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Just leave. Most companies in high cost and high income areas are just doing this as a way to do layoffs, imo. My company recently announced that the three day
by kodah 5y ago
Just leave. Most companies in high cost and high income areas are just doing this as a way to do layoffs, imo. My company recently announced that the three day work week, with hundreds of people asking how they were going to address the fact that our office is in Mountain View and that Staff+ engineers are having to get room mates so they can live less than an hour from the office. Our HR head basically said not my problem and then went on a lengthy discussion about the culture they wanted.
This is people's callousness reaching heights as people who were able to secure things like houses that are now worth millions and big cashouts in tech are coming to the height of their careers.
- Melchizedek 5y agoThey want a "culture" while I'm worried about being able to put a roof over the head of myself and a family. That will surely build a great culture. Psychopaths. The only thing they did to become millionaires was the completely non-productive act of borrowing money to buy property. Now the property values can't be allowed to depreciate so we must all commute into the office, the environment be damned. That's just inter-generational war.
- _ktx2 5y agoI'd say less psychopath and more self-centered to a high degree. Folks that have been fed into prestigious schools, jobs, and general opportunities throughout their lives start to miss the smoke of what average folks deal with and go through. To them, the smoke blew away long ago, and the benefits they seek are often at competition with the benefits an average person might seek.
- strikelaserclaw 5y agoI'd say this selfishness extends even to average people who make it. Most people are selfish, prestigious schools or otherwise, we need to build systems which take this fact into account.