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My Time at Snap

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Re: My Time at Snap

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Post by YawningAngel »

curiousgal wrote: post #48
paxys wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Literally in the next line he says that the conference rooms were always booked and not really an alternative (which is pretty standard in any office)

That's a different issue now isn't it? Access is provided but not guaranteed. You don't see cities with bike lanes forcing those lanes to be clear.

I don't think it is a different issue. The object of the exercise is to allow disabled people to participate on an equal footing. A few nominal concessions that aren't sufficient to achieve this does not do that.

I don't think blocked cycle lanes are a good point of comparison as they don't fulfil their intended function when blocked.

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Post by solidasparagus »

rwallace wrote: post #56
librish wrote: post #10

There seems to be a valuable lesson for OP about the cost of not playing ball here. Assuming OPs side of things is mostly true it sounds like: - OP was working for a bad director, one so bad that they eventually got fired - Instead of placating this director and pretending to take their concerns into consideration, OP fights back more than other teammates (reading between the lines of the quote "However, given that I…

He did play ball. He played ball for month after month, even as the cost of playing ball kept ramping up and up and up. Eventually it became higher than he could stand, and he started showing symptoms of mental health problems. At that point, he wisely left rather than end up with full-blown depression. When you are dealing with people such that what they want is not for you to get a job done, but to humiliate you fo…

I can't really judge from the outside, but it sounds like maybe he played the wrong ball-game a little bit. He overdelivered technically and underdelivered politically. This is still absolutely a problem caused by John and not the author, but it sounds like there might have been an easier path if he'd spent a little more time working John's ego and a little less time delivering technically.

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Post by nikanj »

duxup wrote: post #55

>you could walk around miles of Venice Beach streets pointing out unmarked office after unmarked office as you went along. A seemingly empty storefront here, a nondescript house there, the top level of an apartment building over that way. Is that legal in that area? I lived in a townhouse association where someone started the company out of his house. Eventually he started hiring and it didn't take long for everyone…

We prefer the term "disruptive", not "illegal".

Re: My Time at Snap

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Post by [deleted] »

onion2k wrote: post #25
librish wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Right. Spend 5 minutes flattering the king, and benefit from the outsized rewards from it.

Spend 5 minutes flattering the king, and benefit from the outsized rewards from it. Sure. The first time. But the king isn't stupid. He'll make you more and more subservient until eventually you'll be flattering him for bread and lentils else you'll be put in prison. People in power do that a lot.

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oarsinsync wrote: post #37
kgwgk wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The philosopher Diogenes was sitting on a curbstone, eating bread and lentils for his supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king. Said Aristippus, "If you would learn to be subservient to the king, you would not have to live on lentils." Said Diogenes, "Learn to live on lentils, and you will not have to cultivate the king."

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand is largely based around this topic as well. Giving up who you really are can be a very high price to pay just to be able to receive some (more) money.

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Re: My Time at Snap

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Post by duxup »

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I'm not sure it is fair to link to someone's LinkedIn profile when we have one side of the story here and even that author did not identity him and wished to remain anonymous.

Re: My Time at Snap

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Post by simonhfrost »

duxup wrote: post #68
[deleted] wrote: post #66

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I'm not sure it is fair to link to someone's LinkedIn profile when we have one side of the story here and even that author did not identity him and wished to remain anonymous.

It also feels like a mild form of doxing. Not sure I'm ok with this.

Re: My Time at Snap

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Post by mellosouls »

curiousgal wrote: post #19

Tangent. How is it logical to deprive people from access to a booth just because people in a wheelchair can't access it? That's like banning computer screens because blind people can't see them.

Let's say the place had no toilets, so they build some and you go in and it's just stand up men's urinals.

So you politely point out this won't work for you, they're breaking the law and frankly, making you feel very excluded, and they're like:

"Meh, women. We'll get around to it. But yeah we'll put some signs up in the meantime. You can use the ones in the building down the street. Thanks for pointing that out..."

It's not just about the design competence or legal compliance, it's the principle.

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