I reject the premise of the question.
Ask HN: Do you feel psychological safety at your job?
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Re: Ask HN: Do you feel psychological safety at your job?
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Bros being unprofessional?
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Please don't take HN threads into gender flamewar. This was quite gratuitous.
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This is the dumbest comment I’ve read on here.
Name-calling isn't allowed here, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are.
Also, please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes everything worse.
Re: Ask HN: Do you feel psychological safety at your job?
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I'm just surprised people buy into the corporate nonsense in the first place. You have to be pretty intelligent to be a software developer.... yet... many of the same intelligent people appear not to understand how they're being manipulated in the workplace. Or the fact that looking after one another is a better idea for everyone, than competing against each other and behaving in a dog-eat-dog manner. In my experienc…
You don’t really have to be intelligent to be a software dev. Literally just look at all the blockchain crap.
I don’t think that shows a lack of intelligence but a lack of either pragmatism or ethics, depending on the motive.
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And what type of “long term medical costs” aren’t covered by the insurance you get from your job?
The kind that affect your non-immediate relatives, or require long term physical therapy (many plans will only cover the bare minimum), or really anything else. Medical insurance is not uniform in quality.
We aren’t talking about non quality plans. We are talking about the plans offered by major technology companies.
“My non immediate relatives” can’t be my burden to bare. You have to put your own life jacket on first - my wife and my children
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Article 23,24,25 of the universal declaration of rights > Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment. > Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection. > Ev…
Not sure to what extent the United States acknowledges such things from the UN, but for our purposes let's say it does. An individual may have a right to work, but business owners also have a right to employ who they want (barring any unlawful/discriminatory practices). Put differently, losing your job does not infringe on your right to work, you just need to find someone else to work for. An individual's right to wo…
It seems the US is committed to it (source: https://br.usembassy.gov/united-states-remains-committed-to-...)
I suspected the focus would be on the first paragraph, but nobody focused on the last paragraph
> Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
This seems to contradict, at least partly, the man-eats-man attitude of no right for work that OP was expressing.
Re: Ask HN: Do you feel psychological safety at your job?
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Article 23,24,25 of the universal declaration of rights > Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment. > Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection. > Ev…
I'm pretty sure that the first part of the quote doesn't mean what you're implying it does. The right to work and free choice of employment does not make one safe against not being offered a job or being fired from one.
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The kind that affect your non-immediate relatives, or require long term physical therapy (many plans will only cover the bare minimum), or really anything else. Medical insurance is not uniform in quality.
We aren’t talking about non quality plans. We are talking about the plans offered by major technology companies. “My non immediate relatives” can’t be my burden to bare. You have to put your own life jacket on first - my wife and my children
Even plans offered by major technology companies vary significantly: I know of at least one person with 5 figure out-of-pocket annual medical costs at a FAANG.
I think it would behoove you to think more generally: not everybody has the same familial structure as you. Some people live with their distant relatives because they act as (or need) caretakers, or come from cultures where a single familial household is the norm. "I only care about my and mine" is not an attitude that "works" for billions of people on this planet.
Re: Ask HN: Do you feel psychological safety at your job?
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We aren’t talking about non quality plans. We are talking about the plans offered by major technology companies. “My non immediate relatives” can’t be my burden to bare. You have to put your own life jacket on first - my wife and my children
Even plans offered by major technology companies vary significantly: I know of at least one person with 5 figure out-of-pocket annual medical costs at a FAANG. I think it would behoove you to think more generally: not everybody has the same familial structure as you. Some people live with their distant relatives because they act as (or need) caretakers, or come from cultures where a single familial household is the n…
And yet “billions of people” aren’t making anywhere near what tech salaries are and they manage. People are taking care of extended family owning a neighborhood convenience store.
By the way, I’m not unsympathetic to people with long term medical conditions. While my situation isn’t serious, I was born with cerebral palsy and my parents put me through every type of therapy that you can imagine - speech, physical and occupational therapy and I went to all types of doctors on the salary of a teacher and a factory worker.
They also retired at 53 and 55 and are now 78 and 80 living in the same house they bought in 1978 in South Georgia. My dad owned three cars his entire life and my mom owned 5. They didn’t try to keep up with the Jones
This is not a sympathy post. By the time I was in high school I was winning speaking competitions, and I spent a decade as an adult as fitness instructor and a runner up to half marathons. It really only affects my left hand.
Re: Ask HN: Do you feel psychological safety at your job?
#130Use your benefits and get some therapy. It will help!
Have you been at the same company for your entire career? Sometimes moving companies helps develop resilience because you learn that your skills are still valued and transferrable.
It improves your self-esteem and your psychological safety to focus on things you control. And the only thing you control is you. This will help you accept uncertainty and go on living.
Outside of your self work the only thing you and your coworkers could unionize to help improve things for everyone.