THE VIDEO SHELF · tech workplace satire
I Have Delivered Value... But At What Cost?
A short KRAZAM comedy sketch satirizing corporate tech life, where a worker reckons with having delivered value at the cost of his soul, complete with Slack chimes.
Why HN readers recommended it
Praised as painfully accurate office satire, with the channel's sketches called genius.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- KRAZAM
- Topic
- tech workplace satire
- Format
- comedy
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2021–2024
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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The videos on that channel are so good that they're painful to watch, when you realize how closely it matches the life you're living. This one is my favorite (or "least favorite" depending on how hard it hits on any given day): [VIDEO] I feel …
Trasmatta on Hacker News · 2022-08
In Productivity pornMicroservices is probably their most popular video, but all their videos are genius. I'm partial to I Have Delivered Value... But At What Cost? [VIDEO]
NAHWheatCracker on Hacker News · 2024-02
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Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.