I think a lot about the job I didn’t get last year. Technical interview was trivial. They said I did very well in the system design. But they ultimately went with someone “more cross functional”. What the fuck does that even mean?
I think it’s just code for “dunno we like the other guy’s vibe better”.
Chex Quest was legitimately good, but mostly because it was just a Doom mod
Whoever wrote that quoted bit is an asshole and fool.
Corporations shouldn’t be allowed to buy each other
I feel like if someone did a killing with their car and was let off, and someone enacted vigilante justice of their own, I wouldn’t vote to convict.
People should be held accountable for this kind of thing.
Any company convicted of posting a ghost job should be required to pay a year’s compensation to every individual who applied to the job.
There should be a well funded team of investigators and a tip line. Rewards for ratting out management.
That’s one of the boxes to open, yes.
Oh my gosh if he died due to lightning strike we could power the world on the cognitive dissonance from all the evangelicals.
Some people will do anything to continue to fit in with their group. I don’t think it’s always even a conscious choice.
Has no one been pointing out to management that even firms like Microsoft are backpedaling on using AI?
Management doesn’t listen to low level people who actually do work. I think this is part of Ed zitron’s “Business Idiot” thesis. Upper management is so far removed from how things actually get done, they are in all measureable ways idiots
Sometimes they also have selfish or stupid side goals, too. Like, the rumor is the company gets a tax break for people going into the office. So now they make people go into the office, even when most of their team is remote. Climate criminals all, but they’re removed from the consequences.
Upper management are fools. Middle management just wants their paycheck, and maybe to rise high enough to become a business idiot themselves.
That’s kind of like “no one goes there anymore - it’s too crowded”
I mean, the one I’m at is mostly doing a hiring freeze. Management is frothing at the mouth over using AI. But there are currently a lot of people working here, some full time and some under dubious “contractor” arrangements.
and I am constantly telling them that in the workplace situation, to not be afraid or hesitate to act on something.
This really depends on the workplace. I’m at a megacorp and trying to fix anything is far more pain and work that just not.
Like I could try to convince them to move off of python3.9 because that’s old and well past end of life. But I need to explain that to my boss, the business lady, some other manager, “the audit team” (whoever the fuck they are), and then grapple with how they have 5-10 years of code and not a single line of automated test coverage.
There’s no reward.
Many people are just as stupid as him.
Our society prioritizes trash like nft startups instead of education
People that park in bike lanes should lose their license and car. Selfish and hazardous behavior.
Critics argue that those pushing for reforms “hate people who own cars,” in the words of Vickie Paladino, a City Council member who represents a district in Queens that is home to many car owners.
I don’t hate people who own cars but I do hate cars. They pollute. They take up valuable space. They’re bad for the economy. They kill people.
In 1996, Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani moved the city’s traffic enforcement agents, the unarmed civilians who write tickets for parking and other traffic violations, from the Transportation Department to the Police Department.
Fuck Giuliani
The other day I saw a car double parked in Brooklyn. The owner was sitting at a sidewalk table drinking coffee from the coffee shop that’s there. A cop walked up and started to write a ticket, and the lady ran up to try to get out of it.
On the one hand, fuck the police. On the other, fuck that lady for double parking so she could just chill out for a while. One of the most walkable neighborhoods, and there’s a stupid amount of free, available, parking around there.
I would rather use that space for homes for people than cars.
Your first (only?) job is to service the emotional needs of the employer
This is mostly true even after you get hired. Most people are just large children with poorly managed emotions. It doesn’t matter if you’re right. It matters if your boss feels good.
A lot of HR people are incompetent. Recruiters, too. And when you give incompetent people AI tools it’s a big multiplier of their incompetence.
I don’t understand why so many places still have non-technical people reading technical resumes.
File under “some problems have easy solutions but would upset a handful of rich people”, or maybe “…but would upset unqualified idiots”