specialcaseMar 17
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im assuming someone has written about this but its really odd(not actually) that all of these tech layoffs are almost all the senoir weird people and minorities

its almost like they put up with us long enough to get all the prior art and now believe they can go back to only talking to people who see the same small painting of reality they do

we had 40yrs of telling them "well actually we cant get faster horses" which made them all so mad and now that they have a fake person who promises the impossible they dont actually care if it works.

Mar 17 at 12:12amWeb
Show thread💥meta physical deflationist💥Mar 17

to every young person out there truth matters more than anything else

also one important truth is you dont owe other people the truth when they dont value it. give the king the lies he wants, maybe oneday you can poison him

Show thread💥meta physical deflationist💥Mar 17

i literally had a Director of Product(not @skinnylatte who would not pull this shit) take a thing that I said, frankly a simple statement about platform engineering thats very commonly held, and asked ChatGPT what I meant by that and then had the gal to tell me what i meant instead of just talking to me

this is not psychosis, this is narcissism will new tools

Show threadAdrianna TanMar 17
@glassresistor I would probably agree with you on almost all platform engineering statements
Show thread💥meta physical deflationist💥Mar 17

@skinnylatte i believe you did but we each had a person below us who would sabotage any attempts to spread out ownership and responsibility because they main goal was getting our jobs and being in charge of their peers

which they wont get cause our old boss doesnt actually like them she just doesnt see them as disposible

Show thread💥meta physical deflationist💥Mar 17
@skinnylatte i had one person basically saying why was i keeping them from doing X work and how C was so supportive of it and I had to tell him C had basically told me to fire him and X was useless but would never actually be brave enough to own her opinions
Show thread💥meta physical deflationist💥Mar 17
totally unrelated biotech has seen this as the natural evolution of every company.
1. hire every weird Phd and grad student and self taught expert you can
2. build a pirate ship of freaks that works harder, faster, and better than any top down org can
3. hire some industry veterans with MBAs and an old Phd
4. make a big deal about scaling up and organizing the chaos
5. the freaks gladly jump in happy to try and optimize processes theyve hated for years
6. hire a bunch of normal people and train on the easier process
7. v1 product is out of research and 2/3 company now in sales and admin
8. new leadership is weirded out by the freaks and blames them for any issues and relates much more to the new hires
9. v2 product is paused, research stopped, and freaks fired
10. new hires coast till ipo
Show threadKrzysztof SakrejdaMar 17
@glassresistor @skinnylatte omg I would never let someone live this kind of thing down. I don't care what they're director of.
Show threadButtered JortsMar 18
@glassresistor @skinnylatte @rootwyrm thinking about my former director, who favored whatever Copilot told him over the input of his own SMEs. Not missing him in my new role.
Show threadButtered JortsMar 18
@glassresistor @skinnylatte @rootwyrm to his credit, he eventually scaled back on it, but that’s only because I had a near-Resume Generating Event blowing up 45 minutes into a 15 minute standup, and that was a big enough deal to catch the attention of people he had to listen to, unlike us.
Show threadButtered JortsMar 18
@glassresistor @skinnylatte @rootwyrm damning with faint praise, at least he was smart enough to course correct when doubling down would have put his job on the line. Some folks don’t even have that.
Show threadKrzysztof SakrejdaMar 17
@glassresistor the world really is full of lovely brilliant hard-working people who need to learn strategies for not being exploited... ideally without losing the sparkle that makes them individuals... 😔
Show threadChookMother 🇦🇺🦘Mar 17
@glassresistor Punctuation is also important.
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@anne_twain edut?
Show threadMatt HallMar 17

@glassresistor

If that's not _exactly_ on the nose I think it's pretty effing close.

I'm getting that feeling all the time at work now.

They're not _quite_ saying it yet but it's very much a, "Why can't you just go faster? Are you bad at your job or something," vibe.

The hang-up is no matter how much I fight against these people they simply _won't be present_ for the cost of their decisions to come to fruition.

They have _no_ incentive to care.

"Just make sprint numbers go up, yo."

Show thread💥meta physical deflationist💥Mar 17

@401matthall agree but i think we hit peak that about,10-20 years ago, and luckily at the time we had the clap back of "sure speed to demo is good but call me in 3months". which was short enough time between fuck around and find out that it was still in memory but long enough to build up expectations and have them fall apart.

10 years ago 3months had turned into years because timeline bloat was now the baseline. so people rotated out to new jobs or learned to play the long game of not avoiding danger but rather rescuing people when desperate and kissing ass when not.

today people can get gas station ai software at rent-a-center prices instantly and if it takes humans years to debug it who cares they are cheap and we have 10 demos already. so we are fully ego and promotion driven now with neither driven by merit/value but political sensibility and privlege