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"In the video, Clarke levies some big accusations at his staff. Among them: that 30 remote employees had entirely stopped logging on in a “quiet quitting” coup.
by sybercecurity 4y ago
"In the video, Clarke levies some big accusations at his staff. Among them: that 30 remote employees had entirely stopped logging on in a “quiet quitting” coup. He expressed suspicions that some of Clearlink’s developers had been holding down positions at other companies without Clearlink’s knowledge. He told content writers they should be using AI to increase output “30-50 times our normal production.”
This sounds like the CEO just read a bunch of tech/life blog articles and assumes that all of these trends are happening at his company too. Not a great sign when your boss believes everything he reads.
Feel bad for employees who feel like they they need to continue working there and can't risk quitting.
- willcipriano 4y agoA thought follower.
- mathieuh 4y agoI've always thought it was very ironic that the main prerequisite for being a "thought leader" is not having any thoughts yourself
- Turing_Machine 4y agoI also have antipathy toward the term "thought leader". It has Nazi/Stalinist/Maoist overtones to me.
- dboreham 4y agoaka Psychopath.
- lopkeny12ko 4y agoRegardless of the tone and attitude of the rant, is it not concerning that 30 employees, all of whom are remote and not on PTO, have not even opened their laptops in a month? If I were in leadership, I'd be concerned too. Hell, my company MDM will automatically revoke many permissions if it doesn't get an automated device check-in at least once every two weeks or so.
- idontwantthis 4y agoWhy is it worth complaining about? If it’s true then just fire them.
- CodeWriter23 4y agoIt explains the company changing its “remote only” promise to those employees they hired on that basis. They gave it a try and got robbed of 30 months salary.
- jbigelow76 4y ago"They gave it a try and claimed they got robbed of 30 months salary." Fixed that for you. I do software development too, if opening my laptop was the only metric by which I was measured, damn, that would be pretty sweet! /s
- CodeWriter23 4y agoYou’ve gone 30 days without touching a computer writing software? I’ve been at it for 40 years now, that’s never happened to me.
- jbigelow76 4y agoNo I haven't, I was using sarcasm, to indicate that I think the CEO is straight up lying about the anecdote and it's just something he is using as cover for the policy change.
- CodeWriter23 4y agoHeh, I don't always catch nuance in text communications. It sounds plausible to me, with the recent trend of some taking 2 jobs because remote enables that behavior. I don't know how widespread this cheating practice is, but I have seen people brag online they are doing it.
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- kevinherron 4y ago[dead]