So for over a decade now I’ve been telling all of the software engineers that I’ve trained up to work a year or two and then find another job, get your pay bump and/or promotion, and come re-apply after a year at whatever place they landed if they didn’t like the place or really loved the job they were doing at my place and I’d hire them back no problem.
Company loyalty hasn’t been a thing since I joined the workforce twenty years ago and it’s a shame that the younger generation still hasn’t learned that lesson.
Murillo mentioned that during his commute, he usually checks his email while his vehicle is in Autopilot. However, on this day, he received a devastating message stating that his position had been eliminated.
Idiot is lucky he wasn’t in a devastating crash. The company he worked for said not to do that.
This is exactly why I think the FTC needs to get on them for the names ‘Autopilot’ and ‘Full Self Driving.’ It’s just false advertising.
This is why (large) companies love hiring young people. They know they can get them to do stupid shit like this, because those new to employment don't yet know that being loyal, sacrificing their personal life, working unpaid overtime and going above and beyond often won't be properly rewarded. Once you're a bit older, you know there's no point.
My advice: if you're a fresh grad, go work for a big corp, do the 9-5 and don't bend over backwards. Make connections, then find a job somewhere else ASAP and get promoted that way.
The problem is that you can’t unilaterally decide “I’ll do my 9-5” when everyone else is doing something else, there’ll be ramifications to your career one way or another.
That’s why you need unions, to make things like this collective action.
They don’t teach you hardly fucking ANYTHING in college that’s helpful in terms of addressing the modern corporate profit über alles dynamic that most jobs have turned into. You just get thrown in the deep end with your diploma, and nobody tells you that the pool is actually part of a processing plant, and that the current is sweeping you along… somewhere. It might be to a nicer pool. It might be a separator machine that exploits all of your usefulness at an accelerated and unsustainable rate. It might be a waste outlet. It’s kinda impossible to tell when you’ve had zero fucking experience or instruction on “how companies ACTUALLY operate”, and how to effectively operate in that environment without walking face-first into spinning blades you didn’t even know existed.
While I agree, I do think that that is a small minority at this point. I just broke into the workforce after college 5ish years ago and I never had this mentality. All of my coworkers around my age are the same, we know the company is only loyal if it’s beneficial for the company. Some younger people in the workforce have these pied eyed romanticized ideas, but most of us have seen too many examples like this and are just jaded. I assume every facet of my interaction with society is someone trying to exploit me somehow, because that’s almost always the case. I started feeling this way around 11th grade because the education system is in such a bullshit state, and college verified my thoughts with data. By the time I hit career age I knew it’s fuck or be fucked out there and loyalty is only for family/friends. I am in a STEM field, science not tech, for reference.
Reminds me of that lady who slept at the Twitter office and bragged about it. She survived the first round of layoffs and then got fired anyway. These Musk loyalists are dumb as hell.
You will never be rewarded for your loyalty by any corporation. Ever. This isn’t your grandfather’s fabled job market. But it should probably be considered doubly true of anything involving Elon Musk.
I’m not going to criticize the guy for having a long commute. Depending on where you live, that’s really not unheard of. I had a 90 minute commute in L.A. for a job that was only about 30-40 miles away, but I really loved the job, so it was worth it to me.
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