macrocarpa
@macrocarpa@lemmy.world
- Comment on Non-binary 5 weeks ago:
Yes and no.
- Comment on Anon tells a story about president Taft 1 month ago:
Taft, you old dog!
- Comment on Am I supposed to ask stupid questions here, or *not* ask stupid questions? 1 month ago:
It’s missing a comma
- Comment on If somebody spends the whole day watching fox or religious propaganda, gets worked up and all he can think of is owning a liberal or converting an unbeliever, is this person a victim or just gullible? 1 month ago:
Tldr “In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony god’s blessing. But because, I am enlightened by my intelligence”
- Comment on what's a good way to stick a laser leveler to the wall? 1 month ago:
Yeah seconded… That worked for me.
- Comment on Why are male social workers so different? 1 month ago:
I spent a bit of time going through your post history to get an understanding of your background
In short I think your life experiences mean you’ve lost all trust in men. Not just your direct experiences but what you’ve observed in others.
As a result you enter each interaction assuming the worst. Every male social worker you engage with will confirm this pattern because that’s what you’re looking for. The - ah fuck here we go again - feeling.
For them, and I don’t expect you to have empathy for them, this is what they live - the outcomes of other mens behaviours. But - they were there and they tried. That is something.
You have changed quite a lot of your original post.
- Comment on Pros and cons of getting a job at a very small software company? (14 employees) 2 months ago:
Very small is 3 people. It’s a small company.
My experience working in a dev company exactly that size -
Pros
Less dead wood (people not carrying their own weight).
Everyone knows everyone well, it’s a tight team
Think it, do it - quick to develop and respond
Less pressure
Feels a bit like a family
More chilled than corporate esp. working from home
More support of networking and linking up with industry peers
Higher degree of trust and support
Way more latitude to do what you want to do
Easy to influence senior leadership
Can offer things like equity etc
If you’re a high performer you will be noticed
Way less red tape
A lot more trust
Company can prosper if everyone works hard
Cons
Company favourites
Can be quite political, although far less so than some large organisations I’ve worked for
Less cover if you’re on leave or similar
Harder to get some things done if money is needed (lower budgets and thinner reserves)
Lower remuneration, fewer levers to pull to get a salary increase
More drama with paychecks etc
Fewer higher skilled people to learn from
Culture can go sideways quickly
Nowhere near the same level of support and benefits provided by the big companies
Tend not to attract the best and brightest talent
Comoany more impacted by economic conditions
It also greatly depends on you and your preferred style. Some people just outright don’t like working for big businesses and prefer smaller gigs.
- Comment on The world has become Applefied. 2 months ago:
So denver is fwb?
- Comment on Why do people around me tend to increase their responsibility load (i.e. have children, become a manager, do charity, etc.) while I (30M) try to avoid it as much as I can? 2 months ago:
In short, because people have different values and are motivated by different things.
Doing something that aligns with your values can be deeply fulfilling! Faith, charity, community, financial independence, respect etc.
Note that there isn’t anything objectively right or wrong about this, or the things that people value, it just is. You might value solitude and rest.
Head to personalvalu.es for examples of values.
- Comment on What do you see that you wish others saw? 2 months ago:
None of this matters. Every part of your existence is electrical impulses and chemicals reactions.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
What do you assume happens in a reference check?
- Comment on Why do people wear shoes inside the house? 4 months ago:
Why do people go barefoot in public
Why do people wear shoes in the office
Why dont3 I ask women if they’re pregnant
Because arbitrary customs that exist which might have a good reason behind them but largely have become things that are considered polite or rude, both of which are societal concepts which themselves are worthy of questioning
- Comment on Fake news, fake penis... 4 months ago:
She went on the BBC (no pun intended) to talk about her problems finding employment.
So it’s possible but my spidey sense is she’s doing it for a laugh.
However normal reminder, don’t put anything in backgrounds that you don’t want screen capped and sent first to your colleagues and subsequently to the world. Aka passwords, pin numbers, phone numbers, notes, org charts, technical artefacts or business sensitive information (including whiteboards)
- Comment on Why is TikTok seen as privacy invading and bad, but Facebook is fine? 5 months ago:
It’s not fine - it’s been around longer and the user base is rusted onto it.
I left Facebook in 2018 after discovering the level of behavioural tracking, and the discovery that Facebook had both captured and sold this information to advertisers. I found this out at a marketing technology showcase after chatting with a FB engineer.
- Comment on What is wage theft exactly? 5 months ago:
A fair day’s work = a fair day’s pay
If you do more work you should get more pay.
If you do less work you should get less pay.
If you are paid less for doing the same amount of work, or if you do more work for the same amount of pay, then you’re no longer getting a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work.
Wage theft is serious business and it’s kind of insidious.
“hey I need you to stay on a couple hours after” then you’re paid the same amount as normal - wage theft
“you can’t leave till the next shift gets here” and you’re not paid for the time you wait - wage theft
“your wage is 25 an hour, that’s 200 a day, the hours are nine till five but most people do 8 till 6” - wage theft (the actual wage is 200 an hour)
“if there’s a dine and dash it comes from your paycheck” - wage theft
“you start at 12.50 an hour then go up to 25 after three months.” then at 2 months 3 weeks “sorry it didn’t work out, goodbye” - wage theft
Wage thieves usually target people that don’t know they’re being taken advantage of. Often people desparate for work, or not highly skilled, or just naive, or trusting. Hence it is (in my mind) predatory.
Fwiw time theft is the other side of the coin.
- Comment on How do I stop hating children? 5 months ago:
Are you diagnosed neurodiverse? This is a common trait.