I have to share this one: we had a quarterly all-hands meeting today (about 80 people in total in our management sub-structure), it was boring as always and I decided to watch it while lifting in the office gym with camera on, because why not. After a few minutes of deadlifts, my manager straight up stormed into the office gym and went WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING, THIS IS EXTREMELY UNPROFESSIONAL, TURN OFF THE CAMERA RIGHT NOW! God forbid we have some fun.
Honestly I don't think anybody would even care. If I saw somebody else doing it I would probably find it pretty cool. Granted, that meeting had about two levels of management above him, but I don't know if he's scared of catching flak because Karen the Product Manager could be offended or something. I think I'm witnessing the cowardly corpo brain unravel itself onto me in full force. Funnily enough I was actually paying quite a lot of attention, compared to my normal snoozing on the chair - at least until he pissed me off.
He's already added this to the agenda for next week's 1:1 meeting in scary bold text and after getting scolded two weeks ago for saying fuck on Slack a single time, I don't give a shit anymore. Fire me if you want. And then dare to cry that you have nobody capable enough with spare time at work to dump my tasks on.
Honestly I don't think anybody would even care. If I saw somebody else doing it I would probably find it pretty cool. Granted, that meeting had about two levels of management above him, but I don't know if he's scared of catching flak because Karen the Product Manager could be offended or something. I think I'm witnessing the cowardly corpo brain unravel itself onto me in full force. Funnily enough I was actually paying quite a lot of attention, compared to my normal snoozing on the chair - at least until he pissed me off.
He's already added this to the agenda for next week's 1:1 meeting in scary bold text and after getting scolded two weeks ago for saying fuck on Slack a single time, I don't give a shit anymore. Fire me if you want. And then dare to cry that you have nobody capable enough with spare time at work to dump my tasks on.
@grips Everyone on that story should die violent deaths except for you
@professionalbigot69 Tomorrow we're taking a hike with no management and a bunch of engineers, some of them who sat through the call, so I'm genuinely interested in their perspective, or if they even noticed in the first place.
I already talked to another guy that came to the gym a few minutes after this, told him my story, he laughed, told me his grievances and then we agreed that the company is going to shit. Therapeutic.
I already talked to another guy that came to the gym a few minutes after this, told him my story, he laughed, told me his grievances and then we agreed that the company is going to shit. Therapeutic.
@grips @professionalbigot69
>we agreed that the company is going to shit.
Didn't you post something about the company going in the direction of AI a couple months ago? I've already seen quite a lot of companies going down the drain because of the craze with AI. A certain very large multinational insurance company included.
>we agreed that the company is going to shit.
Didn't you post something about the company going in the direction of AI a couple months ago? I've already seen quite a lot of companies going down the drain because of the craze with AI. A certain very large multinational insurance company included.
@phnt @professionalbigot69 Yeah, and other teams are getting burdened with scrums they never needed. Management is just going full retard lately.
What infuriates me is that we don't even need AI (it's complicated, but we're not coders), I've used ChatGPT a few times when at my wit's end but I definitely don't need it day to day. But since the top brass drank the same snake oil as the entire LinkedIn caste, mandatory AI trainings are now a company-wide goal, you have to do them if you want your bonuses and everybody is strongly "encouraged" to look for creative ways how to incorporate AI into your workflow in order to be more productive and ensure that the company doesn't get left behind (their words, not mine). Complete fucking lunacy.
What infuriates me is that we don't even need AI (it's complicated, but we're not coders), I've used ChatGPT a few times when at my wit's end but I definitely don't need it day to day. But since the top brass drank the same snake oil as the entire LinkedIn caste, mandatory AI trainings are now a company-wide goal, you have to do them if you want your bonuses and everybody is strongly "encouraged" to look for creative ways how to incorporate AI into your workflow in order to be more productive and ensure that the company doesn't get left behind (their words, not mine). Complete fucking lunacy.
@grips @phnt @professionalbigot69 Management caste not following the latest kool-aid to justify their existence challenge 
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@phnt @grips @nobullyplz @professionalbigot69 I don't care how it's organized. Whatever system has me sit in the least number of stupid meetings and doesn't micro-manage me is the system I want.
