I have interviews 3, 4, and 5 tomorrow. Starts with an HR interview at 10:30. Should end around 5pm. Pretty exhausting.
Red flag #1 - More than two interviews -> Too many managers and not enough decision-making
Red flag #2 - SAP, Jira or Confluence
Red flag #3 - Everyone is fucking stupid
Red flag #2 - SAP, Jira or Confluence
Red flag #3 - Everyone is fucking stupid
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Haha they do use SAP. Not sure what their project management tool is, but Jira is not too terrible as far as those go.
Multi-stage interviews are the reality at this level of my career. Meet with the big boss (which i did last thursday), then meet with a panel of execs, then meet with people who are horizontal to you in the reporting structure.
I believe the HR interview is to strictly confirm i am human and can form sentences.
Multi-stage interviews are the reality at this level of my career. Meet with the big boss (which i did last thursday), then meet with a panel of execs, then meet with people who are horizontal to you in the reporting structure.
I believe the HR interview is to strictly confirm i am human and can form sentences.
Literally getting very angry with the shitness of SAP, the shit implementation, the shit training and support, the shit way its used in my company.
Layer after layer of shit piled on top of a 40 year old cobbled together relic.
We don't even use it intelligently or for what its intended.
"Oh you need to create a PDF file? OK manually type the information into 50+ SAP windows and if you're lucky it will produce a PDF you could have done in five minutes in Excel"
We have a vault server for storing relevant files, now we're creating a hotchpotch of storing files in the vault, in PDM, in SAP, in Sharefile and Sharepoint.
A whole new world of stupid.
Layer after layer of shit piled on top of a 40 year old cobbled together relic.
We don't even use it intelligently or for what its intended.
"Oh you need to create a PDF file? OK manually type the information into 50+ SAP windows and if you're lucky it will produce a PDF you could have done in five minutes in Excel"
We have a vault server for storing relevant files, now we're creating a hotchpotch of storing files in the vault, in PDM, in SAP, in Sharefile and Sharepoint.
A whole new world of stupid.
Fuck Israel
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My MAGA assistants may have annoying political views but the liberal Pakistani that I share a room with is driving me nuts. I would boot him instead of them.
The dude is autistic. Not horribly but noticable enough that he is up my ass instead of going off and doing other things when he is free.
He also does this annoying wincing thing
So there are 8 periods a day. I teach in the room for 5. He teaches for 3.
So we don't have to share the space actually. But the administration specifically asked me to help get him adjusted so they attached him to me for a period. Plus he doesn't go to his lunch so he is in the room for 2 periods that overlap with me.
And I really hate it because it is intruding on my space but I can't tell the man he needs to fuck off because they told him to stick with me.
The dude is autistic. Not horribly but noticable enough that he is up my ass instead of going off and doing other things when he is free.
He also does this annoying wincing thing
So there are 8 periods a day. I teach in the room for 5. He teaches for 3.
So we don't have to share the space actually. But the administration specifically asked me to help get him adjusted so they attached him to me for a period. Plus he doesn't go to his lunch so he is in the room for 2 periods that overlap with me.
And I really hate it because it is intruding on my space but I can't tell the man he needs to fuck off because they told him to stick with me.
can't he just hang out in the teacher's lounge and read a book while he doesn't have to be in class with you?
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He is a human version of Uzique's cat. He won't just fuck off.
He tried asking me questions about PD hours while I was doing homeroom. I had to tell him "I need to focus right now. Everything will be fine. But I need to focus bro."
He tried asking me questions about PD hours while I was doing homeroom. I had to tell him "I need to focus right now. Everything will be fine. But I need to focus bro."
ironically, and mystifyingly, the cat has actually been very well behaved for the last half a week.
it's like something has suddenly clicked and the thing no longer miaows at all in the mornings. it sits there as silent and inscrutable as the sphinx. perhaps it's planning my downfall in some new, advanced phase.
it's like something has suddenly clicked and the thing no longer miaows at all in the mornings. it sits there as silent and inscrutable as the sphinx. perhaps it's planning my downfall in some new, advanced phase.
Once they realise expending all that energy yields nothing they stop doing it.
All our cats have learned to sit quietly and blink slowly to get what they want.
That and they are plotting someone's downfall, and need to concentrate.
All our cats have learned to sit quietly and blink slowly to get what they want.
That and they are plotting someone's downfall, and need to concentrate.
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we also hosted my other half's mum and elder sister here over the weekend, staying on a large futon arrangement in the main room.
the cat pretty well spent the entire time frozen in fear behind a curtain, avoiding them (it was this way in her last place, too).
the cat hates people, even ones it's basically familiar with (it's met both of them before; the sister has even cared for it occasionally).
it was silent, in any case, which bodes well for when i have two bolshy roast beef brits come to stay next month.
the cat pretty well spent the entire time frozen in fear behind a curtain, avoiding them (it was this way in her last place, too).
the cat hates people, even ones it's basically familiar with (it's met both of them before; the sister has even cared for it occasionally).
it was silent, in any case, which bodes well for when i have two bolshy roast beef brits come to stay next month.
one more thing cats get accustomed to with frequency. i've never met store cat maladjust. cats in even semiregularly partying households are often highly chill and sociable.
animals are also a bit like dogs in how they seem to pick up on their persons' moods and various (un)intentional encouragements. probably not as much, but noticeably sometimes.
animals are also a bit like dogs in how they seem to pick up on their persons' moods and various (un)intentional encouragements. probably not as much, but noticeably sometimes.
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I went to my friend's house once and the cat was just sitting on the couch staring up at me while I bought marijuana.
It just looked so strange with big bulgy eyes just staring. I asked him if that was a real cat and he was like "Yeah, that's a cat." It just seemed so strange sitting there staring.
It just looked so strange with big bulgy eyes just staring. I asked him if that was a real cat and he was like "Yeah, that's a cat." It just seemed so strange sitting there staring.
Started a new job in January after 3 and a half years at a startup. Startup (as a company) went nowhere and the turnover was insane. They constantly tried to talk about how things were going to turn around any quarter now, while at the same time laying people off in droves. Typical startup crap.
Got out for a small time bank and it's... boring but steady.
Head of recruiting at a new startup messaged me and I'm moving forward with interviews because why not? I can turn them down if I ever get an offer. I looked online at the opening and it's at least a 50% raise over my current salary.
The problem isn't a startup and potentially getting laid off, that comes with every startup. The problem is the outlook of the country. If shit is going downhill fast, I should probably be at a bank, no? Weren't they the only people to do well in the 2021 era downturns with all the crazy home loans?
Got out for a small time bank and it's... boring but steady.
Head of recruiting at a new startup messaged me and I'm moving forward with interviews because why not? I can turn them down if I ever get an offer. I looked online at the opening and it's at least a 50% raise over my current salary.
The problem isn't a startup and potentially getting laid off, that comes with every startup. The problem is the outlook of the country. If shit is going downhill fast, I should probably be at a bank, no? Weren't they the only people to do well in the 2021 era downturns with all the crazy home loans?
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What does your wife say?
look on the brightside, it's a pretty uniquely american privilege to have this widespread culture of constant start-ups always giving you an 'out' from corporate drudgery. in europe and the UK those 'alternative' career paths barely exist. gubmint, regulation, taxation, etc. pretty well stamps out the whole entrepreneurial "ok, we will probably lay you off at short notice but you might also become a millionaire with stock options by 35" thing.
Next step should be to normalise the cat with visitors, as a personal growth objective for the cat and so its less clingy with your partner.uziq wrote:
we also hosted my other half's mum and elder sister here over the weekend, staying on a large futon arrangement in the main room.
the cat pretty well spent the entire time frozen in fear behind a curtain, avoiding them (it was this way in her last place, too).
the cat hates people, even ones it's basically familiar with (it's met both of them before; the sister has even cared for it occasionally).
it was silent, in any case, which bodes well for when i have two bolshy roast beef brits come to stay next month.
I think the process would be for a visitor to sit quietly with the cat for 5-10 minutes, then offer treats, eventually playtime, it would be a gradual process.
Usually after 5-10 minutes cats become curious and start interacting, more so if they can smell a treat.
The cat probably doesn't actively hate people, its scared of people.
Our last cat was generally scared of men, it used to attack me fairly forcefully until it accepted me as Uncle Playtime.
I've experienced a few cats which seem to instinctively shy away from men, a couple I knew had two cats from kittens which would not go near the man or any man.
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Usually a small core around the founder gets worthwhile stock options, everyone else is a disposable drone who is hired and fired.uziq wrote:
look on the brightside, it's a pretty uniquely american privilege to have this widespread culture of constant start-ups always giving you an 'out' from corporate drudgery. in europe and the UK those 'alternative' career paths barely exist. gubmint, regulation, taxation, etc. pretty well stamps out the whole entrepreneurial "ok, we will probably lay you off at short notice but you might also become a millionaire with stock options by 35" thing.
Manipulating the stock price to benefit founders and execs to the long term detriment of the company is a well practiced art now - its good this hasn't infected the UK too badly.
My current company is suffering the creeping cancer of Americanisation, the exec team is steadily being replaced by US-based execs when the US isn't even our biggest market and probably never will be.
If it floats on the US stock market I think thats the time to pull the pin, not interested in being screamed at to 'make the quarter' every quarter.
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i realise this trivial cat talk is spilling over into multiple threads now, but yeah ... it kind of blows my mind that she just lived with this thing for years and totally normalized it running under the bed whenever there was a knock at the door or she had a family member around to visit. even when we used to get back to her (old) place, the cat would be under the bed for the first 10 minutes until it was sufficiently safe/relaxed enough to come out. couple that with the constantly attached lifestyle, spending all day within arm's reach of one another, sleeping together, etc ... this was obviously a gigantic timebomb waiting to happen, the cat wasn't trained or encouraged to grow up at all, even by the standards of a permanently indoors apartment kitty. in retrospect the idea we could transition to living together and this cat would meld in with a new dynamic was laughable, she made absolutely no attempt to socialise it at all even with her own regularly visiting family members.Dilbert_X wrote:
Next step should be to normalise the cat with visitors, as a personal growth objective for the cat and so its less clingy with your partner.uziq wrote:
we also hosted my other half's mum and elder sister here over the weekend, staying on a large futon arrangement in the main room.
the cat pretty well spent the entire time frozen in fear behind a curtain, avoiding them (it was this way in her last place, too).
the cat hates people, even ones it's basically familiar with (it's met both of them before; the sister has even cared for it occasionally).
it was silent, in any case, which bodes well for when i have two bolshy roast beef brits come to stay next month.
I think the process would be for a visitor to sit quietly with the cat for 5-10 minutes, then offer treats, eventually playtime, it would be a gradual process.
Usually after 5-10 minutes cats become curious and start interacting, more so if they can smell a treat.
The cat probably doesn't actively hate people, its scared of people.
Our last cat was generally scared of men, it used to attack me fairly forcefully until it accepted me as Uncle Playtime.
I've experienced a few cats which seem to instinctively shy away from men, a couple I knew had two cats from kittens which would not go near the man or any man.
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in silicon valley/cambridge MA circles and 'forbes 30 under 30' grindset cultures, yeah, i can see a lot of cynical manipulation and even outright fraudulent behaviour. but it's still a fact that america has far less regulation and allows far more innovation (that is, priority given to capital and markets) than elsewhere.Dilbert_X wrote:
Usually a small core around the founder gets worthwhile stock options, everyone else is a disposable drone who is hired and fired.uziq wrote:
look on the brightside, it's a pretty uniquely american privilege to have this widespread culture of constant start-ups always giving you an 'out' from corporate drudgery. in europe and the UK those 'alternative' career paths barely exist. gubmint, regulation, taxation, etc. pretty well stamps out the whole entrepreneurial "ok, we will probably lay you off at short notice but you might also become a millionaire with stock options by 35" thing.
Manipulating the stock price to benefit founders and execs to the long term detriment of the company is a well practiced art now - its good this hasn't infected the UK too badly.
My current company is suffering the creeping cancer of Americanisation, the exec team is steadily being replaced by US-based execs when the US isn't even our biggest market and probably never will be.
If it floats on the US stock market I think thats the time to pull the pin, not interested in being screamed at to 'make the quarter' every quarter.
europeans get the social safety net, free creche for their children, and 2 months of every year off to drink cappucino in their walkable cities. americans get the corporate welfare safety net, where high-ambition, high-risk-taking individuals can dream of one day winning a raffle of gubmit contracts or tax subsidies that will make them paper billionaires.
Our current cat loves visitors, if the doorbell goes she's off like a rocket to see who it is.
Our neighbour died recently and my father found the body so the Police were in taking statements, the little horror was all over them.
Our neighbour died recently and my father found the body so the Police were in taking statements, the little horror was all over them.
Fuck Israel
Its utterly cynicaluziq wrote:
in silicon valley/cambridge MA circles and 'forbes 30 under 30' grindset cultures, yeah, i can see a lot of cynical manipulation and even outright fraudulent behaviour. but it's still a fact that america has far less regulation and allows far more innovation (that is, priority given to capital and markets) than elsewhere.
- Create product/company
- Complete IPO
- Strip cash as fast as possible
- Sayonara
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i can vouch for how rotten american business can be. mom & pop ops are downright tyrannical, and i pity the family that gets roped into it for basically free. in a larger company it feels like there can be some more padding between yourself and all those highly personal dramas, but people still scream at each other over the phone /macgettystockimage
"why is it my job to develop emotional resilience, you abusive, human pressure cooker? fuck you, pay me."
"why is it my job to develop emotional resilience, you abusive, human pressure cooker? fuck you, pay me."
Completely done with "You have to deliver so I can cash out my stock options and trash the company"
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jesus thats awful. hope the decomp wasn't too advanced.Dilbert_X wrote:
Our current cat loves visitors, if the doorbell goes she's off like a rocket to see who it is.
Our neighbour died recently and my father found the body so the Police were in taking statements, the little horror was all over them.
yeah but it's basically all downstream of the post-2008 world in which the venture capitalists and angel investors at the apex of the food chain have the best lines of credit and access to basically infinite amounts of lending at little risk, whereas ordinary salaried work and 'moving up the ladder' or being a 'company man' are laughable archaic remnants of a quaint fordist economy that will no longer even promise you a modest suburban lifestyle, and any sort of lending or speculation are comparably high-risk as you wait for the next mini-bubble to burst and to be left holding the bag with your variable rate mortgage or piffling retail stocks.Dilbert_X wrote:
Its utterly cynicaluziq wrote:
in silicon valley/cambridge MA circles and 'forbes 30 under 30' grindset cultures, yeah, i can see a lot of cynical manipulation and even outright fraudulent behaviour. but it's still a fact that america has far less regulation and allows far more innovation (that is, priority given to capital and markets) than elsewhere.
- Create product/company
- Complete IPO
- Strip cash as fast as possible
- Sayonara
young people are only following the incentives placed before them. wage slavery with ever depressing salaries, or get access to the inner sanctum of rich capitalists high on their own supply who will 'pump the numbers' and put you on the IPO -> mcclaren and spread in san diego pipeline.
'hard work' simply doesn't pay off. it's all performative 'grindset' culture now, 'working' 120 hours a week (poasting on X and discord) and sleeping on a beanbag at the office so your LLM wrapper AI puff-piece company can get to round 3 of its funding and you can finally reserve your own 8-figure slice of the proceedings.
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