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Software companies that claim they "Work to make a Difference" strike me as cultish and are an immediate turn off. I work for a living, I volunteer and work in
by seneca 6y ago
Software companies that claim they "Work to make a Difference" strike me as cultish and are an immediate turn off.
I work for a living, I volunteer and work in my community to make a difference.
- saurik 6y agoAll other things being equal, isn't it better to work for a company that does something you think helps the world as opposed to one that you think is harmful or even merely neutral?
- ironmagma 6y agoYes, but the companies most vocal about how they are good for the world are so often doing so out of need to compensate for reality.
- huhtenberg 6y agoThings won't be equal though. Evil corps' pay and benefits are usually way better, simply because that's how they attract otherwise hesitant people in the first place.
- ignoramous 6y agoYou won't be the only to raise eyebrows at such messaging coming from HubSpot, see "My year in startup hell": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11369632 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11369632
- lwigo 6y agoBut did you try "harmonizing work and life" like the deck says?
- kvorshk 6y agoNo such thing. Just a catch phrase man.
- eps 6y agoThat was a sarcastic remark.
- ed25519FUUU 6y agoThat’s the joke. Platitudes like “harmonize work and life” just puts the responsibility on the employee to repair their personal life after its damaged by corporate mismanagement.
- shadowgovt 6y agoSilly question: Why don't we work to make a difference? We spend, generally, at least 8 hours a day, 40 hours a week at work. If that time is spent making a difference, it really ups the odds that something actually gets done.
- jjj123 6y agoWorking to make a difference is definitely good. However, you are not making a difference by working at Hubspot. It’s just a corporate job, and management telling you otherwise is only serving them. Edit: removed a pointless anecdote
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- ed25519FUUU 6y agoBecause companies survive by making a profit, and will always revert to the mean. The money you make at work can make a huge difference in other people’s lives. By spending it on causes you care about you are working to make a difference without having to buy-in that your random CRUD app brings joy to the word and ends suffering.
- seneca 6y agoBecause these are for profit companies. What is actually happening when a company says they want to work to make a difference is that they want to harvest your enthusiasm for improving the world to make them more profit, or create free marketing for them. When choices come down to make a difference or make a profit companies choose profit. If they truly wanted to make a difference, they would be nonprofits.