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Only when unemployed

soupfordummies 3y ago
Not necessarily, what about hourly workers or those that have to use PTO/sick day? I would consider burning a PTO day to be losing money.
postalrat 3y ago
You mean only when employed.
Arainach 3y ago
Time is money. Wasting a vacation day hurts too.
- shrimp_emoji 3y ago
  Time is money, friend.
Der_Einzige 3y ago
My petty revenge against amazon mistreating my partner when they worked there is to aggressively pursue onsite interviews with them. I refuse to do initial phone screens - a tactic which often works to go directly to onsite since amazon is clueless and desperate. I don't study for their stupid whiteboards and I don't study their stupid leadership principals. I on purpose refuse to use them during behavioral interviews (also refuse use the STAR method). I've had at least 5 full onsites like this. By my calculations, the wasted time and effort from amazon on myself was worth at least 100K given the number of highly paid engineers/managers who wasted their time interviewing me.
- tanseydavid 3y ago
  Move on friend, you are wasting a least a little bit of your creative energy.
  - Draiken 3y ago
    Maybe he's on the extreme side, but it's definitely better than not doing anything, like the rest of us.
    - vundercind 3y ago
      Beats collecting stamps or getting way into lawn care or something. This is basically public service work.
- CoastalCoder 3y ago
  I'm filled with a combination of respect and pity for you. But those emotions are dwarfed by Amazon-directed Schadenfreude. Well done, sir/madame.
lawlessone 3y ago
It's both really.
macksd 3y ago
Employed or unemployed, it's seems so offensive to me to not care about people's time. When I'm employed, I'm probably using a vacation day to talk to you. That's special time I would otherwise spend with my family and on not burning myself out. When I was not employed, I paid for the gas to drive 90 minutes each way and spent an entire day not looking at other opportunities to be hired or other ways to improve my resume, only to be told by the director that although I did very well in the interviews, they would be getting back to me in 3 months when they found out if their hiring freeze was over then, because at the present time the opening was not yet truly open. Have some respect for human beings, regardless of their employment status.

Not necessarily, what about hourly workers or those that have to use PTO/sick day? I would consider burning a PTO day to be losing money.

postalrat 3y ago

You mean only when employed.

Arainach 3y ago

Time is money. Wasting a vacation day hurts too.

shrimp_emoji 3y ago
Time is money, friend.

Der_Einzige 3y ago

My petty revenge against amazon mistreating my partner when they worked there is to aggressively pursue onsite interviews with them. I refuse to do initial phone screens - a tactic which often works to go directly to onsite since amazon is clueless and desperate. I don't study for their stupid whiteboards and I don't study their stupid leadership principals. I on purpose refuse to use them during behavioral interviews (also refuse use the STAR method). I've had at least 5 full onsites like this. By my calculations, the wasted time and effort from amazon on myself was worth at least 100K given the number of highly paid engineers/managers who wasted their time interviewing me.

tanseydavid 3y ago
Move on friend, you are wasting a least a little bit of your creative energy.
- Draiken 3y ago
  Maybe he's on the extreme side, but it's definitely better than not doing anything, like the rest of us.
  - vundercind 3y ago
    Beats collecting stamps or getting way into lawn care or something. This is basically public service work.
CoastalCoder 3y ago
I'm filled with a combination of respect and pity for you. But those emotions are dwarfed by Amazon-directed Schadenfreude. Well done, sir/madame.

lawlessone 3y ago

It's both really.

macksd 3y ago

Employed or unemployed, it's seems so offensive to me to not care about people's time. When I'm employed, I'm probably using a vacation day to talk to you. That's special time I would otherwise spend with my family and on not burning myself out. When I was not employed, I paid for the gas to drive 90 minutes each way and spent an entire day not looking at other opportunities to be hired or other ways to improve my resume, only to be told by the director that although I did very well in the interviews, they would be getting back to me in 3 months when they found out if their hiring freeze was over then, because at the present time the opening was not yet truly open. Have some respect for human beings, regardless of their employment status.