[jeremy6d]

I wonder if employers often bring up the negative attitudes their management will expose future employees to in the interview. I expect both sides put their best foot forward and hope the other side isn't too bad.

But I kind of resent the gist of the point you're making: that if you're not going to be a top-notch wage slave, you better tell your employer up front. Says who?

Your statement implies we are supposed to meet some standard of professionalism--a standard we have no say in, I might add, and that employers often excel at defining--and that we owe a duty to others to signal when we don't meet that standard. That standard is precisely what the author of the piece is attacking: the idea that if you are normal and human, you aren't good enough.

Enough with the guilt and the elevation of tech work into inherent value and meaningfulness. Most of us do what the goddamn boss says. Leave that crap at work, and never stop pushing for less work and more pay. After all, they're never going to stop pushing for more value for less money.

[collyw]

There is some truth in your Marxist sentiment, but there is a wide, wide range between "being a top notch wage slave" and not "giving one single iota of a fuck about whatever it is you do for work".

Fair enough if you work in McDonalds.

Personally my work is funded by taxpayers, and some of it will hopefully cure rare (and not so rare) diseases. Its pretty disrespectful to everyone involved (tax payers, colleagues, patients) that I would take the money and put in minimal effort afterwards.