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If you don't mind, could you tell what kind of situations have led you to feel crushed?

• nickthemagicman 7y ago
  From personal experience. Many things. Watching your teammates get laid off one-by-one over several months because the stock price crashed 70%, while the CEO gets a 30 mil dollar bonus. All those team members got a one-day notice they were being laid off so you're constantly on edge that any little thing you say or do could get you downsized. Watching the product you've been working on for a year slowly get shuttered and you're powerless to do anything. It's at the whim of the 'leaders'. Watching more and more of the work go to outsourcing and low cost centers that are so low cost it's not even competitive in India. The boss that hired you getting pushed out and the new boss hiring his best friend whose not even a developer and excluding you from meaningful work. No one caring about your ideas or values you. You're just tolerated. Etcc.. I could go on. Capitalism can suck.
• quaquaqua1 7y ago
  In addition to what the other commenter said, just also feeling like it is a waste. The work isn't interesting or impactful. The money is just enough to lease freedom, but not buy freedom. And for others, and office life in a meh climate is very different from a life of modest income but on a caribbean island. Thank you for the thought provoking question :) Let's me think more deeply about how I feel.