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  • 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.

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[–] iridebikes@lemmy.world 10 points 18 hours ago

Ah yes, Steve showing his true colors.

"Forget moral convictions or a greater purpose than self enrichment. Reddit is public now baby, this thing makes money, not societal progress!"

And in the vacuum, Lemmy rises up.

Maybe people should go back to "not working very hard" because Reddit has spiraled into a shit hole ever since it's users became ad revenue generators.

Fuck Steve Huffman, fuck Reddit, Nazi sympathizing shithole website.

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Was that the same idealism that led to the jailbait and creepshot subreddits being allowed to flourish? Or Covid misinfo? Deepfakes? The chimpire? Qanon? All that stuff definitely wasn't operating clandestinely.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 4 points 19 hours ago

I've heard from writeups from former employees that the internal culture is a perfect reflection of Reddit as a whole. Which says a lot.

[–] Kekzkrieger@feddit.org 62 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 6 points 19 hours 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?

[–] egerlach@lemmy.ca 7 points 23 hours ago

I can't remember who it was, but sometime in the last few years a VC or CEO wrote an article documenting their day and how they "worked 12 hours a day" or something like that. What I remember most is that their accounting of their work included their time at the gym, at least one meal, and something else that few if any employers would consider "working time".

I agree that sometimes C-suite execs do work long hours sometimes, and I'll differ from you in that sometimes those long hours are legitimate and valuable for a company. IMO, it's not the norm nor is it generally worth the premium that most companies pay for those hours.

[–] RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago

Reddit died with Aaron Schwartz

[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 63 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] theherk@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago

Greedy little pig boy

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 60 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I shadow banned everyone except bots and now my company sucks but NobOdY WaNts To WOrK ANYmOre

[–] Zenith@lemm.ee 5 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

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 3 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours 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.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

I went to see if this made it to reddit.

0 points for guessing the result.

[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 323 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Idealistic people work harder than anyone—for idealistic causes.

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

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 78 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

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[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] Cocopanda@futurology.today 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This dude needs a London smile.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

s/London/Glasgow and then we're talking.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

I think I'd prefer a Glasgow kiss over a Chelsea smile.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 44 points 1 day ago

This is your brain on capitalism

[–] chromeleon@lemmy.world 143 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Former mod of /r/jailbait says what?

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[–] mlg@lemmy.world 99 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

Translation - the employees weren't getting abused until I came back and reminded them why I'm back

[–] PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 162 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah that dude is on the short list too.

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 46 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Which communities delete comments for mentioning the gentleman in green overalls?

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[–] demizerone@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

Fuck off bunker boy.

[–] bender223@lemmy.today 58 points 1 day ago (1 children)

ahh, the ole, "blame everyone except myself" tactic, very classy 🧐

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 13 points 1 day ago

Hey you have to understand that these CEOs work 2000 hours weeks, doing work like golfing, riding yachts, and having extravagant dinners, while you lazy peasants are doing things like raising your kids, buying groceries, and sleeping.

[–] toastmeister@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Whats weird is how bad reddit works in a basic web browser, which is where the app started.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 10 points 1 day ago

I think that's intentional, to drive you onto their shitty app.

[–] RagingSnarkasm@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Has this guy got his Texas harem started yet? Seems like he’s speed running the Musk Meltdown playbook.

[–] GoodOleAmerika@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Was going to say that. Reddit has become a Nazi heaven and center of Zionism. Never thought I had to put these two word together. Now here we are.

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[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 77 points 1 day ago (2 children)

"Employees tend to forget that the entire purpose of life is to run yourself ragged for some dipshit who has obtained entirely way too much wealth and will never stop demanding more. It's like they just don't get it. WORK HARDER! I DEMAND TRIBUTE!"

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[–] Skiluros@sh.itjust.works 86 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

"In the Bay Area, broadly, is this — it's almost an entitlement of, 'I work at these companies, but I don't have to work very hard and I'm here for myself,'" he said.

I always found it amusing how the term "entitlement" has been butchered by Americans. It's the only language they know and they keep butchering it with low level polemical theatrics.

How is "I'm here for myself" an entitlement? This is not your family. The goal in any job is to maximize returns, i.e. least amount of work for high financial return (like ... wait for it ... running a business). Sure there are other factors at play too (career growth, not wanting others to have to work more because of you, being genuinely interested in what you are doing and not seeing it as work, not wanting to treat customers like shit), but that's an individual thing. A business isn't automatically entitled to any of that.

[–] MBech@feddit.dk 64 points 1 day ago (4 children)

The entitlement of the business owners and CEO are the real fucking entitlement here. These pricks aren't entitled to my motivation. If they want me to be motivated to work hard, they have to provide that motivation. If the pay is shit, the work is shit, the colleagues are shit, and the boss is an entitled prick, there's no fucking way I'm motivated, and no fucking way am I gonna work hard.

While we're on the topic. If a business owner wants his workers to care about the profits of the company. Maybe they should be guarenteed a part of the profits, possibly even make their share of the profits be determined by how much value they add to the company. Though I see why the business owner doesn't want socialist stuff like that, since they'd end up owing the company money.

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[–] TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 9 points 1 day ago

He's basically admitting that now that he's wholly a sellout, he's making more money. La-de-la, tell me more.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 71 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If there was any justice, Aaron Swartz’ ghost wouldn’t let him have a moment’s rest.

[–] egerlach@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 day ago

I can only imagine the world where we got to keep Aaron instead. 😭

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[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 9 points 1 day ago

reddit is mostly managed by AI filters.

[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 62 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I bet his yearly salary he can't name a single facet of what he is referring to as 'work' and has no earthly idea how the tech behind Reddit works or is maintained.

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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 40 points 1 day ago

Twat says what?

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