Tech companies are bloated with leeches. Mass layoffs are necessary in many companies.

Employers have leverage now, makes sense for companies to try to suppress salaries + scale back benefits before the pendulum swings. They won't have leverage when the industry cycles back. More and more companies are adopting remote first going forward, I don't imagine that changes in the long term (in the US).

"things won't be the same again" is really a stretch lol.

Also I've had personal anecdotes working for people that openly idolize people like Musk / Elon. And that person is embroiled in a lawsuit and got forced out the company.

 

It's hard to imagine this person surviving a round of layoffs.

 

In my experience, office activists are complete nightmares to work with. They're usually unskilled, lazy, temperamental, entitled, and extremely narcissistic.

The DEI grift has opened up a huge lane for these people to work their way into organizations without adding any value and in many cases decreasing productivity by creating busy work and promoting a more negative and extremely litigious work environment.

 

It's not just tech. This phenomenon effects every org that grows large/successful enough.

That worm is starting to turn though.

I've recently seen some very liberal HR professionals and hiring managers dumpster resumes from folks because of obvious red flags like this.

 

I don’t think you’ll find people that disagree with this on any point of the political spectrum.

That being said I’m not sure what you mean? What exactly are the behaviors of these people you are describing? I’ve only seen minor instances of people wasting time in town hall style Q&As to ask dumb politically charged bullshit, but nothing on the scale to where it’d be a huge distraction.

 

I love this convo. It is so productive between a a fake CEO and someone who makes broad assumptions based on a couple of anecdotes.

 

You think he has time to go over in nuance what he's referring to? You know he's a CEO right?

 

Sorry I don't have reams of peer reviewed studies about this? You can trust that if I had any, I would use them as guideposts.

In some circumstances peoples lived experiences are all they have to go on, and it's no big sin to share them when it's part of the subject of a thread.

 

Well you're lived in experience is stupid. I never been in an work environment where non-executive employees have enough time in the day to even care about being this so called "activist".


Maybe if you were more specific with your claims such as elaborating an example of your experience. It's what people usually.do when they refer to anecdotes and usually anecdotes are only useful to supplement a statistical trend as an example of the trend rather than proof of a trend.

 

You know some of us know ATW outside of the board/his real identity and that he in fact is a CEO?

It's really cringe to see you deny it and try to mock him just based on your silly assumptions.

 

If someone can claim that they are a CEO, why would you believe anything I say? You are the last person to believe any claims as you know how easy they are to make online.

But yes, I've mentioned it before. I'm a MechE. Currently on my second company after college.

 

Lol

 

He's an adult man who uses terms like "woke" unironically. I don't know any responsible adult human with families, professional work life etc who delve into this shock jock stuff as it's usually content meant for high school kids who have more time on their hand.

CEOs tell me how time consuming their profession is to waste that amount of time. No I sincerely don't believe it.

 

I literally just told you some users here (including me) know his real identity and that he is a CEO, why do you keep denying it lmao.

 

I literally don't know you? Dude it's a literal NBA fan message board. Forgive me when I don't take extravagant claims at face value on an internet message board.

You literally told me? Awesome. Why should I care?

 

Okay, guess it makes your life easier if you just act like everyone you dislike can't have a successful career.
Have fun then and carry on.