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[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 19 points 1 month 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.

[-] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 19 points 1 month ago

it's a bit of a red flag when 160 employees see something as trivial as a trademark dispute to take the opportunity to go away with a severance package

[-] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Realistically, any company of decent size will have workers who are tired of the job and would voluntarily leave if they got paid for it.

There are other red flags in this case, but I don't think this is one of them.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 13 points 1 month ago

8% getting up and leaving is not an indicator of health

esp when Matt was chasing some of them after desperate to get them to un-resign lol

[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 month ago

Wow, you got a link to that schadenfreude somewhere?

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 1 month ago

I do not, but apparently it is so

[-] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 12 points 1 month ago

Yes but when it's almost a tenth of the workforce taking the voluntary severance, it's not really normal unless the boat is sinking, the workplace is toxic, or both

[-] s3p5r@lemm.ee 16 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 month ago

Sadly, no corpo is a friend or family.

[-] s3p5r@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] fasterandworse@awful.systems 13 points 1 month ago

11-month trial period

Jesus, fuck

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 11 points 1 month ago

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

[-] fasterandworse@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago

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

[-] cwood@awful.systems 13 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] o7___o7@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago

L. Ron Hubbard Learns to Code

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 12 points 1 month ago

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

[-] fasterandworse@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago

I saw he’s retweeting Siskind today. Didn’t know he was into that too

[-] unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 month ago

Does mastodon limit post length? Is that a per- instance thing?

[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 month ago

yes and yes

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