[cs137]

Unfortunately, people like us who respond to that sort of thing like a normal human (as opposed to a brainwashed corporate drone who lives in terror of the master's displeasure) tend not to do well in the corporate world.

The trick of corporate survival, as observed in those who can actually hack it, is extreme compartmentalization. They become two people: one who watches the abuse from a distance as if it were happening to someone else, and then a normal self that is functional enough to do the grocery shopping without bursting into tears. The problem is that very few people can sustain this compartmentalization (also known as: dissociation) for more than a few years. It tends to play out badly (memory issues, alexithymia, autoimmunity) in the long term.

[firecall]

Like I said to my therapist last week; they hire you for your skill and creativity, then want you to sit in a box and do as you are told.

Or somehow magically know what to do and say. If you say to little, you are not engaging with the team, say too much and you are disruptive. Say the wrong thing and thats a big problem.

We really need to move our society on from telling people that companies are a family and they look after people. They dont.

[LAC-Tech]

Yeah but how cool would you feel at parties being able to tell people "I once got fired for telling Jeff Bezos to go fuck himself" ?

[dannyw]

You need to work for a different company, this isn't normal.

[thrown_22]

Yes, this is called being professional. The idea that acting in a predictable and consistent manner is some form of abuse is bizarre.

To put it in engineering terms: I don't care about the amazingly rich data structure manipulations you're doing internally, I want the json api endpoint to have the same spec as it did yesterday.