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.