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insomniasexx  ·  3468 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace

Am I the only one that would love to work there, under those conditions, for a year or two? It may kill me but there are a couple things that specifically turn me on:

1. Being expected and being surrounded by people who are expected to be better than they are.

2. Being surrounded by people in general who aren't simply skating by, doing the minimum required to not be noticed. That's right. The people at my old job who pissed me off weren't the people who were doing their job to the minimum passable standard. It was the ones who were more focused on getting the minimum amount done so management wouldn't notice their existence, which often was completely unrelated to whether the task at hand got done.

3. Actually being part of something that does something instead of something that sells shit that no one needs (or wants)