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Somewhere between university and the present day we went from being idealistic to realistic to defeatist and the tone of this conversation stinks of pre-covid s

Somewhere between university and the present day we went from being idealistic to realistic to defeatist and the tone of this conversation stinks of pre-covid stereotypes let me guess you enjoy the free coffee and casual culture too much to walk away from a neo-fascist dictatorship with corporate characteristics or maybe you're mortgaged up to your eyeballs Edit: don't you think some liberal leaning corporate behemoth would want this guy whoever he is to use as a pawn because he took an ethical stand and can lend a patina of legitimacy to their gray area shady dealings? the world has suddenly become too complex for the IT crowd it seems

artsyca 6y ago
Yea the downvotes are designed to create a climate of fear https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z3bjpj/amazon-vp-tim-bray-resigns-calls-company-chickenshit-for-firing-protesting-workers https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z3bjpj/amazon-vp-tim-bray... Look it's made the cool kid news
kspacewalk2 6y ago
Just out of curiosity, which neo-fascist dictatorship paying you lots of money did you walk away from? Which has offered you a job? An interview?
- artsyca 6y ago
  I've walked away from tons dude two mega corporations and an agency and at a heavy personal cost may I add but what choice did I have? Selling my ethics was too high a price Listen every large organization becomes a leftist surveillance state unless we drastically work against that tendency As systems professionals we should know that by now but we collectively turn a blind eye need I remind you who was selling counting machines to the bad guys during that war in Europe all those years ago? How many engineers had the courage to step into their 1:1 and indict their managers for treason back then? If you haven't become a corporate outcast by 40 you're a traitor Edit -- before you say it's my way of claiming sour grapes for my failings as a software engineer you shouldn't be surprised that every corporation is essentially the same corporation with different plutocrats at the helm repeating each other's tired monologues to the same masses of unwashed pizza eating feature trolls It's the same in north America as it is in socialist dictatorships only here the managers pretend they're our friends and there they're our dads
- artsyca 6y ago
  I'll elaborate -- The first one was a large bank doing agile by coercion aka forced sprints to hell A bunch of diddling directors convinced an airhead VP that it would boost productivity and then they got an army of middling managers who weren't at all invested to do their bidding I was there for a year raising a fuss until I was let go and some of my code is still running in production The things I've seen would make your skin crawl as a client of the bank but you've probably seen your fair share estimating points as days was the least of it and this is from people who call themselves university graduates and senior developers The next was the largest private software company in North America a telecom giant again with the forced agile shit but with a different spin the motto here is 'initiative is punishable' but I just can't picture myself getting old with this tshirted bunch of wannabe googlers I went on the warpath and was personally let go by a VP how many of you coffee2coders have even sat down with a VP much less been sent packing by one? I got what I wanted out of them though the memories are priceless including trips to California and Vegas the type of shit that being pliable and compliant never nets you Finally an agency back home a notorious shithole of a ne'er do well agency so full of their own leadership bravado and entitlement that it somehow manages to hoodwink all sorts of rich clients a perennial start-up with no long term vision except selling out I had the distinction of being let go after showing them all up and walked away from the game with a master's in how false conspiracy has ruined software A lot of us seem to believe we need to check our emotions and enhics at the door but it didn't work in that great war and it won't work here either
throwaway08320 6y ago
> neo-fascist dictatorship with corporate characteristics > Listen every large organization becomes a leftist surveillance state You seem very confused.
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- artsyca 6y ago
  Are you referring to the differences between leftists and fascists or do you still believe that any ideology is anything more than a blatant power grab? Tell me O noble throwaway warrior Edit: Fuuuu this is the comment that brought you out of hibernation? Geez welcome back to the land of the living
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artsyca 6y ago

Yea the downvotes are designed to create a climate of fear https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z3bjpj/amazon-vp-tim-bray-resigns-calls-company-chickenshit-for-firing-protesting-workers https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z3bjpj/amazon-vp-tim-bray... Look it's made the cool kid news

kspacewalk2 6y ago

Just out of curiosity, which neo-fascist dictatorship paying you lots of money did you walk away from? Which has offered you a job? An interview?

artsyca 6y ago
I've walked away from tons dude two mega corporations and an agency and at a heavy personal cost may I add but what choice did I have? Selling my ethics was too high a price Listen every large organization becomes a leftist surveillance state unless we drastically work against that tendency As systems professionals we should know that by now but we collectively turn a blind eye need I remind you who was selling counting machines to the bad guys during that war in Europe all those years ago? How many engineers had the courage to step into their 1:1 and indict their managers for treason back then? If you haven't become a corporate outcast by 40 you're a traitor Edit -- before you say it's my way of claiming sour grapes for my failings as a software engineer you shouldn't be surprised that every corporation is essentially the same corporation with different plutocrats at the helm repeating each other's tired monologues to the same masses of unwashed pizza eating feature trolls It's the same in north America as it is in socialist dictatorships only here the managers pretend they're our friends and there they're our dads
artsyca 6y ago
I'll elaborate -- The first one was a large bank doing agile by coercion aka forced sprints to hell A bunch of diddling directors convinced an airhead VP that it would boost productivity and then they got an army of middling managers who weren't at all invested to do their bidding I was there for a year raising a fuss until I was let go and some of my code is still running in production The things I've seen would make your skin crawl as a client of the bank but you've probably seen your fair share estimating points as days was the least of it and this is from people who call themselves university graduates and senior developers The next was the largest private software company in North America a telecom giant again with the forced agile shit but with a different spin the motto here is 'initiative is punishable' but I just can't picture myself getting old with this tshirted bunch of wannabe googlers I went on the warpath and was personally let go by a VP how many of you coffee2coders have even sat down with a VP much less been sent packing by one? I got what I wanted out of them though the memories are priceless including trips to California and Vegas the type of shit that being pliable and compliant never nets you Finally an agency back home a notorious shithole of a ne'er do well agency so full of their own leadership bravado and entitlement that it somehow manages to hoodwink all sorts of rich clients a perennial start-up with no long term vision except selling out I had the distinction of being let go after showing them all up and walked away from the game with a master's in how false conspiracy has ruined software A lot of us seem to believe we need to check our emotions and enhics at the door but it didn't work in that great war and it won't work here either

throwaway08320 6y ago

> neo-fascist dictatorship with corporate characteristics > Listen every large organization becomes a leftist surveillance state You seem very confused.

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artsyca 6y ago
Are you referring to the differences between leftists and fascists or do you still believe that any ideology is anything more than a blatant power grab? Tell me O noble throwaway warrior Edit: Fuuuu this is the comment that brought you out of hibernation? Geez welcome back to the land of the living
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