Absolutely obsessed with framing your employees sleeping on the floor as a humble brag

[daojoan@mastodon.social]

Absolutely obsessed with framing your employees sleeping on the floor as a humble brag

“Look how hard my team works” no dude you’re just bad at project management.

Competent companies ship products without cosplaying being homeless

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@Daojoan I visited the OG Twitter headquarters in SF twice: in 2014 and 2015 and I remember a utopian-like atmosphere, with beautifully designed wide open spaces and a cafeteria to rival 5 star restaurants, with private chefs serving succulent, healthy free meals to employees.

These pictures send shivers down my spine

[Guest]

@_elena@mastodon.social @Daojoan@mastodon.social tbh that was probably also not great. I've been to a couple of other offices along Market Street back around that time and while the vibe inside was amazing, it's still not great when I think back and realize that most of what was built in that atmosphere across most of SV is now in one way or another either a direct tool for oppression or at the very least a company happily and openly funding an oppressive regime.

The flashy open spaces and the free food were pacifiers for people below a certain level of influence in these companies (sometimes maybe even all people since the true problems were coming from investors, not even from C-level people) to not ask too many questions and buy the utopian perspective they were being sold.

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@kunev fair point. I had never seen so many unhoused people in the center of a city. There were legions around Market Street...

[sabrinaweb71@sociale.network]

@Daojoan honestly, I thought this post was sarcastic at first. Now, not only it's real, but it comes from an X manager? If it happened at my company, I'd be ashamed to show how poorly my employees are treated (unless I'm one of them and want to expose this to the whole world)