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anon20230209on Gitlab to lay off 7% of staff

I bet people like that drift into voluntary unpaid overtime.

anon20230209on Hardcoded Folder Icons in macOS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CodeWarrior

anon20230209on Why is remote work seen as a gift?

And they do. Have you not seen all the whining of Google veterans cut after their recent lay-offs?

anon20230209on Why is remote work seen as a gift?

> For many people I know this is the case,

You guys can go to office together, and leave the rest of us out of this?

anon20230209on Why is remote work seen as a gift?

Also, the expectation by employer that by paying an average salary they get 100% performance has to change. Employees can optimise for pay or life depending on what the company is willing to offer.

anon20230209on Why is remote work seen as a gift?

> It should be about the value I bring to the company, not where I live.

But they are not hiring you for "value", you are just a body in a seat filling a "role".

Real game to play is: you ask for X money, they propose Y money, agree and do Y amount of work and not the X amount of work. It's entirely reasonable to "quite-quit" even at non-minimum-salary compensation levels.