I have often felt that the whole tech industry has been lousy at being socially responsible. It seems that it is more important to social network with a bunch of checkmark friends that you will probably never met but who drop your name as quickly as they will scrawl something useless on a graffiti wall.
So it was good to see Robert’s post today where he was talking about volunteering at the San Francisco Foodbank. That was until I read this part:
Not just because we helped out our local community, either. But because people from Yahoo, Google, Wired Magazine, Mahalo, AOL, AdBrite, and quite a few other tech companies came and pitched in. This was a KILLER way to network. Certainly better than going to one of those parties where you just consume alcohol and trade cards.
WTF! .. is not humanly possible in that rarified social strata that you occupy Robert to for once not have to fuck something good up by having to network. For the love of Bob isn’t it possible to just leave all that networking crap; social or otherwise, back at the frikken office.
All this does is show just how shallow the whole tech industry is. Not everything is this screwed up world needs to be a reason to freakin network your ass off. For once can’t you just do something good for the sake of doing something good and without using it to advance your own cause.
Damn man … using the less fortunate as a stepping stone no matter how you want to spin it just plain sucks.
Listening to: Shpongle - Nothing Lasts - Periscopes of Consciousness
Conversation Tags: Charity, foodbanks, geeks, networking
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