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Re: Twitter Office Supply Auction

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Post by yucky » Sun, Dec 11, 2022, 9:29 PM UTC

joshstrange wrote: post #315

yucky wrote: post #314

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That doesn't make any sense. Under your reasoning a women can't be criticized, or it's assumed to be based on sexism. The video is just a clear example of a pampered employee doing fuck all at her high paying "tech" job. It's not relevant she's a woman, it's relevant to show that Twitter had a lot of dead weight.

> The video is just a clear example of a pampered employee doing fuck all at her high paying "tech" job. It’s quite literally not. She is showing off the perks as she does her job, we don’t see the parts of her doing her job other than he briefly touching on when she is in meetings and the like. You are assuming she isn’t doing work but nothing in the video proves it. Also the perks are literally there to entice peop…

    > She is showing off the perks as she does her job, we don’t see the parts of her doing her job other than he briefly touching on when she is in meetings and the like. You are assuming she isn’t doing work but nothing in the video proves it.

Maybe, but the assumption is based on the video her own video. It's not based on her being a woman. Any dude that posts this kind of video would meet the same criticism. And since Twitter laid off a huge chunk of what appears to be dead weight, it's going to get attention.

You're reading too much into it trying to ascribe sexism where it doesn't exist. Women can be criticized just like men can, that's equality.

Re: Twitter Office Supply Auction

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Post by djbebs » Mon, Dec 12, 2022, 2:21 PM UTC

usr1106 wrote: post #311

mint2 wrote: post #253

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Don’t draw attention! Installing a permitted comment is $1.7M so no one is doing it by the books. It’s unpermitted comments all the way down. Like be honest Did you get a permit for that comment?

Can you explain to the uninvolved foreigner who hasn't visited SFO for nearly 12 years what the sarcastic comments about permits refer to?

Installing a public toilet in a park cost 1.7 million dollars and years worth of effort, for something that a random contractor would have built for 10k dollars in a pair of afternoons.

Re: Twitter Office Supply Auction

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Post by justinclift » Tue, Dec 13, 2022, 6:32 AM UTC

orwin wrote: post #208

nonethewiser wrote: post #184

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You're ignoring that they can still get lunch at Twitter though. It's just not free.

I used to work as an intern in a PaaS startup. We had meals paid for by the company. We ate in 35 to 50 minutes, then got back to the office where we started our work environment, putting some work before the official end of the lunch break. I changed jobs and now work as a "freelancer" (i have missions, the last one had an objective and lasted 20 months, the new one is a bit less clear). The meal is practically free…

There's also the point that getting out of the office to stretch the legs and have a bit of a walk (eg to food place), is generally good for the mind / productivity later on.

Unless you overeat, and the body gets sluggish afterwards that is. ;p

Re: Twitter Office Supply Auction

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Post by TheHappyOddish » Tue, Dec 13, 2022, 8:09 PM UTC

nr2x wrote: post #319

TheHappyOddish wrote: post #304

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> He's "assembled" a team of H1Bs who can't quit So the (still after weeks) unsubstantiated rumours say...

I heard this from multiple sources of my own.

Do you not feel this would be big news if accurate? I'd imagine a lot of media outlets would love to break this story and would be hunting for any source of this, of which there would be hundreds.