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Re: Ask HN: Do you feel psychological safety at your job?

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Post by buzzert »

eh9 wrote: post #42
buzzert wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You know we do have welfare/unemployment/rental assistance too, right?

I would argue that a disproportionate number of FAANG employees have lifestyle crept outside the realm where existing social programs could be helpful. Healthcare in this country is still practically tied to your employer (or super expensive cobra) and in this industry that employment is likely at-will, so that assistance doesn’t feel sufficient. At least not for a country that purports to be the world’s primary econ…

We have universal healthcare too (at least in California): https://www.medi-cal.ca.gov

Re: Ask HN: Do you feel psychological safety at your job?

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Post by orzig »

gardenhedge wrote: post #14
orzig wrote: post #6

Yes but my manager makes it an absolute top priority. It takes a lot of work and other managers who were basically OK but balancing priorities ultimately let that safety get off the rails.

What do you mean by balancing priorities?

Everything else for the manager might prioritize culturally, like getting the team to move to a new tech, integrating across geographies, or hitting some big corporate level goal

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Post by sys_64738 »

hugs wrote: post #44

Two rules: Rule #1: Have enough savings in your bank account to pay all your living expenses for at least one year. (Obviously easier said than done.) Rule #2: Follow Rule #1. (If you do, you'll have time to figure everything else out. That might mean finding a new job.)

This. Always have an exit strategy from your job. Being fired is often beyond your control.

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Post by mancerayder »

fnordpiglet wrote: post #50

Interestingly I’m a few years over 30 years info my tech career and it was avoid 10 years ago I could see the fnords at last. There is no safety, there never was. There’s no golden ring, there is no winning, there is no camaraderie, there is no value in promotion, the respect of your peers is meaningless, and it’s all just a sham to get you to expend more of your soul for less money. Once I had pierced the ceiling in…

People seem to internalize and conform to the organizational imperative, either because they're well-compensated, they have family or external dependencies of high salary and stability, or they've numbed themselves to how organizations of people tend to turn into. Whichever of these, it's a self-selection bias of who remains long enough to get promoted upwards.

Re: Ask HN: Do you feel psychological safety at your job?

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Post by whythre »

eh9 wrote: post #55
sebastianconcpt wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Of course not. We're in a culture war with cancel culture normalized. If you dissent you are toasted.

… cancel culture is about holding people accountable… It’s not about canceling employees because of dissenting at work.

That is probably the most charitable interpretation of the phenomenon possible. I do not think it is about holding people accountable at all, I think it is a new way to enforce shifting social norms that allows people to judge others without being ‘judgy.’

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Post by wereallterrrist »

eh9 wrote: post #53
hugs wrote: post #44

Two rules: Rule #1: Have enough savings in your bank account to pay all your living expenses for at least one year. (Obviously easier said than done.) Rule #2: Follow Rule #1. (If you do, you'll have time to figure everything else out. That might mean finding a new job.)

Most Americans don’t have $1000 in savings.

And? Thats fking pathetic and nearly every single healthy, unburdened FAANG engineer should be deahtly embarrassed to find themselves in such a situation.

But for those reading this who are "crying in bathrooms", what does it say about your lifestyle thst you likely made 2-3x my salary, and yet i walked away from tech for years while youre somehow fearful of making ends meet?

I eat what i want, i have money for more weed and booze and casual friendships than i can dream of. I am fucking disgusted with this "trying to make it seem like fired tech workers are as pitiable as average americans".

No. No more. You want me to cry for your lost Google salary, i wanna see numbers.

This entire shit conversation is privileged and absurd and ignorant of what the left has advocated for for decades ... to a point i pull at my hair.

Seriously, this fucking website is gonna cry over fired tech workers when hundreds of thousands of americans who make less than 5% of google salary experience this, regularly, without severance, health care and a halfway decent shot at findinf a new job. Really? Ive seen the attitudes that are popular here. BUT GOD FORBID SOMEONE QUESTION THE SPENDING HABITS OF THE SELF-IMAGINED-AS-WEALTHY TECH CLASS?!

Re: Ask HN: Do you feel psychological safety at your job?

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Post by thrill »

bastijn wrote: post #52
clarkdale wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Physchological safety" is a buzz word common in MBA circles. There are many articles written about it, shared on HN even.

I'm torn between down voting this for being unnecessarily condescending and letting you feel safe to speak your mind on HN. Take my down vote with the knowledge it's OK to share you disagree or find the topic a nuisance of late, but you can be a little more thoughtful on how to voice that.

This seems like an example where someone takes unnecessary offense. I didn't feel any arrogance from the post. Perhaps a good portion of sources of fears of "psychological safety" is everyone is getting constantly told how they're a "nobody", without ever thinking that if it was so, then they already wouldn't be there.

Re: Ask HN: Do you feel psychological safety at your job?

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Post by koof »

8n4vidtmkvmk wrote: post #5

I can guess which FAANG you're at. "psychological safety" has been floating around the office recently. I mostly feel secure because (a) my ratings have been good, and more importantly (b) I don't think my team is going to get axed because we maintain a pretty core feature. I think if you're in the bottom 6-8% or whatever they set the low ratings at, you're in danger. And if you're on a team that doesn't generate mon…

Neither of those things applied to me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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