Macroeconomic changes have made it impossible for me to want to pay you
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#3The part I thought was the best was this: "This was not an easy decision to make. It’s weighed heavily on me for the past month, keeping me up at night and nearly causing me to cancel the exec team’s offsite, even though Bad Bunny’s appearance fee was only 50 percent refundable. Let’s not mince words, though; the accountability for this decision rests with me. The consequences, on the other hand, rest with you, but so does a pretty generous COBRA package."
Accountability comes with consequences. What are the consequences?
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#4The part I thought was the best was this: "This was not an easy decision to make. It’s weighed heavily on me for the past month, keeping me up at night and nearly causing me to cancel the exec team’s offsite, even though Bad Bunny’s appearance fee was only 50 percent refundable. Let’s not mince words, though; the accountability for this decision rests with me. The consequences, on the other hand, rest with you, but s…
Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.
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#5>And suddenly all your salaries and dental work hang like millstones chafing the supple neck of my stock compensation package.
Oof. This guy knows how to write. And he's funny to boot! May consider adding my name to his Patreon list...
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#6Really love the tone!
I can imagine that the ones calling for layoffs have always been the stingy kind. They just have a better case now... Execs are just obeying whomever has the strongest voice to ensure their outrageous pays remain unchanged.
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#7I grind away at our codebase day in day out causing me immense personal anxiety and burnout risk and all for what?
Well! The honest answer is because software engineering is an incredibly satisfying intellectual pursuit. So satisfying that outside of work in my spare time I literally do it for free, giving away my work to strangers as free / open source software.
Why draw a salary then? Or stock? Well obviously I have to feed my family. But also I have to then see that I’m getting a big share of the pie too, because otherwise someone else will be eating some pie that was rightfully mine, and that feels wrong.
Would my C-level pals get their $15m exit without my work? Maybe, but it’s less likely. Would they get it if the other top engineers and I all downed tools or walked out as a group? No. So why is their exit equivalent to several mansions and mine is around about a year’s worth of salary?
Waterfall edge marble kitchen island indeed.
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#8Great satire, very poignant and entertaining.
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#9>And suddenly all your salaries and dental work hang like millstones chafing the supple neck of my stock compensation package. Oof. This guy knows how to write. And he's funny to boot! May consider adding my name to his Patreon list...
Here’s his site for more to read: https://www.mikelacher.com/
And his articles on the linked site: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/authors/mike-lacher
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