Someone should show this complete stain how much his average worker is working per dollar compared to him, and then take away his toys and put him in time out.
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
#52"In the video, Clarke levies some big accusations at his staff. Among them: that 30 remote employees had entirely stopped logging on in a “quiet quitting” coup. He expressed suspicions that some of Clearlink’s developers had been holding down positions at other companies without Clearlink’s knowledge. He told content writers they should be using AI to increase output “30-50 times our normal production.” This sounds l…
A thought follower.
aka Psychopath.
Re: Tech CEO applauds an employee selling their dog to accommodate return-to-office
#53Won'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…
>It's all very different than prepandemic, I for one never heard "i need to work from home to stay with my dog" as something people used to say
I have. I had a few employees who needed time off to tend to a dog who may have been sick, or needed surgery, or even took a couple of days to mourn when their dog had passed.
Re: Tech CEO applauds an employee selling their dog to accommodate return-to-office
#54Seriously, 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…
Yes for unit tests lol
Re: Tech CEO applauds an employee selling their dog to accommodate return-to-office
#55Won'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.
This. Literally the only reason I don't have a dog is because I'm not home for 50 hours per week.
Re: Tech CEO applauds an employee selling their dog to accommodate return-to-office
#56"In the video, Clarke levies some big accusations at his staff. Among them: that 30 remote employees had entirely stopped logging on in a “quiet quitting” coup. He expressed suspicions that some of Clearlink’s developers had been holding down positions at other companies without Clearlink’s knowledge. He told content writers they should be using AI to increase output “30-50 times our normal production.” This sounds l…
Regardless of the tone and attitude of the rant, is it not concerning that 30 employees, all of whom are remote and not on PTO, have not even opened their laptops in a month? If I were in leadership, I'd be concerned too.
Hell, my company MDM will automatically revoke many permissions if it doesn't get an automated device check-in at least once every two weeks or so.
Re: Tech CEO applauds an employee selling their dog to accommodate return-to-office
#57Good for that CEO showing everyone who is boss! Like a toddler. I hope customers consider this attitude and sentiment before writing checks to this organization. I wish the employee quit though. Not like crappy digital marketing companies aren’t a dime a dozen. Greta chance to escape a toxic leadership environment.
> I hope customers consider this attitude and sentiment before writing checks to this organization.
Upon further investigation, it seems most of their customers are scammers and spammers, so I doubt any of them much care. The more psychopathic the guy is, the more likely they will be to buy more services, since most of his customers are probably connected (either directly or indirectly) to cybercriminal gangs.
Re: Tech CEO applauds an employee selling their dog to accommodate return-to-office
#58"In the video, Clarke levies some big accusations at his staff. Among them: that 30 remote employees had entirely stopped logging on in a “quiet quitting” coup. He expressed suspicions that some of Clearlink’s developers had been holding down positions at other companies without Clearlink’s knowledge. He told content writers they should be using AI to increase output “30-50 times our normal production.” This sounds l…
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Re: Tech CEO applauds an employee selling their dog to accommodate return-to-office
#59Seriously, 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…
yes, this is my experience as well. but any time i mention it, it seems like people don't want to hear that the AI revolution is really just "slightly better intellisense some of the time."
Re: Tech CEO applauds an employee selling their dog to accommodate return-to-office
#60This 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?
Marketing is all about manipulation