I do appreciate LinkedIn because it helps surface how social bubbles distort perception.
That includes Fedi/Lemmy. This guy is painfully out of touch, but so is everyone else. That’s the entire problem of the unmoored, atomized media and interaction landscape we’ve built for ourselves this century.
I mean, I’m not excusing the guy, this was a pretty dumb post, but my first reaction to these is to wonder what dumb, unhinged assumptions my personal reality filters are inflicting on me that won’t make headlines, you know?
I appreciate your compassion and all but like, they just got fired from that place, and the guy is like “to alleviate the pain of being fired from GloboCorp, GloboCorp is giving the former GloboTherapy team a 30 day free trial of GloboCorp brand GloboTherapy”.
Like if I got fired from Pizza Hut and they were like “but here’s a 10% off coupon on your next order” I’m not fucking ordering Pizza Hut again for the rest of my life, and that’s just pizza hut
FWIW, a certain mission in a game that came out ~10yrs ago has a CEO that replies with almost exactly that, when confronted with proof they’d knowingly killed a farming settlement for profit.
This isn’t a new excuse, and shouldn’t simply be lampooned. They, and others like them, will do worse than repeat it unironically — they will normalize it.
I mean, sure… it’s just that GloboCorp builds a whole lot of stuff and this guy is upper-middle management on one of the less pizza-heavy parts of it. Looking at his resume he’s been a producer in the publishing trenches for quite a while. These aren’t the corporate overlords you’re looking for.
Jumping into LinkedIn with “here’s some how-to-get-hired tips” in general is an extremely dystopian, funhouse mirror thing that people in corporate jobs tend to do. I know those guys, some are super earnest and kind (and most are more self-aware than this guy), but it’s all the same blob of online posturing in the alternate reality of corporate social media.
I don’t know that I see much of a difference between the dissociative tone-deafness of the original post and the performative outrage of the reaction. It’s all the same dystopian mess of fake, dehumanized pretense. And man, is it horrifying when that mess decides to become pin-sharp and target the one idiot.
I’d burn it all down at this point, honestly. It’s not worth it.
It doesn’t matter who he is, you’re submitting irrelevant information into the discussion. If anyone had said “Hey fired Microsoft employees, something I find really helps with depression is the Microsoft XBox Series X”, it would just be an incredibly stupid thing to say to people who just got fired from Microsoft. Can we not agree by the rules of regular decency and common sense that that is incredibly tone deaf, regardless of your social bubble, or level of management?
Yes. We have, in fact, agreed on this. To reiterate my first post:
This guy is painfully out of touch
I’m not excusing the guy, this was a pretty dumb post,
See, it’s one thing to demand that I acknowledge that this guy’s post is tone deaf. It’s another to demand that I only acknowledge that, presumably to give ourselves the license to go drag the guy with zero limitations.
For the record, he does not specifically shill Microsoft AI, although he does include it as “LLM tools (like ChatGPT or Copilot)”. The transparent attempt to de-brand his suggestion while still including his current employer is probably part of the remarkably tasty ragebait at play here. Social media sucks, corporate social media sucks even more.
All of those things can be true at the same time. I don’t need to take absolute, unequivocal sides down arbitrary party lines.
Oohkay dude, I’m not looking for license to dump on the guy, I I just said “that’s kind of a shitty and out of touch thing to do”. If you agree with that, the continued argument you keep mounting with all the irrelevant shit you’re flinging in seems like a really strange way to show it.
You’re making it out to be a binary. If I agree, why would I caveat it, or call out any nuance, or minimize it.
But it’s not a binary. The truth is, yeah, this guy made a bad, out of touch post on his corporate bullshit social media you’re pretty much mandated to have if you’re in the games industry because you may lose your job at any point and need to be ready to go in making yourself visible and available for a new one at all times.
I would recommend not engaging with it at all, myself, but this guy tried to have a presence and was bad at it for a bit and stepped on a landmine. Sucks for everyone involved and I don’t have that much schadenfreude or indignation to add to the situation.
I don’t know the guy, this was bad but not that big of a deal and hey, at least I’m glad that he’s savvy enough to have shut down every single angle of exposure he has to the Internet before checking if it was gonna get out of control.
I do appreciate LinkedIn because it helps surface how social bubbles distort perception.
That includes Fedi/Lemmy. This guy is painfully out of touch, but so is everyone else. That’s the entire problem of the unmoored, atomized media and interaction landscape we’ve built for ourselves this century.
I mean, I’m not excusing the guy, this was a pretty dumb post, but my first reaction to these is to wonder what dumb, unhinged assumptions my personal reality filters are inflicting on me that won’t make headlines, you know?
I appreciate your compassion and all but like, they just got fired from that place, and the guy is like “to alleviate the pain of being fired from GloboCorp, GloboCorp is giving the former GloboTherapy team a 30 day free trial of GloboCorp brand GloboTherapy”.
Like if I got fired from Pizza Hut and they were like “but here’s a 10% off coupon on your next order” I’m not fucking ordering Pizza Hut again for the rest of my life, and that’s just pizza hut
This isn’t a new excuse, and shouldn’t simply be lampooned. They, and others like them, will do worse than repeat it unironically — they will normalize it.
I mean, sure… it’s just that GloboCorp builds a whole lot of stuff and this guy is upper-middle management on one of the less pizza-heavy parts of it. Looking at his resume he’s been a producer in the publishing trenches for quite a while. These aren’t the corporate overlords you’re looking for.
Jumping into LinkedIn with “here’s some how-to-get-hired tips” in general is an extremely dystopian, funhouse mirror thing that people in corporate jobs tend to do. I know those guys, some are super earnest and kind (and most are more self-aware than this guy), but it’s all the same blob of online posturing in the alternate reality of corporate social media.
I don’t know that I see much of a difference between the dissociative tone-deafness of the original post and the performative outrage of the reaction. It’s all the same dystopian mess of fake, dehumanized pretense. And man, is it horrifying when that mess decides to become pin-sharp and target the one idiot.
I’d burn it all down at this point, honestly. It’s not worth it.
Condolences. They’ve normalized it for you and you are becoming them.
Yeah. The machine you’re grinding is shit. Burn it down and find a grind where you aren’t near dystopian slide engineers.
It doesn’t matter who he is, you’re submitting irrelevant information into the discussion. If anyone had said “Hey fired Microsoft employees, something I find really helps with depression is the Microsoft XBox Series X”, it would just be an incredibly stupid thing to say to people who just got fired from Microsoft. Can we not agree by the rules of regular decency and common sense that that is incredibly tone deaf, regardless of your social bubble, or level of management?
Yes. We have, in fact, agreed on this. To reiterate my first post:
See, it’s one thing to demand that I acknowledge that this guy’s post is tone deaf. It’s another to demand that I only acknowledge that, presumably to give ourselves the license to go drag the guy with zero limitations.
For the record, he does not specifically shill Microsoft AI, although he does include it as “LLM tools (like ChatGPT or Copilot)”. The transparent attempt to de-brand his suggestion while still including his current employer is probably part of the remarkably tasty ragebait at play here. Social media sucks, corporate social media sucks even more.
All of those things can be true at the same time. I don’t need to take absolute, unequivocal sides down arbitrary party lines.
Oohkay dude, I’m not looking for license to dump on the guy, I I just said “that’s kind of a shitty and out of touch thing to do”. If you agree with that, the continued argument you keep mounting with all the irrelevant shit you’re flinging in seems like a really strange way to show it.
See, but that’s the thing, it is not.
You’re making it out to be a binary. If I agree, why would I caveat it, or call out any nuance, or minimize it.
But it’s not a binary. The truth is, yeah, this guy made a bad, out of touch post on his corporate bullshit social media you’re pretty much mandated to have if you’re in the games industry because you may lose your job at any point and need to be ready to go in making yourself visible and available for a new one at all times.
I would recommend not engaging with it at all, myself, but this guy tried to have a presence and was bad at it for a bit and stepped on a landmine. Sucks for everyone involved and I don’t have that much schadenfreude or indignation to add to the situation.
I don’t know the guy, this was bad but not that big of a deal and hey, at least I’m glad that he’s savvy enough to have shut down every single angle of exposure he has to the Internet before checking if it was gonna get out of control.
Good point.