Yes, you’re right…even if your dogged defense of Twitter is really stanning for Elon, along with your cryptobro / no regulation / perverse take on freedom of speech / veiled take on the incel anger machine which regularly has real consequences for innocent people…you could easily cut significant workforce at most large tech firms to shore up efficiency. But that’s missing my point.
My point was that there can be a happy coexistence between the business making money and allowing the contributors to have a comfortable, balanced life. Hit that ideal and everyone’s happy. That’s also how you attract (and keep) key talent. That’s also how you democratize advancement as people feel free to speak their minds.
I could get fired tomorrow and my team, my org, and the company as a whole would keep on humming. I’m the black sheep on the team in that I do not possess unique tech talent valuable to our core product for internal customers: a customized Azure sub launched with a basic core/federated governance structure but slowly evolving towards a more ideal form of data mesh as our customers upskill. I’m really good at communicating complex things via exec-ready slideware (yeah I know) and handle other bullshit engineers hate…budget execution, outside spend and vendors, running forums. Fire me though and they’d figure it out.
And yes I WFH…I do laundry, I take naps, I run errands, take kids to the doc, jerk off, post here, etc. My CEO is on the record as supporting whatever format works for the individual, and the manager I’ve worked for the last 15 years says ‘family first’ and really means it…seen me through my marriage, two kids, grad school, a dark period with an associated drinking problem, and everything else.
I will also work until 3am to get the visuals just right on a deck my boss needs by 9am, motivated by the sheer terror of letting him down…or my team members down. I get the flexibility I need outside work, they get my 100% commitment without complaint when it’s needed.
I can’t fucking stand this reduction of real people with real lives to ‘hours’ and insinuating we are all getting ‘easy money’. People are a spectrum and there’s way more to life than the job, the pursuit of being rich.
I relish the idea of Musk burning down Twitter because I want to see what he embodies fail, despite unlimited funds…out of control narcissism hitched to the hate wagon. You seem to relish an entire collection of pee-ons getting their comeuppance because they haven’t hitched their wagon to the almighty dollar.
Anyways I’ve waxed poetic about this shit enough, sorry for the wall of text. I feel strongly about this shit but I ain’t solving anything as I’m just a pee-on myself.