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Loathe to give outrage reposters views but here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkQbHyLE6Tc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkQbHyLE6Tc The video was po

Loathe to give outrage reposters views but here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkQbHyLE6Tc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkQbHyLE6Tc The video was posted by a remote financial analyst who was visiting the SF office for the first time. She describes what amounts to maybe an hour of break time, including lunch -- the rest of her day is meetings and working time. The perks are nice, maybe too nice you could argue, but the notion that the video proves she (and other Twitter workers) don't do any "real work" is idiotic. It's a short video, a tiny sample of her work day -- why would she dedicate any portion of it to showing her crunching numbers in Excel or whatever?

tomjakubowski 4y ago
Worth noting also that the poster has scrubbed her online presence, I would guess due to incessant harassment. Really stupid all around.
phpisthebest 4y ago
This is not the first time a twitter employee has implied a light work schedule. There were posts when the first Elon buyout rumor came around about twitter employee reporting remote work amounting to around 30 hours a week.. This just adds fuel to the fire that for the most part Twitter has a bunch of part time employee getting very high full time wages. Now there is a large segment of the population that believe 32 hour work weeks should be standard, if your one of those then I suppose their posts will not spark much respond, but for most people that will spark strong negative emotions. > She describes what amounts to maybe an hour of break time, including lunch -- the rest of her day is meetings and working time. then it should not be labeled as "a day in the life" Watching the video the person comes away with an impression this is more than just 1 hour of the day. I also suspect you are giving this person far too much credit for the amount of work they did that day. I am guessing it was more like 1 hour of real work, couple hours of meetings, and the rest socializing / using the "amenities"
- watwut 4y ago
  Meh, this is just looking for outrage. And quite literally. Also, if you are going to the office after being remote, meetings and discussions tend are always the point. Otherwise you could have stayed at home.
- ketzo 4y ago
  > 1 hour of real work, couple hours of meetings showing your biases a little too much there, aren't you?
  - phpisthebest 4y ago
    Nope. My biases are clear and well known, I dislike everything about Silicon valley and the culture of Silicon Valley. If I could make one plea to Elon, it would be to move Twitter out of Silicon Valley as fast as possible
    - themitigating 4y ago
      Admitting you are bias doesn't remove the issue that you are bias.
throwawaylinux 4y ago
Ouch, that's a pretty horrific video. I don't know if that kind of thing goes down well in the "influencer" or the SV tech scenes, but outside those bubbles it's clearly going to come across as narcissistic, entitled, and lazy. Which is unfortunate because I'm sure she's a wonderful person and a hard and competent worker, but there's a serious lack of judgement making that public. She is shown scheduling a 30 minute meeting which seems to be the only work done before getting ready for lunch. After lunch plays foosball and meditation and exploring. Now that might be entirely reasonable if she comes to work at 11am and leaves in the evening or clocks back on to do some work at night, or did a bunch of other work before lunch. And having a lot of meetings is what happens when you're a remote worker who comes into the office once a year. None of that comes across to in the video though so what it actually looks like is about 3 hours of meetings (which are mostly taking pictures of one another), and the rest of it lounging around eating and drinking and unwinding.

tomjakubowski 4y ago

Worth noting also that the poster has scrubbed her online presence, I would guess due to incessant harassment. Really stupid all around.

phpisthebest 4y ago

This is not the first time a twitter employee has implied a light work schedule. There were posts when the first Elon buyout rumor came around about twitter employee reporting remote work amounting to around 30 hours a week.. This just adds fuel to the fire that for the most part Twitter has a bunch of part time employee getting very high full time wages. Now there is a large segment of the population that believe 32 hour work weeks should be standard, if your one of those then I suppose their posts will not spark much respond, but for most people that will spark strong negative emotions. > She describes what amounts to maybe an hour of break time, including lunch -- the rest of her day is meetings and working time. then it should not be labeled as "a day in the life" Watching the video the person comes away with an impression this is more than just 1 hour of the day. I also suspect you are giving this person far too much credit for the amount of work they did that day. I am guessing it was more like 1 hour of real work, couple hours of meetings, and the rest socializing / using the "amenities"

watwut 4y ago
Meh, this is just looking for outrage. And quite literally. Also, if you are going to the office after being remote, meetings and discussions tend are always the point. Otherwise you could have stayed at home.
ketzo 4y ago
> 1 hour of real work, couple hours of meetings showing your biases a little too much there, aren't you?
- phpisthebest 4y ago
  Nope. My biases are clear and well known, I dislike everything about Silicon valley and the culture of Silicon Valley. If I could make one plea to Elon, it would be to move Twitter out of Silicon Valley as fast as possible
  - themitigating 4y ago
    Admitting you are bias doesn't remove the issue that you are bias.

throwawaylinux 4y ago

Ouch, that's a pretty horrific video. I don't know if that kind of thing goes down well in the "influencer" or the SV tech scenes, but outside those bubbles it's clearly going to come across as narcissistic, entitled, and lazy. Which is unfortunate because I'm sure she's a wonderful person and a hard and competent worker, but there's a serious lack of judgement making that public. She is shown scheduling a 30 minute meeting which seems to be the only work done before getting ready for lunch. After lunch plays foosball and meditation and exploring. Now that might be entirely reasonable if she comes to work at 11am and leaves in the evening or clocks back on to do some work at night, or did a bunch of other work before lunch. And having a lot of meetings is what happens when you're a remote worker who comes into the office once a year. None of that comes across to in the video though so what it actually looks like is about 3 hours of meetings (which are mostly taking pictures of one another), and the rest of it lounging around eating and drinking and unwinding.