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The poor fellow at Amazon can always go to Zillow or Microsoft not really the same as deaths of despair here.

maybelsyrup 5y ago
Yes, correct, but he isn't -- and I'm sure he knows he can leave to some other firm. He isn't leaving to the point of being hospitalized. Which is unbelievable to me!
- rejectedandsad 5y ago
  If I didn’t have so many distractions that could be me, honestly, but not for the same reasons - for me Amazon is just evidence that I’m innately intellectually inferior and will forever be a lower social class and that hurts like hell.
  - pedrosorio 5y ago
    > for me Amazon is just evidence that I’m innately intellectually inferior and will forever be a lower social class Wait, what?
    - maybelsyrup 5y ago
      I was curious about the first bit - the lower social class stuff is mostly right, I think, because of the huge gap between national narrative and reality on US socioeconomic mobility [0]. [0] https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20162015 https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20162015
- astrange 5y ago
  Interviewing is probably too hard to contemplate if you're depressed. Especially if you've been around long enough to remember Google-style torturous brainteaser interviews (whether or not those were real.)
acituan 5y ago
Reminds me of the poor fellow who jumped off a Facebook building because their manager blocked their transfer. I bet you wouldn't tell them "they could have gone to a different company". Visa issues non-withstanding, a rational, hopeful frame of mind is not always available to us at all times. (Not even talking about the stresses of immigrating itself). Depression, despair etc are illogical narrowing our frames of minds and not being able to see any out. Kind of like getting stuck with a coding problem until you walk away and take a break, except you can't think of a way of walking away. (Or your "way" may manifest itself as psychosis or self harm.)
- TomSwirly 5y ago
  Hear, hear!

Yes, correct, but he isn't -- and I'm sure he knows he can leave to some other firm. He isn't leaving to the point of being hospitalized. Which is unbelievable to me!

rejectedandsad 5y ago
If I didn’t have so many distractions that could be me, honestly, but not for the same reasons - for me Amazon is just evidence that I’m innately intellectually inferior and will forever be a lower social class and that hurts like hell.
- pedrosorio 5y ago
  > for me Amazon is just evidence that I’m innately intellectually inferior and will forever be a lower social class Wait, what?
  - maybelsyrup 5y ago
    I was curious about the first bit - the lower social class stuff is mostly right, I think, because of the huge gap between national narrative and reality on US socioeconomic mobility [0]. [0] https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20162015 https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20162015
astrange 5y ago
Interviewing is probably too hard to contemplate if you're depressed. Especially if you've been around long enough to remember Google-style torturous brainteaser interviews (whether or not those were real.)

acituan 5y ago

Reminds me of the poor fellow who jumped off a Facebook building because their manager blocked their transfer. I bet you wouldn't tell them "they could have gone to a different company". Visa issues non-withstanding, a rational, hopeful frame of mind is not always available to us at all times. (Not even talking about the stresses of immigrating itself). Depression, despair etc are illogical narrowing our frames of minds and not being able to see any out. Kind of like getting stuck with a coding problem until you walk away and take a break, except you can't think of a way of walking away. (Or your "way" may manifest itself as psychosis or self harm.)

TomSwirly 5y ago
Hear, hear!