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Reddit’s CEO said that when he returned in 2015, he had to remind employees to work hard.
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There’s a tendency in the US tech industry to place idealism above hard work, he said.
Idealistic people work harder than anyone—for idealistic causes.
They don’t work so hard for companies that betray their idealism.
It’s so absurd for them to think they are going to get people to work harder without idealism.
I was idealistic at my current place. Then my manager and another key person left, and it all went out the window. Even when they were here, I was still more idealistic than was realistic. But my manager helped channel that.
Now I feel betrayed and sidelined and stifled. Disillusioned. Totally unnecessary too.
I joined a company a decade ago thinking “meh” but discovered a fantastic work env. The mandate changed: make XYZ suck less. That’s it. It was kinda a startup within a stuffy 100-year-old setup. And yeah, we worked like freed slaves. But then, same, the stuffy people wanted to helm the awesome, committed a coup, and installed feckless morons on place of our command team.
Soooo I left, along with about half the staff. It wasnt idealism so much as an environment of respect and support, but it fell apart fast when the good people were tossed.
Former mod of /r/jailbait says what?
He was?
Yes.
(But it wasn’t his choice, someone added him.)
(But he didn’t remove himself either.)
It’s always funny seeing these silicon valley startups have essentially zero retained employees and engineers except the CEO.
All money machines built on the backs of long gone engineers that only exist because they’ve cornered their share of the oligopoly market.
“In the Bay Area, broadly, is this — it’s almost an entitlement of, ‘I work at these companies, but I don’t have to work very hard and I’m here for myself,’” he said.
I always found it amusing how the term “entitlement” has been butchered by Americans. It’s the only language they know and they keep butchering it with low level polemical theatrics.
How is “I’m here for myself” an entitlement? This is not your family. The goal in any job is to maximize returns, i.e. least amount of work for high financial return (like … wait for it … running a business). Sure there are other factors at play too (career growth, not wanting others to have to work more because of you, being genuinely interested in what you are doing and not seeing it as work, not wanting to treat customers like shit), but that’s an individual thing. A business isn’t automatically entitled to any of that.
The harder I work the bigger my CEOs paycheck. Why the fuck should we “work harder”?
I always found it amusing how the term “entitlement” has been butchered by Americans.
In this case it’s a deliberate misuse by the GOP to conflate the word with welfare programs that the voters see as free handouts to the lazy. So then they can tout polling data that shows voters against entitlement programs as fodder to gut/end social security and Medicare. I’m constantly having to have this discussion with conservatives when they use the word incorrectly.
I shadow banned everyone except bots and now my company sucks but NobOdY WaNts To WOrK ANYmOre
Fuck spez
Greedy little pig boy
I bet his yearly salary he can’t name a single facet of what he is referring to as ‘work’ and has no earthly idea how the tech behind Reddit works or is maintained.
This is your brain on capitalism
I assume the rest of his sentiment goes something like: ‘not working very hard…to increase shareholder value’
Twat says what?
Has this guy got his Texas harem started yet? Seems like he’s speed running the Musk Meltdown playbook.
Was going to say that. Reddit has become a Nazi heaven and center of Zionism. Never thought I had to put these two word together. Now here we are.
Dude. When zionists are talking gas chambers, it’s okay to compare (or group them) with Nazis.
Considering Zionism is a fascist ideology it’s always been okay.
Fuck spez
Indeed. Came here just for that.
Was that the same idealism that led to the jailbait and creepshot subreddits being allowed to flourish? Or Covid misinfo? Deepfakes? The chimpire? Qanon? All that stuff definitely wasn’t operating clandestinely.
All my homies hate spez
Why you need so many homies though
A good homie support structure is important to most people’s mental health. I, for example, have no homies and at best meh mental health.
I’ll be your homie, bro.
All good points can I join
Alright who knows how to set up a lemmy group chat? Is that a thing? Can’t have homies without a group chat.
I dunno Keybase?
He got how much for ruining the site and profiting off years of its users’ work?
9 digits, I believe
