| ▲ | xnx 15 hours ago |
| > “It's literally the gulag,” one of the employees claims. “You have zero purpose in life all of a sudden, you barely interact with anyone, you just have these tasks every week." May I be blessed with a life so comfortable that I would be able to complain in such a way. |
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| ▲ | rdedev 14 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Due to "politics" my teams main responsibility went from developing ai agents to just testing out a chat it developed by another team. When you spend 8 hours a day doing mind numbing tasks, tasks that won't help you land another job and is constantly under stress of being fired, its bad for your mental health |
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| ▲ | nvme0n1p1 14 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Sounds like you already have the skills to automate your new responsibilities. | |
| ▲ | classified 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Did you think making unholy amounts of money came with no strings attached? |
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| ▲ | g023 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| How come people these days treat jobs like its a social gathering? |
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| ▲ | Avicebron 15 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Free food? Free massages? Low effort work? High salary? High social status? For a while I knew someone who lived in oakland and refused to commute across the bridge to the office because they couldn't be bothered. | |
| ▲ | nozzlegear 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | We are social creatures and naturally want to socialize. | |
| ▲ | tamimio 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | The same people who bully the ones that actually do the work for not being fit for “company culture”. I had a similar experience before where I over delivered every task, but that wasn’t enough because I refused to join pizza parties and other “team building” activities. | | |
| ▲ | andrew_lettuce 15 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I want to work with people I like and who's company I enjoy; it's not all about executing the task with maximum efficiency. I can replace you with a solid robot worker before I can find another awesome human. | |
| ▲ | ElProlactin 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | You can come back now. The pizza parties and other "team building" activities are gone. Until they realize they could record them as training content for the robot AI models. | |
| ▲ | hackable_sand 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Working with others only works if you work with others | | | |
| ▲ | cindyllm 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | [dead] |
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| ▲ | meindnoch 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| A day in the life of Ivan Slopisovich :'( |
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| ▲ | hsuduebc2 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I was kinda surprised by that. I thought that people working there we're just conformists which have the FAANG money and are generally not bothered by company's actions. People I read about in the article sounds like spoiled babies. |
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| ▲ | SilverElfin 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Yea isn’t that basically all “normal” work? You do tasks and have little ownership or fun. It’s also obviously not “literally” the gulag. Do these children know what a gulag is and what happens there? It’s quite offensive to equate their luxurious spoiled lives with people getting tortured and murdered over politics. |
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| ▲ | TheTaytay 15 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I was never sentenced to the Gulag, but based on what little I know, it's pretty different than one these people are experiencing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag | |
| ▲ | sumeno 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | The emphatic literally has been in use for over 300 years, it's time to let it go | |
| ▲ | nemomarx 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | You do usually get to interact with coworkers at some points if the day though? Are they isolating them during breaks or something weird here | | |
| ▲ | shakna 15 hours ago | parent [-] | | They're taking people who were skilled in product dev, employed to be product dev, and then assigning them data entry and telling them to suck it up or get leave. They're not isolated... But they're no longer doing what they were trained to do, what they were employed to do, or what they can eek some satisfaction out of. Sure, they're talking with explosive terms - but they're also social media employees. That goes with the territory. |
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| ▲ | PakG1 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/725/ |
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| ▲ | storus 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
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