Every time one of these narcissistic videos comes out from someone “working” at a tech company, there is *vastly* more time spent yapping on about the food they seem to be constantly consuming than the work they seem to take no interest in. Note that even in the second video, the “oops, I’ve been laid off and entered the world of unemployment,” she shows herself consuming, yammers on about consuming, spends Odin knows how much money (that she isn’t making anymore) on empty calories as a way to feel better.
But wait, there’s more! pic.twitter.com/O5hsy9X5VW
— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) January 22, 2023
Another of these vapid “day in the life of an adult daycare consumer” videos:
https://t.co/rgVAosDabl pic.twitter.com/e0ZKr0WVSO
— Mark Granza (@markgranza) January 21, 2023
And another:
3h alles zu lernen was Karl Ess weiß war anstrengend, aber jetzt ernte ich die Früchte meiner Arbeit und fresse den ganzen Tag Avocado Toast pic.twitter.com/TiKDUibLWA
— Angelvergessen (@Angelvergessen1) December 3, 2022
And another:
They really gotta stop making these on TikTok. $META pic.twitter.com/wGurvzu1qa
— TTI (@TikTokInvestors) January 17, 2023
And yet another:
https://twitter.com/hallofbee/status/1595530283125727245
And oh my god another:
Does anyone still work? pic.twitter.com/YtF6hy6x9K
— David Sacks (@DavidSacks) August 20, 2022
I guess I get why they don’t discuss their work. Several explanations come to mind, actually:
1) They assume nobody is interested in it
2) *They* are not interested in it
3) They realize, consciously or not, that if they showed people what they do they’d get laughed at because people would realize their jobs are worthless
4) They’d get laughed at because people would see they’re *bad* at their jobs
Fine, great. But still… their days are now described as “I ate something that someone else made, then I ate something else, then I ate another thing I couldn’t hope to explain how or where it came from, then I ate some more.”
I fully expect that if I ever got it in my head to do a video about *my* work day, it would be crashingly dull. It’s dull now that I work from home, doing CAD and writing and blueprinting; it woulda been dull when I worked in aerospace and honestly couldn’t actually talk about much of it without getting security in a snit. But it never would have occurred to me to spend a large fraction talking about the PB&J sammich I had, or the can of Great Value chicken noodle soup, or the can of pop from the vending machine, or the handfuls of dry cereal or the Gubmint Cheez.
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In their defense, I’d point out they are almost certainly not allowed to discuss details of what they’re actually doing, if anything.
I would fully expect that recording their actual work, or describing it in any sort of detail, might well run foul of non disclosure agreements and the like. But if someone actually liked their job, was proud of what they did, wanted others to appreciate it… they’d frackin’ talk about it more than describing the kale donuts they had for mid-day snacks. You can talk about what you do without showing the spreadsheets.
My parents hated that I watched Star Trek…unrealistic expectations.
These kids think we got there already.
I eat out of cans too. No refrigerator.
I saw a book at a yard sale and to get it I did without food for a few days.
My last $20 is going in the gas tank in the morning.
It hurts to be poor.
These brats must be trust fund nepo babies.