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Dan Lyons visited Google's office in Cambridge, MA to discuss his book, "Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble". When he lost his job at Newsweek, Lyons - who had long reported on Silicon Valley companies - accepted an offer from HubSpot, a red-hot Boston startup, as a "marketing fellow". Non-hilarity ensued. Dan Lyons is a novelist, journalist, and screenwriter. He is currently a co-producer and -writer for the HBO series Silicon Valley. Previously, he was technology editor at Newsweek and the creator of the viral blog "The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs" (a/k/a "Fake Steve Jobs"). He has written for the New York Times Magazine, GQ, Vanity Fair, and Wired.
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that's not stupid to say,idts
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google isn't cool
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oh nice opening the talk with bullshit Android pandering. gross
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Hello everybody, and welcome to Toxic Google
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its not the concentration of tech, its GREED pure and simple.
Employers in this country especially in the city of San Francisco actively engage in employment ageism while actively denying it exists. They also take advantage of “at will” laws that say that an employer can fire or let go an employee anytime with or without cause for any reason or no reason whatsoever.
Uber and Lift are some of the many companies taking advantage of the “contract” or temporary employee.
Case in point : In September 2015 I was hired by a job agent for what I later was told would be a 6 month contract position which was part-time in the city as a help desk technician for the main corporate headquarters of a large hotel chain where the main headquarters is located in San Francisco. I worked only 2 days and was dismissed. Keep in mind that I was the 9th candidate that was let go by the hiring manager who also happens to be the IT manger as well and I worked directly under this individual.
I reported on time, did my job to the best of my ability and asked questions. On the third day I reported on time, let the front desk secretary call this person to let me into the office and then I received a phone call from my job agent that I just got the pink slip. The excuse? I wasn’t “the right fit”.
Caught me completely off guard. Took me a moment to take it all in. It must be nice to expect someone who was just hired to learn a job in two days all while working under a power-hungry, narcissistic, cold, calculating and callous person who is the hiring manager and IT Lead in a position this individual has held very comfortably on her ever widening ass for 6 years. I’ve worked in many IT support positions with all kinds of people but this is the first time I truly disliked someone.
What I also didn’t like was the fact that my recruiter was trying to calm me down telling me that it “wasn’t personal”.
Newsflash : IT IS VERY PERSONAL. This isn’t a game. This is people’s lives. There is not a person in the world on the end of being let go that would blame me for being angry, for feeling this way.
I wrote a detailed report to my job agent about my experience with this individual. Sure enough, my report was forwarded to my agent’s corporate offices which resulted in severing ties with the company and I was told that the job position was closed immediately after. I am willing to bet that this IT manager was reprimanded. Good. I'm sure they got the message.
We moved out to the bay area thinking that since I just got out of school in computer and networking technology finding a good job out there was not going to be problem.
I was dead wrong. I have lost track of how many employers I submitted my resume to that interviewed me that went nowhere. It wasn't until we moved to California that I heard the phrase "not the right fit" that I realized it was an excuse used by young douchebags to not hire me because of my age. The worst experience was at that hotel chain headquarters in San Francisco I listed above. -
honestly, no one gives a fuck about changing the world.
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I think the Gen X'ers and Y'ers don't have that employer/employee relationship expectation... but they did have that 20th century expectation of school in a 21st century, and that has screwed us.
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The overloading a network is out of the Anon playbook.
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