Ben Thompson
speaker
41,192 appearances
118 recordings
2 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 21 Aug
Ben Thompson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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patronizing and like it just like it just infuriating and you're like screw this guy.
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I are you are
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stubbornly refuse to?
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Right.
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And you want to punch me in the face.
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Uh so I guess I'm the uh so maybe I can identify this attitude because I can personify it at times.
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Uh that that's a fair pushback.
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Um
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And
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I think the emailer does have his finger on something.
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It's it's
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When I was at Microsoft, uh, I remember I never got promoted.
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Um, and I was very frustrated about it.
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And like I was do I I ended up on this team where I was actually I was level sixty one and I was everyone else on the team was level sixty three.
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And I was doing all the work and I'm like, Well, sh you know, I should get but my feedback was the one piece of feedback I remember uh getting like my year review or something like that, was your what is
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Is excellent, your how needs a lot of work.
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There was this like this idea of like it's not just my manager that has to like me, but like the other managers on the promotion committee and the manager above the manager and like all those yo there's a an aspect of corporate politics that is just
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Putting on a happy face and talking to people and and selling yourself and your ideas that this is why I didn't last long at corporate America.
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I'm much better off, I think, on my own, to say the least.
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And
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