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It seems like a soul sucking marathon run by relentless ladder climbers fueled on concentrated avarice and amphetamines.

mattbrewsbytes 4y ago
It’s not much different at large corporations, just far less money.
- austhrow743 4y ago
  Large corporations?
  - hansvm 4y ago
    Google only has a couple 100k employees at most. Other organizations dwarf that.
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  - mattbrewsbytes 4y ago
    Pick any company on the Fortune 500 and you’ll see the same behavior to climb the “ladder”. A small corporation could be less than 1000 or so people and might not have that culture as much.
    - biztos 4y ago
      I worked at a Fortune 500 and the ladder was floating in a mist of opaque fog, with inexplicably shifting rungs. Upside was that many of us just said screw it and focused on the work. Downside was that many said screw it and went to other companies where they could at least grok the ladder.
ModernMech 4y ago
> soul sucking marathon run by relentless ladder climbers The saddest part about the ladder is that it's not even fun. In academia, our ladder has fun names, and on each level you get to dress up in a different outfit that gets more elaborate the higher you climb on the ladder, which is basically the driving concept behind every MMO ever made, so that's cool. The whole promotion culminates in a parade and a blessing from the church elders, I mean University leadership. At Google, they creatively dubbed the levels "L1-L10", and there's no outfit or parades. I assume they throw you a party or something at least? With cake?
- GalahiSimtam 4y ago
  Sure, the art faculties have the best costumes, but where I come from there was making vows in LATIN how cool is that (you needn't have to understand latin, just recite the vows is all fine) jk If you need to ask, promo parties were suspended with the lockdown, but I guess they are gonna come back in style
alasdair_ 4y ago
> it seems like a soul sucking marathon run by relentless ladder climbers fueled on concentrated avarice and amphetamines. That’s very inaccurate. Some of us use Ritalin instead.
andi999 4y ago
Infinite marathon

mattbrewsbytes 4y ago

It’s not much different at large corporations, just far less money.

austhrow743 4y ago
Large corporations?
- hansvm 4y ago
  Google only has a couple 100k employees at most. Other organizations dwarf that.
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- mattbrewsbytes 4y ago
  Pick any company on the Fortune 500 and you’ll see the same behavior to climb the “ladder”. A small corporation could be less than 1000 or so people and might not have that culture as much.
  - biztos 4y ago
    I worked at a Fortune 500 and the ladder was floating in a mist of opaque fog, with inexplicably shifting rungs. Upside was that many of us just said screw it and focused on the work. Downside was that many said screw it and went to other companies where they could at least grok the ladder.

ModernMech 4y ago

> soul sucking marathon run by relentless ladder climbers The saddest part about the ladder is that it's not even fun. In academia, our ladder has fun names, and on each level you get to dress up in a different outfit that gets more elaborate the higher you climb on the ladder, which is basically the driving concept behind every MMO ever made, so that's cool. The whole promotion culminates in a parade and a blessing from the church elders, I mean University leadership. At Google, they creatively dubbed the levels "L1-L10", and there's no outfit or parades. I assume they throw you a party or something at least? With cake?

GalahiSimtam 4y ago
Sure, the art faculties have the best costumes, but where I come from there was making vows in LATIN how cool is that (you needn't have to understand latin, just recite the vows is all fine) jk If you need to ask, promo parties were suspended with the lockdown, but I guess they are gonna come back in style

alasdair_ 4y ago

> it seems like a soul sucking marathon run by relentless ladder climbers fueled on concentrated avarice and amphetamines. That’s very inaccurate. Some of us use Ritalin instead.

andi999 4y ago

Infinite marathon