I Quit Google to Work for Myself (2018)

Re:I Quit Google to Work for Myself (2018) by gaggler on Thursday December 26, 2019 @09:05AM (#21883846)

I feel like you're underestimating how terrible Google's stack ranking system. It basically exploits you into doing more work than you should with the prospect of making more money, only to smack you back down and ask you to do 6 more month of back breaking work. More than you were hired to, mind you.

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Re:I Quit Google to Work for Myself (2018) by davidcbc on Thursday December 26, 2019 @09:11AM (#21883877)

If you are comparing it to slavery I think you are vastly overestimating how bad the promo process is.

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Re:I Quit Google to Work for Myself (2018) by sokoloff on Thursday December 26, 2019 @09:48AM (#21884139)

Or vastly underestimating how terrible slavery is.

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Re:I Quit Google to Work for Myself (2018) by war1025 on Thursday December 26, 2019 @11:29AM (#21884875)

This is my reaction when I see people complaining about tech jobs.

Especially when they use phrases like "back breaking work".

It mainly indicates a severe lack of perspective.

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Re:I Quit Google to Work for Myself (2018) by bumby on Thursday December 26, 2019 @09:54AM (#21884185)

This statement is worded to lead a reader to believe you’ve never actually experienced “back breaking work”. It reads as incredibly privileged and insulated

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Re:I Quit Google to Work for Myself (2018) by UncleMeat on Thursday December 26, 2019 @09:21AM (#21883941)

Google hasn't done stack ranking for perf in years.

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Re:I Quit Google to Work for Myself (2018) by trentnix on Thursday December 26, 2019 @09:12AM (#21883889)

“back breaking work”

Mercy.

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Re:I Quit Google to Work for Myself (2018) by heyflyguy on Thursday December 26, 2019 @10:16AM (#21884323)

Without sounding judgy, this is something that I joke with my fellow Gen-x'rs and Boomers with. Millenials expect prepayment for what they're about to do, in hopes they can actually do it.

I was raised in a generation that you had to prove you could in fact, do the work.

I appreciate and enjoy their confidence, and don't much care for what you might call "being entitled", though I can see this will become a protected phrase in the near future.

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Re:I Quit Google to Work for Myself (2018) by wayoutthere on Thursday December 26, 2019 @10:23AM (#21884362)

You’re not wrong, but we have those expectations because we often have to go deep into educational debt to get the job in the first place. The costs always get passed along.

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Re:I Quit Google to Work for Myself (2018) by unlinked_dll on Thursday December 26, 2019 @03:16PM (#21886376)

This reflects more on our generation’s distrust of the systems that we work in than any kind of entitlement or misplaced confidence. As well as our general economic adversity/anxiety, debt, lack of future prospects, exploitation, etc.

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Re:I Quit Google to Work for Myself (2018) by war1025 on Friday December 27, 2019 @05:30AM (#21890448)

This comment amuses me because the same people seem to have a high level of trust in the government as a general rule. Or at least in candidates on the left who advocate for a government that is more involved in day-to-day life.

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