They are extremely toxic people and they intentionally hire people that have this toxic masculinity crap going on, because “they are traders” and “they are tough men”.
They got this libertarian competition going on between departments which is incredibly toxic environment to work in.
Taking vacation (which is required by law there) is considered a show of weakness which will hurt your career, while “grind” is the ideal.
This resulted in our project manager breaking down and crying in the middle of one meeting, our team lead having a mental breakdown and just go missing for 2 months, shouting matches, name calling in the middle of open offices etc.
They make a huge amounts of money and literally give us (underpaid externals) unironical advice to buy ourselves yachts for birthday. We are talking here like $160k + over $200k in bonuses per year…for rookies.
They showed me their Christmas Party video, which is forbidden to share outside of the company. It’s like a Hollywood produced ultra-kitschy and expensive party, where the hosts in tuxedos wear animal masks like in the “Squid Game”. I am not kidding. The decadence is just off the charts.
Any normal person would absolutely be radicalized by just looking at that party, however, to my dismay, some of my colleagues seem to have been drawn to that despicable show of wealth and superiority.
Otherwise, they would make fun of me for being “politically correct” (I am not really), complain about “cancel-culture”, LGBTQ+ people etc.
They also regularly make fun of climate activists. I tried to find a single redeemable person in there and I failed miserably. There’s no fixing this, just Minecrafting.
There was a book about these companies called “The world for sale”, written by some libs (I think), who admit these companies are terrible, but “necessary” for capitalism to work, and therefore OK. The author called them “The last swashbucklers of capitalism” in what it seems to be even admiration.
I am amused how both these “tough traders” and clueless lib authors of that book seem to be even scared by the Chinese state-employed traders, because they don’t care about profit as much as they care about making Chinese productive capacity run without issues. They literally can’t process a non-profit motive.
Stories! Please!
They are extremely toxic people and they intentionally hire people that have this toxic masculinity crap going on, because “they are traders” and “they are tough men”.
They got this libertarian competition going on between departments which is incredibly toxic environment to work in.
Taking vacation (which is required by law there) is considered a show of weakness which will hurt your career, while “grind” is the ideal.
This resulted in our project manager breaking down and crying in the middle of one meeting, our team lead having a mental breakdown and just go missing for 2 months, shouting matches, name calling in the middle of open offices etc.
They make a huge amounts of money and literally give us (underpaid externals) unironical advice to buy ourselves yachts for birthday. We are talking here like $160k + over $200k in bonuses per year…for rookies.
They showed me their Christmas Party video, which is forbidden to share outside of the company. It’s like a Hollywood produced ultra-kitschy and expensive party, where the hosts in tuxedos wear animal masks like in the “Squid Game”. I am not kidding. The decadence is just off the charts.
Any normal person would absolutely be radicalized by just looking at that party, however, to my dismay, some of my colleagues seem to have been drawn to that despicable show of wealth and superiority.
Otherwise, they would make fun of me for being “politically correct” (I am not really), complain about “cancel-culture”, LGBTQ+ people etc.
They also regularly make fun of climate activists. I tried to find a single redeemable person in there and I failed miserably. There’s no fixing this, just Minecrafting.
There was a book about these companies called “The world for sale”, written by some libs (I think), who admit these companies are terrible, but “necessary” for capitalism to work, and therefore OK. The author called them “The last swashbucklers of capitalism” in what it seems to be even admiration.
I am amused how both these “tough traders” and clueless lib authors of that book seem to be even scared by the Chinese state-employed traders, because they don’t care about profit as much as they care about making Chinese productive capacity run without issues. They literally can’t process a non-profit motive.
The author of the book talks about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54Uod2pE37Y
I think that’s about far as I would go explaining that…
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: