Even without the politics, the Peter Principle all but guarantees incompetent leaders.

It’s always good to hear that there are still people who see fair treatment!

Your field can make a difference, but I think it really depends on the breadth of your skillset, timing, luck and location if you’re an office drone.

This happened to me several years ago, and the conditions weren’t the best because I had recently decided to change careers. I had low experience in my chosen field, but it ended up being worth the pain.

Doing well now, and the combination of career experience opened a lot of doors. Mom would be proud! :)

Appreciate your idealism, but this is the ugly new reality in the US if you’re not adequately situated to tell them to pound sand.

There are very few people in that position, and they gotta eat. The economy is bad, but it’s trending toward perpetual dogshit for an overwhelming majority.

The bigger the company, the more I find that they rely on desperation to keep costs low because they can take it a bit further than they used to.

Believe me… I once had the opportunity to take a year off. It was glorious, and I’lL f’N dO iT aGaIn.

I follow some pretty niche topics, and have had to make an executive decision regarding indifferent behavior from those who moderate discussions in those areas: Talking about a specific crypto, or a style of painting takes a backseat to my politics.

This was the final straw for me, and I feel that a collective lack of participation is the only recourse to assist those who are indifferent in generating an opinion.

Not only that, but I extracted (and continuously delete when they reappear) my contributions to those discussions, reposting them elsewhere.

No time to talk! I’m in latex now.

Appreciated. This happened many years ago, so I’m used to my new normal.

I posted this here because I was going through my exported posts/comments from reddit, and realized that I have a ton of intellectual property that I feel can be shared with others without their involvement.