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Tech management has bestowed glory upon me
- jpurnell 3y ago[flagged]
- eschneider 3y agoThat's management suggesting you find a better job. :/
- catchnear4321 3y agoyou received an innovation award during the language model hype, despite not using a language model or anything related to it. this is quite stupendous, actually.
- ragnot 3y agoEvery time this happens to me I keep thinking of that "How many times do we have to teach you this lesson old man?" meme.
- floren 3y agoI've seen this a couple times over the last week, where a person posts something from their own site, and then immediately makes a comment with a verbatim excerpt. I've thought about it and I think it sucks. Let's not do it. Let's make it HN culture not to do it.
- ludicity 3y agoFortunately, this isn't their site, it's mine!
- floren 3y agoWell, that's better, but I still think posting the snippet is pointless and obnoxious and mostly a way to make it look like there's already discussion -- Potemkin Posting.
- stavros 3y agoI love it when someone giving you some money is much, much worse than giving you nothing. This reminds me of Delta airlines apologizing for a four-hour delay with a $3 voucher. I've rarely been humiliated more than by being given those three dollars.
- marcus0x62 3y agoI don't think they're necessarily doing it on purpose. If you put something in the text field of the submission form it posts it as a comment from the submitter, but the submission form doesn't say that's what will happen.
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- stbenjam 3y agoThis person sounds quite disgruntled and should find somewhere else to work for their own well being.
- steveBK123 3y agoThis is a funny anecdote wrapped in a lot of noise. On the one hand we don't expect to get dinged $10k when we cause a $500K bug, on the other.. finding a $500k savings does feel like something worth rewarding. The fact that this was rewarded with $30 is in fact worse than $0, as has been commented elsewhere in the thread. I've been in recovery disaster hell where the entire team worked 18 hour shifts for 2 weeks including weekends to bail our our CTO & senior management who refused to pay for any backups/DR site. Similarly we were rewarded with $20 gift cards. It completely felt like it would have been better to just not give us anything. Of course these are always symptoms of bad companies, and I encourage anyone in a similar situation to take it as a sign to move on. My company I later found out had just secretly had a near-death experience, which they managed to do a second run at death 18 months later, requiring RIFing 50% of my team. Fortunately I was long gone by then.
- penjelly 3y agoi get that its satirical but damn this article feels a bit self indulgent in its length if nothing else.