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Re:Twitter engineer: I thought I’d been hacked. It turned ou... by subroutine on Friday December 02, 2022 @02:34PM (#33835638)
Just so I understand, your world view is that normality means disliking your job; anyone who enjoys their job is suffering from stockholm's syndrome. Even if you're making a quarter mil per year, if you stay after-hours with coworker buddies to implement a feature that augments the experience of millions of people, you're a total sucker.
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Re:Twitter engineer: I thought I’d been hacked. It turned ou... by rurp on Friday December 02, 2022 @03:16PM (#33836272)
That's not at all what the GP post said. It's clearly about employees who are fine being exploited at work, not all employees everywhere.

Some employees are OK with working immense amounts of unpaid overtime to please a Musk-type boss. That's a very different situation than the type of employee who has a life outside of work and wants to get paid fairly.

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Re:Twitter engineer: I thought I’d been hacked. It turned ou... by ilyt on Friday December 02, 2022 @05:29PM (#33837833)
Sure but how many people do that ?

I like my job. I like my hobbies better. I'd still not trade hobbies for job just to give users a feature week early. I'm fine with working extra occasionally but that's what I signed for by picking jobs in ops, not because I think that's good.

Also, OP is OBVIOUSLY talking about people that maybe have few months of savings and have them getting fired heavily affect their lives, not people earning 250k

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Re:Twitter engineer: I thought I’d been hacked. It turned ou... by subroutine on Saturday December 03, 2022 @10:50AM (#33844340)
The person in the article.
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