Folks I'm like post work event tech bro tipsy and I hate the tech bro mask I am forced to wear to survive in capitalism. How are you?
Folks I'm like post work event tech bro tipsy and I hate the tech bro mask I am forced to wear to survive in capitalism. How are you?
On the flip side I appreciate all the free expensive alcohol I get.
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I am an immigrant who sends money home, and pretty old, so cant choose between tech jobs much. I keep little money and basically try to make life of my extended family a little bit more bearable. I send some money to PCRF and such, but that's it.
I absolutely despise 90% of my software engineering colleagues who are either reactionary or infuriatingly idiotic libs.
I am happy I just got off a project for one of the biggest commodity traders in the world and if you think dystopian shows presenting rich capitalists as toxic, despicable scumbag psychos are exaggerated...think again. It's worse than most people imagine.
Stories! Please!
They are extremely toxic people and they intentionally hire people that have this toxic masculinity crap going on, because "they are traders" and "they are tough men".
They got this libertarian competition going on between departments which is incredibly toxic environment to work in.
Taking vacation (which is required by law there) is considered a show of weakness which will hurt your career, while "grind" is the ideal.
This resulted in our project manager breaking down and crying in the middle of one meeting, our team lead having a mental breakdown and just go missing for 2 months, shouting matches, name calling in the middle of open offices etc.
They make a huge amounts of money and literally give us (underpaid externals) unironical advice to buy ourselves yachts for birthday. We are talking here like $160k + over $200k in bonuses per year...for rookies.
They showed me their Christmas Party video, which is forbidden to share outside of the company. It's like a Hollywood produced ultra-kitschy and expensive party, where the hosts in tuxedos wear animal masks like in the "Squid Game". I am not kidding. The decadence is just off the charts.
Any normal person would absolutely be radicalized by just looking at that party, however, to my dismay, some of my colleagues seem to have been drawn to that despicable show of wealth and superiority.
Otherwise, they would make fun of me for being "politically correct" (I am not really), complain about "cancel-culture", LGBTQ+ people etc.
They also regularly make fun of climate activists. I tried to find a single redeemable person in there and I failed miserably. There's no fixing this, just Minecrafting.
There was a book about these companies called "The world for sale", written by some libs (I think), who admit these companies are terrible, but "necessary" for capitalism to work, and therefore OK. The author called them "The last swashbucklers of capitalism" in what it seems to be even admiration.
The author of the book talks about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54Uod2pE37Y
I think that's about far as I would go explaining that...
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: