As part of the devs farewell message on their site, they have included malicious code to make each visitor sends 2,000 requests to the dbzer0 servers in an attempt to DDOS and take the instance offline.

  • Monument@piefed.world
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    5 days ago

    That’s weirdly sort of how I got my job.

    Apparently my predecessor was a nice guy with low boundaries that (at the time) lacked managerial support. When he painted himself into a corner on his commitments, didn’t get the accolades or raises he thought he should get, he got bitter, started to act out, stopped doing work he should have done, and finally, when management started pressing him to clean up some messes he had created over a year+ of neglecting his responsibilities, he left an unsigned resignation letter on his desk and didn’t come to work for a few days.
    He called to discuss the terms of his return, expecting a raise, and they just told him they accepted his resignation.

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      5 days ago

      LOL. Sounds like an idiot. Even if the guy was really needed, you can’t have someone like that on your team.

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        5 days ago

        Just another reminder, no one cares about you in the slave factory. Prioritize yourself over work and don’t build up loyalty to a rich asshole.

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          5 days ago

          Thats not really the right lesson to learn here.

          Just have real, non-combative conversations with your colleagues and supervisors. Don’t communicate with stupid games and manipulation.

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            5 days ago

            You are talking about the aftereffects whereas mine was about the cause. Mental health is important.

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              You’re both speaking to the same point.

              In the process of enforcing good boundaries at work, you shouldn’t be a jerk. Firm, no-nonsense, but polite. And the flip side is to use your capacity wisely.

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                Not quite. Everything he did was absolutely wrong but you can only say that when you are a sane person (relatively I hope lol) with a level head. We barely know anything but assuming the worst, I am imagining one of those grindset young adult who worked all day with no entertainment, sacrificed his life for his work, got absolutely nothing in return, self worth completely shattered, possibly dealing with suicidal thoughts. I have seen people like that (our university especially had a significant suicide problem) and I can somewhat relate to it. You can’t expect someone like that to make the right decision, best avoid it altogether. Men’s mental health is often ignored, I am only trying to highlight that. Fuck all those shitty exploitive bosses and the insane influencers.

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        Yeah, best case scenario they work out some kind of deal just to keep the machine turning for a little longer… but he can bet his ass that the second he steps out of that room they’ll be putting up job listings for his replacement.

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          The manager they brought in to bring him in line has been one of the best, kindest, and most human managers I’ve ever met. (But she doesn’t fuck around.)

          She’s also an absolute shark at knowing the system, and without going into specifics, has done very well for everyone on my team that has been even modestly competent.

          I honestly feel bad for the guy. He was too far in the hole of anger and resentment to realize that he’d been handed a whole new opportunity before he squandered it.
          Shortly after I was hired, several other people were hired in to help with the flow of work, and my team went from being sort of an embarrassment to one that, quite frankly, is awesome. (And we still have a good work-life balance.)