170
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

my boss said he doesn't personally post here but some others might. and my boss thinks it's cool that I'm a leftist, he's one too, apparently, and that a bunch of our coworkers are leftists. some of them might post here?? it's a finance firm -- the last place I'd expect this. how the fuck do they have a positive opinion of this place??

YOU HAVE TO TELL ME IF YOU POST HERE AND WHAT YOUR @ IS. THIS IS SO UNFAIR LEAVING ME ON THE HOOK LIKE THIS. DON'T MAKE ME POST PPB TO THE WORK SLACK AND SEE WHO LAUGHS.

(I use tree style tabs so they can read my tabs when I share my screen -- I didn't hide this place because who the fuck has heard of hexbear)

top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[-] [email protected] 148 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Damn, that's really cool, I'm actually in a similar situation. Found out some months back that my landlord uses Hexbear when I saw him pull up the site on his phone while I was requesting that he fix the broken heater and leaky roof in my apartment. I brought it up and instantly he seemed just as happy as I was to have randomly come across a Hexbear comrade in the wild. What are the odds, right? Anyway, turns out he's an ML! Now we hang out, watch Star Trek, and shoot the shit about theory over weed and beer on the weekends.

A couple weeks ago I was talking to my landlord about how hard it is to find leftist friends, and he got the idea to introduce me to a buddy of his, the one who actually introduced him to Hexbear in the first place. Turns out he's the police officer who usually handles the evictions here. I'd seen him around, but I had no idea he was actually cool. Dude's an anarchist and heavily involved with his union, really based. We invited him to get baked and hang out with us and we really hit it off. It's nice having an anarchist perspective for our theory talk, really fitting given we all use the same left unity website. Not gonna lie, it does get heated at times, and I'm still a bit apprehensive about him showing up to these hangouts in uniform with his service weapon, but I think that's just me being antsy.

Hope you can get something similar going with your boss. Hexbear is great and all, but there's no substitute to having good comrades to hang out with offline.

[-] [email protected] 67 points 5 months ago
[-] [email protected] 83 points 5 months ago
[-] [email protected] 51 points 5 months ago

First time ive seen an image like this and thought "Please DONT be real"

[-] [email protected] 52 points 5 months ago

There's a video of someone pulling up alongside the cop car so I'm pretty sure it is.

load more comments (5 replies)
load more comments (3 replies)
[-] [email protected] 56 points 5 months ago

Incredible post fidel-salute-big

[-] [email protected] 46 points 5 months ago

A couple weeks ago I was talking to my landlord about how hard it is to find leftist friends, and he got the idea to introduce me to a buddy of his, the one who actually introduced him to Hexbear in the first place. Turns out he's the police officer who usually handles the evictions here. I'd seen him around, but I had no idea he was actually cool. Dude's an anarchist and heavily involved with his union, really based. We invited him to get baked and hang out with us and we really hit it off. It's nice having an anarchist perspective for our theory talk, really fitting given we all use the same left unity website. Not gonna lie, it does get heated at times, and I'm still a bit apprehensive about him showing up to these hangouts in uniform with his service weapon, but I think that's just me being antsy.

tequila-sunset

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (11 replies)
[-] [email protected] 107 points 5 months ago

finance

boss

leftist

ok maybe i'm a pessimist but this sounds like a warren voter to me

[-] [email protected] 56 points 5 months ago

Warren hexbear poster? That seems less likely than a finance firm socialist somehow lol

load more comments (2 replies)
[-] [email protected] 40 points 5 months ago

Eh, you'd be surprised. I know a few leftists working in fintech, it pays damn good and the marginal evil-utility of arbitrage or something is pretty low compared to the kind of shit they'd be enabling at FAANG.

[-] [email protected] 41 points 5 months ago

It doesn't surprise me, actually. I think people working in finance would know better than anyone else just how bullshit the whole system is.

load more comments (2 replies)
[-] [email protected] 39 points 5 months ago

I can't remember where it was, but I was listening to an interview with a left-wing guy who worked for some sort of stock buying/trading company. He said his strategy was to just assume all the hype was bullshit and things were only going to get worse. Apparently he performed so much better than everyone else that his boss just assumed he was doing illegal insider-trading stuff.

load more comments (8 replies)
[-] [email protected] 39 points 5 months ago
load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments (19 replies)
[-] [email protected] 90 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I gave hexbear to a kind of whacky old lady from the allotment who is extremely online due to being unemployed, she got caught up in all that qanon shit a while back you know the type, lurking hexbear has clearly been slowly turning her into a communist because her takes are getting better and better.

[-] [email protected] 45 points 5 months ago

you love to see it rat-salute-2

load more comments (2 replies)
[-] [email protected] 86 points 5 months ago

Bruh I’m posting with finance bros wtf?

[-] [email protected] 52 points 5 months ago

To all the latter-day-Engels lurking: Pay my rent marx-goth

[-] [email protected] 51 points 5 months ago

Indubitably. I'm certain there's at least one six (maybe even seven??) figure earning hexbear poster out there somewhere and yet, as of writing this, they still haven't sent me ANY money...?? maddened

load more comments (2 replies)
[-] [email protected] 47 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

look man, I'll take their money. I'm using it to provide free housing to as many comrades as I can.

[-] [email protected] 44 points 5 months ago

nah dw was just joking. I know hexbear skews pmc.

[-] [email protected] 47 points 5 months ago

BMF in shambles rn

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments (4 replies)
[-] [email protected] 85 points 5 months ago

he was talking about the other hexbear https://hexbear.io/

load more comments (4 replies)
[-] [email protected] 81 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

To the network engineer seeing hexbear.net being accessed on the company Wi-fi, coming here, and then radicalising the rest of the office, 07

[-] [email protected] 64 points 5 months ago

some network engineer saw hexbear and blocked it on the company VPN agony-shivering

[-] [email protected] 50 points 5 months ago

Lmao. The boss should tell them to unblock it.

[-] [email protected] 47 points 5 months ago

it's a totally different group we have no say over. I'd have to make a work justification for it.

load more comments (4 replies)
load more comments (1 replies)
[-] [email protected] 80 points 5 months ago

my heart fucking skipped a beat when he brought this website up like I was about to get fired

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] [email protected] 72 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

browsing hexbear on the clock is praxis, especially in the wretched world of econony

no one yet has recognized my custom laptop sticker but if and when they do I will probably be like kobeni-sweat because of my own personal contradictions regarding my privacy neuroses and wanting to wear my ideology and interests on my sleeve

[-] [email protected] 57 points 5 months ago

because of my own personal contradictions regarding my privacy neuroses and wanting to wear my ideology and interests on my sleeve

denji-just-like-me

load more comments (3 replies)
[-] [email protected] 65 points 5 months ago

it's me ur boss, get back to work

load more comments (5 replies)
[-] [email protected] 65 points 5 months ago

Sounds like you work with a bunch of liberals

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] [email protected] 63 points 5 months ago

This is me telling your boss he's a coward for not unionizing your team immediately after recognizing this information

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] [email protected] 57 points 5 months ago

It's weird how many lefties there are in finance. I once had a discussion with a quant on how economic planning would probably work and should be tried, and I once added someone on discord and found they were in the Hasanabi discord. I guess it makes sense when your job is to see past the bs.

[-] [email protected] 65 points 5 months ago

proof that Marxists are better economists than liberals

[-] [email protected] 54 points 5 months ago

Eyy you work at Langley too?

load more comments (3 replies)
[-] [email protected] 53 points 5 months ago

congrats on working at the FBI??? hillary-apartment

[-] [email protected] 53 points 5 months ago

looks at comm

It's not badposting

omori-afraid

[-] [email protected] 47 points 5 months ago

Oh hey what a coincidence, all my friends here at my workplace in Langley use this site too

[-] [email protected] 46 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Why did you tell your boss you are a leftist btw? I had a coworker like you who tried to talk to the HR manager about communism for some reason, that's how I found out.

Was not interested in any of my Samir Amin type shit of course but that's just the way the cookie crumbles

Are you going to debate your finance boss into unionizing your finance job? :-)

[-] [email protected] 44 points 5 months ago

I DIDN'T. HE SAID HE FIGURED IT OUT BECAUSE I BROWSE THIS FUCKING WEBSITE

load more comments (21 replies)
[-] [email protected] 41 points 5 months ago

I had a coworker like you who tried to talk to the HR manager about communism for some reason

Out of all the people to talk to about communism, hr is quite the choice lol

load more comments (5 replies)
[-] [email protected] 41 points 5 months ago

i hang out in cool places and have a little hexbear badge on my bag, yet no one has ever recognised it doomjak

load more comments (3 replies)
[-] [email protected] 39 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

This post is pissing me off

It isn’t really

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments
view more: next ›
this post was submitted on 24 Jan 2024
170 points (99.4% liked)

chat

8062 readers
300 users here now

Chat is a text only community for casual conversation, please keep shitposting to the absolute minimum. This is intended to be a separate space from c/chapotraphouse or the daily megathread. Chat does this by being a long-form community where topics will remain from day to day unlike the megathread, and it is distinct from c/chapotraphouse in that we ask you to engage in this community in a genuine way. Please keep shitposting, bits, and irony to a minimum.

As with all communities posts need to abide by the code of conduct, additionally moderators will remove any posts or comments deemed to be inappropriate.

Thank you and happy chatting!

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS