Reddit's CEO said employees had a tendency to put big-picture idealism before business.

  • Reddit’s CEO said that when he returned in 2015, he had to remind employees to work hard.

  • There’s a tendency in the US tech industry to place idealism above hard work, he said.

  • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    18 days ago

    Idealistic people work harder than anyone—for idealistic causes.

    They don’t work so hard for companies that betray their idealism.

    • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
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      18 days ago

      It’s so absurd for them to think they are going to get people to work harder without idealism.

      • futatorius@lemm.ee
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        17 days ago

        Working harder isn’t very scalable. Working more productively can be, but almost always requires investment.

        • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
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          17 days ago

          A lot of people don’t understand what productivity means and often use it interchangeably with working harder. However from the owner’s perspective, getting salaried workers to work more hours, assuming the extra hours produce marginally more output is net new profit. As they’re seeking ever increasing profit, that’s one lever they have to push to get some growth. The next one on the labour side is decreasing salaries.

          • futatorius@lemm.ee
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            13 days ago

            Working harder (if overtime is uncompensated) does increase productivity. But it’s an abusive and ineffective or even counterproductive practice. I used to lead a service line within a medium-sized consulting firm, and I made it clear to managers reporting to me that forcing their staff into extended overtime in order to meet milestones would get those managers sacked for bad planning. It only took a couple firings before the other managers started taking it seriously. The biggest problem was managers bidding jobs with the clients that assumed the whole squad would be working 60-70 hours weekly. That’s burning out our people to take on work which, if correctly estimated, wouldn’t be profitable for the firm. And that leaves zero contingency for when something goes wrong, which it often does.

            But the moronic frat boys who run many IT firms and consultancies still try that One Simple Trick, on the assumption that if they burn out their staff, there are always more suckers who can be found to replace them.

    • futatorius@lemm.ee
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      13 days ago

      If I have a job, I’m not going to jump through my asshole just to enrich some Sand Hill Road greedhead unless there’s something substantial in it for me.

    • paraphrand@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      18 days ago

      I was idealistic at my current place. Then my manager and another key person left, and it all went out the window. Even when they were here, I was still more idealistic than was realistic. But my manager helped channel that.

      Now I feel betrayed and sidelined and stifled. Disillusioned. Totally unnecessary too.

  • Kekzkrieger@feddit.orgEnglish
    3·
    17 days ago

    Guy who never worked hard in his life tries to tell other people to work hard.

    Yes sometimes these guys (CEOs) do longer hours, but it consits of eating dinner with other Cs, looking at presentations (which they cant judge because they generally have no idea how the actual business runs), sitting in meeting, flying to other meetings and pretending to look at some company numbers and of course having the very very high responsibility that they keep talking about that they actually never ever have.

    Does this mean they should make x50 or more than the average worker ? You judge that.

    • DefederateLemmyMl@feddit.nl
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      17 days ago

      Does this mean they should make x50 or more than the average worker ?

      x50?

      Pigboy gave himself a $193 million bonus. Do you think the average reddit worker made $3.86 million?

  • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    18 days ago

    It’s always funny seeing these silicon valley startups have essentially zero retained employees and engineers except the CEO.

    All money machines built on the backs of long gone engineers that only exist because they’ve cornered their share of the oligopoly market.

    • Zenith@lemm.ee
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      17 days ago

      They just outright ban people now. Been a Reddit user with zero problems for well over a decade, like 13 years, I’m now banned completely for upvoting Luigi content and saying I was surprised Kanye hadn’t murder/suicided Kim or Taylor yet which is apparently promoting violence. They’re really going out of their way to purge users.

      • MBech@feddit.dk
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        17 days ago

        Funny. I said I didn’t understand why CIA hadn’t killed Trump yet. That is also promoting violence, I guess… If you completely ignore all the people they’ve killed in the past with a worse reason than what Trump has done specifically to the CIA.

        The least they could’ve done was banning me for when I said Trump deserves to hang upside down for an extended amount of time in piñata hanging height.

  • TomMasz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    18 days ago

    He got how much for ruining the site and profiting off years of its users’ work?

    • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      17 days ago

      Yep. Exactly. Before Elon went full Nazi and during the API riots, he said that he wants reddit to be like X and run like how musk operates it