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The wildest part is the apps didn’t even track how much time someone spent at github or IDE which is just utterly ridiculous. Or accounting for people doing literally any task that those programs didn’t track… just absurd all around

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Yeah that’s a good point, they listed a bunch of tools that definitely don’t have integrated employee tracking. I think number of site queries our whatever would be a poor proxy for attention and productivity.

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I’m probably the poster child for “unengaged and unproductive employee” at times (I have a real problem with procrastination lol) but even when I’m working I spend an awful lot of time just thinking and maybe switching back and forth between different files to trace code logic. For a software company to fire people based on a lack of detected computer activity in bullshit bureaucracy apps is truly astonishing.

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It’s awful, but is it really even remotely shocking?

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So they literally trained the AI to think like fucking cartoon Toontown salaryman stereotype that only goes “business business business”? Big lmao, I wonder how many experienced employees got fired over this.

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it’s the literal equivalent of filtering candidates based on their race/last name

which happens literally everywhere already, so

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