At Facebook, Boss Is a Dirty Word
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#2Anyone have a non-paywall link?
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#3Anyone have a non-paywall link?
Google the title, click that link.
Re: At Facebook, Boss Is a Dirty Word
#4Anyone have a non-paywall link?
Also, out of curiosity, who votes these up?
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#6Anyone have a non-paywall link?
Re: At Facebook, Boss Is a Dirty Word
#7Most telling line: “After seven or eight years or 10 years, you’re done, you’re burned out, you get replaced...”
So it's just another Silicon Valley meat grinder. They just grind the meat a little differently.
Re: At Facebook, Boss Is a Dirty Word
#8Most telling line: “After seven or eight years or 10 years, you’re done, you’re burned out, you get replaced...” So it's just another Silicon Valley meat grinder. They just grind the meat a little differently.
But they really need to let in the other 95% of the world's great programmers, so they can grind them down too.
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#9Like similar abstractions, participation is an empty goal unless it is gauged in relation to the job to be done. It is a means, not an end, and when treated as an end, it can become more repressive than the unadorned authoritarianism it is supposed to replace… No one wants to see the old authoritarian return, but at least it could be said of him what he wanted primarily from you was your sweat. The new man wants your soul.”
– William Whyte, The Organization Man, 1956
Re: At Facebook, Boss Is a Dirty Word
#10Most telling line: “After seven or eight years or 10 years, you’re done, you’re burned out, you get replaced...” So it's just another Silicon Valley meat grinder. They just grind the meat a little differently.
But they really need to let in the other 95% of the world's great programmers, so they can grind them down too.
Thats a pretty thoughtless joke when the threat of the other 95%, tied to the job at lower wages (on threat of deportation) would be sufficient.