Notices by kaniini (kaniini@mastodon.dereferenced.org), page 4

@vertigo @oreolek

why would i work at Google when I can work at places that actually appreciate my talent?

@vertigo @oreolek

you can transfer to different teams inside Google if they accept you. he did not even bother to try that route

@vertigo @oreolek

again, you're telling me nothing I didn't already know

obviously the only winning move is not to play

if you think my complaint is that he rage quit Google, you completely missed the point. my complaint has to do with the blog post and the self-entitled attitude he had when writing it

@vertigo

You did when you said "that's called conditioning."

@vertigo @oreolek

I didn't say that Google wasn't a shitty place to work

@oreolek

if the author wants to grow and not do it on a grunt job; fine.

my complaint has NOTHING to do with that.

my complaint has EVERYTHING to do with the fact that he bullshitted his way into a Google job and then complained that they wouldn't give him "the promotion he *deserved*" (deserved according to who?) and that "google wouldn't buy him a christmas present"

if he hates his job, fine, but the promotion is because he didn't apply himself to google's culture correctly.

he played the game, but he didn't play to win, only for stalemate.

you don't get to complain when that was your strategy to begin with: try to get a promotion out of what you *know* is the grunt track.

@starbreaker

right???

if i was his co-worker in that conversation i probably would have not been as nice about it

oh boy, the guy who wrote that article previously worked at NCC Group: the same charlatans who audited freenode for security holes and completely ignored the fact that they were running a 5 year old fork of charybdis with numerous security vulnerabilities

this just reinforces my "that guy is mediocre" theory

@bob

merit isn't the most accurate word, but you have to get out of the grunt track to stay on a project long enough to get metrics to show why you deserve a promotion, and in order to do that, you have to show other people on the teams you want to transfer to, that you know what you're doing.

writing Go all day isn't going to show them that, all of the good tracks that yield promotions in Google require multi-disciplinary approaches to software development.

i don't even work for those people (largely because if i did, i would be fired for smacking the taste out of some over-privileged CMU grad's mouth) and i know *that*

and this people is why reading hacker news is bad for your health

ok, really done for real after i just say this: "Employee A" is 100% on point there

you don't pick an employer based on what kind of coffee maker they buy you at the end of the year

ok, ok, i am done for real this time

yes, asshole, you were in a BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP with google

THAT IS WHAT EMPLOYMENT IS

god, the white privilege of this part just makes me angry: https://mtlynch.io/why-i-quit-google/#the-holiday-gift-wake-up-call

i just want to yell at him: "oh my fucking god, shut the fuck up you whiny little over-privileged shit"

@feld @wxcafe @elomatreb

don't quit your day job

@pettter

well, as a white male, our whiney author was certainly the most privileged, wasn't he?

Google uses an anonymous committee, so other than metrics, he has nothing to prove his worth, and he can't get metrics on the grunt track.

so my point is that he needed to demonstrate skills outside of the Go + Ansible stuff they see every day, then he can get transferred to a track which actually has trajectory.

by the way, the whole concept of getting things like promotions because you "deserve them" without merit is basically the epitome of white privilege

don't be like this guy

if you work hard and demonstrate that you have a wide range of skills, you will progress in your career, but if you don't, you will stay where you are at

it's really as simple as that

@pony

teams at companies who get to pick their peers generally like to see evidence that a person has a wide range of skills

mr. "I write Go for a living" wasn't ever going to make it onto any interesting team at Google by only showing some of his cards, which is why he stayed in the grunt track