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Fuck that bullshit.

Archive: https://archive.today/8OTNB

From the post:

>I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the tremors rippling across the startup hiring landscape. Spurred on by AI, the marketplace is reassessing what great talent is, as entry-level hiring precipitously declines across the ecosystem. And there’s one subplot that kept coming up as I was reporting a piece I wrote about the new rules of startup hiring, but that I wasn’t able to include in the original story—about 996. 996, for the uninitiated, is a work schedule that references working 9 AM to 9 PM, six days a week. It originated in China, but in recent months and years, it has gained traction as a talking point in tech and startups. In 2025, 996 has become commonplace during the AI boom, even popping up in the hiring process.

**Fuck that bullshit.** Archive: https://archive.today/8OTNB From the post: >>I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the tremors rippling across the startup hiring landscape. Spurred on by AI, the marketplace is reassessing what great talent is, as entry-level hiring precipitously declines across the ecosystem. And there’s one subplot that kept coming up as I was reporting a piece I wrote about the new rules of startup hiring, but that I wasn’t able to include in the original story—about 996. 996, for the uninitiated, is a work schedule that references working 9 AM to 9 PM, six days a week. It originated in China, but in recent months and years, it has gained traction as a talking point in tech and startups. In 2025, 996 has become commonplace during the AI boom, even popping up in the hiring process.

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I have only ever had one job that gave me comp and there was a cap on it.

When you work in a field with on-call that could go from a "oh, something looks slightly broken" to "oh fuck, everything is down" in five minutes then you now have a 40 hour week turn into a 100 hour week in the blink of a eye. You will get ALL of your comp time hit in that single week (they tend to cap it at 40).

Pay me or give my time back. I am so fucking tired of that shit.