Imagine being the guy who at night last Sunday got the call from Elon “I really like this random X logo. Redo the entire site right now and remove all of the birds and blue theming, and have it live in production by tomorrow morning.”
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MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Imagine what this must look like on the inside.
You’re a software engineer at Twitter. You keep getting these weird tasks that you know are stupid, but you keep doing them just to see where the hell this bullshit will end up.
krakenx@lemmy.world 11 months ago
hup@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This is how distopias happen. He’ll this is how fascism sneaks up on people if they aren’t paying close attention.
Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
At that point you’re not even going to try to explain it to your boss any more. Just watching the whole thing burn might be more entertaining than trying to save it from certain destruction.
Zetaphor@zemmy.cc 11 months ago
And you haven’t already quit because you’re on an H1B/GC visa, and so your residence in the US is tied to your employment, effectively making you a corporate owned slave.
SCB@lemmy.world 11 months ago
TIL people deported their slaves when they were unruly.