MudMan comments on Xbox exec suffers bout of terminal LinkedIn brain, suggests folks laid off by Microsoft use AI to 'reduce the emotional and cognitive load that comes with job loss'

[–] MudMan@fedia.io -1 points 1 year ago* (6 children)

I mean, sure... it's just that GloboCorp builds a whole lot of stuff and this guy is upper-middle management on one of the less pizza-heavy parts of it. Looking at his resume he's been a producer in the publishing trenches for quite a while. These aren't the corporate overlords you're looking for.

Jumping into LinkedIn with "here's some how-to-get-hired tips" in general is an extremely dystopian, funhouse mirror thing that people in corporate jobs tend to do. I know those guys, some are super earnest and kind (and most are more self-aware than this guy), but it's all the same blob of online posturing in the alternate reality of corporate social media.

I don't know that I see much of a difference between the dissociative tone-deafness of the original post and the performative outrage of the reaction. It's all the same dystopian mess of fake, dehumanized pretense. And man, is it horrifying when that mess decides to become pin-sharp and target the one idiot.

I'd burn it all down at this point, honestly. It's not worth it.

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[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

I know those guys, some are super earnest and kind (and most are more self-aware than this guy)

Condolences. They've normalized it for you and you are becoming them.

I'd burn it all down at this point, honestly. It's not worth it.

Yeah. The machine you're grinding is shit. Burn it down and find a grind where you aren't near dystopian slide engineers.

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[–] MudMan@fedia.io 1 point 1 year ago

Hah. The machine I'd burn down is social media, in case it wasn't clear.

Also, don't fret for... I don't know, my immortal soul, I have to guess from the severity of the warning? I am confident I'm not in some corporate body horror thing where I gradually transform into some weird yuppie werewolf, but I appreciate the concern.

I would counter that not recognizing the humanity in the... "dystopian slide engineers" would make me more worried about slippery slopes. My stance on corpo middle management and their output has remained neither slippery not sloped for many, many years.

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[–] rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It doesn’t matter who he is, you’re submitting irrelevant information into the discussion. If anyone had said “Hey fired Microsoft employees, something I find really helps with depression is the Microsoft XBox Series X”, it would just be an incredibly stupid thing to say to people who just got fired from Microsoft. Can we not agree by the rules of regular decency and common sense that that is incredibly tone deaf, regardless of your social bubble, or level of management?

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[–] MudMan@fedia.io -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes. We have, in fact, agreed on this. To reiterate my first post:

This guy is painfully out of touch

I'm not excusing the guy, this was a pretty dumb post,

See, it's one thing to demand that I acknowledge that this guy's post is tone deaf. It's another to demand that I only acknowledge that, presumably to give ourselves the license to go drag the guy with zero limitations.

For the record, he does not specifically shill Microsoft AI, although he does include it as "LLM tools (like ChatGPT or Copilot)". The transparent attempt to de-brand his suggestion while still including his current employer is probably part of the remarkably tasty ragebait at play here. Social media sucks, corporate social media sucks even more.

All of those things can be true at the same time. I don't need to take absolute, unequivocal sides down arbitrary party lines.

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[–] rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Oohkay dude, I’m not looking for license to dump on the guy, I I just said “that’s kind of a shitty and out of touch thing to do”. If you agree with that, the continued argument you keep mounting with all the irrelevant shit you’re flinging in seems like a really strange way to show it.

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[–] MudMan@fedia.io 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

See, but that's the thing, it is not.

You're making it out to be a binary. If I agree, why would I caveat it, or call out any nuance, or minimize it.

But it's not a binary. The truth is, yeah, this guy made a bad, out of touch post on his corporate bullshit social media you're pretty much mandated to have if you're in the games industry because you may lose your job at any point and need to be ready to go in making yourself visible and available for a new one at all times.

I would recommend not engaging with it at all, myself, but this guy tried to have a presence and was bad at it for a bit and stepped on a landmine. Sucks for everyone involved and I don't have that much schadenfreude or indignation to add to the situation.

I don't know the guy, this was bad but not that big of a deal and hey, at least I'm glad that he's savvy enough to have shut down every single angle of exposure he has to the Internet before checking if it was gonna get out of control.

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