Tech bro pulls out laptop for work during his wedding: Sad as hell

A photo shared by the founder of a US-based start up company has been given the title of “one of the most depressing LinkedIn posts to exist”, sparking hundreds of horrified comments from social media users.The post was uploaded by Torrey Leonard, co-founder of AI company Thoughtly, who praised new groom Casey Mackrell for pulling out a laptop at his own wedding to get some work done.“My co-founder Casey has built a reputation for himself as ‘the guy who sits on his laptop in bars’ from SF to NYC,” Mr Leonard wrote.“Last week Thoughtly brought on a customer that needed to launch within 2 weeks.He just so happened to be getting married within that 2 week window.“So, here he is wrapping up a pull request.

At his own wedding.Congrats Casey – now please, go take some time off.”The post was accompanied by a photo showing Mr Mackrell in a suit sitting at a table with his laptop in front of what appears to be dancing wedding guests.Unsurprisingly, the post quickly went viral, gaining hundreds of comments on LinkedIn before being shared to other social media platforms and even meme pages.Many have described the image as “tone deaf” and “sad”, with some even going as far to label it grounds for divorce.Now, in an interview with news.com.au, Mr Leonard defended the post, and Mr Mackrell’s decision to jump online during such a pivotal personal moment.“As a company, what we do is very high-stakes.

Every single one of our customers, they depend on us to function perfectly, 24-7, around the clock, no questions asked,” he explained.“We work with many publicly traded companies across the globe, and we spend long hours of the night, early mornings awake, monitoring these calls, proactively fixing issues, fixing problems, building new features.“The context of this post, he had to solve a problem, and it was really only something that he could solve.It was a three- to five-minute task.“We understand that this lifestyle is not for everybody.

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