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Re:Big Tech is using layoffs to crush worker power on Monday January 30, 2023 @12:09PM (#34582847)
The handcuffs became a lot less golden.
Wow, what a classy af response. You hiring?
No good deed goes unpunished. No decent coworker goes unexploited.
I don't think you can have "Riot" in your handle at all unless you're an employee.
Re:Project Tango on Saturday February 22, 2014 @04:09AM (#7281503)
Yes. User data, especially PII data, is very closely watched. If I tried to access something that I shouldn't (assuming that I managed to get the right permissions first), I have no doubt that I'd be fired by the end of the week.
I'm sorry this happened, but we don't have a lot to go on. What other feedback did you get?
Re:Fired? Speak No Evil on Friday January 03, 2014 @03:11PM (#7007798)
Everyone has a price.
Re:The Graver Threat of the Growing Tech Backlash on Friday January 03, 2014 @03:08PM (#7007776)
I would like to believe that I'm paid as much as I am paid on merit alone. Perhaps based on some universally objective measure of work ethic and difficulty.

But that is a fantasy. We are paid according to how much the market has decided we are worth. We are rare and therefore, in demand. That is it. I could say that I got here on hard work alone, but that's not the whole truth. How I got here is a mixture of one part hard work, one part privilege, and one part fortune.