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This person is straight-up brainwashed, lol.

mirntyfirty 5y ago
I think that there’s a tendency online to attempt to gaslight certain ideas into reality and it creates a tension because they are wrong but it can be unwise to call them out.
- SketchySeaBeast 5y ago
  Don't worry, it's not robbing you of the the evenings and weekends, which "maybe you like", it's a fun new challenging opportunity. Have you had a chance to panic yet on Saturday morning at 3 AM? Would you like to? It's such a thrill.
  - babyshake 5y ago
    See also: exciting hackathons where you get to work late nights and weekends on "fun ideas" that the leadership would like implemented ASAP.
    - dvtrn 5y ago
      What's been everyone's experiences/takes/opinions, specifically with not doing Hackathons? My org is moving them to quarterly-we used to have one yearly-I skipped the last one, probably going to skip the next one but I wonder how long that's going to last before someone in management sticks a head up and asks why I'm not participating (a question for which I have an answer ready to go) (edit: and by "hackathon" because I realize there's a bit of room for ambiguity, I mean internal corporate Hackathons where the company "allows" dev teams to take a "break" from "regular" work in order to ideate and build new features and functionality that--if their idea gets chosen--becomes "regular" work in and of itself. It's those kinds of hackathons I've started removing myself from)
      - andrewf 5y ago
        I'd just pick something from the backlog that I don't think is prioritized highly enough, and do that.
      - HowTheStoryEnds 5y ago
        It's not a hackathon if my idea needs to be chosen and ordained by Papal seal. I already have that, it's called work.
        dvtrn 5y ago
        Testify.
- drstewart 5y ago
  How is gaslighting relevant here?
VectorLock 5y ago
As soon as I read "volunteer on-call team" my wtf-o-meter got pegged.
- sdevonoes 5y ago
  Probably the author is 22 years old or so; otherwise I can't understand it.
  - VectorLock 5y ago
    Although they said it was a "paid volunteer" (which I don't think is what a volunteer is) so maybe it was really good - time and a half at least I'd hope.
someelephant 5y ago
I'd say work addict is a better term. The dream of all employers.

I think that there’s a tendency online to attempt to gaslight certain ideas into reality and it creates a tension because they are wrong but it can be unwise to call them out.

SketchySeaBeast 5y ago
Don't worry, it's not robbing you of the the evenings and weekends, which "maybe you like", it's a fun new challenging opportunity. Have you had a chance to panic yet on Saturday morning at 3 AM? Would you like to? It's such a thrill.
- babyshake 5y ago
  See also: exciting hackathons where you get to work late nights and weekends on "fun ideas" that the leadership would like implemented ASAP.
  - dvtrn 5y ago
    What's been everyone's experiences/takes/opinions, specifically with not doing Hackathons? My org is moving them to quarterly-we used to have one yearly-I skipped the last one, probably going to skip the next one but I wonder how long that's going to last before someone in management sticks a head up and asks why I'm not participating (a question for which I have an answer ready to go) (edit: and by "hackathon" because I realize there's a bit of room for ambiguity, I mean internal corporate Hackathons where the company "allows" dev teams to take a "break" from "regular" work in order to ideate and build new features and functionality that--if their idea gets chosen--becomes "regular" work in and of itself. It's those kinds of hackathons I've started removing myself from)
    - andrewf 5y ago
      I'd just pick something from the backlog that I don't think is prioritized highly enough, and do that.
    - HowTheStoryEnds 5y ago
      It's not a hackathon if my idea needs to be chosen and ordained by Papal seal. I already have that, it's called work.
      - dvtrn 5y ago
        Testify.
drstewart 5y ago
How is gaslighting relevant here?

VectorLock 5y ago

As soon as I read "volunteer on-call team" my wtf-o-meter got pegged.

sdevonoes 5y ago
Probably the author is 22 years old or so; otherwise I can't understand it.
- VectorLock 5y ago
  Although they said it was a "paid volunteer" (which I don't think is what a volunteer is) so maybe it was really good - time and a half at least I'd hope.

someelephant 5y ago

I'd say work addict is a better term. The dream of all employers.