I got dinged on my latest review for not participating enough in the team channels, and I feel like I’m back in middle school. Apparently, shipping clean, bug-free code ahead of schedule takes a backseat to not dropping enough memes in the #random channel. My manager literally told me that social presence is a core metric for our remote culture this year. Is this normal? I’m so grumpy about it.

If every employee had an AI assistant that doubled their productivity, would companies hire fewer people or expect twice as much work?

I’m realizing that my coworkers who are being hired externally are making so much more money. I’m now thinking what’s the benefit at staying g at a company and rising the ranks?

Sad, my LinkedIn profile rarely gets any views and even with Premium only appeared on 20 searches last week😥

Engineers should probably form unions.