Where have all the laid-off tech workers gone?

Re:Where have all the laid-off tech workers gone? by DoughnutHole on Friday March 31, 2023 @09:57AM (#35387252)

A lot of people discover that they can get respect despite being an asshole if they're skilled enough.

You see this pattern of behaviour in all disciplines, but in tech it seems that social skills are less important than elsewhere so those types are attracted to the field, and we've also cultivated a culture that glorifies people who are assholes but are also visionaries - Jobs/Musk/Zuckerberg etc.

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Re:Where have all the laid-off tech workers gone? by estebank on Friday March 31, 2023 @02:28PM (#35391222)

I find that people that conform to the "asshole genius" trope are far outnumbered by the assholes that believe themselves to be geniuses.

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Re:Where have all the laid-off tech workers gone? by hadlock on Friday March 31, 2023 @03:18PM (#35392021)

Being a visionary is mostly tied to having a budget line item for paying a PR firm that specializes in that kind of work. If you would like to be a visionary there's a whole fleet of companies over on Post St who would be happy to take your money and get your name in blog posts on Fortune and Bloomberg's website.

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Re:Where have all the laid-off tech workers gone? by wincy on Friday March 31, 2023 @05:43PM (#35394061)

You mean like the amazing visionaries Sam Bankman-Fried and Elizabeth Holmes?

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