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      Or just find a job that you’re good at and where you’re happy and stop running after promotions?

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      While I agree, I do think that that is a small minority at this point. I just broke into the workforce after college 5ish years ago and I never had this mentality. All of my coworkers around my age are the same, we know the company is only loyal if it’s beneficial for the company. Some younger people in the workforce have these pied eyed romanticized ideas, but most of us have seen too many examples like this and are just jaded. I assume every facet of my interaction with society is someone trying to exploit me somehow, because that’s almost always the case. I started feeling this way around 11th grade because the education system is in such a bullshit state, and college verified my thoughts with data. By the time I hit career age I knew it’s fuck or be fucked out there and loyalty is only for family/friends. I am in a STEM field, science not tech, for reference.

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        Is your company as prestigious as Tesla (was)?

        They sell a dream to young people. Some bite, some don’t. But those who do, will become loyal servants.

        It’s the same strategy cults use.

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          Yeah they also target the “elite” students who believe they’re about to score.

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      They don’t teach you hardly fucking ANYTHING in college that’s helpful in terms of addressing the modern corporate profit über alles dynamic that most jobs have turned into. You just get thrown in the deep end with your diploma, and nobody tells you that the pool is actually part of a processing plant, and that the current is sweeping you along… somewhere. It might be to a nicer pool. It might be a separator machine that exploits all of your usefulness at an accelerated and unsustainable rate. It might be a waste outlet. It’s kinda impossible to tell when you’ve had zero fucking experience or instruction on “how companies ACTUALLY operate”, and how to effectively operate in that environment without walking face-first into spinning blades you didn’t even know existed.

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    Reminds me of that lady who slept at the Twitter office and bragged about it. She survived the first round of layoffs and then got fired anyway. These Musk loyalists are dumb as hell.

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    It’s either revolution or suicide booths. We’re going to choose suicide booths, which is sad but predictable.

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      How does one sign up to the alpha release? I don’t want to wait for a guaranteed kill, a significant maiming will do, I’ll finish myself off.

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    So for over a decade now I’ve been telling all of the software engineers that I’ve trained up to work a year or two and then find another job, get your pay bump and/or promotion, and come re-apply after a year at whatever place they landed if they didn’t like the place or really loved the job they were doing at my place and I’d hire them back no problem.

    Company loyalty hasn’t been a thing since I joined the workforce twenty years ago and it’s a shame that the younger generation still hasn’t learned that lesson.

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    Proof that your employer cares not at all for you. When the bottom line is involved nothing is sacred

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        Then the OP is pointless. It speaks to employee quality. If that isn’t in any way useful in the context, the question is dumb. It wouldn’t matter how motivated that employee was, so why mention it.

        So either quality counts, or layoffs are entirely based on luck, often firing the best of them all. Sounds like you are coping. Quality almost always matters. And the smallest things can save your ass.

        Even in a game with odds as bad as the lottery, you still have to play it to win.

        In your educated opinion, what are layoffs based on? Can’t be random. So what? Race? Gender? Age? Everything but performance? Because who cares about performance. Just fire someone, Fred. Anyone.