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Feels like the trend lately for a lot of white collar jobs is overt gatekeeping. Don’t know if it’s a natural reaction to economic uncertainty or what, but the
by mattgreenrocks 3y ago
Feels like the trend lately for a lot of white collar jobs is overt gatekeeping. Don’t know if it’s a natural reaction to economic uncertainty or what, but the gatekeepers always seem to insist that everyone should be 100% committed to their job in their off hours.
Feels like the no-lifers tend to run the show eventually. And I speak as someone who did exactly that in my 20s, and sometimes regret it.
- cristiancavalli 3y agoThis. The snarky tone definitely detracts from any sort of well-intended message hiding behind the virtue signaling of “I implemented a binary tree and I bet you couldn’t because you work on ‘frontend’” Good advice to new peeps in the industry: this tone and obviously inflated sense of self is the “smell” you should look out for and avoid.