Do you do fake work?

Mar 12, 2023
10:16:37am

Tokolosh All-American

Silicon Valley elites are warring over who does 'fake work' in tech

As big tech companies shed jobs, founders and investors like Elon Musk and Keith Rabois say workers have sat around doing nothing for too long.

https://www.businessinsider.com/silicon-valley-debates-tech-employees-doing-fake-work-2023-3[https://apple.news/AoE5HEY_qRX-EbxgiPd-bVA]

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Do you do fake work?

Tokolosh All-American

3/12/23 10:16am

Is being available and at your desk doing fake work?

JohnnyC

3/12/23 10:21am

I have known people who fit this exact description in tech

bluelands

3/12/23 10:26am

I've worked for tech startups the last several years. It's impossible to fake

Hypnotoad

3/12/23 10:28am

But I once worked for an army contractor. There were about 30 people in the

Hypnotoad

3/12/23 10:34am

How many people exactly did Musk fire at Twitter? And yet Twitter is still

IrishBlue

3/12/23 10:31am

Twitter has had multiple outages, lost 71% of its ad revenue, hasn’t released

OnEMoReTrY

3/12/23 12:38pm

Did Elon hurt you?

HomeGrownCoug

3/12/23 12:54pm

The closest I have come is probably when companies change direction suddenly and

MGM

3/12/23 10:31am

Agree - if c-suite doesn't have it together the problem grows exponentially

Swish

3/12/23 11:41am

Yeah, I recently left a job and did exactly what the CFO requested even though

MGM

3/12/23 11:51am

I wish. I'd love to not work

Belboz

3/12/23 10:48am

Almost every diversity, inclusion, or ethics person is fake work

2FarGone

3/12/23 10:51am

Pole fail

novacoug1

3/12/23 11:13am

there is a TON of non value add work in any big company

Swish

3/12/23 11:40am

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