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> They made a ton of cash, will likely get a lot of severance, and work in an industry and area where it is easy to do that with their experience. Is that all
by iamdbtoo 4y ago
> They made a ton of cash, will likely get a lot of severance, and work in an industry and area where it is easy to do that with their experience.
Is that all one's life boils down to?
- luckylion 4y agoNo, they also got the opportunity to build a system to make people miserable at scale. And, it's important to remember that, their life isn't over. They're not being marched into the ocean this afternoon, they just need to get a new job in the area, which is unlikely to be too hard.
- westpfelia 4y agoThis is America. A persons value is 100% derived from the increase in capital they provide billionaires.
- throwaway09223 4y agoWe're not talking about life, we're talking about their job. The answer is yes: Jobs generally boil down to exchanging labor for cash. When people are willing to do a job without pay, we call it "volunteering" instead.
- iamdbtoo 4y agoWe spend 40 hours a day for nearly our entire adult lives at work but we're not talking about life? Are you serious?
- throwaway09223 4y agoI don't know about you but I'm only there to get paid. Are you serious?
- SpicyLemonZest 4y agoWhen you take a job at a consistently unprofitable company, you kinda have to accept that's what you signed up for. Every job at Twitter is a speculative bet that might or might not pan out. I'm not saying they're not allowed to feel bad or complain about it, but a sale followed by rapid staff cuts is what always happens to startups who don't do well enough on their own.