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.

  • Skiluros@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    4 days ago

    “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.

    • Baron Von J@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      I always found it amusing how the term “entitlement” has been butchered by Americans.

      In this case it’s a deliberate misuse by the GOP to conflate the word with welfare programs that the voters see as free handouts to the lazy. So then they can tout polling data that shows voters against entitlement programs as fodder to gut/end social security and Medicare. I’m constantly having to have this discussion with conservatives when they use the word incorrectly.

      • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
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        3 days ago

        and also conservartives are the most entitlted people when it comes to welfare too.