Re:Spf13 is leaving Google
by seneca on Monday July 18, 2022 @06:04PM
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Heh, as much as I hate painting with that wide of a brush it does seem accurate. Something about Google breeds hubris and self aggrandizement.
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There are certain phrases that just saying them as a matter of fact will always risk sounding self aggrandizing.
"I work for Google" has become one. "I'm a Googler" just has me pivot and walk away.
Another infamous one, "I work at the White House."
> Something about Google breeds hubris and self aggrandizement.
This is true about any successful institution in general. I noticed it first with Universities but it applies to jobs as well.
I know an MIT PhD (natural sciences) who thinks too highly of herself--when I beat her in the Chinese game of Wuziqi (She's Chinese and has beaten the computer and played nearly all her 20+ years), she was so pissed off....She still had that hubris and self-aggrandizement though, until she discovered by chance, that I used to teach mathematics at one of her Alma maters. After that she became sort of an enemy. This is the problem with self-aggrandizing people.