[crooked-v]

It's not about being "showered with benefits", it's about the basic workplace culture leaving employees so uncomfortable and paranoid that (as noted in the article) they literally reenact cartoon plots to auto-press a keyboard so they can go the bathroom without being hassled.

[mgraczyk]

I'm just saying the article talks a lot about benefits these people don't have, but almost nobody has such benefits.

If the article only talked about conditions like what you're describing, it would be 1/8th as long and I wouldn't have complained.

[fzeroracer]

Can you explain to me which benefits exactly the article is describing that is over the line? With quotes from the article.

[mgraczyk]

"outdated equipment and software"

"still possible to find bins of old VHS tapes"

"the soccer pitch, which is also off-limits"

"employees apologizing profusely if they left even 15 minutes early."

"being fired if they missed three days of work"

"Contractors are excluded from ... the company holiday party"

"feel unwelcome ... staying too long in Cafe Mario"

"the internal webpage we were encouraged to look at that showed ... benefits (like a sizable Christmas bonus)"

"march with Nintendo of America in the annual Pride parade"

...

[fzeroracer]

Most of what you mentioned aren't benefits? I'm very confused as to what you're trying to accomplish here, considering I explicitly called out benefits.

1/2 are examples of an outdated workplace (and is meant to be an example of how bad the job is), 3 is an example of how different contractors are treated (and is rather silly), 4/5/6/7 are examples of an awful workplace, 8 is a further example of how they are treated as second class employees and 8 is similar to 3.

A lot of people deal with toxic workplaces, yes. That doesn't mean a crab in a pot mentality is a good one to have because it just ends up dragging everyone down to the most toxic workplace. Instead people should work on calling out and improving their workplaces, which was the intent of this article.