Spooky Asphodel

asphodelles.bsky.social

19 August 2026 12:15

when i make it big and hire people to work for me i am going to tell them day 1 to please tell me if i am asking them to do something asinine because they are experts in their respective disciplines and i am not

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bluespacecanary.bsky.social

26 June 2026 11:43

This isn't even greed, really, at least not in the general case (specific examples may be). In the general case it honestly is just straight up inability to do the most fundamental aspect of their job

spooky tail latency

bluespacecanary.bsky.social

26 June 2026 11:43

Like, if your financial model isn't viable even when you're able to get away with underpaying the most expensive chunk of your workforce by nearly 50% because they just want to work in your subfield that badly...what in the fuck were your corporate strategy decisionmakers doing

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bluespacecanary.bsky.social

26 June 2026 11:43

idk how you unfuck the economics of game dev, but big studios constantly going "we just can't afford all these developers who we pay like 60% the market rate for engineering roles w/ comparable experience at comparable non-game-dev companies" doesn't reflect well on studio execs' basic competence

mtsw

mtsw.bsky.social

26 June 2026 11:42

Good point bsky.app/profile/mark...