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I'd be tempted to respond with "Use your words, Jeff". But then I am a mere minion.

• cs137 4y ago
  Unfortunately, people like us who respond to that sort of thing like a normal human (as opposed to a brainwashed corporate drone who lives in terror of the master's displeasure) tend not to do well in the corporate world. The trick of corporate survival, as observed in those who can actually hack it, is extreme compartmentalization. They become two people: one who watches the abuse from a distance as if it were happening to someone else, and then a normal self that is functional enough to do the grocery shopping without bursting into tears. The problem is that very few people can sustain this compartmentalization (also known as: dissociation) for more than a few years. It tends to play out badly (memory issues, alexithymia, autoimmunity) in the long term.
  • LAC-Tech 4y ago
    Yeah but how cool would you feel at parties being able to tell people "I once got fired for telling Jeff Bezos to go fuck himself" ?
  • firecall 4y ago
    Like I said to my therapist last week; they hire you for your skill and creativity, then want you to sit in a box and do as you are told. Or somehow magically know what to do and say. If you say to little, you are not engaging with the team, say too much and you are disruptive. Say the wrong thing and thats a big problem. We really need to move our society on from telling people that companies are a family and they look after people. They dont.
  • dannyw 4y ago
    You need to work for a different company, this isn't normal.
  • thrown_22 4y ago
    Yes, this is called being professional. The idea that acting in a predictable and consistent manner is some form of abuse is bizarre. To put it in engineering terms: I don't care about the amazingly rich data structure manipulations you're doing internally, I want the json api endpoint to have the same spec as it did yesterday.
• bravetraveler 4y ago
  I've had a few managers/execs that must have read this book and taken it to heart. I've found ignoring the zero effort message to be moderately effective. Not ignore the work... like actually go deal with the incident or whatever. I just avoid feeding into the loop of it. Some time later I'll casually let them know how it went. Sometimes they're persistent. If you don't respond quickly they might send another question mark (no joke), or escalate. When they do escalate I tend to present it as 'Oh yea, we noticed that on the monitoring system and I dealt with that afterwards'. This could be a complete fabrication, I just don't like to encourage them. Was it you, or the queue?
• euroderf 4y ago
  I worked in a company where the CEO had a rep for one-word email replies. They worked quite well !