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Does working 4 hours a day, which includes endless shitposting of "daily life of a software engineer at XYZ" while drinking and showing off on tiktok count as a

Does working 4 hours a day, which includes endless shitposting of "daily life of a software engineer at XYZ" while drinking and showing off on tiktok count as a basic perk now?

russdill 4y ago
Are we taking about musk or the engineers at Twitter?
- nayaketo 4y ago
  Engineers at Twitter, not Musk.
  - russdill 4y ago
    OK, because he does spend a lot of time shitposting.
- belltaco 4y ago
  https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/elon-musk-says-he-is-sleeping-on-tesla-factory-floor-to-save-time.html https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/elon-musk-says-he-is-sleepin...
  - saagarjha 4y ago
    I for one would not like my coworkers to sleep under their desk and not shower.
tomjakubowski 4y ago
Extrapolating this one video to "endless shitposting" of them is a real stretch.
- filoleg 4y ago
  I wasnt talking about "this one video" at all. When I said "endless shitposting", I was referring to tons of actual tiktok videos of such behavior flooding the feed if you look up the relevant tags. I naturally got recommended so many of those videos, i had to spend quite a bit of time just teaching the algorithm that I dont want that garbage on my tiktok FYP.
  - saagarjha 4y ago
    Don't these people work at many companies, not just Twitter?
    - filoleg 4y ago
      Totally, not just Twitter, I've seen that behavior outside of Twitter employees plenty. I am just as not in favor of it, regardless of the company.
  - tomjakubowski 4y ago
    What would you estimate is the aggregate percentage of working hours spent at Twitter creating these videos? From what I have seen, few people are making these videos every day, or even more often than a constant number of times. They post one or two, it gets shit on, and they're done. If a significant portion of big tech workers were spending O(n) time (n is days on the job) on this, I think you'd have a point, but I don't see either as true. An individual might spend 2-3 hours one time shooting and editing a "day in the life of a Hooli engineer" video. And I'd wager that people creating this videos are a tiny minority among their colleagues. To be clear, these videos irritate me too. The worst that I've seen isn't even from "spoiled tech workers", though, it's been from trust fund kids showing the "day in the life of a New Yorker" or whatever, without even a pretense of having to work. Those are totally out of touch and misrepresentative.
rgovostes 4y ago
I for one enjoy saagarjha’s endless shitposting.
- saagarjha 4y ago
  <3

Does working 4 hours a day, which includes endless shitposting of "daily life of a software engineer at XYZ" while drinking and showing off on tiktok count as a basic perk now?

russdill 4y ago

Are we taking about musk or the engineers at Twitter?

nayaketo 4y ago
Engineers at Twitter, not Musk.
- russdill 4y ago
  OK, because he does spend a lot of time shitposting.
belltaco 4y ago
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/elon-musk-says-he-is-sleeping-on-tesla-factory-floor-to-save-time.html https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/elon-musk-says-he-is-sleepin...
- saagarjha 4y ago
  I for one would not like my coworkers to sleep under their desk and not shower.

tomjakubowski 4y ago

Extrapolating this one video to "endless shitposting" of them is a real stretch.

filoleg 4y ago
I wasnt talking about "this one video" at all. When I said "endless shitposting", I was referring to tons of actual tiktok videos of such behavior flooding the feed if you look up the relevant tags. I naturally got recommended so many of those videos, i had to spend quite a bit of time just teaching the algorithm that I dont want that garbage on my tiktok FYP.
- saagarjha 4y ago
  Don't these people work at many companies, not just Twitter?
  - filoleg 4y ago
    Totally, not just Twitter, I've seen that behavior outside of Twitter employees plenty. I am just as not in favor of it, regardless of the company.
- tomjakubowski 4y ago
  What would you estimate is the aggregate percentage of working hours spent at Twitter creating these videos? From what I have seen, few people are making these videos every day, or even more often than a constant number of times. They post one or two, it gets shit on, and they're done. If a significant portion of big tech workers were spending O(n) time (n is days on the job) on this, I think you'd have a point, but I don't see either as true. An individual might spend 2-3 hours one time shooting and editing a "day in the life of a Hooli engineer" video. And I'd wager that people creating this videos are a tiny minority among their colleagues. To be clear, these videos irritate me too. The worst that I've seen isn't even from "spoiled tech workers", though, it's been from trust fund kids showing the "day in the life of a New Yorker" or whatever, without even a pretense of having to work. Those are totally out of touch and misrepresentative.

rgovostes 4y ago

I for one enjoy saagarjha’s endless shitposting.

saagarjha 4y ago
<3