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I will never understand how people can willingly build tools like this that almost exclusively serve to make employment miserable.
Amazing what people are willing to trade in exchange for a fat salary with decent benefits. Even if it means trading their moral code.
People are working for evil companies like Facebook or Purdue Pharma without moral issues.
Job is just a job, people needs money...
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> success could get you promoted "Could" is such a big word. It means nothing, but it is intended to be very valuable. Get that promotion in writing. Otherwise it's a carrot to dangle upon you. > they'd better not send you on that expensive training course You know what's worse than training people and then these people leaving? Not training them and then these people staying. You insist on giving me reasons to stay…
You don't necessarily realize that you work for this company.
If anybody doesn't think this is a problem, I overheard managers talking about a 3rd-party tool that finds "at risk employees" which they didn't define but said it included signals such as "they updated their linked in recently" as a signal that they may be on the job hunt. You better believe that data brokers are both interested in buying and selling any sort of information around your employment/job/interview behav…
If you can help it, it’s best to leave (or not start at) a company with such practices anyway.
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I heard non-squeaky wheel look more loyal and are kept around.
Definitely. But also expensive non-squeaky wheels get replaced with cheaper wheels if upper management is in the mood of cost cutting.
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Why is it impossible for communities to emerge organically in 2024? Why must you raise and spend $20m on marketing alone? I found Reddit literally through organic word-of-mouth when Digg went under. Never saw an ad for it in my life. Why does a Glassdoor alternative inherently need marketing?
Reddit didn't start to attract the critical mass until they became the top result in Google though nor it was able to keep its servers with its own profit. Until they squash all possible opponents, such social networks has never been profitable.
If anybody doesn't think this is a problem, I overheard managers talking about a 3rd-party tool that finds "at risk employees" which they didn't define but said it included signals such as "they updated their linked in recently" as a signal that they may be on the job hunt. You better believe that data brokers are both interested in buying and selling any sort of information around your employment/job/interview behav…
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I heard non-squeaky wheel look more loyal and are kept around.
"Loyalty" has been dead for decades, just look at that many accounts of successful teams and people that have been laid off in the last year alone. The same exact stories of hard working and dedicated people being laid off on a whim can be found going back decades. There's a reason that so many people now get prompted by moving "horizontally" between companies, very few companies today properly reward loyalty, if any…
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Employers and recruiters are always bewildered when I say I don't have a LinkedIn account, or a public Github profile (I have a few tiny open source projects I maintain, but they are all pseudonymous) - and this is exactly why. I don't want people creeping any kind of "profile" of me. Ever.
Linkedin is required to market yourself though or else you can't bullshit your way through the HR hoops.