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Re:How to Set Low Expectations at Your Two Remote Jobs by actually_a_dog on Thursday December 23, 2021 @07:55PM (#29668597)
Companies do precisely what capitalism gives them incentives to do. "Grift" is not a meaningful concept. A company can and will do anything the people managing it believe they can get away with that will increase their bottom line, yet, somehow, this behavior becomes unacceptable when it's a lowly worker doing it?
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Re:How to Set Low Expectations at Your Two Remote Jobs by WalterBright on Thursday December 23, 2021 @08:10PM (#29668767)
Honorable people are honorable in spite of what other people do.
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Re:How to Set Low Expectations at Your Two Remote Jobs by exBarrelSpoiler on Friday December 24, 2021 @03:19PM (#29677336)
Do you think it's honor that's keeping the peace? It's fear! Fear and blood!
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Re:How to Set Low Expectations at Your Two Remote Jobs by actually_a_dog on Thursday December 23, 2021 @09:27PM (#29669323)
Yes, and that is a non sequitor.
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Re:How to Set Low Expectations at Your Two Remote Jobs by actually_a_dog on Thursday December 23, 2021 @08:04PM (#29668702)
Well, let me put it bluntly to you, too, then: I don't give a fuck what you or people like you think. No company is entitled to own me body, soul, and spirit. I work the job I work solely because I have to in order to survive. If I did not, I would still be working, just not on the shit I'm working on now.

And, yes, most companies are. That's been my experience, and that's how they have to be if they want to compete in the market.

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Re:How to Set Low Expectations at Your Two Remote Jobs by ghaff on Thursday December 23, 2021 @08:11PM (#29668778)
Then you should probably work for yourself. Though of course you're still working for someone who writes you checks.
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Re:How to Set Low Expectations at Your Two Remote Jobs by actually_a_dog on Thursday December 23, 2021 @08:17PM (#29668822)
You seemed to miss the part where I don't give a fuck about what you think, so, let me underscore that.
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Re:How to Set Low Expectations at Your Two Remote Jobs by WalterBright on Thursday December 23, 2021 @08:41PM (#29669009)
You have made that perfectly clear.
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