[FRIAM] bro, please

[Santafe]

Boy, and I thought it was tough when Japanese office members are expected to go out golfing with each other on weekends to build team spirit.

Can’t imagine a group of people I’d rather spend _my entire life_ around.

> On Oct 24, 2025, at 13:45, Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm a little confused.   Musk says we'll leave it all to the robots and the AI and it will be green grass and sunny days.
> But he has them doing this:
> 
> https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.gncrypto.news%2fnews%2fxai-grokipedia-launch-engineers-camp-la%2f&c=E,1,-PImHvyEdNpLDkTl5C926uO5f20HSGkeU7X2mb-phARxllle8d-po_cQGNgBW3HyxhW2iPi6h0VeUkQTuC3Fz0Wzg1DAq0bCqSlCnjUoYw,,&typo=1
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> What's the rush, man?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of glen
> Sent: Friday, October 24, 2025 10:34 AM
> To: friam at redfish.com
> Subject: [FRIAM] bro, please
> 
> With the chaos at the NIH (and the whole fed, I guess), I find myself trolling job offerings. Methodologically, I'm lazy, somewhere between a cynic, a taoist, and an apatheist. And almost every job offer contains sentiments like this:
> 
> "We take ownership, seek excellence, and play to win with the seriousness and camaraderie of an Olympic team." Hoorah! Get Pumped! Let's Goooooo! Yeeeeaaaaahhhh!
> 
> OMG I'm so tired of it. I guess it's similar to toxic positivity. It's so refreshing when some rando at the pub vehemently disagrees with me. They're often surprised when I respond enthusiastically to their disagreeable nonsense. The same goes with this toxic enthusiasm. Chill, dude. You're harshin' the vibe.
> 
> Where are the job offerings where we just want to do some stuff, slowly, compromising quality, speed, and cost but with the flippance and laissez faire of a stoned kid playing Stardew Valley?  Or maybe the 60 year old farmer with no kids who shambles from the bed to the tractor at dawn but doesn't get all wound up about whether she'll live to see the next dawn? These are the jobs I want. I'm the turtle and the world seems full of hares.
> 
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