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Hi, I made a joke about the Wendy's chicken nuggets RT thing & it got misinterpreted and now some earnest young man got 10,000 RTs on his attempt to get an internship with me, goddamnit the Internet is just too much sometimes.
@anildash More power to him! It's nice to see people wanting others to succeed :)
(To be clear, James, the guy who went for the RTs, is cool as hell and we're talking in a few days. But the fact that tech is so shitty that people think this is where things are at now is... phew.)
@anildash looks like Mastodon passes the test of "people will poke their head in on a Saturday night!
@anildash feel like that also speaks to broader structural issues about the mystery and opacity of the process of competing to obtain internships.