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Fuck that bullshit.

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

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>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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These are usually salaried jobs. You don’t get paid by the hour. They’ll tell you regular working hours are 9–5 or 9–6 “…but we sometimes require extra hours.”

Then they pressure you into working long hours regularly until you have no life outside of their crappy office—which you must commute to every day to show their ownership of you.

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Sounds lovely at moment in fight club when he talks about an ar-10