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> even if you are at FAANG making high six figures you still a slave

I’m sorry, but do you know what a “slave” is?

I can’t imagine the kind of hopelessly ignorant perspective a person must have to say something like this.

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bdangubic1y ago· 3 in thread

when you have no control over your life, when you can get paged on your honeymoon or your kids birthday, when you need to ask permission to take time off… as society we are past what was slavery back in the day - now we got modern-day slavery, working for THE MAN

antisthenes1y ago

I don't remember ever asking permission to take time off.

I just put the days I'm going to be out on the calendar and inform my team/boss/manager after the fact.

And these weren't cushy FAANG jobs either. Just your typical run of the mill IT-adjacent roles.

> when you can get paged on your honeymoon or your kids birthday

Yes, you can be paged, but if you set your boundaries, you don't have to respond to the page. Again, I don't remember ever jumping up and treating something like that as an emergency. Always prioritized my own errands first.

bdangubic1y ago

I just put the days I'm going to be out on the calendar and inform my team/boss/manager after the fact.

why do you have to do that? who is this “boss” of yours that needs to know about what you do?

as long as you work for someone you are owned and exploited. if we had a nice chat meeting each other irl and we broached the subject of compesation and you said “I am L76 at Netflix making $965k” I am would be immensely happy for you but would think “this lovely mate is actually worth $1,500,000 and just doesn’t even know it”

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herval1y ago

Feudal peasants weren't slaves. Employees aren't slaves. Serving someone makes you a serf in the worst case, not a slave.

If you were a FAANG slave, Google could literally prevent you from marrying, or ship you in a box to a different country without warning, or just kill you if you're no longer passing the bar.

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