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I had to take that program in Switzerland, designed in the USA, which was telling me how I can date my coworkers even outside the company. It may be OK in the
by xiphias2 7y ago
I had to take that program in Switzerland, designed in the USA, which was telling me how I can date my coworkers even outside the company.
It may be OK in the US, but what it was asking from me was unconstitutional in Switzerland.
Of course I didn't say anyting, as I liked the job. A coworker of mine just clicked through the training without reading any of it.
Also diversity became the main topic (without being on the official agenda) of big cross-team meetings, so I learned not to go there, which meant that I didn't know after some time what other teams are doing.
- dundarious 7y agoI don't understand your first sentence. You were told you were allowed to date coworkers? Not allowed? You were told the manner in which you could date them?
- trianglem 7y agoWhy would talking about diversity in a cross team meeting cause you to dislike attending them?
- remarkEon 7y agoI would assume for the same reason that threads involving this topic on this website often devolve into flame wars.
- xiphias2 7y agoThink about a meeting of hundreds of people between 10 offices in the world who I will never in my life talk to/meet. They are boring for me anyways as a software engineer, as they don't discuss the engineering details, just everything on the product level. They don't help me in my job, but I would be there as a respect to other teams. But if the first 30 minutes is taken by the diversity without it being written in the official meeting agenda, that means a lack of respect from the company leadership. Actually Larry Page himself said years ago (before the diversity trainings) that if we think that a meeting is wasting our time from being productive, we're allowed to go away from it. For me the interesting meetings were about setting up production pipelines, fixing training-serving skew in the models (it's a huge problem for online training, when the training data is changing all the time), understanding the production setup of the deep learning pipeline, understanding the tradeoff, and planning capacity of the TPUs. But people in these meetings didn't talk about these for me hard problems.
- happytoexplain 7y ago>Also diversity became the main topic (without being on the official agenda) of big cross-team meetings, so I learned not to go there Did you omit something here? Surely if you feel a topic is taking more time at meetings than you think it deserves, the answer is not to stop attending cross-team meetings.
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- lostmsu 7y agoWhat exactly was unconstitutional?
- xiphias2 7y agoArt. 13 Right to privacy Every person has the right to privacy in their private and family life and in their home, and in relation to their mail and telecommunications.