Anonymous wrote:Recently started doing some consulting for a tech firm after spending most of my career in academia and government and the contrast is unreal! They literally threaten to fire us EVERY SINGLE DAY. I don't think anyone ever threatened to fire me at the university or in government. It's truly bizarre and unhinged. To me it's odd because there's literally no respect for anyone's qualifications or skills -- instead there seems to be this attitude like "We can just throw you back and get someone else to do that job." That's what scares me, I suppose. Is this truly the future of work in America?

There was this one ass at Dept of State who would always tell us how many people took the foreign service exam every year and be like "We could find another 100,000 people who would kill to have your job" but he was an exception. This seems more like the default in tech -- like "we'll just get rid of you and get someone else."

I work in tech, leadership role. At every single leadership meeting, the CEO of our part of the company literally picks someone to humiliate and berate and threatens to fire them. Sometimes it's more than one person.

op - i see the most brilliant people i have ever worked with get fired every day. I work 14 hours a day and if i dont, I will not make the impact that I need to make. I have a knot in my stomach at all times. I have never felt more incompetent.

Recently started doing some consulting for a tech firm after spending most of my career in academia and government and the contrast is unreal! They literally threaten to fire us EVERY SINGLE DAY. I don't think anyone ever threatened to fire me at the university or in government. It's truly bizarre and unhinged. To me it's odd because there's literally no respect for anyone's qualifications or skills -- instead there seems to be this attitude like "We can just throw you back and get someone else to do that job." That's what scares me, I suppose. Is this truly the future of work in America?

There was this one ass at Dept of State who would always tell us how many people took the foreign service exam every year and be like "We could find another 100,000 people who would kill to have your job" but he was an exception. This seems more like the default in tech -- like "we'll just get rid of you and get someone else."

Anonymous wrote:Im sorry.

My friend works at a nameless tech company that recently closed a $5.6B govt deal and 2 of her team mates had heart attacks within the last 6 months at 38 and 42.

No job is worth your health. Learned that after a thyroid crisis related to work stress.
Your health is your wealth.

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Anonymous wrote:Have you read Bully Market? Or seen American Psycho? Wall Street before GFC was Masters of the Universe unhinged, with egos to match. Tech at least has a veneer of meritocracy and diversity (I mean there are a few non-white men running around).

But American Psycho was intended as satire, not documentary. It is real now. Or more real.

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Sigh. So much small dick energy in the workplace. I'm lucky that I don't experience it now but I have in the past and and I know it's out there. Is it getting worse?

Anonymous wrote:Have you read Bully Market? Or seen American Psycho? Wall Street before GFC was Masters of the Universe unhinged, with egos to match. Tech at least has a veneer of meritocracy and diversity (I mean there are a few non-white men running around).

But American Psycho was intended as satire, not documentary. It is real now. Or more real.

Anonymous wrote:Don’t you make FU money? I mean lets say they fired you today, would your family end up on the street?

We are Feds and have had a year of chansaws and jump scare firings, and we would have to immediately sell our house (we lined up a realtor in November), but we aren’t having heart attacks. But we can always move in with my mother across the country?

Are you precarious, where this job is all that is between you and homelessness?

op - dh isn't currently working and i am not one with a ton of vested stock so yes we'd need to make immediate and situation changing decisions.

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Anonymous wrote:I am in tech and report to the CEO of my company, who is just a mean, nasty, petty person.

Have you read about Wall Street? That is the culture of tech now, money and menace.

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There are no checks on tech and it's full of egos, even more so than finance, which is why the Forbes 30 Under 30 is just a bunch of fraudsters.

Have you read Bully Market? Or seen American Psycho? Wall Street before GFC was Masters of the Universe unhinged, with egos to match. Tech at least has a veneer of meritocracy and diversity (I mean there are a few non-white men running around).

I worked on Wall Street, at one of the banks that collapsed during the financial crisis.

Were you there in the 80s and 90s or just 2000s?

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Anonymous wrote:I am in tech and report to the CEO of my company, who is just a mean, nasty, petty person.

Have you read about Wall Street? That is the culture of tech now, money and menace.

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There are no checks on tech and it's full of egos, even more so than finance, which is why the Forbes 30 Under 30 is just a bunch of fraudsters.

Have you read Bully Market? Or seen American Psycho? Wall Street before GFC was Masters of the Universe unhinged, with egos to match. Tech at least has a veneer of meritocracy and diversity (I mean there are a few non-white men running around).

I worked on Wall Street, at one of the banks that collapsed during the financial crisis.

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Anonymous wrote:I am in tech and report to the CEO of my company, who is just a mean, nasty, petty person.

Have you read about Wall Street? That is the culture of tech now, money and menace.

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There are no checks on tech and it's full of egos, even more so than finance, which is why the Forbes 30 Under 30 is just a bunch of fraudsters.

Have you read Bully Market? Or seen American Psycho? Wall Street before GFC was Masters of the Universe unhinged, with egos to match. Tech at least has a veneer of meritocracy and diversity (I mean there are a few non-white men running around).

Another person in tech. It's a horrible environment. I'm hoping to hang on another few months until my 4 year anniversary (4 years is important b/c of the vesting schedule).

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Anonymous wrote:I am in tech and report to the CEO of my company, who is just a mean, nasty, petty person.

Have you read about Wall Street? That is the culture of tech now, money and menace.

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There are no checks on tech and it's full of egos, even more so than finance, which is why the Forbes 30 Under 30 is just a bunch of fraudsters.

Anonymous wrote:Im sorry.

My friend works at a nameless tech company that recently closed a $5.6B govt deal and 2 of her team mates had heart attacks within the last 6 months at 38 and 42.

Thats more likely COVID than stress. And now the are millionaires right?

Anonymous wrote:I am in tech and report to the CEO of my company, who is just a mean, nasty, petty person.

Have you read about Wall Street? That is the culture of tech now, money and menace.

Don’t you make FU money? I mean lets say they fired you today, would your family end up on the street?

We are Feds and have had a year of chansaws and jump scare firings, and we would have to immediately sell our house (we lined up a realtor in November), but we aren’t having heart attacks. But we can always move in with my mother across the country?

Are you precarious, where this job is all that is between you and homelessness?