I've worked at several of the big whale tech companies in their prime (like, now) and this story shocked me to my shoes. Maybe I have been sheltered. And this may be random and pointless but I was tired enough of google selling my data that my next phone was going to be an IPhone but after reading this I ... just can't.
My Experience at Apple
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#802Earlier quoted context omitted.
>>but open harassment certainly would not fly in our particular organization. Can't comment much on Apple. But as a Muslim I've seen this in quite a few places. Both in India and the US. It's not even that much a company thing as much as it is a personal thing. Some people are just bigoted and don't like you. In fact the very sight of your existence disturbs them very deeply. And yeah, if you are better than them, it…
I can't vouch for a complete absence of hidden prejudice, and I'm sure sometimes things happen that people perceive as discriminatory (e.g. on team outings, not everybody automatically remembers the vegetarians when picking restaurants, and one person's jocular lunch banter might be stepping on the trunk / kicking the cross of another person's deity of choice, etc).
There is a big difference between this and not getting promoted by a manager who just promoted an easily identifiable inferior performer belonging to their own religion/caste. Or they praising that kind of a guy in every team meeting, or sending out appreciation emails for trivial stuff. It becomes more than obvious they building a case to promote their people.
I've even gotten cold stares for using the office budgets for books, Why do people like you have to read books and get better than us?
Many times it's subtle, but some people are just living through bigotry day in and out. They just can't stand you. And it becomes visible easily.
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>Always having some problem with a hand or a back or some family problem or whatever which demanded that they take days off You now know that they too hated the place and did whatever they could to not be there, I hope. They were not "whiny little bitches" at all.
Okay, yes actually never really considered that as someone who never had a single sick day in my life. It might be....
You should use your sick days when you are sick.
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#804Frankly speaking, it sounds the author ended up joining a 'dud' team where the entire team is well steeped with playing politics rather than actually being productive. It happens in large companies and sometimes in small ones as well. How these unproductive teams survive is beyond me but they do. I hope the Author realizes one thing: Never ever complain to Manager and/or HR in any company about other team member UNLE…
It can be easy to know what to do when looking back
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#805The story’s now gone.
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#806Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wow, Great List! The last one (juniors calling the shots) really hit home; when I worked in , I was ultimately standing on the shoulder of midgets. The worse part? As a CS grad, I knew how to do better, but: nobody with the power to change things understood how or why what I was suggesting was better(!). I've long thought about this afterward, and concluded it's that 'my world' (which includes a lot of experience, an…
Hiring Newbies to call the shots becoming a cost saving pillar that eroded work culture at Boeing is one of those things that indirectly contributed to the recent debacle.
Is a bean counter still heading Boeing? Technology companies really need to be run by technologists first, businessmen second. It's fine to have a COO handle the nitty-gritty of running the company, but the vision and culture need to be set by a technical person and should be very technology-focused in general.
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#807"Unfortunately, Apple became the place that I lost feeling of physical and psychological safety and the terror that it inflicted on me has impacted me on such a core level that the painful memories and flashbacks have replaced my dreams and they will hunt me until I am alive." I really don't understand this. I'm not saying this from a perspective that they are wrong, but that I honestly don't get it, please help me u…
> I've had experiences in war torn countries and seen those that are drastically less fortunate than the author. Author is literally from a war-torn country and would have had to go back if they were fired. This situation was explicitly part-and-parcel of their bullying.
I did mention that he was in a country that had been at war in my post. Hence my question.
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#808"Unfortunately, Apple became the place that I lost feeling of physical and psychological safety and the terror that it inflicted on me has impacted me on such a core level that the painful memories and flashbacks have replaced my dreams and they will hunt me until I am alive." I really don't understand this. I'm not saying this from a perspective that they are wrong, but that I honestly don't get it, please help me u…
Sometimes the risk of losing everything you’ve worked for to end up right back where you care from is worse than just having stayed where you were. A twist on the Shakespeare quote: It’s not always better to have loved and lost, sometimes people would rather never have loved at all.
That's kind of what I was getting at. We all have the same standard and can reach the same level of stress no matter where we started based on a plus or minus from where we started..... or is that false and we just think our life is hard and have no idea the magnitude of difficulty that others live in.
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#809All the fanbois criticizing the author with thinly-veiled racist/xenophobic rhetoric should be ashamed of themselves. It is the exact same treatment the author describes in the article. Ignoring the substance of what he says and criticizing typographic or subjective stylistic mistakes. I am astonished that you can't see that.
Stop stirring up trouble where there isn’t any - if you need your daily dose of drama twitter has its door wide open.
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#810Earlier quoted context omitted.
Perps want to continue the abuse. It gives them happiness.
So you think everyone invoked at Apple was conspiring to keep her there to pleasure themselves? Does that really sound likely?
The author also mentioned she (?) had some friends at Apple too. She didn't write "everyone".
And some of the "bad" people might just have been ordinary people who didn't dare to say no to the more real oppressors. Like, not being friends with, or helping, the kid at school who's getting bullied by the bullies