HobbitFoot

@HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The bust is definitely pushing wages down, but a lot of tech companies have been able to decouple work from location.

  Amazon doesn’t have to pay a wage competitive in Seattle any more for new talent. In the process of searching for the second HQ, Amazon got a lot of information from various cities on what they could offer Amazon, which let Amazon build out new offices where the cost of living is lower. If the job is full remote, you’re competing against applicants from around the world, not just the city you’re living in.

  So you don’t need to go the path of visas, but it doesn’t mean the only alternative is well paying jobs in high cost of living cities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Laundromat????⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Because if the answer is insultingly small then I’m not patronizing them

  Why would they pay you anything at all?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is kindness often viewed as a sign of naïveté?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Some people use kindness as deception.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is kindness often viewed as a sign of naïveté?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Some people have bad experiences where they lost trust in people and therefore treat the lack of trust as experience. That if you aren’t as paranoid as they are, you don’t know as much as they do.

  Also, some people are bad to work with or are mediocre at their jobs, especially at communication. This is how they cover for themselves. It isn’t their fault that they messed up, you didn’t tell them something that they should have realized they should have asked but it is easier just to blame you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I choose to believe, what I was programmed to believe!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Geez. Look at the cum gutters on him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are the research projects for long-term storage already deployed?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Caves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would happen if I just drove straight south to Mexico?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mexico City has a decent sized American citizen community living there, but it is mainly driven by full remote workers who live there but travel back to the USA for a few days every six months.

  I suspect that work authorization may be a problem. I’ve also heard that the culture in Mexico is somewhat conservative due to the Catholic Church; getting a job in a school will likely be difficult.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who have been in meetings to determine back to in office policy. What was the discussion like?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Except there are problems with training. Companies are going to need to train more competent staff. How do companies train competent staff without competent staff in the first place?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who have been in meetings to determine back to in office policy. What was the discussion like?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think a lot of CEO types think they’re amazing because they walk into a room and everyone’s like “yeah boss got it that’s great feedback”, and they don’t realize they just said a bunch of garbage and people just agreed because he’s the boss.

  I bet. I also wouldn’t be surprised if the CEO gives direction, hears “can do, boss!”, but it doesn’t actually get done because there isn’t a triggered deliverable to verify. You may have junior staff doing what they’re being told, but it isn’t what the CEO wants because it is going through several layers of telephone and, because everyone is remote, it is harder to identify where the problem is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who have been in meetings to determine back to in office policy. What was the discussion like?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That worked fine in person and on zoom. The problem isn’t the medium. The problem is people.

  Yeah, but the problem of management is people. And I’ve pointed out that management aren’t always the people who don’t communicate. And issues with communication are made worse when everything is pushed to text where nuance is lost and everything is archived which can be used against you.

  There are probably some teams that can work well remotely, but a lot of teams can’t. I generally find the best people who work remotely are highly competent at their job. Most people aren’t highly competent at their jobs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who have been in meetings to determine back to in office policy. What was the discussion like?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been in discussions regarding returning to the office for my group, whether other groups should return to the office, and whether to keep the days in the office or add more.

  For returning to the office, a lot of it came down to collaboration. My team does not use online communication tools to the quantity that it can substitute for in person communication. I advocated for a return to office for most staff, in part to benefit junior staff who weren’t communicating and needed mentorship. That meant the entire team had to show up on the same days, but I let them pick the days and changed those days on their request. The intent of the in person days is for them to talk to each other and coordinate.

  One group resisted coming into the office far longer than mine. They were pushed into coming into the office, along with a change in reporting, because that group was blowing budgets and missing deadlines. I said you can bring them into the office, but you have to change their group culture to be more collaborative and talk to each other. It has been an issue working with members of that group because they’ve gotten used to a lack of coordination and communication, which created poor work quality.

  When asked to go full RTO or increase days, I’ve pushed back. My group is mostly meeting deadlines and I see diminishing returns for more days into the office. I’m also aware it is a perk for staff, and not one I want to pull away. However, the gap in online versus physical interaction is still there.

  If you’re going to fight back against coming into the office more, then you’re going to need to argue on the basis of coordination and collective productivity. I’ve seen a lot of people claim individual productivity, but that included a lot of rework that could have been avoided with some five minute conversations. Not emails, conversations.

  On the flip side, if coordination isn’t a big deal, don’t expect raises any time soon. At that point, you’re a more easily replacable cog whose work can get pushed to places with lower costs of living.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who had it worse?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wolf 359 also prepared the Federation in dealing with a potentially superior technological foe. A lot of the fleet improvements would come online by the time the Federation came in contact with the Dominion. A pre Wolf 359 Federation would have gotten easily conquered by the Dominion.

  To add to it, Voyager bright back a lot of technology after its travel, a lot of which got adopted by the Federation once Voyager returned. So you had two major technological jumps to the Federation with Q involvement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thoughts??⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of companies are like this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit bought a giant ad in Paris, urging young french people to create an account⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ve done it before in the USA. My guess is that they want to push their non-English offerings, which is something they’ve only focused on recently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I LIKE CORN!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ORDER CORN

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Future of Forums is Lies, I Guess⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Except that spammers can curate that set of posts and comments similar to legit users.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Semiconductor industry could short out as copper runs dry⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Recycling copper is already cheaper than mining a lot of cases.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Car crashes have killed and seriously injured roughly the same number of people as shootings in Chicago this year. Only one of these things is treated as a safety crisis in the media⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is also a lot more driving in the USA, even in a decent transit area like Chicago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When does Trump finally start taking accountability?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but it is a question of whether his base will believe him or not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is possible to learn to swim, just by reading a lot about it?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The same way people can learn to dance while reading a book.

• What is the Staten Island of Paris?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Millionaire homeowners sued the city of Charlottesville, Virginia, arguing a 10 square mile town whose new zoning plan to increase density had no plan to expand the roads⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The City of Charlottesville has a master plan which includes infrastructure upgrades and expanding their business network.

  charlottesville.gov/…/Transit-Strategic-Plan-TSP

  It sounds like the people suing don’t want to ride the bus.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do “flagship” smartphone chips go out of fashion after just a year?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because you need a justification for the higher price. Without the update cycle, flagship phones would likely need to be cheaper to sell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does everyone hate Income tax ?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of working and middle class people don’t understand how tax brackets work and a lot of upper class people don’t have a financial incentive to correct the working and middle class.

  Also, a lot of upper class people have shifted their income from wages to capital gains, which has a lower effective tax rate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has Xbox Considered Laying One Person Off Instead Of Thousands⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. Xbox should be running a division that looks very similar to Steam. Hell, I have an alt history in my head where Microsoft pushes streaming forward by years using the Xbox for leverage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The USA has never had an event to make Americans from shame for the country. It isn’t like the USA hasn’t done shameful acts, but there hasn’t been a reconging of what the country has done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who discovered/"invented" fire?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, where do you thing Bob got it from?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If a networked system of computers existed, it would probably look a more like Minitel and be very tightly controlled. I would expect that all computer communication would be available to be reviewed by various government agencies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can it take months to get over being laid off?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of people said depression, but instead I want to focus on something else.

  For your new job, you talked about how the work is similar, but how do you feel about your new job? Do you have a similar friend network of coworkers? How is your boss compared to your last one? Is the company culture the same or different. I ask because there are a lot of intangibles to a job that may not seem obvious, and the new job may not be as tuned for you as the last one.

  Regarding fatigue and lack of desire currently, did you feel these feelings when you were unemployed? Were you working on a limited amount of energy before going to work? Were there cases where you would feel this loss of energy while out of work and looking for a job?

  You are focusing on being unemployed, but the issue may be the new job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Recently, I’ve been playing a lot of Brotato. However, there is no story.