Comment on Disgusting money driven mindset

ApeNo1@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨34⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  scrum master

  I fucking hate corporate lingo.

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• underwire212@lemm.ee ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This isn’t about this company, but this post just gave me PTSD from a recent interview process.

  “Soo, we can’t offer you a salary even though our job listing said we would. But you’ll get 5% stake in our startup, which I’m sure will do great even though I’m using my parents money and have zero business experience! Also no vacation, 60 hour work weeks, oh and no health insurance either. We’re a small business trying to make it work!”

  Legitimately had this experience after a fucking 5-stage interview process for some small startup, promising a “competitive compensation package”. I guess I should’ve been more assertive in asking their salary range when they kept giving me vague hints at a bullshit compensation.

  Waste of fucking time and money. I could tell they were annoyed that I didn’t treat them as if they were Gods offering me a place in eternal bliss. I said “So you guys can’t offer me an actual salary?” and they had the audacity to come back with “well not everything is about money”…says the dude whose parents gave him $1.5 million seed money to start his own little “marketing” company.

  When I declined the offer, they quipped with “Thank you for taking 8 hours of our valuable time to get to learn about the company and drink our coffee”. They also said they would reimburse my parking (city parking) to make the interviews. That never happened. Down about $150 and 8 hours. Did they expect me to fall for some sort of sunk-cost fallacy?

  The ego and audacity some of these people have astonishes me. They must be so fucking miserable on the inside.

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨32⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    When I declined the offer, they quipped with “Thank you for taking 8 hours of our valuable time to get to learn about the company and drink our coffee”.

    Oh man, this would have made me see red. You have more self control than I do if you were able to ignore that and move on.

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  • kipo@lemm.ee ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is exactly the kind of behavior that modern capitaliam produces: money, power, and growth at any cost. Others are no longer people or equals, they are tools. Morals and ethics must be left behind to “succeed”.

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    • ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      All while criticizing others for being so venal they want to be able to buy food.

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  • orcrist@lemm.ee ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ask for salary in writing, always. Usually email is easy.

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• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Probably not even a real doctor either.

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  • ApeNo1@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It is all suspect. He got his degree in 2016, Masters in 2015, Phd in 2020. The Yatiken he associates himself with on his linked in was started in 2014 so he is not the founder of that Yatiken. There is another Yatiken company registered in 2020 that lists him but amusingly has him no longer being a manager in 2021.

    Yatiken 2020

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• Zoidsberg@lemmy.ca ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What is a scrum master? Like a rugby coach?

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  • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Scrum is an Agile project management methodology. Basically it centers around iterated short term “sprints” of about two weeks where team members have relative autonomy, and after which there are meetings to consider any emergent issues before committing to the next sprint. It’s supposed to be more flexible and responsive than traditional “waterfall” project management, where an entire project is planned out in advance in a linear progression. Funnily enough it actually was named after the rugby term

    It’s very popular in software development in particular, since oftentimes development can be broken into modular tasks that can be worked on in parallel. Many argue that it’s a fad that’s been shoehorned into applications where it isn’t useful, or that some practitioners focus so much on the structure that they big down the process with endless meetings.

    A scrum master is a specialist who helps an organization implement scrum.

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    • quafeinum@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      A scrum master is a fancy project manager. But legally you have to call them scrum masters or else their arms fall off

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  • baines@lemmy.cafe ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    manager of bullshit that does little to no actual work

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  • ApeNo1@lemm.ee ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    As others have replied yes the term was inspired by the rugby term but unlike a rugby coach who sets the teams strategy and game tactics, the scrum master in agile methodology is a tactical role that is focused on ensuring the team are observing agile ceremonies, sticking to their sprint commitments etc. What the team are doing and why is the responsibility of other roles like Product Managers who may also have Product Owners working closely with the teams whose responsibility is to have a prioritised backlog of items for the team to use as input to plan upcoming work. Usually there are higher level roles that set business level / market level strategy that gives guidance to Product Managers on where products should be focusing to meet specific business goals.

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    • Zoidsberg@lemmy.ca ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Corporate America sounds like actual hell

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      • abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Eh. It’s very much a case by case. It’s like having an assistant manager. Some of them you wonder what they even do, other ones you think the place would likely fall apart and burst into flames without them.

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  • BehindTheBarrier@programming.dev ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Unsure if a joke or not, but in the event of a serious question:

    scrum masters are heads of scrum teams, their main purpose is facilitating good work conditions for the people. This generally means arranging and leading typical scrum meetings, helping workers do their job and shielding them from the Production Owner (the guy that decides what they are to make/deliver during a sprint . (sprints are 2-3 weeks long, where work is done accord the a selection at the start and interruptions are kept low during that time.)

    I don’t want to say that it’s an easy roles, but it’s more a management type of role than a worker role. In my team the scrum master is also doing development work, since scrum tasks alone aren’t that huge with the way we do things.

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    • _stranger_@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Since it seems you are unaware of the origin of the term:

      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(rugby)

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      • BehindTheBarrier@programming.dev ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Thanks, I figured I was missing some connection.

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