Ex-big tech employee: some colleagues did nothing for months, just watched dashboards
tekbog · x · 2026-10-27
Responding to the viral "day at Microsoft" Instagram posts, a former big tech employee says reality was "actually worse": he saw people doing nothing for months.
Some couldn't be fired, so his team assigned them random tickets like "open a dashboard every day and if you see something in red, ping someone on Slack."
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