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

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Post by xeromal »

nequo wrote: post #97
xeromal wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know these are dangerous grounds to tread on, but I do struggle with working parents sometimes. I understand having children does take time, but I've experienced a parent that ends up being available around 4 hours a day while they are the linchpin in a certain part of the process that prevents a job from being completed. They're slow to respond to messages, emails, and calls and sometimes async responses are just…

You write parents in plural at the beginning of your comment but your specific example is about one parent. Have you experienced this with multiple working parents?

I meant parent so I didn't imply a certain gender, but I've experienced it only twice in my 12 year career but I've only worked with newborn parents twice.

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

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Post by marcosdumay »

lopkeny12ko wrote: post #56
sybercecurity wrote: post #19

"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.

Are those people hired to pilot their laptops?

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

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Post by danaris »

orev wrote: post #120
PragmaticPulp wrote: post #119

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> 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? One of the employees commented that the company gave a lot of people outdated Thinkpads, so they use their personal computers at home. I had a company-issued laptop that I only used when traveling. If the company looked up stats on laptop use, I would have been near the bottom of the list fo…

In many companies, using your personal device is grounds for immediate termination.

This is not a universal rule, nor should it be.

If it were the case here, it seems very likely that it would have been mentioned.

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

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Post by ryandrake »

AlexandrB wrote: post #78
cableshaft wrote: post #15

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No kidding. Joshua Fluke plays the whole thing with commentary[1], and it gets really bad. This guy goes on for like ten minutes and just keeps sharing bad take after bad take. If I were his assistant I would be giving him the 'wrap it the FUCK up' signal nonstop after like, three minutes. [1]: https://youtu.be/xEek505-6EM

I like how this video points out that this CEO serves on the boards of several other companies and organizations while claiming to be "all in" and fully committed to Clearlink. So children and dogs are a distraction for the rank and file that's unfair to the company, but being on a bunch of boards and committees is fine and cool for executives. Pretty obvious what "good" and "bad" mean here - "good" is anything that…

CEO serves on the boards of multiple companies: A-OK

Engineer divides his day up so he can work multiple full-time jobs: Huge problem

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

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Post by ryandrake »

snapcaster wrote: post #13

This guy seems really unhinged, and i HATE when people with more skin in the game and potential upside act like they're somehow more virtuous for working harder

And they always confuse upside with "risk". Dude probably has multi-generational wealth. His little "skin in the game" doesn't amount to risk: He's not risking his and his family's livelihood on the company.

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Post by jbigelow76 »

CodeWriter23 wrote: post #108
idontwantthis wrote: post #65

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Why is it worth complaining about? If it’s true then just fire them.

It explains the company changing its “remote only” promise to those employees they hired on that basis. They gave it a try and got robbed of 30 months salary.

"They gave it a try and claimed they got robbed of 30 months salary."

Fixed that for you.

I do software development too, if opening my laptop was the only metric by which I was measured, damn, that would be pretty sweet! /s

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

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Post by ryanmcbride »

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…

Last time I tried it I ended up in an infinite loop of:

me: TypeError: sodium.crypto_secretbox_key is not a function when using sodium 3.0.5

chatgpt: I apologize for the confusion. sodium.crypto_secretbox_key was removed from the sodium package in version 3.0.0. Instead, you can use sodium.crypto_secretbox_keygen() to generate a secret key.

me: now I get 'TypeError: sodium.crypto_secretbox_keygen is not a function 3.0.5'

chat:gpt I apologize for the confusion. sodium.crypto_secretbox_keygen was removed from the sodium package in version 3.0.0. Instead, you can use sodium.crypto_secretbox_key to generate a secret key.

Back and forth. And that was when I was like "welp guess I gotta read some docs now" which isn't a big deal, the interesting part for me is that it's basically hallucinating about what features were added or removed in a given library version, which really seems like the sort of thing it aught to be pretty good with.

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Post by CodeWriter23 »

jbigelow76 wrote: post #126
CodeWriter23 wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It explains the company changing its “remote only” promise to those employees they hired on that basis. They gave it a try and got robbed of 30 months salary.

"They gave it a try and claimed they got robbed of 30 months salary." Fixed that for you. I do software development too, if opening my laptop was the only metric by which I was measured, damn, that would be pretty sweet! /s

You’ve gone 30 days without touching a computer writing software? I’ve been at it for 40 years now, that’s never happened to me.

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

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Post by jbigelow76 »

CodeWriter23 wrote: post #128
jbigelow76 wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"They gave it a try and claimed they got robbed of 30 months salary." Fixed that for you. I do software development too, if opening my laptop was the only metric by which I was measured, damn, that would be pretty sweet! /s

You’ve gone 30 days without touching a computer writing software? I’ve been at it for 40 years now, that’s never happened to me.

No I haven't, I was using sarcasm, to indicate that I think the CEO is straight up lying about the anecdote and it's just something he is using as cover for the policy change.

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Post by joeman1000 »

I bet this guys ‘work’ consists of non-stop meetings and nothing else. Anecdotally, in offices I’ve worked at, the people there are constantly yakking, in pointless meetings, discussing nonsense… all day. This is about 80% of the people in the office. The hardest workers I know are the ones that come in a day or two a week but are mostly at home without the distractions of the office.
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