No I sent a message directly to the ceo on our internal version of Facebook (it’s called workplace and it’s somehow worse than facebook) in a thread about the report.

He replied to me basically ignoring everything I said and pretending like they were innocent and nice people, despite the report going into detail about why they specifically had known about and profited from a lot of illegal activity. Every other employee then proceed to kiss his ass and pretend like he was the greatest man to have ever lived.

Oh, and a side point. When all the awful shit I mentioned at the top came out in a national probe, I publically told the CEO what a piece of shit he and the board were for knowing about it and doing nothing.

Time theft is the easiest form of protest lmao

You’d be surprised, I’ve written a long comment about it but I’ve been trying to get another job for around two years now and it’s been completely impossible. Part of it is because I don’t have any formal education in the field (despite years of experience), but a lot of it is that the developer job market went to absolute shit after COVID and all that’s left now is nothing but evil companies.

My options for applications are basically AI startups, crypto start ups, banks and tech companies that are too competitive to ever give me an interview even if they’re somehow ethical.

I’ll throw in my two cents because you’re literally describing me.

I’m a software developer working for a bank that has, among other things, stolen from the deceased, profited from environmental destruction and charged fees specifically to not provide a service to customers. On top of all of this I consider usury wholly immoral, so I’ll never consider any bank any less than evil.

Am I evil or guilty?

To some extent perhaps, I’ve certainly helped write code that makes what I view as theft more efficient and “accessible.” In order to mitigate this, I’ve moved into a different position that lets me get away with not working more often. I’m able to use a lot of the money I get to do a lot of good for people in my area. I’m no saint, but I’m trying my hardest to make things better.

Not so long ago, I told a friend of mine how awful I felt about what I do, and about how much worse it makes me feel that I’ve failed to get out from it. He explained to me that since the day I was born, the capitalist state has been force feeding the propaganda down my throat. I was trained to not see the problems with the world and to accept what I was given, I’ve only broken free from this relatively recently. Blaming myself for being brainwashed and integrated into a system without my consent is victim blaming.

I think you’ll find workers generally aren’t evil, they just haven’t been kicked into a better framework that reveals the way the world really is.

Why do I still work there?

Because I can’t fucking leave, I’ve been trying constantly for years now and I can’t get an ethical job. Every single day I want to quit, but doing so means a lot of very bad things happen to me, this is the power that capitalists wield over us.

I’ve finally given up on finding a new job as a software dev and have decided to pursue an old dream instead, which will involve me going to uni again for a long time, and then I’ll spend the rest of my life making a material difference in people’s lives every single day. I’m quite fortunate to be able to pursue this, and the fact I can makes me feel it’s something of a duty.

That’s a more complete mnemonic than the one I knew

When the mites come up the tights come down

Gross

Music, even the boring practice, is one of the few remaining joys in my life

Don’t even get me started on how god awful finder is, windows 3.1 was nicer to use, macOS is garbage painted silver

As a friend of mine once said people who join to change the system either end up dropping out, or compromised. The only way to fix the police is to not have police

1: I’ve taken the metro to get groceries loads of times

2: Trams

HAH NONE

It used to be a couple dozen, but I cleaned it up a couple of months back and somehow haven’t had any get stuck since

Oooh so that’s what inattentive is. I’m getting assessed in a week or so and for the pre-session questionnaire I was wondering what it meant if I didn’t have any of the “driven by a motor” symptoms.

I got called lazy and sensitive all the time too.

Same problem in Australia, but I’ve recently found out that IKEA sells large rectangular filters that look like they might work.

I don’t know I just downloaded this to shitpoat

This is incredible

I want to get “Brutus thus in but” tattooed

NO

I can’t explain this

You know how the universe isn’t broken? Well it’s possible it could break and you can’t predict or stop it.

A slightly higher level explanation is that the universe might be in this state which is like a ball sitting in a little divot on the side of a hill, and if something bumps it out of that divot it could roll to the bottom. If that ball rolls to the bottom then it could cause particles to stop behaving the way we expect them to so things like chemistry and life stop being possible.

Oh sick, ty!

It’s embarrassing how often I confuse Austria for Australia when reading these articles…