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Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says the company used to be so idealistic that people were 'not working very hard'
(www.businessinsider.com)
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This guy has a face in need of a fist, as the German saint is translated.
Has this guy got his Texas harem started yet? Seems like he’s speed running the Musk Meltdown playbook.
Was going to say that. Reddit has become a Nazi heaven and center of Zionism. Never thought I had to put these two word together. Now here we are.
Dude. When zionists are talking gas chambers, it's okay to compare (or group them) with Nazis.
ahh, the ole, "blame everyone except myself" tactic, very classy 🧐
Hey you have to understand that these CEOs work 2000 hours weeks, doing work like golfing, riding yachts, and having extravagant dinners, while you lazy peasants are doing things like raising your kids, buying groceries, and sleeping.
It's always funny seeing these silicon valley startups have essentially zero retained employees and engineers except the CEO.
All money machines built on the backs of long gone engineers that only exist because they've cornered their share of the oligopoly market.
Reddit CEO says Internal Server Error.
Former mod of /r/jailbait says what?
He was?
Yes.
(But it wasn't his choice, someone added him.)
(But he didn’t remove himself either.)
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Idealistic people work harder than anyone—for idealistic causes.
They don’t work so hard for companies that betray their idealism.
I was idealistic at my current place. Then my manager and another key person left, and it all went out the window. Even when they were here, I was still more idealistic than was realistic. But my manager helped channel that.
Now I feel betrayed and sidelined and stifled. Disillusioned. Totally unnecessary too.
I joined a company a decade ago thinking "meh" but discovered a fantastic work env. The mandate changed: make XYZ suck less. That's it. It was kinda a startup within a stuffy 100-year-old setup. And yeah, we worked like freed slaves. But then, same, the stuffy people wanted to helm the awesome, committed a coup, and installed feckless morons on place of our command team.
Soooo I left, along with about half the staff. It wasnt idealism so much as an environment of respect and support, but it fell apart fast when the good people were tossed.
It's so absurd for them to think they are going to get people to work harder without idealism.
I got fired for working "hard". Excuse me karen it's nature body function.
Twat says what?
"Employees tend to forget that the entire purpose of life is to run yourself ragged for some dipshit who has obtained entirely way too much wealth and will never stop demanding more. It's like they just don't get it. WORK HARDER! I DEMAND TRIBUTE!"
Classic hypocritical neoliberal mindset: You don't owe anyone anything, except your company, who owes nothing to you.
If there was any justice, Aaron Swartz’ ghost wouldn’t let him have a moment’s rest.
I can only imagine the world where we got to keep Aaron instead. 😭
The article failed to even mention our boy.
He got how much for ruining the site and profiting off years of its users' work?
9 digits, I believe
Yeah that dude is on the short list too.
Which communities delete comments for mentioning the gentleman in green overalls?
At some point one of these dudes is just gonna hire the wrong security goons.
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"In the Bay Area, broadly, is this — it's almost an entitlement of, 'I work at these companies, but I don't have to work very hard and I'm here for myself,'" he said.
I always found it amusing how the term "entitlement" has been butchered by Americans. It's the only language they know and they keep butchering it with low level polemical theatrics.
How is "I'm here for myself" an entitlement? This is not your family. The goal in any job is to maximize returns, i.e. least amount of work for high financial return (like ... wait for it ... running a business). Sure there are other factors at play too (career growth, not wanting others to have to work more because of you, being genuinely interested in what you are doing and not seeing it as work, not wanting to treat customers like shit), but that's an individual thing. A business isn't automatically entitled to any of that.
The entitlement in that sentence was the “but I don’t have to work very hard”. The author is saying that they feel entitled to be paid for not putting in any effort.
The entitlement of the business owners and CEO are the real fucking entitlement here. These pricks aren't entitled to my motivation. If they want me to be motivated to work hard, they have to provide that motivation. If the pay is shit, the work is shit, the colleagues are shit, and the boss is an entitled prick, there's no fucking way I'm motivated, and no fucking way am I gonna work hard.
While we're on the topic. If a business owner wants his workers to care about the profits of the company. Maybe they should be guarenteed a part of the profits, possibly even make their share of the profits be determined by how much value they add to the company. Though I see why the business owner doesn't want socialist stuff like that, since they'd end up owing the company money.
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The harder I work the bigger my CEOs paycheck. Why the fuck should we "work harder"?
I always found it amusing how the term "entitlement" has been butchered by Americans.
In this case it's a deliberate misuse by the GOP to conflate the word with welfare programs that the voters see as free handouts to the lazy. So then they can tout polling data that shows voters against entitlement programs as fodder to gut/end social security and Medicare. I'm constantly having to have this discussion with conservatives when they use the word incorrectly.
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I bet his yearly salary he can't name a single facet of what he is referring to as 'work' and has no earthly idea how the tech behind Reddit works or is maintained.
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Spez maybe should have worked harder at not destroying both shareholder value and the trust of the people that actually made the site what it was.
Like who is he working for here, because it doesn't seem like anyone's pleased about him
Feature-wise I feel Lemmy is nearly identical to Reddit. The biggest advantage Reddit has is the communities and they've been basically hacking away at them for over a year.
Hey that's not fair. Reddit has been working hard at making itself more closed and on giving it a far shittier UI
I assume the rest of his sentiment goes something like: 'not working very hard.....to increase shareholder value'
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Fuck spez
Spez needs to go down in his nuclear fallout bunker and stay there.
Fuck Spez
What’s “reddit”?
tosses wine glass A miserable pile of secrets!
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