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Re:Coinbase announces it will slow down hiring by prepend on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @02:18PM (#31414483)
I interpret this as hiring freeze.

When I read corporate emails and “official” messages, I always take the least charitable interpretation. So what’s the most unattractive thing that fits their definition of slowing down, that’s a hiring freeze.

This uncharitable view is the opposite when I encounter genuine human interaction where I try to view the most charitable.

But if a lawyer has read through it, then the most weaselly interpretation is probably truist.

Re:Coinbase announces it will slow down hiring by taurath on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @05:43PM (#31416636)
Corporations are sociopaths, and we think this is a good idea for some reason
Re:Coinbase announces it will slow down hiring by prepend on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @06:11PM (#31416893)
Of course they are. It is good. Corporations, like functions, are sociopaths. They’re just rulesets. They aren’t real people so they can’t be anything but sociopaths, although I don’t think that’s an accurate term for a non-person. Are deer sociopaths? Or trees? Or virii? Or bags of rice?

I want the emotions to be with the people who make up corporations (and write the functions).

Re:Coinbase announces it will slow down hiring by throwaway_1928 on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @06:39PM (#31417109)
Except these rulesets are at the top of the food chain within our society.

As for the people who make up the corporations, they turn into sociopaths themselves as their emotion and empathy dissipate the higher they get in the pecking order.

Re:Coinbase announces it will slow down hiring by prepend on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @09:37PM (#31418333)
I don’t think that’s true. Or would need to see a lot of studies. I’ve interacted with c-level execs in many industries and companies and sociopaths are pretty rare.

Also, sociopaths aren’t bad, they just extremely focus on goals. Psychopaths are bad sociopaths who harm others. If you have a sociopath surgeon or something that could actually be beneficial to society as they’d just perform tons of surgeries.

Re:Coinbase announces it will slow down hiring by throwaway_1928 on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @10:29AM (#31423226)
"Roughly 4% to as high as 12% of CEOs exhibit psychopathic traits, according to some expert estimates, many times more than the 1% rate found in the general population and more in line with the 15% rate found in prisons."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackmccullough/2019/12/09/the-p...

Re:Coinbase announces it will slow down hiring by taurath on Friday May 20, 2022 @03:48AM (#31444495)
Idk spend more time on the robo phone line with CVS trying to get a prescription you need to live and tell me it’s a preferred state of order