The Dark Herald explains why converged organizations are incapable of performing their core functions at Arkhaven.
There is an old adage in business; talent goes where the money is.
There will shortly be a new adage; talent avoids where the Woke is.
Google and Amazon became the powerhouses they are today because a generation ago (ouch) they were willing to spend big to get talent. And they got it. It says something about the level of people they were getting that one of the questions on Google’s employment application was, how many books have you written? This was before internet publishing was a thing.
Unlike the Dickensian workhouse conditions for the Microserfs up north at Redmond, the googlers were treated like princes. One of the big winners when the company finally went public was the company chef, not food service’s director you understand, but chef as in actual chef.
Google was also very tolerant of their employee’s eccentricities, believing (not without reason) that a happy employee was a creative employee. However, this opened the door to a certain kind of eccentricity; political activism. Since Silicon Valley has its roots in Berkley’s Home Brew Computer Club, Leftism was built into their culture from the start. * Consequently, Google and Amazon were both happy to indulge these little hobbies of their junior employees.
But then these corporate activists started making hiring decisions. I remember a story one veteran told, when he applied, the interviewer sneeringly asked him, (citing the company’s Don’t be Evil mantra) how many innocent people had he killed?
The Woke will always find a reason to hire other Wokelings. Diversity is usually a good excuse but there is always a way to justify hiring someone who is utterly unqualified for her job. And those that are actually good at their jobs have to take up the slack for the useless dead weight. It used to be a “blonde with a great rack.” Now it’s a “three-hundred-pound, hippo with a purple mental-illness haircut.”
The thing is the blonde was always cheerful, nice to everyone and pleasant to look at. She at least made the work environment more enjoyable. On the other hand, the whale with the purple hair is constantly shrieking and demanding submission to the SJW narrative from everyone that she comes in contact with. During working hours instead of doing her job, she is organizing witch hunts to get people fired. She and her comrades make life miserable at that company.
Here’s my big point: Every top tier worker in that field will know about this and avoid that company like the plague in the future.
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