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Tech CEO applauds an employee selling their dog to accommodate return-to-office

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Re: Tech CEO applauds an employee selling their dog to accommodate return-to-office

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Post by bentcorner »

exhibitapp wrote: post #12

Won't comment directly on the strange rant. But it highlights the reality that something has seriously changed since the pandemic. I have multiple employees that insist on staying home due to their dogs. The amount of discussion around employees' dogs is on another level now, partially due to the anxiety these dogs have when their owners go into the office. It's all very different than prepandemic, I for one never he…

> I for one never heard "i need to work from home to stay with my dog" as something people used to say

At least in my case it was "I'm not going to get a dog because I go into the office", so it never really came up in hallway conversations. I suspect a lot of people were in the same camp. With WFH they did get a dog, and now it's harder to go back into the office.

Re: Tech CEO applauds an employee selling their dog to accommodate return-to-office

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Post by plim8481 »

> “I challenge any of you to outwork me, but you won’t,”

If people had as much equity and comp as he has in the company, maybe they would - he made that tradeoff to make this company his life, and he probably has a wife/family/paid helpers to take care of everything for him. His employees clearly have other priorities other than to work for a company that doesn't care for them and never will.

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Post by koromak »

Seriously, are any of you "increasing output" with AI?

I get like 10 good lines of code a day from Copilot. I don't even try ChatGPT anymore, as its only useful if you're writing boilerplate. Everything thats actually hard about my job requires the full context of the rest of the codebase, within repo and without, and architectural knowledge of the problems we're trying to solve.

I read another post here yesterday that said "90% of my skillset just became useless" in regards to AI. I don't understand how? Do people spend 90% of their time writing blank HTML templates or empty react components?

Maybe people are just extrapolating. "90% of my skillset will become useless soon". I don't know.

Re: Tech CEO applauds an employee selling their dog to accommodate return-to-office

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Post by jonas21 »

jen20 wrote: post #35
vthallam wrote: post #11

This is despicable, but titling "Tech CEO" for a digital marketing company is a stretch. FWIW, no one(very few?) actually in tech company would make fun of working mom's or applaud someone for selling their dog.

What makes you think there are fewer sociopaths in tech than marketing?

Because marketers don't make a product. They're just locked in a zero-sum game for attention. Most tech companies at least start with the goal of improving the world in some way.

Re: Tech CEO applauds an employee selling their dog to accommodate return-to-office

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Post by dalyons »

exhibitapp wrote: post #12

Won't comment directly on the strange rant. But it highlights the reality that something has seriously changed since the pandemic. I have multiple employees that insist on staying home due to their dogs. The amount of discussion around employees' dogs is on another level now, partially due to the anxiety these dogs have when their owners go into the office. It's all very different than prepandemic, I for one never he…

They don’t want WFH taken away from them, the dog is just an excuse. I don’t blame them - employers reasons for forcing people back are typically equally as weak excuses.

Re: Tech CEO applauds an employee selling their dog to accommodate return-to-office

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Post by hammyhavoc »

oofta-boofta wrote: post #9
tedivm wrote: post #3

This title doesn't do it justice- I hope his rant about how working moms aren't fair to the company gets him sued.

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Whilst I'm an atheist myself, religious hate speech goes against https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: Tech CEO applauds an employee selling their dog to accommodate return-to-office

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Post by absrd »

sct202 wrote: post #5

I was wondering what kind of business this company was in because the guy sounded so serious and they run blog and review spammy type websites that act as sales funnels for personal finance, high speed internet and moving companies. Like I am not going above and beyond in personal sacrifice for that.

It's also precisely the kind of thing that no one needs to be in an office to do

Re: Tech CEO applauds an employee selling their dog to accommodate return-to-office

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Post by peoplearepeople »

koromak wrote: post #43

Seriously, are any of you "increasing output" with AI? I get like 10 good lines of code a day from Copilot. I don't even try ChatGPT anymore, as its only useful if you're writing boilerplate. Everything thats actually hard about my job requires the full context of the rest of the codebase, within repo and without, and architectural knowledge of the problems we're trying to solve. I read another post here yesterday th…

There must be some people out there with skillsets so low/shallow that these AI tools really do seem like a productivity boost
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