To all the specialists out there, if you value job security, become a specialist that can produce. When the company I'm in did layoffs, the area that had the biggest layoffs were in groups that did not actively produce the product we were selling.
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Median engineer was making $370k (of course half of that is pre-ipo RSUs)
There are parts of this country that can be considered paradise in comparison to San Francisco.
Going back to the 22% raise number. Why 22% if California income tax is 10%? The 10% income tax takes away after-tax money. So to earn that 10% back you need to make the equivalent of 122% your income in California.
It's just absurd. Either move to a part of California that makes the income tax worth it or get out of the state. San Francisco's weather is not worth 4 years of your life (assuming you work there for 20 years, it's 8 working years if you factor in returns from investments on the money you are saving.)
Use your imagination and have some empathy. Some people are not in control. Like every human characteristic people exist on some part of the bell curve.
Telling people they are in control is like telling someone that is on the autism spectrum to just get over it, or telling someone that weighs 130 pounds and is 6 ft tall that they can be as big as Arnold Schwarzenegger with a little hard work and protein.
I've lost hair and I've gained significant weight from the stress. Adhd medication has probably added years to my life. I can actually proactively accomplish things for the first time in 30 years of living.
It's hard to describe to people what it's like to not be able to do something you actually want to do. Every night before bed I'd tell myself, "tomorrow, I'm going to get out of bed and get ready for the day in 30 minutes" and I would constantly fail at this simple thing. I would stay in bed for 2 hours awake wanting to go and do things but it was just so hard.
No, it's not just Elon. It is common knowledge that Apple uses this abusive behavior to censor and restrict app makers.
I actually don't think it's nice in theory either btw. How does employee control benefit society at large? It only benefits employees. Employees will just pay themselves as much as they can for the least amount of work possible. It's the same reason price controls on housing are dumb. It just creates an entrenched class of individuals. If adding more employees to the business means the employee share of profit shrinks, they will just hire less.
Except in the cases where they literally create it? Every single idea and business started with a small group of people and often just a single person. Sometimes they create it, sometimes they pay someone else to create it.
If they pay someone to create it, do you think that person should take ownership in the company? Ok, maybe they should, but of course if they are taking part ownership they have to accept less cash right? Turns out most people don't want to deal with that risk and don't want to be paid in equity.
I had undiagnosed ADHD which I've finally gotten diagnosed after 30 years. I somehow managed to get into tech (at some of the most prestigious companies) as a software engineer but I couldn't advance past mid-level engineer because of a severe lack of consistency. I would have weeks where my output was massive followed by weeks of low output.
- don't directly address the point of your question / provide a much complex answer (or even worse, a non-answer) to a simple question
I might've gotten distracted mid question. Or worse, I forget a word I was about to use and need to think hard about what that word was.
- don't stay focused to the point of the discussion
Some other tangential idea might've popped up in my head and in the moment I find it so compelling I need to blurt it out.
- don't some level of clarity in their train of thought and speech
My short term working memory is terrible.
- generally over-complicate matters by wandering off to other related subjects and extending the scope of the discussion
See above
Anyway, I think most people are on some spectrum of having the ability to maintain clear trains of thought and I think it's one form of intelligence. So you should feel fortunate to have this ability naturally and learn some patience with the rest of us peons that are not as good as you. Intelligence, patience and compassion will get you far.
edit: oh, and if you have stock appreciation that Elon deems to be too much he fires you