Boy, and I thought it was tough when Japanese office members are expected to go out golfing with each other on weekends to build team spirit.
Can’t imagine a group of people I’d rather spend _my entire life_ around. > On Oct 24, 2025, at 13:45, Marcus Daniels <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm a little confused. Musk says we'll leave it all to the robots and the > AI and it will be green grass and sunny days. > But he has them doing this: > > https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.gncrypto.news%2fnews%2fxai-grokipedia-launch-engineers-camp-la%2f&c=E,1,-PImHvyEdNpLDkTl5C926uO5f20HSGkeU7X2mb-phARxllle8d-po_cQGNgBW3HyxhW2iPi6h0VeUkQTuC3Fz0Wzg1DAq0bCqSlCnjUoYw,,&typo=1 > > What's the rush, man? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of glen > Sent: Friday, October 24, 2025 10:34 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [FRIAM] bro, please > > With the chaos at the NIH (and the whole fed, I guess), I find myself > trolling job offerings. Methodologically, I'm lazy, somewhere between a > cynic, a taoist, and an apatheist. And almost every job offer contains > sentiments like this: > > "We take ownership, seek excellence, and play to win with the seriousness and > camaraderie of an Olympic team." Hoorah! Get Pumped! Let's Goooooo! > Yeeeeaaaaahhhh! > > OMG I'm so tired of it. I guess it's similar to toxic positivity. It's so > refreshing when some rando at the pub vehemently disagrees with me. They're > often surprised when I respond enthusiastically to their disagreeable > nonsense. The same goes with this toxic enthusiasm. Chill, dude. You're > harshin' the vibe. > > Where are the job offerings where we just want to do some stuff, slowly, > compromising quality, speed, and cost but with the flippance and laissez > faire of a stoned kid playing Stardew Valley? Or maybe the 60 year old > farmer with no kids who shambles from the bed to the tractor at dawn but > doesn't get all wound up about whether she'll live to see the next dawn? > These are the jobs I want. 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