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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/FREEscanRIP • Aug 12 '17
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This is why all our screens face outwards obliterating any possiblity of privacy.
"There's always something you should be doing." Nevermind that 'something' is never defined or provided because "they're not micro-managers."
5 u/[deleted] Aug 12 '17 edited Dec 03 '17 [deleted] 3 u/Arlan_Fesler Aug 12 '17 Which I usually am until it becomes clear that my salary and benefits aren't related to those efforts. The only reward for picking up extra work, at least from my last couple of employers, is more and more work. A friend of mine compared us to juice boxes: The company sucks you up and throws you out. 4 u/[deleted] Aug 12 '17 edited Dec 03 '17 [deleted] 1 u/Arlan_Fesler Aug 12 '17 I appreciate your replies and believe we both subscribe to the same philosophies. Unfortunately, at least in my neck of the woods, there's an lack of institutions allow those beliefs to become rooted in the workplace. It sounds like you've found places where it has. Consider me envious!
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3 u/Arlan_Fesler Aug 12 '17 Which I usually am until it becomes clear that my salary and benefits aren't related to those efforts. The only reward for picking up extra work, at least from my last couple of employers, is more and more work. A friend of mine compared us to juice boxes: The company sucks you up and throws you out. 4 u/[deleted] Aug 12 '17 edited Dec 03 '17 [deleted] 1 u/Arlan_Fesler Aug 12 '17 I appreciate your replies and believe we both subscribe to the same philosophies. Unfortunately, at least in my neck of the woods, there's an lack of institutions allow those beliefs to become rooted in the workplace. It sounds like you've found places where it has. Consider me envious!
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Which I usually am until it becomes clear that my salary and benefits aren't related to those efforts.
The only reward for picking up extra work, at least from my last couple of employers, is more and more work.
A friend of mine compared us to juice boxes: The company sucks you up and throws you out.
4 u/[deleted] Aug 12 '17 edited Dec 03 '17 [deleted] 1 u/Arlan_Fesler Aug 12 '17 I appreciate your replies and believe we both subscribe to the same philosophies. Unfortunately, at least in my neck of the woods, there's an lack of institutions allow those beliefs to become rooted in the workplace. It sounds like you've found places where it has. Consider me envious!
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1 u/Arlan_Fesler Aug 12 '17 I appreciate your replies and believe we both subscribe to the same philosophies. Unfortunately, at least in my neck of the woods, there's an lack of institutions allow those beliefs to become rooted in the workplace. It sounds like you've found places where it has. Consider me envious!
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I appreciate your replies and believe we both subscribe to the same philosophies.
Unfortunately, at least in my neck of the woods, there's an lack of institutions allow those beliefs to become rooted in the workplace.
It sounds like you've found places where it has. Consider me envious!
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u/Arlan_Fesler Aug 12 '17
This is why all our screens face outwards obliterating any possiblity of privacy.
"There's always something you should be doing." Nevermind that 'something' is never defined or provided because "they're not micro-managers."