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>>Will it get me another job? ... If you can’t understand why I don’t waste my energy on doing seven balls overhead for a minute to make a youtube video for peo
by kamaal 13y ago
>>Will it get me another job? ... If you can’t understand why I don’t waste my energy on doing seven balls overhead for a minute to make a youtube video for people to watch, then you haven’t entered the real world yet.
I had a similar discussion with my office colleagues a few weeks back. When there was a call for a 'Hacknight' at our workplace to drive revenues up, when a SVP panicked he was going to miss his target. And the people where asked to contribute and magically rescue the whole situation out of nowhere. Nearly every one agreed that they would not contribute a minute to that 'Hacknight'
When people just give up, start giving damn about things. Its generally because they've been taken for a ride, before. Once hard working night owl hackers stop doing things because they watch some jack ass four levels above them doing 1/100th the work but taking nearly everything that is right fully theirs.
The Hack night was a big flop, ofcourse the SVP called for a meeting next day and lectured about motivation and lack of passion in the team(Meaning, people not ready sacrifice a great deal and give away their work for free). And how despite all the help from the leadership(Meaning, Arranging for biscuits and tea, and then going to home to get sleep) people were not ready to contribute to the company(Meaning, Help the VP make an additional million in yearly bonus).
Ultimately you get what you pay for.
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- ryandrake 13y agoHey, wait, I don't know about you, but I've always thought one of the most rewarding parts of working in tech was being lectured about motivation by someone with 10X my salary, 100X my bonus and 1000X my equity stake :-)
- x0x0 13y agoyou forgot being lectured about taking risks (or wasting my life on making better advertising) by assholes who've already made theirs and never have to worry about how they're ever going to afford to buy in the bay area, raise a family, pay for college, etc. It's easy to take a risk on a job when you don't need the money...
- praptak 13y agoNo, no - the most rewarding part is proving to them they're an incompetent idiot. The most rewarding. Not necessarily very rewarding in absolute terms.
- goldenkey 13y agoThe reason it's so rewarding is because it's next to impossible to give idiots any self-actualization. And if you do, when you do, their world crumbles into pieces.
- thisone 13y agoahh, I remember the day my boss told me the exact amount of happiness and motivation I was to come into work with every day (gestures and happy faces were made to show me the exact amount). (and this was after they missed payroll)
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- sosuke 13y agoI'd love to read a story about a 'Hacknight' that was a wild success where everyone got 6 figure bonuses.
- beachstartup 13y agoi think that only happens if you work for organized crime syndicates, running ddos extortions for your mob boss.
- gcb0 13y agoYeah, i used to organize hack days. It was mostly one vacation day i managed to get for the team where a few would come in and hack on games or whatever. Until a vp decided to join. Then hacks had to be about creating products and ideas had to be documented, and someone had to "win". Now the occasional hack that benefited the company as a side effect of almost free motivation and team building disappeared. Only the most suck Ups juniors appears. And all ideas pitch how much money the company could make but are not really fun or challenging to implement.
- kamaal 13y ago>>someone had to "win". Completely agree. Once this comes in team mates stop working for each other, instead begin working against each other.
- judk 13y agoHow could you be small enough for a Hacknight but big enough to have an SVP?