In a world where most people find out they are loosing their job the moment they lose their job this doesn't seem so horrible. Having a few weeks to pull a pay check while you polish up your resume and do the least amount of work possible to not get outright fired seems like a pretty good way to go. Being proud to work at Reddit seems dumb. Being proud of the work you do/did at Reddit seems just fine. Buying into any cooperate environment is a sign of the sucker, it's great to fake it but a true believer at Google is as big a fool as a true believer at McDonald's. If you don't know you are a cog in an uncaring machine than you are bound suffer a broken heart.
Very succinctly put. Although I do believe that calling companies out on shitty practices, however typical or understandable as they may be, isn't a bad thing. As employees, we shouldn't fall into delusional thinking that may land us blindly in a shitty position but employers still should be held accountable for excessively shitty decisions.Being proud of the work you do/did at Reddit seems just fine. Buying into any cooperate environment is a sign of the sucker, it's great to fake it but a true believer at Google is as big a fool as a true believer at McDonald's.
Just because other people are experiencing events that could be deemed "crappier" does not mean the situation described at reddit isn't crappy. Most people who are devoted to their job/industry aren't into the idea of putting in notice and doing the bare minimum. I have a week left at my job and I'm fully committed to hitting it out of the park every day. You want to have good references, not leave an old employer with a bad taste in their mouth - because you never know who they're going to talk to or if you'll have to work with them again. Yeah, it sucks that people get fired, but for those of us with jobs, it's not reasonable to expect us (especially those with family like kids in school) to make the decision to move across country in a week. I'd do it - I'm unattached and committed to my job role, ish - but I definitely wouldn't be happy about it, and id be more pissed if the job fell apart. Actually - I'd only do it if the job was great, same with the coworkers. Otherwise the stress of moving combined with original dislike of the job would probably have me quitting w/in six months of moving . Imagine how rage-making that would be.
Seems extremely true. Just look at all the recent purchases and IPOs. Mojang for 2.5 Bio. $, a company with mainly one game, where the hype is already over, 1 B for WhatsApp, a standard messager, yes a large userbase, but $1,000,000,000? Rocket Internet and Alibaba also had recently extremely successful IPOs. It's understandable, that a user is a lot more worth than before (developing a better WhatsApp clone is easy, getting a large userbase is hard, see Hubski (way better than Reddit, but still a small community)) and that the potential to use this data for better (and more expensive) ads, is understandable, but throwing money out like this (here Reddit) feels stupid and shortsighted. Just an Example: So far the space of altcoins prooved to be an extreme, and way more fast paced version, of the free market. A small group of coin mills are pumping/pumped hundreds of shitcoins/clonecoins out per month to make fast money. Earlyer this year, that were mostly coins with one small feature and a fair launch. The devs tried, when they actually were in for profit, to gain money, by being an early adopter or having a small premine, then the "flashcoins" came, where they selled a unfair launch as good, so they could acquire a bigger stack. Then the IPOs/ICOs came and some eople even selled their cars to invets in coins offering nothing, but what other coins did for free. These coins gained some substantial amounts of BTC, but now, a few months later, the altcoin sector is delining rapidly. See this example: A lot of money got invested in pretty average products, but then money wasmissing to actually finance real projects or more generally, the whole sector. Before only the big players could gain substantial amounts and even these were waaay less than today's, while latter are worse (Alibaba mrktcap = Ebay + Amazon)This smells like the dot com again.
I'm not surprised, really. Even from the perspective of a user, Reddit is a very poorly run site which offers very little incentive other than community goodwill to really invest money into it. This is particularly evident with the handful of useless crap given to Reddit Gold subscribers but then subsequently given to all users once a few feature is rolled out. The admins tend to say one thing then do something completely different the next minute. Some of these things have been their double-standards when it comes to their free speech policies, particularly towards banning subreddits that have made them look bad in the media while leaving other identical subreddits intact. They also went on a major vendetta against vote manipulators. The worst example of their batshit insane policies was when a female artist whose artwork was stolen from her by Anita Sarkeesian got shadowbanned from Reddit all because she linked to one of her posts on Twitter and asked her followers to upvote. No warning, no indication of what she did wrong. Just fucking banned.