The uncomfortable truth is that most people don’t give a shit. For example, it’s absolutely shocking that the common paradigm for engineers at Google is to come in at 11am and leave at 4pm. In no world can you be working 5 hours a day and be giving a shit, and so the conclusion is that very little meaningful work gets done at Google. Maybe a bit of a hyperbole, but not far from the truth. That culture is broken.
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"How can we get our employees to care?"
"How about giving them ownership and a democratic say in the company?"
"How can we get them to care without doing that?"
"pay well above median for highly qualified and motivated staff, as well as competent management who will advise executives and won't screw over the workers"
"Sounds expensive"
"Yeah, it is"
"How about this one weird trick that I read about?"
same vibes as someone who has 51% equity in their company wondering why his employees who have no equity don't care the same way he does
I like how "giving a shit" is all about workers grinding themselves to the bone.
Will the author listen to workers who give a shit about improving processes, using their better knowledge of how the business works? I doubt it.
Maybe I'm projecting too much because I'm burned out after giving too much of a shit about improving things, and getting all those efforts shit on by clueless executives.
wow, are you saying you don't care about your work fammmiillllyyyy
I gave you a slide instead of stairs to the lobby and it only cost me cutting your healthcare down, why don't you appreciate the profit you're making me?
CEO at my last job used to have me help on a project that basically made me stay late every Friday to finish. He bought me a tv instead of giving me a raise, providing health benefits that don't suck, or matching on 401K. I mean it's a dope tv but fuck that shit.
Also, the lobby is above your offices, and there are no other ways to get up to it
Imagine calling Google's culture broken when they are absolutely dominant in multiple industries with multiple products that literally nobody will even bother challenging because they are unfathomably good (especially as completely free fucking products) and not worth even trying.
They absolutely give a shit and the writer has no idea what he is talking about. What he is recruiting for here is people that will grind and build a company culture of pure grind instead of actually creative talent. Evil fucking company but there is no arguing the talent and work that is put in by their workers.
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At Scale, we’ve hired more than 200 people...
One very scary thing to me is Scale becoming a credential rather than a cult.
- No one views your shitty little startup as a credential.
- If you're openly trying to create a cult, you're a bad person.
They say shit like this because capitalism can never approach the levels of innovation that are inherent with socialism. When you as an individual and a coherent society have a vested interest in making sure the people who are the best at and care the most for something are the ones doing that thing, they constantly strive to make improvements.
Shockingly, the way to get people who do a job to care about it is to incentivize them with direct gain through doing better. If you sell $400 of coffee in an hour and you take home $10 in wages, you have no incentive to make better coffee and sell $450 of coffee in an hour. Capitalism kills innovation because it separates the incentive of innovating from the people doing the labor. Capitalism kills passion because it separates the laborer from the ability to allocate their talents where they are most well suited.
What level of devil do you need to be, to want even more from a company that is top-5 in the world in terms of valuation? Any sane person would look at this be like "holy shit, Google is a trillion dollar company because they have 5 hour days?". But when you're horny for ever larger numbers, all nuance is lost.
Yeah, the company probably is dogshit. It's just crazy that even with the ghoulish metrics this guy no doubt uses, Google is probably what he'd aspire his company to become
