Bad Apple*

> If people getting paid over six-figures at a two-trillion-dollar company refuse to come into work at the spectacular billion-dollar headquarters where every luxury is provided, then those employees have lost all grasp on reality and have no right to petition anyone about anything.

This is same argument used about football players taking a knee. Shut up and play ball, right?

Nobody cares what you think when you work minimum wage. The waiter at your favorite restaurant has zero power to change the way the place is run.

Working at faang is basically a golden ticket. You aren't going to have any trouble finding that next job. You have a bunch of people with job security, most of whom probably have money saved as well.

As to being a family or a team, it's easy for the CEO to say. Most people see their coworkers more hours per week than they do their families.

Glad to see that AGM is back.

I'm still surprised that he was hired by Apple (one of the world's most secretive companies), after disclosing so many secrets of a former employer. And he was only fired because by Apple after being retroactively cast as a misogynist in a woker age by people bad at parsing the license of creative non-fiction. Life is absurd, and our best predictions futile.

But what it tells me is that it is easier to go from tech worker to provocative media personality than to take the reverse route. He condemned himself to practice a sort of journalism, or, at best, to work for less visible companies.

And that is a great argument for the pseudonymous economy that balajis is advocating. So that people can speak their minds and maintain their livelihoods at the same time.

He sounds like a hard-hitting, abrasive writer. He would do well as a gossip columnist, gonzo journalist, or writer in the redpill/"intellectual dark web" scene. But this sort of vitriolic writing that gets personal enough to call Shopify's CEO nerdy and bespectacled is unbecoming of an executive. "He wouldn't be writing it if he was still employed at Apple", you say. Maybe, but clearly some coworkers think he'd still be holding people in the same disregard as he had already revealed in his prior writings.

Maybe he should try being a full time blogger. He's got the same vaguely misanthropic and nihilist tone of The Last Psychiatrist. He could amass quite the cult following.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtutLA63Cp8

EDIT: On oscilloscope: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pzvEouWino

Bad Apple:

> If people getting paid over six-figures at a two-trillion-dollar company refuse to come into work at the spectacular billion-dollar headquarters where every luxury is provided, then those employees have lost all grasp on reality and have no right to petition anyone about anything.

Petitioners:

> Without the inclusivity that flexibility brings, many of us feel we have to choose between either a combination of our families, our well-being, and being empowered to do our best work, or being a part of Apple

Sounds reasonable to me. Apple Park, as I understand it, is an open plan office - good for management surveillance and face-to-face meetings, but bad for people who need to concentrate in order to get their work done.

Many companies (including Apple I presume) offer some sort of child care, but often it's hard to get because demand vastly exceeds supply. Working at home can help with that to some extent.

On the other hand I think Tim Cook was asking for M/Tu/Th as office days, which doesn't sound completely terrible for productivity since you'd still have W/F/Sat/Sun for working at home and actually getting things done.