Want to hear the truth about Automattic, the not-like-the-other-girls company that still thinks it is a startup after 20 years and his founder acts like he invented remote working? - eviltoast
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      2 months ago

      yeah I read that and started thinking of the various ways it’s dependency-inducing

      stopped after the first 4~5 big ones because that already really hurt to think about

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        In France it was standard for the 7 month trial period and that was just horrible. Just horrible. So many firings would happen within days of the period ending, the barrier between no warning required and a shit ton of notice and compensation. Political nightmare and 7 months of anxiety in the backstabbiest of tech workplaces I’ve seen