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Blocking the rideshares

31 points by r4um 8y ago

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practice9 8y ago
> a certain company Which one?
- modeless 8y ago
  It is Facebook. They've had congestion problems for a while now and she worked there until recently. Really annoying when writers do this kind of tiptoeing around a name. It's disrespectful to readers and accomplishes nothing.
  - sumedh 8y ago
    I dont know why I thought it would be Apple.
  - sadamznintern 8y ago
    Yeah, I agree. For such petty first world complaints especially - idk how long OPs tenure was but considering stock appreciation and how quickly they can get promoted she was probably pulling down $350k+ yearly and that’s being conservative. Like OP could buy a house - at my company I won’t be able to afford one for decades.
sadamznintern 8y ago
Unless something changed OP is an FB engineer. >My friends, you don't have to put up with this. You are in high demand. It is possible to "go back in time". Go seek your fortune on the open market. It's worth it. .... This might be the most bizarre sentence I’ve read all week. The privilege required to say this is absolutely astounding. I was at the campus in question a few months ago and did not get an offer. Am I just excluded from these conversations? Besides, it’s not like OP is including my current employer, which is orders of magnitude bigger in employee counts and significantly more frugal. I’m just at kind of a loss right now.
- jimbo999 8y ago
  it is a personal blog.. personal thoughts... based upon experience... don't conflate... your experience with ... their personal thoughts...
- firasd 8y ago
  Seems at least from social media discussion that people are less inclined to seek their fortune on the 'open market' nowadays, since Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft are paying so much, and startup equity has become even more of a gamble than usual given that companies are taking 10 years to IPO.
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- rjeli 8y ago
  > Am I just excluded from these conversations? Why do you think she's speaking to you? It's her blog.
  - sadamznintern 8y ago
    Usually blogs are for public consumption. OP ends it with a recommendation for everyone. It’s still incredibly elitist.
djrobstep 8y ago
> My friends, you don't have to put up with this. Actively making the world's attention spans, media and politics worse is one thing. But making me walk five minutes across a carpark to work? That's a bridge too far folks.
- deleted 8y ago
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- sgift 8y ago
  One thing affects other people, the other affects themselves. And why should anyone care about others? p.s.: /s
jimbo999 8y ago
g'luck devops ppl
- xref 8y ago
  is she a devops person?
- s09dfhks 8y ago
  why do you say that
jbob2000 8y ago
I flagged this because it's short and missing a lot of context. I'm sure there's something meaningful to be said about rideshare companies (I'm not even sure that's the main subject here), but I really have no idea what the author is going for.

31 points by r4um 8y ago

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practice9 8y ago

> a certain company Which one?

modeless 8y ago
It is Facebook. They've had congestion problems for a while now and she worked there until recently. Really annoying when writers do this kind of tiptoeing around a name. It's disrespectful to readers and accomplishes nothing.
- sumedh 8y ago
  I dont know why I thought it would be Apple.
- sadamznintern 8y ago
  Yeah, I agree. For such petty first world complaints especially - idk how long OPs tenure was but considering stock appreciation and how quickly they can get promoted she was probably pulling down $350k+ yearly and that’s being conservative. Like OP could buy a house - at my company I won’t be able to afford one for decades.

sadamznintern 8y ago

Unless something changed OP is an FB engineer. >My friends, you don't have to put up with this. You are in high demand. It is possible to "go back in time". Go seek your fortune on the open market. It's worth it. .... This might be the most bizarre sentence I’ve read all week. The privilege required to say this is absolutely astounding. I was at the campus in question a few months ago and did not get an offer. Am I just excluded from these conversations? Besides, it’s not like OP is including my current employer, which is orders of magnitude bigger in employee counts and significantly more frugal. I’m just at kind of a loss right now.

jimbo999 8y ago
it is a personal blog.. personal thoughts... based upon experience... don't conflate... your experience with ... their personal thoughts...
firasd 8y ago
Seems at least from social media discussion that people are less inclined to seek their fortune on the 'open market' nowadays, since Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft are paying so much, and startup equity has become even more of a gamble than usual given that companies are taking 10 years to IPO.
- deleted 8y ago
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rjeli 8y ago
> Am I just excluded from these conversations? Why do you think she's speaking to you? It's her blog.
- sadamznintern 8y ago
  Usually blogs are for public consumption. OP ends it with a recommendation for everyone. It’s still incredibly elitist.

djrobstep 8y ago

> My friends, you don't have to put up with this. Actively making the world's attention spans, media and politics worse is one thing. But making me walk five minutes across a carpark to work? That's a bridge too far folks.

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sgift 8y ago
One thing affects other people, the other affects themselves. And why should anyone care about others? p.s.: /s

jimbo999 8y ago

g'luck devops ppl

xref 8y ago
is she a devops person?
s09dfhks 8y ago
why do you say that

jbob2000 8y ago

I flagged this because it's short and missing a lot of context. I'm sure there's something meaningful to be said about rideshare companies (I'm not even sure that's the main subject here), but I really have no idea what the author is going for.