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Big Tech Worker Reveals Corporate Rot (and Collapse of Staff Morale)

Tweet screenshot: Hazard Harrington @HazardHarringto writes: I work in Big Tech. A name you would know and have probably used before. Wanted to give a rundown of what it's like from the inside right now.

I work in Big Tech. A name you would know and have probably used before. Wanted to give a rundown of what it's like from the inside right now.

Obviously insanely radically leftwing. BLM/LGBTQ. Trans flags hanging in office. Pronouns stated before meetings. Special affiliation groups for everyone but white men. All what you'd expect. But COVID/WFH (work from home) has totally broken people. They are fundamentally weak, often with no social support outside of work. They're the people with no children, no spouse. Only a dog or cat for emotional support.

There's constant talk, even now, about how hard things are for everyone. Often meetings start with going around the room to ask "How is everyone feeling?" Literally everyone else went on sad rants about their lives. "I'm so MAD a white supremacist shot 3 black men in Kenosha!" It's toxic. When it got to me, I said "Good." and then a (((lady engineer))) literally proposed that we should not be allowed to answer the question positively. I shit you not. I think it hurt her that I wasn't as miserable as her. She made some argument about "vulnerability". These people not only want you weak, they want you to expose your vulnerabilities to them so they can exploit them. They may not intend this explicitly, but whatever twisted ideology they worship ends with this result.

So back to morale. Everyone is demoralized. This may surprise you, since Big Tech is extremely well paid and has been able to WFH throughout the past 2 years. They've been given extra days off, extra stipends, bonuses, etc. They never had to fear being laid off. I have some sympathy, and can feel some of this myself. It's normal and natural to work with people in-person. WFH can make it easy to overwork. You take fewer breaks, often work past normal working hours. You don't feel connected to customers or celebrate success in person.

And as I mentioned, Big Tech is often the only social life for people. I fortunately never made it mine, but my company had all sorts of after-work activities. Sports leagues, game nights, different classes taught by employees. There was a rhythm and connectedness that's gone. The Great Resignation is real. Many employees are leaving for better jobs. Remote work has (so far) resulted in more job opportunities for those working in Big Tech, especially outside of Silicon Valley. And so we backfill those positions, or hire new people, all remote.

We now have employees who have nearly 2 years of tenure who have never met another employee in person, and lives alone in some city away from where the office was. This would be fine for a normal person, but again, we're attracting the family-less urbanites scared of even meeting up with their friends at a restaurant. The churn in jobs also has the major effect of constantly dealing with the overhead of re-assinging projects from people leaving, and onboarding new people. The new employees don't get enough attention to succeed. And the employees that stay end up with a load of work dumped by the former coworkers, plus the responsibility of onboarding the new ones. There are many software engineers who've not written a single line of code in the past year.

While the Woke agitation has slowed due to the productive employees' ability to simply log off, in addition to the tiredness of the agitators, there is more and more open rebellion regarding pay and profits. "Bring your whole self to work" was the Big Tech mantra. Tell people about your cool hobbies, share your politics (if you're far left only), share your sex life. This plus the feeling of distance an online-only presence creates has made people braver in speaking their thoughts.

You used to have to have the balls to knock on the CEOs office door, or schedule a meeting. Now you can fire off a nasty Slack message straight to her. People will openly write threads and comments throughout Slack bad-mouthing the higher ups at the company. And they do nothing. It's unreal what people will write, with no recourse. If it were anything remotely RW, I'm certain they'd be immediately fired, but so long as they're sufficiently LW or minority (anything but straight white man), they can agitate, complain, do no work, and continue employment. And so the entire company has devolved. We're running on the code written in years past. No major new product initatives are being launched. Workers complain that they're understaffed and demoralized. People take constant sick days, or don't show up at all without record.

It's very easy to hide when WFH. With such a flux in employees/management and so much allowance for "mental health", it's easy to simply no show without punishment. We hired a new employee and I pinged them at 1pm to see if they'd join a meeting. They came 10 minutes later. Said they slept in because they didn't have anything to work on. It's got to be mind-boggling for someone not in software. On a given day, managers (there are several in weird matrix structure) will say things like "What can I do to support you?" "Do you have enough to work on? Too much?" It's like emotional support. And you can simply say, "Oh, I've had a hard week. Barely slept. Felt sick. Don't think I can handle much more this week." There's no real accountability to anyone. Record profits at the top, because of existing code and product-market fit cruising along, so leaders don't notice.

It's utterly surreal to watch the deterioration. To see how quickly an organization can crumble. And I'm not productive either. I'm constantly bombarded with anti-white, anti-male, woke propaganda. We've even had explicit discussions of assigning less work to URMs (under-represented minorities), because "life is really hard for them right now." This suggestion was from a lesbian white woman with cats. As productive as one person can be, you can't add value when constantly thwarted. Nobody in IT doing tickets anymore to provision things for you, large bureaucracy to gatekeep any actions (needs review by X number of committees including now DEI committees). It's hard to feel unproductive. I'm not the type who feels great about getting paid to not work, but that's essentially what I've been doing for the last year.

This problem is the worst in Big Tech, so if Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Amazon Prime, or Netflix go down, the world will probably be better off. It's not essential. I worry about this apathy spreading to companies that matter. Ones that write software for utilities.

I know this isn't just my company because I've interviewed at many other companies (Big Tech and Unicorns). Awful conduct at interviews. Demoralized employees who show up late, unprepared, or absolutely do not want to be there.

Things my coworkers spend an enormous amount of their day on:
- Coming up with a "clever" new Zoom background each day (something Harry Potter or Star Wars like children)
- Clever Slack emojis
- Reddit style responses in threads ("First!) and other low brow irony for the lulz.

I've interviewed many times wanting to leave, but every comparable company how has a "Diversity Panel" interview, which is just a matter of gatekeeping ideological purity at these companies. They ask questions like: "Why is diversity important to you?" and "What have you done to increase diversity at your company?"

In one interview, they re-asked me 3 times because they weren't satisfied that I was ideologically pure enough. I value diversity of experience, they were wanting me as a white man to apologize for my sin of being born. 

Source: https://archive.is/s8jDw

The Great Replacement

The New York Times, two contrasting headlines:

"Replacement Theory, a racist, sexist doctrine, spreads in far-right circles"
Vs
"We Can Replace Them", In Georgia, a chance to rebuke white nationalism, written by Michelle Goldberg.

They pull this scam with so many issues:

When you talk about it: “It is a conspiracy theory that is not happening”
When they talk about it: “It is good that it is happening!”

Two contradictory Business Insider headlines:

"United States is on the way to becoming a non-white majority by 2045" by Stef W. Kight.
Vs
"A racist conspiracy theory called the 'great replacement' has made its way from far-right media to the GOP" by Nikki McCann Ramirez.

Two contradictory Vox headlines:

"Here's when you can expect racial minorities to be the majority in each state" by Jenée Desmond-Harris.
Vs
"Where "replacement theory" comes from — and why it refuses to go away. The white supremacist conspiracy theory has a long history in the United States and abroad." by Fabiola Cineas.

Two contradictory Huffington Post article screenshots:

"So You're About To Become A Minority..." By Ryan Buxton
- According to the U.S. Census Bureau, white people have another 30 years to enjoy being America's majority race. But come 2045, the white population will make up less than 50 percent of the American population for the first time ever.

Vs

"Fox News Host Jeanine Pirro Just Promoted A White Supremacist Conspiracy Theory. Pirro also echoed President Donald Trump's unfounded claims about voter fraud." by Lee Moran 

- Fox News host Jeanine Pirro has stirred fresh controversy by touting white supremacist ideals. In a radio interview with Fox Nation's Todd Starnes on Thursday, Pirro was asked who she thought Democrats hated more President Donald Trump or the people who put him into office. Pirro responded by pushing a version of the "great replacement" conspiracy theory, which centers around the idea that progressives want to replace white Americans with immigrants to change voting demographics.

“The Great Replacement is Fake,
and it is Good that it is Real!”

The Guardian: "The last days of a white world" - We are near a global watershed, a time when white people will not be in the majority in the developed world, Britain included", by Anthony Browne. Race in Britain.

HARVARD MAGAZINE: Abolish the White Race. The goal of abolishing the white race is on its face so desirable that some may find it hard to believe that it could incur any opposition other than from committed white supremacists. Of course we expected bewilderment from people who still think of race as biology. We frequently get letters accusing us of being "racists," just like the KKK, and have even been called a 'hate group."

The Brookings Institute: "The US will become 'minority white' in 2045, Census projects" - Youthful minorities are the engine of future growth.

Colbert: "Isn't There A 'Chance For Change' Once 'White People Become The Minority'?" Late night host Stephen Colbert asked guest Ta-Nehisi Coates Monday whether there would be more hope in America "as white people become the minority."

Kronen Zeitung: "Germany: 25% have a migration background"

Daily Express: "Migrants change UK forever: White Britons 'will be in minority by 2066'" - The UK will be the West's most ethnically diverse nation after 2050, according to a new academic stud.y

The Times: "Migration linked to 82% of growth in the population", by Richard Ford. 

Migration Watch UK, the lobby group, estimated that about 5.4 million of the total population increase of 6.6 million between 2001 and 2016 was the result of immigration, once births to new immigrants were included.

GEFIRA Global Analysis from the European Perspective.

"Sweden will remain Sweden but just in name" - The forecast made by the Swedish authorities is rather a blueprint or plan for the future than a prediction. Comparing the projection made by Cerberus 2.0 and those made by the state planners, the Gefira report expects the Swedish to be a minority by 2066 i.e. by the end of this century only one-third of the population will be of Swedish descent, which means almost a total re-population.

DutchNews.nl: "Ethnic Dutch a minority in big cities, so how do they integrate?"

THE IRISH TIMES: "Irish could be minority ethnic group here by 2050 - professor"

ZeroHedge: "The Incredible Shrinking Population: By 2080, Italians Will Be A Minority In Their Own Nation"

CTV News: "Nearly half of Canadians will be immigrants, children of immigrants by 2036: StatsCan"

The Globe And Mail: "The politics of 2036, when Canada is as brown as it is white", by John Ibbitson.

BREITBART: "SNP: SCOTLAND NEEDS 'MORE MIGRATION' TO REPLACE DECLINING 'NATIVE POPULATION'" - Scottish National Party (SNP) Westminster leader Ian Blackford backed the Free Movement migration regime and said Scotland actually needs even more migrants, to replace its "declining population".

BBC News article screenshot: EU should 'undermine national homogeneity' says UN migration chief.

The EU should "do its best to undermine" the "homogeneity" of its member states, the UN's special representative for migration has said. Peter Sutherland told peers the future prosperity of many EU states depended on them becoming multicultural.

The Economist tweet screenshot:

Like it or not, Eurafrica is part of Europe's demographic and cultural destiny.

Why Europe should focus on its growing interdependence with Africa. Sealing the Mediterranean will not work.

Half the time they say it is fake…
…and the rest of the time…
…they pump out pro-replacement propaganda:

International Business Times: "Shocking charts show why Europe needs immigrants to survive"

Forbes: "Making The Case For Open Borders"

FORTUNE Magazine: "The Surprisingly Compelling Argument for Open Borders", By Rutger Bregman

Forbes: "Here's Why Europe Really Needs More Immigrants"

The Economist: If borders were open: "A world of free movement would be $78 trillion richer" - Yes, it would be disruptive. But the potential gains are so vast that objectors could be bribed to let it happen.

Atlantic: "The Case for Getting Rid of Borders—Completely"
- No defensible moral framework regards foreigners as less deserving of rights than people born in the right place at the right time. Written by Alex Tabarrok

"Europe Needs to Let the Migrants In" - Why an influx of new blood would be a shot in the arm for the aging continent.
By PHILIPPE LEGRAN, writing for Foreign Policy Magazine.

The Economist: "Why Europe needs more migrants" - Without them the continent's population will start to shrink.

New Scientist: "The truth about migration: Rich countries need immigrants" - As their birth rates plummet and citizens live longer, the wealthiest countries are desperately trying to bring in migrants to keep their economies afloat.

RT: "'We will not close doors': EU foreign affairs chief says aging Europe needs migration"

Friends of Europe: Migration & Integration: "The refugee crisis: Europe needs more migrants, not fewer"

Huffington Post: "Immigration Is Good for Economic Growth. If Europe Gets It Right, Refugees Can Be Too"

Newsweek: WHY IMMIGRATION IS GOOD FOR CULTURE, by KATHARINA LEFRINGHAUSEN

Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford: "How immigration has changed the world - for the better", by Professor Ian Goldin, Professor of Globalisation and Development

REUTERS: "Aging Europe needs the migrants it doesn't want" - Europe is aging faster than any other region of the world. It badly needs immigrants. But many Europeans don't want them.

DAILY EXPRESS: "African migrants needed in Europe to help 'ageing population', says EU ambassador" - Africans migrating to Europe could rescue nations from problems associated with its "ageing population", a European Union (EU) ambassador to Nigeria has claimed.

United Nations - The Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division.

Replacement Migration: Is it a solution to declining and ageing populations?

United Nations projections indicate that between 1995 and 2050, the population of Japan and virtually all countries of Europe will most likely decline. In a number of cases, including Estonia, Bulgaria and Italy, countries would lose between one quarter and one third of their population. Population ageing will be pervasive, bringing the median age of population to historically unprecedented high levels. For instance, in Italy, the median age will rise from 41 years in 2000 to 53 years in 2050. The potential support ratio -- i.e., the number of persons of working age (15-64 years) per older person -- will often be halved, from 4 or 5 to 2.

Focusing on these two striking and critical trends, the report examines in detail the case of eight low-fertility countries (France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Russian Federation, United Kingdom and United States) and two regions (Europe and the European Union). In each case, alternative scenarios for the period 1995-2050 are considered, highlighting the impact that various levels of immigration would have on population size and population ageing.

Huffington Post: "What Europe Needs Most Is What It Fears Most: Migrants"

CNBC: "Migrants could help solve Europe's aging problem"

The Telegraph: "Europe needs a lot more immigrants, says EU chief"

To help support an ageing population and counteract plummeting birth rates, Europe needs more, not less, immigration, a European Union official said yesterday. 

Vladimir Spidla, labour and social affairs commissioner at the European Commission in Brussels, said Europe would have to accept large numbers of economic migrants, despite rising unemployment in countries such as Germany.

The Guardian: "UK needs more immigrants to 'avoid Brexit catastrophe'"

- Ageing population, labour shortages and low productivity mean UK needs net inward migration of 200,000 a year, says thinktank

AEI / American Enterprise Institute: Madeline Zavodny, Testimony before the Joint Economic Committee: "Immigration and its contribution to our economic strength"

The Guardian article screenshot: "A deadly ideology: how the ‘great replacement theory’ went mainstream", written by Steve Rose.

So where did the great replacement theory come from – and how did it become so prevalent? It is not a new concept or a fringe concern. Rather, it is a fringe concern and a mainstream one – espoused by “lone wolf” mass shooters and prominent politicians. According to a recent YouGov poll, 61% of Trump voters and 53% of Fox News viewers believe it is true.

Prof Matthew Feldman, a writer and specialist on rightwing extremism, explains that there are two versions of the theory. “One, we might call it ‘great replacement lite’, is saying: ‘There’s a huge demographic shift and these people tend to vote Democrat in the US or Labour in the UK.’” Then there is what Feldman calls the “full-fat” version, which says: “‘This is a conspiracy organised by elites – they’re deliberately undermining white majorities.’

“Both of them are, in a sense, conspiracy theories, saying this isn’t just patterns of immigration and demographic change, but this is being engineered. But who is engineering it, and for what, is something the further fringes of the far right are all too keen to speculate on.”
The Guardian article screenshot: "UK whites will be minority by 2100"

 - Whites will be an ethnic minority in Britain by the end of the century. Analysis of official figures indicate that, at current fertility rates and levels of immigration, there will be more non-whites than whites by 2100.
It would be the first time in history that a major indigenous population has voluntarily become a minority, rather than through war, famine or disease. Whites will be a minority in London by 2010.
In the early 1950s there were only a few tens of thousands of non-whites in the UK. By 1991 that had risen to 3 million - 6 per cent of the population. The population of ethnic minorities has been growing at between 2 and 4 per cent a year. Net immigration has been running at record levels, with 185,000 newcomers last year.

The Guardian article screenshot: "Keir Starmer under fire for failing to challenge radio caller's racism"

- Labour MPs criticise his response to woman who talks of ‘great replacement’ theory on LBC phone-in.

Keir Starmer has been criticised for failing to challenge a caller to a radio phone-in who advanced a racist conspiracy theory and hailed Israel as an ethnonationalist utopia.

The caller to his LBC phone-in said she opposed footballers taking a knee in solidarity with antiracism “because if anything the racial inequality is now against the indigenous people of Britain, because we are set to become a minority by 2066”.

The claim is a feature of the “great replacement” conspiracy theory that claims elites are using migration to make white people an ethnic minority in Europe.

Teen Vogue’s Predatory Propaganda

Teen Vogue works hard to brainwash young girls. The owner, Advance Publications, is one of the largest media companies in the world.

They are systematically training young girls to trust propaganda more than they trust their own instincts.

Teen Vogue tweet: "We must accept nothing less than abolition of all law enforcement." 

"The Revolution Will Not Be Co-Opted. They are trying to kill this movement. We cannot let them."

Why would the Teen Vogue propaganda outlet try to convince teenage girls to support abolishing all law enforcement?

How will teenage girls survive in a world where no laws are enforced?

Total and complete lawlessness.. who benefits from such propaganda?

Predators and Criminals.

CNN’s sad attempt

Two CNN headlines, written one day apart:

"Why a presidential candidate's health isn't a voter's right to know."

"What we know about Donald Trump's health" by Jacqueline Howard.

DAMAGE CONTROL: They wrote both of these because Hillary collapsed at the 9/11 memorial days before, and people kept talking about it, so CNN and others tried everything they could to distract from the story.

This is what it looks like when Democrats campaign for election – their media outlets pump out ridiculous damage control relentlessly. Making sense is the least of their concerns.

Canadian Journalist Quits CBC After Admitting the Network Pumps Out Far Left Propaganda and Ignores Real Issues

"Ex-CBC journalist Tara Henley declares on Substack that she quit her job due to the public broadcaster's shifting politics", by Charlie Smith.

A Toronto journalist with deep roots in Vancouver has written an incendiary post explaining why she resigned from the public broadcaster.

Tara Henley opened her piece on the Substack platform by revealing that she's been hearing complaints about the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, where she worked for several years.

"People want to know why, for example, non-binary Filipinos concerned about a lack of LGBT terms in Tagalog is an editorial priority for the CBC, when local issues of broad concern go unreported," she wrote. "Or why our pop culture radio show’s coverage of the Dave Chappelle Netflix special failed to include any of the legions of fans, or comics, that did not find it offensive. Or why, exactly, taxpayers should be funding articles that scold Canadians for using words such as 'brainstorm' and “lame.' "

The answer, according to her, is that working at CBC now "is to accept the idea that race is the most significant thing about a person, and that some races are more relevant to the public conversation than others".

"It is, in my newsroom, to fill out racial profile forms for every guest you book; to actively book more people of some races and less of others," she added.

Henley suggested that the focus on racial issues is resulting in less scrutiny of other issues that affect large numbers of people, such as the housing crisis, lockdowns, vaccine mandates, accumulation of wealth by billionaires and power by bureaucrats, and the rising total of overdose deaths.

She linked the CBC's current approach to "a radical political agenda that originated on Ivy League campuses in the United States and spread through American social media platforms that monetize outrage and stoke societal division".

"It used to be that I was the one furthest to the left in any newsroom, occasionally causing strain in story meetings with my views on issues like the housing crisis," Henley wrote. "I am now easily the most conservative, frequently sparking tension by questioning identity politics. This happened in the span of about 18 months. My own politics did not change."

She says: “In a short period of time, the CBC went from being a trusted source of news to churning out clickbait that reads like a parody of the student press.”

She says working at the CBC is to “abandon journalistic integrity” and to “sign on, enthusiastically, to a radical political agenda”.

You can read her full post here: https://tarahenley.substack.com/p/speaking-freely

CNN Fact Check: See how they lie?

CNN lies in a fake Fact Check to protect Biden: CNN tweet: "President Trump claims Joe Biden called him xenophobic for imposing travel restrictions. Facts First: This is lacking context. #Debates2020"

Did Biden say Trump was xenophobic for imposing travel restrictions on China? This is lacking context. It is not clear Biden even knew about Trump's China travel restrictions when he called Trump xenophobic on the day the restrictions were unveiled. Biden has never explicitly linked his accusation of xenophobia to these travel restrictions.

Tweet from Joe Biden: "Stop the xenophobic fear-mongering. Be honest. Take responsibility. Do your job.", replying to Trump's tweet: "I always treated the Chinese Virus very seriously, and have done a very good job from the beginning, including my very early decision to close the "borders" from China - against the wishes of almost all. Many lives were saved. The Fake News new narrative is disgraceful & false!"

The media will work overtime to wash clean your reputation if you are a member of the corruptocracy, and they will throw every slimy bit of muddy slop onto your clean reputation if you are not a member.