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> it’s deeply depressing to watch Twitter employees work over the weekend and sleep in the office to push out impossible deliverables I have enough empathy lef

> it’s deeply depressing to watch Twitter employees work over the weekend and sleep in the office to push out impossible deliverables I have enough empathy left to understand that yes, it is depressing to work in a BS project. But I feel the anger is misplaced. The depressing part is not that Twitter employees are killing themselves to deliver code that no one likes. The depressing part is that Twitter employees are killing themselves to deliver code, full stop. If people did want those "deliverables", it would still be wrong. Remember, kids: when someone asks you to sleep in the office over the weekend, the correct answer is "an emergency on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine". And then you go home.

mikkergp 4y ago
I think the phrase is “poor planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine”. Which seems on point here.
jleyank 4y ago
Or “your lack of planning does not constitute my emergency.” An old button from a button lady.
dekhn 4y ago
"Your failure to plan does not consitute an emergency for me" is how we used to say it.
fragmede 4y ago
It's so important to maintain a healthy work/life balance and to have a healthy distance from work, but in this case the emergency is manufactured and the result of disappointment is being publicly fired. Ie: Go home over the weekend if you want, but you don't come in on Monday if you do. Doesn't make for a healthy workplace, but unfortunately that's the situation Twitter employees now find themselves in. "an emergency on your part does not necessarily constitute an emergency on mine".
cheeze 4y ago
> an emergency on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine Which is great until you get fired for that, and realize that most companies have put hiring freezes in place. It's depressing.
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mikkergp 4y ago

I think the phrase is “poor planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine”. Which seems on point here.

jleyank 4y ago

Or “your lack of planning does not constitute my emergency.” An old button from a button lady.

dekhn 4y ago

"Your failure to plan does not consitute an emergency for me" is how we used to say it.

fragmede 4y ago

It's so important to maintain a healthy work/life balance and to have a healthy distance from work, but in this case the emergency is manufactured and the result of disappointment is being publicly fired. Ie: Go home over the weekend if you want, but you don't come in on Monday if you do. Doesn't make for a healthy workplace, but unfortunately that's the situation Twitter employees now find themselves in. "an emergency on your part does not necessarily constitute an emergency on mine".

cheeze 4y ago

> an emergency on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine Which is great until you get fired for that, and realize that most companies have put hiring freezes in place. It's depressing.

sieabahlpark 4y ago

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