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If you can label them breathtakingly cynical, I’d label you breathtakingly naive. And label the grandparent experienced and realistic. When it comes to being “

If you can label them breathtakingly cynical, I’d label you breathtakingly naive. And label the grandparent experienced and realistic. When it comes to being “default alive” there is _zero_ consideration for the human impact. I could not agree more strongly that there’s all sorts of social mores around employee behaving well but virtually zero around executive behavior (you put an exclamation after CEO as if it should be surprising, when the opposite should be). I’ve read these CEOs brag about “generous severance” that turns out to be 3 weeks. WSJ reported less than a week ago Coinbase execs netted BILLIONS in PERSONAL profits to execs in the last year. Think any of that money could have been used as a rainy day fund to not fuck over people who resigned from their last job expecting to start at Coinbase? https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/coinbase-leaders-net-1-2-billion-in-share-sales-11653606214 https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/coinbase-leaders-net-1-2-bi... The amount of apologism for tech execs who act so selfishly over and over again, while the cogs are held to these insanely high standards of behavior, is infuriating. Call a spade a spade. Brian Armstrong is a selfish piece of trash who dumped hundreds of millions of his company stock for his own profit while reneging on people who took his company’s word for what it was and put their financial health in his hands.

sonofhans 4y ago
Oh, shit, I’m not apologizing for anyone. I agree with you that plenty of tech execs behave in awful ways. There’s no excuse for that, and I provided none. I’ve never been a cog. I simply refuse to. I take jobs where I’m valued and treated well, and I leave those I don’t. This is entirely possible if you make it a high-order goal. There’s nothing naive about it; I’ve made a good living this way for 30 years.
- antisthenes 4y ago
  > I’ve never been a cog. I simply refuse to. I take jobs where I’m valued and treated well, and I leave those I don’t. This is entirely possible if you make it a high-order goal. There’s nothing naive about it; I’ve made a good living this way for 30 years. That's an incredibly privileged position. Sometimes, people resort to various tactics, including embellishing and ghosting to get ahead, especially when they feel like they have no other choice. That doesn't excuse it, but it happens anyway. What's important to remember is that the power wielded by the company and the employee is not symmetrical, so they have to be treated with a double standard. A company will always be better equipped to lose an employee or handle a rejected offer after a round of interviews than an employee in the reverse position.
  - Scea91 4y ago
    > That's an incredibly privileged position Often it is also position that was earned by hard work and delayed gratification. You make it sound like OP is in such position purely due to luck but he obviously made some right choices along the way.

sonofhans 4y ago

Oh, shit, I’m not apologizing for anyone. I agree with you that plenty of tech execs behave in awful ways. There’s no excuse for that, and I provided none. I’ve never been a cog. I simply refuse to. I take jobs where I’m valued and treated well, and I leave those I don’t. This is entirely possible if you make it a high-order goal. There’s nothing naive about it; I’ve made a good living this way for 30 years.

antisthenes 4y ago
> I’ve never been a cog. I simply refuse to. I take jobs where I’m valued and treated well, and I leave those I don’t. This is entirely possible if you make it a high-order goal. There’s nothing naive about it; I’ve made a good living this way for 30 years. That's an incredibly privileged position. Sometimes, people resort to various tactics, including embellishing and ghosting to get ahead, especially when they feel like they have no other choice. That doesn't excuse it, but it happens anyway. What's important to remember is that the power wielded by the company and the employee is not symmetrical, so they have to be treated with a double standard. A company will always be better equipped to lose an employee or handle a rejected offer after a round of interviews than an employee in the reverse position.
- Scea91 4y ago
  > That's an incredibly privileged position Often it is also position that was earned by hard work and delayed gratification. You make it sound like OP is in such position purely due to luck but he obviously made some right choices along the way.