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You Have to Feel It

(mitchellh.com)
359 points tosh | 2 comments | 30 Aug 25 14:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.527s | source
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kookamamie ◴[30 Aug 25 18:29 UTC] No.45076932[source]▶
> You have to feel it.

The corporate machine does not feel it.

It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop... ever, until you are dead.

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johnfn ◴[30 Aug 25 19:32 UTC] No.45077342[source]▶
Plenty of people work at large corporations and enjoy their work.
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cpursley ◴[30 Aug 25 20:53 UTC] No.45077910[source]▶
“Enjoy their paycheck”, there - fixed it for you
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1. tbrownaw ◴[31 Aug 25 00:59 UTC] No.45079398[source]▶
Nope. Sure scale comes with lots of communication and coordination overhead that many people don't enjoy, but middle management exists to provide a place to dump all that annoying stuff.
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2. zelphirkalt ◴[31 Aug 25 10:10 UTC] No.45081986[source]▶
And to create even more of it, as they often revel in this, as it makes them seem more important, indispensable.