The Age of the Crisis of Work

Re:The Age of the Crisis of Work by kyleyeats on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @12:41AM (#35624303)

It's easy: You're pre-selected. You've been trained for decades in one way or another to unquestioningly chase the mission. You went through five interviews and putting mission-over-self was the #1 selection criterion in each.

You call it imposter syndrome or cPTSD or ADHD but the truth is you've just had people screaming expectations in your ear your whole life. It's not a question of you vs. your employer but of you vs. not-you. And you always pick not-you because that's all you know how to do.

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Re:The Age of the Crisis of Work by anotherhue on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @12:57AM (#35624388)

I always enjoyed this song along these lines

https://genius.com/Lcd-soundsystem-other-voices-lyrics

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Re:The Age of the Crisis of Work by HellDunkel on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @04:23AM (#35625736)

Much love to you for bringing up lcd soundsystem.

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Re:The Age of the Crisis of Work by tester457 on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @01:50PM (#35631127)

So what does it mean to pick you in this situation?

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Re:The Age of the Crisis of Work by 7speter on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @03:39PM (#35632389)

Unemployed

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Re:The Age of the Crisis of Work by kyleyeats on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @06:18PM (#35634034)

In the short term, you get a pretty-much-objectively-better employee. In the long term, hiring too many of this type of employee hurts the company culture in a way similar to the CEO being surrounded by "Yes" men. It creates a paralyzed indecision culture of over-engineering. The binge-and-purge nature of tech is to reach this state and then do massive layoffs to address it.

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