Consoomers / Consoomer Culture - Because if it has a recogniseable brand on it, I’d buy it!

[NoReturn]

Another bug-person in NYC. Not really a "what I spend in a day"-type video but I still think it fits in here.
After seeing his "break" consisting of watching three animes at once I kinda lost some will to live.

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Call me crazy but Watching anime or Netflix on 1,5x speed or something... would make sense honestly.

One Pace exists for a reason.

 

[Lobster Cult High Priest]

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One Pace exists for a reason.

So absolutely no work was done that day at Google by that useless woman. And she is probably making double what I make as an Accountant.

Also i don't know how i would feel about the nap rooms if the person in it before you was a smelly Pajeet stinking up the joint.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

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One Pace exists for a reason.

A day in the simulacra of life of a souless automaton trapped in an existential void inside an sterile corporate glass cage

 

[Pissmaster]

Don't hate me because I am too galaxy-brained. I just need my entertainment to be fast-paced to be enjoyable because I have both ADD and 145IQ.

I watch most series at 1.5, because it is too god damn boring otherwise.

"I still buy two-liter bottles of soda, I just chug them in one sitting to get through them as fast as possible"

 

[trent]

Speed running TV shows/podcasts is every bit as autistic as speed-running vidya.

 

[Fapcop]

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One Pace exists for a reason.

“I went out with this millionaire senior executive in the banking industry!”

“Showed me his 50.000$ table!”

Tell me you’re a useless diversity hire, who needs to land a rich guy before you’re outed as superfluous, without saying it.

The cope and humblebrag is off the scales with this one.

“A bottle of champagne my ex gave me!” SEE! I CAN LAND A MAN! I don’t care though, which is why I put it in my 50 second day in a life video BUT I CAN LAND A MAN!

“Look at my rent guise, it’s so high omg! DID YOU SEE HOW HIGH IT IS?!”

What really infuriates me is the shopping list though.

You could man write that on a piece of paper with a pen. “Oh but the environment!” Ok, so use a note app.

But how fucking empty and soulless does your life have to be, to write it down in a special app that makes it look like it was handwritten… WHEN YOU JUST PUT THAT SHIT INTO AMAZON?!?

Wtf?!

 

[Toolbox]

Speed running TV shows/podcasts is every bit as autistic as speed-running vidya.

At least there's strategy to speedrunning. Watching shows faster is just being more efficiently lazy.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

Don't hate me because I am too galaxy-brained. I just need my entertainment to be fast-paced to be enjoyable because I have both ADD and 145IQ.

For an actual good movie/tv show, something artistic, auteur-ish I would watch at normal speed

I watch most series at 1.5, because it is too god damn boring otherwise.

Your time obviously isn't worth much.

 

[Spicey McHaggis]

“I went out with this millionaire senior executive in the banking industry!”

“Showed me his 50.000$ table!”

Tell me you’re a useless diversity hire, who needs to land a rich guy before you’re outed as superfluous, without saying it.

The cope and humblebrag is off the scales with this one.

“A bottle of champagne my ex gave me!” SEE! I CAN LAND A MAN! I don’t care though, which is why I put it in my 50 second day in a life video BUT I CAN LAND A MAN!

“Look at my rent guise, it’s so high omg! DID YOU SEE HOW HIGH IT IS?!”

What really infuriates me is the shopping list though.

You could man write that on a piece of paper with a pen. “Oh but the environment!” Ok, so use a note app.

But how fucking empty and soulless does your life have to be, to write it down in a special app that makes it look like it was handwritten… WHEN YOU JUST PUT THAT SHIT INTO AMAZON?!?

Wtf?!

Worse, these are all probably scripts given to them by a Google advertising rep. They're trying to sell people on the "community and lifestyle" of being a Google employee. They only offer these benefits so you have less time outside of the Google system and spend more time there.

 

[quaawaa]

Worse, these are all probably scripts given to them by a Google advertising rep. They're trying to sell people on the "community and lifestyle" of being a Google employee. They only offer these benefits so you have less time outside of the Google system and spend more time there.

Why do people continue to post this completely wrong take? Do you really think Sundar Pichai would say this:

“There are real concerns that our productivity as a whole is not where it needs to be for the head count we have." He asked employees to help "create a culture that is more mission-focused, more focused on our products, more customer focused. We should think about how we can minimize distractions and really raise the bar on both product excellence and productivity.

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if that were true? Those perks have nothing to do with making people work overtime, and Google has the opposite problem of treating their employees so well that they become ridiculously entitled and work way under 40 hours a week.

In that anime speed watcher video a few posts ago, the guy worked only a couple of hours total with the rest of the time consumed eating, commuting (during work hours), watching TV, and playing ping pong before leaving early.

 

[starborn427614]

What exactly is it that tips the scales and turns someone from a regular consumer to a consoomer? Obviously people like MovieBob make sense, but how do you prevent yourself from going down that same path?

 

[独人13]

What exactly is it that tips the scales and turns someone from a regular consumer to a consoomer? Obviously people like MovieBob make sense, but how do you prevent yourself from going down that same path?

Consoomer take the acquisition of possessions more seriously than actually using them.

 

[tehpope]

Worse, these are all probably scripts given to them by a Google advertising rep. They're trying to sell people on the "community and lifestyle" of being a Google employee. They only offer these benefits so you have less time outside of the Google system and spend more time there.

That sounds like a mlm. They do that too to recruit people.

 

[Spicey McHaggis]

What exactly is it that tips the scales and turns someone from a regular consumer to a consoomer? Obviously people like MovieBob make sense, but how do you prevent yourself from going down that same path?

Think of it like this, a lot of people like to play video games, it doesn't outright make you a consoomer to play a lot of them or own a lot. Now on the other hand if you're buying the collectors edition of every game on launch day, and have hundred of toys of video game characters, and base your entire personality around that, that's consoomer behavior. Basically, be a rounded out person with multiple interests and don't obsessively spend all your money on junk.

 

[Fapcop]

Why do people continue to post this completely wrong take? Do you really think Sundar Pichai would say this:

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if that were true? Those perks have nothing to do with making people work overtime, and Google has the opposite problem of treating their employees so well that they become ridiculously entitled and work way under 40 hours a week.

In that anime speed watcher video a few posts ago, the guy worked only a couple of hours total with the rest of the time consumed eating, commuting (during work hours), watching TV, and playing ping pong before leaving early.

We saw ONE recruitong focused example with the Korean bugman, but I doubt that Google would do this out of the kindness of their hearts or because they’re stupid.


1. Mama Google. How do nerd buy friends in school? Passing out candy and snacks is a tried and tested way. Likewise, the more Google can insert themselves into the employers life, the more they can shower them with seemingly generous but tax deductible expenses that are a rounding error in the big picture, the more Google becomes less of an employer and more of friend/comfort blanket. Look at employee reviews and a lot will say: Pay isn’t that great, but the benefits are GREAT!

2: Take over more of your employees life. Instead of doing a 9-5, the more you insert yourself into your employee’s life, the more the line between work and outside of work blur.

You can leave at 5, but there’s an awesome catered dinner at 6.15… Guess you’ll stay! Oh shit, drycleaning! You brought it in yesterday, it’ll be ready at 7.30. Might as well stay an hour more and look at the documentation instead.

Before you know it, you’ve developed a corporate culture of single, young men leaving at 8 or 9 with nothing but work in their lives.

“They’ll just slack all that time!” Ah, but that’s where Silicon Valley’s famous employee turnover comes into the picture. Stack ranking. Originally started at Microsoft, it exists in almost all SV companies in one form or another. Every quarter every manager need to assign their underlings a rating, and has to find a set percentage that performed the lowest.

 

[greenthrowaway]

We saw ONE recruitong focused example with the Korean bugman, but I doubt that Google would do this out of the kindness of their hearts or because they’re stupid.


1. Mama Google. How do nerd buy friends in school? Passing out candy and snacks is a tried and tested way. Likewise, the more Google can insert themselves into the employers life, the more they can shower them with seemingly generous but tax deductible expenses that are a rounding error in the big picture, the more Google becomes less of an employer and more of friend/comfort blanket. Look at employee reviews and a lot will say: Pay isn’t that great, but the benefits are GREAT!

2: Take over more of your employees life. Instead of doing a 9-5, the more you insert yourself into your employee’s life, the more the line between work and outside of work blur.

You can leave at 5, but there’s an awesome catered dinner at 6.15… Guess you’ll stay! Oh shit, drycleaning! You brought it in yesterday, it’ll be ready at 7.30. Might as well stay an hour more and look at the documentation instead.

Before you know it, you’ve developed a corporate culture of single, young men leaving at 8 or 9 with nothing but work in their lives.

“They’ll just slack all that time!” Ah, but that’s where Silicon Valley’s famous employee turnover comes into the picture. Stack ranking. Originally started at Microsoft, it exists in almost all SV companies in one form or another. Every quarter every manager need to assign their underlings a rating, and has to find a set percentage that performed the lowest.

Stack ranking was created in the 80's at GE. Balmer, Microsoft's worst CEO was the one who implemented it. After he left, Nadella rightfully abandoned it.

 

[L50LasPak]

Why do people continue to post this completely wrong take? Do you really think Sundar Pichai would say this:

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if that were true? Those perks have nothing to do with making people work overtime, and Google has the opposite problem of treating their employees so well that they become ridiculously entitled and work way under 40 hours a week.

In that anime speed watcher video a few posts ago, the guy worked only a couple of hours total with the rest of the time consumed eating, commuting (during work hours), watching TV, and playing ping pong before leaving early.

The flat presumption is that Google (and many other tech companies cut from a similar cloth) uses those videos to entice new recruits, then pulls the rug out from under them and works them to death once they've actually signed on.

Its also presumed that the employees we do see slacking off for real, as recorded by other parties, are allowed to continue to exist at the company to perpetuate the false impression that its an easy ride for everyone. In reality, it is proposed, those people are simply a thin veneer on top of a much larger overworked hive.

Whether or not you believe all that is up to you, but its the way other people see it. Companies are so two-faced and prone to lying that I would not be surprised in the least if Google actually did have a slimy advertising campaign full of false promises like this. But I'm also torn because I know the retards who run the company can't structure or schedule a damn thing correctly or efficiently to save their lives.

Obviously the best solution is to just treat both scenarios like they are absolutely true, at the same time, and never give large tech companies any credit, for anything, whatsoever.

 

[Protistology]

I've heard about people watching Netflix series on 2x speed because they wanna 'maximize their time' or some crap.
Thought it was a meme until now, honestly. Guess reality is once again stranger than fiction.

I saw a guy on Reddit talk about how he preferred manga to anime, because he can skip to the battles in manga and skip the talking parts but you can't do that in anime. I thought it was just him, now I've lost faith in humanity.

 

[quaawaa]

We saw ONE recruitong focused example with the Korean bugman, but I doubt that Google would do this out of the kindness of their hearts or because they’re stupid.


1. Mama Google. How do nerd buy friends in school? Passing out candy and snacks is a tried and tested way. Likewise, the more Google can insert themselves into the employers life, the more they can shower them with seemingly generous but tax deductible expenses that are a rounding error in the big picture, the more Google becomes less of an employer and more of friend/comfort blanket. Look at employee reviews and a lot will say: Pay isn’t that great, but the benefits are GREAT!

2: Take over more of your employees life. Instead of doing a 9-5, the more you insert yourself into your employee’s life, the more the line between work and outside of work blur.

You can leave at 5, but there’s an awesome catered dinner at 6.15… Guess you’ll stay! Oh shit, drycleaning! You brought it in yesterday, it’ll be ready at 7.30. Might as well stay an hour more and look at the documentation instead.

Before you know it, you’ve developed a corporate culture of single, young men leaving at 8 or 9 with nothing but work in their lives.

“They’ll just slack all that time!” Ah, but that’s where Silicon Valley’s famous employee turnover comes into the picture. Stack ranking. Originally started at Microsoft, it exists in almost all SV companies in one form or another. Every quarter every manager need to assign their underlings a rating, and has to find a set percentage that performed the lowest.

The flat presumption is that Google (and many other tech companies cut from a similar cloth) uses those videos to entice new recruits, then pulls the rug out from under them and works them to death once they've actually signed on.

Its also presumed that the employees we do see slacking off for real, as recorded by other parties, are allowed to continue to exist at the company to perpetuate the false impression that its an easy ride for everyone. In reality, it is proposed, those people are simply a thin veneer on top of a much larger overworked hive.

Whether or not you believe all that is up to you, but its the way other people see it. Companies are so two-faced and prone to lying that I would not be surprised in the least if Google actually did have a slimy advertising campaign full of false promises like this. But I'm also torn because I know the retards who run the company can't structure or schedule a damn thing correctly or efficiently to save their lives.

Obviously the best solution is to just treat both scenarios like they are absolutely true, at the same time, and never give large tech companies any credit, for anything, whatsoever.

I’m not going into details but I know people who work there and the overwork thing is a myth and they aren’t being laid off. The company operates on a principle of 10% of the people do 90% of the work. The bugman video matches what I know from them. There isn’t a nefarious trick, their executives honestly believed that they could make employees happy by catering to their every need, but just like with welfare, doing so breeds entitlement and is a recipe for disaster.

Response like yours are cope because people who earn less than half as much as that new grad with a decade of experience can’t believe that he has a lot lower expectations than they do. Remember, the bugman is earning nearly $200k (and spending all of it, but that’s besides the point) so it’s not like he’s being underpaid in cash and given meaningless perks to compensate. Maybe what you’re talking about is true in investment banking but it isn’t true in tech.

 

[L50LasPak]

Response like yours are cope because people who earn less than half as much as that new grad with a decade of experience can’t believe that he has a lot lower expectations than they do. Remember, the bugman is earning nearly $200k (and spending all of it, but that’s besides the point) so it’s not like he’s being underpaid in cash and given meaningless perks to compensate. Maybe what you’re talking about is true in investment banking but it isn’t true in tech.

Employees have been sandbagging their jobs since the beginning of time and the modern workplace has only made that easier, its nothing new. Likewise, I would bet actual money nobody on this website is a hard worker, especially considering its peak log-on and user activity times precisely coincide with the average workweek. Clearly we wouldn't be be here if we had something better to do.

The root of that sandbagging lies with the point I was trying to make. That a modern company cannot be trusted, about any detail, on anything, and must be second guessed at every turn. You can never be fully secure in the ineptitude of a modern corporation, and in general people would much rather work for an inefficient company that never gets anything useful done than one competent enough to threaten them with the harsh workhours most of this thread thinks are hiding behind those glossy TikTok videos.

Obviously the best solution is to just treat both scenarios like they are absolutely true, at the same time, and never give large tech companies any credit, for anything, whatsoever.

Hence my point above.