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The only interesting thought I've had while reading this pretty mundane post is "man am I happy to not be working with that dude".
Right. A guy who'd give up fifty grand just so he was free to write a rant.
Something smelled fishy, so I did a bit of follow-up. This dude is leaving out a huge detail to make his employment troubles be a pivotal problem when...it's not. Let's footnote a coupleo f his "Story of Pivotal The Employment" > Hired To contribute to Redis > All My Work Is Owned by Another Employee? What? The primary redis maintainer, not a pivotal employee? > Let’s Organize Instead of Being A Hobby Project Let's m…
I don't understand people who write things like this. If you're unhappy leave, if you think the corporate culture is wrong, either participate in fixing it, or get out. I honestly can't stand people who self righteously sound the alarm about how they can see all of the things wrong with everybody else. It sounds especially childish when you are making so much money.
Rachel had something about fixing corporate culture recently (hint: you can't), and sometimes really you can't leave. Some are shackled to their jobs through their visa, others because of healthcare needs (their health insurance has favourable terms, and they need to care for a family member), and others because of the nature of the industry (university faculty comes to mind, especially post-2008). The fact that you…
Something smelled fishy, so I did a bit of follow-up. This dude is leaving out a huge detail to make his employment troubles be a pivotal problem when...it's not. Let's footnote a coupleo f his "Story of Pivotal The Employment" > Hired To contribute to Redis > All My Work Is Owned by Another Employee? What? The primary redis maintainer, not a pivotal employee? > Let’s Organize Instead of Being A Hobby Project Let's m…
What I also found odd in that section was that the poster apparently started a product strategy discussion with his coworker over Twitter.
It's an open source project, sure, but that doesn't strike me as a healthy approach.
Something smelled fishy, so I did a bit of follow-up. This dude is leaving out a huge detail to make his employment troubles be a pivotal problem when...it's not. Let's footnote a coupleo f his "Story of Pivotal The Employment" > Hired To contribute to Redis > All My Work Is Owned by Another Employee? What? The primary redis maintainer, not a pivotal employee? > Let’s Organize Instead of Being A Hobby Project Let's m…
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Rachel had something about fixing corporate culture recently (hint: you can't), and sometimes really you can't leave. Some are shackled to their jobs through their visa, others because of healthcare needs (their health insurance has favourable terms, and they need to care for a family member), and others because of the nature of the industry (university faculty comes to mind, especially post-2008). The fact that you…
The concept of fixing corporate culture seems like a weird one, if you remove corporate and go for the generic term, can you "fix culture"? I think what you can do is influence the culture of a company and reap the rewards, having done the devops transformation in two difference companies that were deemed unfixable (both more than 4 offices and 3k people) I feel it is very doable! It just takes time and it is not an…
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Rachel had something about fixing corporate culture recently (hint: you can't), and sometimes really you can't leave. Some are shackled to their jobs through their visa, others because of healthcare needs (their health insurance has favourable terms, and they need to care for a family member), and others because of the nature of the industry (university faculty comes to mind, especially post-2008). The fact that you…
>their health insurance has favourable terms, and they need to care for a family member At 200k per year, you can buy Obamacare which is 6k per year and for an individual 6k max out of pocket. So many people are fooled into thinking their companies health insurance is worth something beyond 12k/yr. And that 12k is firefighters union tier.
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Right. A guy who'd give up fifty grand just so he was free to write a rant.
It's actually 50k of time off (not made clear other than in the contract at the bottom), which is not exactly the same thing.
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>their health insurance has favourable terms, and they need to care for a family member At 200k per year, you can buy Obamacare which is 6k per year and for an individual 6k max out of pocket. So many people are fooled into thinking their companies health insurance is worth something beyond 12k/yr. And that 12k is firefighters union tier.
That sounds crazy to me. I looked at federal "market-based" insurance in 2017, and it was just shy of $2k per month for my family. It covered basically nothing and had a deductible of several thousand dollars.