NEW: Apple is tracking employee attendance (via badge records) and will give employees escalating warnings if they don't come in 3x per week.
— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) March 22, 2023
ALSO: Elon Musk sent Twitter employees an email at 2:30am saying the "office is not optional" and noting SF was half empty yesterday.
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-emailed-twitter-staff-office-is-not-optional-2023-3
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Anyone here work in a big tech company? Are they actually just hiring people to do nothing all day?
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yes lol.
My friend before he jumped to a startup with his old boss was making over 250k a year and playing 8 or 9 league games a day.
Even my other friend that works with biostats is playing wow all day.
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Darn how did your grocery store butt make these kinds of friends?
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It was his footlocker era
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He's also lead marketing merchandiser for the free snacks at tech offices
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Hey cap’n. I started a right little ditty of a sea shanty (with a AAAA rhymin’ scheme) and I be hopin that ye would help me finish it:
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Fine then
@captain_bbbb, but the lads say there be a mutiny if ye don’t finish it, a very threat to yer piratehood altogether!
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To stop the mutiny ye need to drink a bottle of rum and finish yonder sea shanty:
Hi Ho, hi de hee
A pirates life is the life for me
With booty and plunder and
@captain_bbbb
The dread ship Marsey takes to the sea
Hi ho hum, hi de hi
We sailed from Yarmouth one cold July
Femboys lashed down with bussies held high
Chasin a black pearl called bardy’s eye
Hi ho, hi de hussy…
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Record is 1 days 07 hours 34 minutes and 41 seconds by peepeehands
longest streak broken in the last 7 days was Jewdanksdad which was 0 days 15 hours 23 minutes and 43 seconds
Best friend is ACA with 197 mentions
rdrama is currently running at 231.867 µBardyhertz with 3176 total mentions since 2022-09-24
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Record is 1 days 07 hours 34 minutes and 41 seconds by peepeehands
longest streak broken in the last 7 days was Jewdanksdad which was 0 days 15 hours 23 minutes and 43 seconds
Best friend is ACA with 197 mentions
rdrama is currently running at 231.481 µBardyhertz with 3175 total mentions since 2022-09-24
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Always the sanest voice in the room, b. Love ya
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An average league is like 40 mins. So that like five and a half hours of goofing off.
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I do nothing most days and don’t work in tech. It’s just the office life.
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And that’s perfect because you fill a role some higher up NEEDED to have filled even if you realistically do nothing in it
You live the /r/antiwork dream
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This was always kind of a boomer meme. They were a lot of people with very light obligations in 2021, during peak hiring frenzy. Many companies got a ton of cash and had lots of ideas on how to make money. As a result, they hired aggressively, often times faster than they could stand up things for those people to work on. The result: TikTok PMs creating r-slurred videos of themselves sitting at a pool.
Now we have the opposite situation, companies have to tighten their belts and the excess staff now aren't going to get anything to do. Fewer new initiatives means no future use for those people. Thus people "doing nothing" and "getting fired."
Add in confusion over Twitter (where people who were doing important work got fired, then desperately rehired a week later) and you have a real chaotic situation.
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I remember being flat out told in interviews that I'll have to come up with my own job description for the position I've applied to lmao.
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Not a big tech company but some days I have a frickload to do and other it’s not much.
At the end of the day, are they paying me for literal time or the end result? My old wagie job it was time, this job it’s end result.
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yeah same here, most of the time its chill but sometimes i'll be working until 10pm
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I work in defense contracting but a couple good friends work in FAANG (if that term is even still relevant, I prefer F@GMAN)
It’s literally just internal politic maneuvering based on several hours of conversation with them. No one actually does things, it’s just onion layers of project management stacked on itself where if revenue potential trends up => increase underlying headcount; and do the opposite in downturns for cost saving wins to preserve your role.
You can ask a Microsoft “engineer” a basic azure question and they can’t give you an answer because they are part of the 6 layers sitting on top of the value adding employees. Like I said above, the underlying tech is magic to them, too.
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How is defense contracting? Do you enjoy it?
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Yes and no. Depends on the role and pillar.
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It's very hard to be productive in such a company...
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At mine at least if you're getting your tickets closed on time you have plenty of time to frick off with.
E.g. I'm working on something I should have in within a few days but it'll most likely take me 3-4h max. However nobody really cares if I stretch that out to 2 days.
So yeah to some degree. They don't crack the whip too harshly because people would just leave. Who knows when this will change so I'm enjoying it while it lasts![:marseyneet: :marseyneet:](/e/marseyneet.webp)
HR foids I'm pretty sure actually do nothing all day
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Yeah it's the same at my company. Tech workers definitely don't work 100% all the time but they mostly get shit done. There are a lot of people on the business side who just try to schedule a bunch of meetings to make them look busy and a ton of people in HR that do nothing.
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Yes
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BIPOC
Snapshots:
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https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-emailed-twitter-staff-office-is-not-optional-2023-3:
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Straight and to the point.
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What kind of job requires you to show up for work? This is fascism.
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Office is mandatory executive says with increasing impotence
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fr, if you have to send "escalating warnings" after several times not showing up to the office then you have no power over them. Either fire them or shut the frick up about it.
They know their best employees can easily find remote work elsewhere if they wish so actually forcing them is just letting them go. Meanwhile the freeloaders might have a harder time finding work and are more likely to put up with dumb bullshit. So when you really push it, you wind up shedding the productive people and keeping the chaff.
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Isn’t this like the twentieth time he’s threatened to fire everyone who doesn’t go to the office?
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Maybe he's talking about The Office.
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I would quit—very simple. They need us more than we need them.
You sure about that![:chadindianheadset: :chadindianheadset:](/e/chadindianheadset.webp)
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I was just about to comment on that same quote. That is the same type of
take as the wagies who brag they are "not afraid to say exactly what is on my mind" .
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I mean if it wasn't true Musk would have replaced them with people who come in instead of sending seething final warnings every week.
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Having people choose three days per week to come in is literally the worst option for hybrid work. It's the most days you can require people to be in-person and still guarantee that on any given day half the office will be out. They'll waste tons of time trying to figure out who is there and who isn't, and the majority of meetings will by necessity be online anyway. There is no upside at all.
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I like how these people think there isn't a long line of sexy Indian dudes who'd want nothing more than to get a company like Apple or Twitter on their resume.
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Not 3x per week?!!,?!1!![:#hysterical: :#hysterical:](/e/hysterical.webp)
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More like Smegma Musk lol gottem
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Oh no! Employees have to show up to their work????? this is truly unheard of!!!!
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