Pikagi
@0xdef1
0xdef1
@0xdef1
2 years
@bantg @scupytrooples > insult everyone > give “extremely hardcore” ultimatum > most people leave > “good riddance, mercenaries!”
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@bantg
banteg
@bantg
2 years
sorry but if 96% people quit when offered a 3mo severance, it means you’ve hired mercenaries in the first place. mercenaries can solve a task but they won’t make a coherent product. for this you need everyone to have a good culture and live and breathe the idea.
@peterclowes
Peter Clowes
@peterclowes
2 years
Nevertheless myself and others were banding together, triaging services, updating on-call, literally saying to my wife on Tuesday “I’ll give it my best shot what do I have to lose?”. Then Wednesday offered a clean exit and 80% of the remaining were gone. 3/75 engineers stayed.
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@scupytrooples
scoopy trooples
@scupytrooples
2 years
@0xdef1 @bantg Answer somewhere in the middle. Mercenaries in a startup are damaging when earnest believers are trying to stave off annihilation, but are kind of the rule once the company has grown. And good on twitter labor for being able to push back against capital
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