What are your thoughts about when the wives of the EA developers came together and sued EA?

“Perhaps they should just be quiet”?

When are the abused allowed to speak?

Edit: nevermind. Comment history suggests I’ll never get a response.

I wasn't suggesting anyone should "just be quiet", in fact, I'm happy this person was able to express themselves and their situation openly on LinkedIn.

My point was simply this wasn't a very pragmatic approach to handling the situation. Some employers may not like to see this type of content on their professional profile and it may hurt their career.

That's what majority of the people think and do, those who find themselves in the similar situations and that's how companies like Amazon can continue doing this shady practices.

Goven the shortage of devs I hope there will be smart employers who hire this guy, he has a spine and core principles.

David vs Goliath story

Guys, what do you think of a ratemyprofessors.com for bosses at companies? Optional anonymous reviews and to be fair and balanced the boss can respond to each review.

That way people can do what jiawei did but without the risk of professional self harm.

Glassdoor is kind of like that, and in my experience it is decently accurate too.

Glassdoor is filled with Spam from fake accounts and smurfs though. I knew for a fact that a company I worked for had people monitoring their Glassdoor page, with the recruiting team being given the task of Smurfing some good reviews.

Blind is pretty great but probably overly cynical. It’s not been “discovered” just yet.

Nah but the resolution there is company wide. I'm talking about a service that reviews individuals. Plenty of bad people in otherwise great companies.

The point of the review in my idea is not just to inform potential candidates, but to push individual managers to become better. When your actions have real consequences towards your reputation then you will be mindful of your actions.

The reason this kind of bullshit continues to happen is because nobody calls it out. Calling it out and shaming it publicly is the only way to eventually resolve this problem.

Someone in a position of relative power (being able to quit and publicly call out their employer) calling it out also makes the situation better for those that may not be able to afford that risk.

They should call it out. But bringing up the fact that he wrote 51k lines of code in one month is such a huge red flag ..

You're lucky.

The rest of us are just (well paid) cowards.

I get where you're coming from. But I have to tell you, even though both you and I would never hire (I'm not a technically a "never hire", but definitely less likely) this guy has balls of steel and speaks his mind and the truth.

I "won't hire" him for selfish reasons, but this guy is a patriot and speaks out against bully's. I hate to admit it, but people like us perpetuate the behavior.

100% disagree. I mean, working for some of the FAANGs is already a red flag of moral character, speaking up at least redeems them somewhat.

But seriously, I'd rather have a coworker that speaks up when they feel things are wrong. Nothing unprofessional about that.

Then you're contributing.

It seems to me, this has nothing to do with a 40 hour work week.

This person has overcommitted themselves in their personal life to the point where it is conflicting with their work responsibilities.

/s(arcasm) ?

This is sound advice even if that means only starting your career in SF. Once you have an established career in the Bay Area you can command similar a similar salary in other cities and live where you want.

How about dealing with the human feces on the sidewalks and rampant homelessness instead of stifling innovation.

Strawman argument. The feces are not a safety threat for pedestrians.

> The feces are not a safety threat for pedestrians.

John Snow would disagree.

Really? Why is San Diego dealing with a hepatitis A outbreak?

Sure, just walking through is lower risk than actually living on the street, but it's not a non-threat.

Do you know how much sf spends on homelessness each year?

20k per homeless person. Which shows their level of corruption and or incompetence.

If they were more efficient, they could be spending 30k per homeless person!

Those screenshots are damning. Enforced equity is not the answer to these problems.

Jordan Peterson is not extreme at all. We are just currently in a climate where nuanced opinions and observations are ignored by radical ideologues.

He is not radical but he is outspoken and does not let himself be cowed. This antagonises other outspoken people who have been able to silence a large part of their opposition by labelling them as racist, insert-whatever-identity-phobe, nazi and such. When they tried the same with Peterson by calling him a 'transphobe' their attempts spectacularly backfired in that they drew the attention of the general public to Peterson which quickly gave him a much larger following than he normally would have had.

It's the same pattern with Nicholas Christakis and Bret Weinstein. An association the article pointed out, but didn't mention the pejorative labels applied to those two.

Go traveling for a month or two. Don’t write any code. Just do whatever you want to do and clear your mind.

Ideally find a new job that is cool with you starting in a few months.

They will be starting a new direct route to Rome FCO in the fall as well.

Bounviaggio!

Sam Harris - Waking Up Podcast

Bill Burr - Monday Morning Podcast

Joe Rogan - PowerfulJRE (not every episode)