Pros
Let's start by introducing a key challenge ushered in by the philosophical notion of eternal recurrence: as one begins to ruminate on the idea of repeating every immutable moment of their life, all the joys and all the pain, over and over, forever and ever, how do they learn to overcome the inevitable sense of dread that is sure to follow? Where does one acquire the skills to outwrestle the pernicious spirit of gravity, to come so far as to crave this endless cycle, to never desire anything more from it? If only there were a microcosm to serve as a kind of training ground… Enter CATS, a tiny Minneapolis software company where all employees work closely with a CEO who changes his mind 150 times per day as the result of a fitful affair with reason. By the constant frequency at which he changes his mind, time spins as an infinite loop where you as employee can pick up and put down the same few projects again and again. You can turn pro at answering redundant, perennial questions and shrinking yourself to brash, demeaning retorts. You can come to celebrate that anything you do will be interrupted by the next gut-driven distraction of the day. Any gains you manage to make will go unnoticed, under-appreciated, or soon down the drain. In essence, you can commune with Sisyphus despite no mortal offense. All of this, of course, to attain amor fati.
Cons
The CEO displays little capacity to listen to others and would seem to consider this a virtue. He employs his staff for a listening proxy through which he can debate himself ad nauseam with bullish, bad-faith, politically-charged arguments. He routinely reminds his employees of how they are underpaid, of how he is not, and of how he could outperform them in 5 minutes, in his sleep, or both. Along the way, workers may be charmed by talk of performance bonuses and profit sharing. These will not come to pass, for the legacy of CATS will amount to one endless, unnerving monologue swirling the void of any earnest employee retention program. While the current CEO is running the ship, my advice is to steer clear your own.
