/cow/ - Lolcows (Four years on 8chan!)

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>noogler

Aren't cults illegal?

Their hiring standards have really gone up

Google acts like Yahoo! never collapsed. Hmm.

>>384811

Holy shit, how is this real?

>>384782

Interesting you say this.

Lots of these hip and trendy companies, usually tech related, have these "corporate cool words" that staff are encouraged to use in professional context.

It both infantilises the worker so they feel youthful at the company and work longer/better thinking any other job would be worse, and also desensitises them to what they do.

For example, OP image 4 shows them wanting to persecute someone, but instead of calling it that, they call it "standing up for googley values".

Also, when it leaks/they release these words to the public, the average idiot thinks it's cute and that the company must be nice and fun.

Amazon does the same, and lots of those vegan/trendy food brands do the same.

Very similar to cult mentality, but I guess if you get a wage it doesn't count.

A lot of people seem to have an issue with calling companies lolcows, but in terms of available material, companies are a lot more easy to julay. I'm completely for this thread.

>>385054

I think they meant that devs develop additional features or new features that end up not working, or working in a way not intended or it causes additional unforeseen issues.

That's why you have operators to control implementations and make sure the system that gets a new feature doesn't go to shit because of the new feature.

I don't get from the video what their SRE system is or what it entails. They wrote a book apparently about it (in the vid description), but I care too little to read it.

>>385054

Too much money for too little results made it fall apart. Like the stock market people just threw money at these companies until one of them got lucky and had some success. This absolutely filled the place with used car salesman types who's entire objective was to get money for an idea, do none of the work and then when it falls apart play the same scam again.

It's the exact SJW scam but instead of bullying people you convince them that you have a product they don't want to miss investing in.

>>385165

You're right. Might have read too much into it the wrong way, but calling it "blameless" tough?

It's just that I got flashbacks from working at such a place.

You submit your fancy new features, and everyone in the building just unconditionally claps their hands, giving each other a good wank. It just doesn't click with me that this is fostering an environment where innovative, or hell just solid functioning tech is supposed to come out of.

>>385169

>Too much money for too little results made it fall apart.

So it's partly the lack of some good old-fashioned, beautiful constraints?

Would make sense.

>>385044

I work in health care and hospitals have code words for a lot of things.

Like right now I work in a place where we get a lot of homeless people so we have a slang for them that only exists in this one specific hospital. If I had to compare the inside slang we use to the stuff I see in these google emails, I'd say the shit we say has practical uses, and no one is forced or encourage to use them, it just comes naturally, while in the google emails it looks like they're going out of their way to use the "corporate cool words".

>>385263

>it looks like they're going out of their way to use the "corporate cool words"

There's been a larger push within silicon valley in general to turn tech workers into these hip trendsetters and, subsequently, pro-censorship moral authoritarians that people can look up to. Its all for nothing now that its being revealed that they were actually playing both sides of the political divide all along.

>>384925

Reminder that these people are more successful and much, much smarter than you

>>385334

The hip business thing has been around since the 80's yuppies.

>>385431

Reminder that being successful in life doesn't mean money and sucking dick to get a good job doesn't make you smarter.

>>385431

These people are just the required Affirmative Action toll being paid, and likely produce nothing of value.

This is /cow/, not /pol/. What the fuck is going on? How is this remotely /cow/ related?

>>385633

How the fuck do you not consider someone sexually identifying as an apartment building not to be /cow/ material?

>>385263

I do work with kids and it's similar to the slang you hear from hospital workers.

That's actually practical, though, because you want to speak to colleagues without having the child/patient know what you're talking about.

Sure, there are a few jokes and what-not, but it's just an employee culture that staff make up to better deal with the job. Management actually hate us doing it because it undermines trust or some shit with the clients.

>>385044

>Lots of these hip and trendy companies, usually tech related, have these "corporate cool words" that staff are encouraged to use in professional context.

Are the companies so bad they have to market themselves to their employees now?

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>>385672

Yeah, we can't have a thread taking up valuable front page real estate that could be devoted to some guy who moderated a stream once.

If you want quality, that's cool. Now fucking enforce it.

>>384987

Jim Sterling's whale wife was also part of perverted justice and both her and Harvey defended Pedobutts back then. Interesting, huh

>>385672

>"ugh guys, you almost made the 384th thread about skeptics on page 14 get pushed out of the catalog"

Testan, disregard.

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PLEASE STOP TROLLING BRITBONG, HIS PARENTS ARE BEATING HIM AND HE WON'T STOP SCREAMING AT US IN DISCORD

PLEASE STOP TROLLING BRITBONG, HIS PARENTS ARE BEATING HIM AND HE WON'T STOP SCREAMING AT US IN DISCORD