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by JBlue42 4y ago
Supposedly, these are always survey questions for EEO research. You don't have to answer them as an applicant. Here's a decent breakdown: https://attorneyatlawmagazine.com/public-articles/employment... It&#x2
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by JBlue42 4y ago
You might 'enjoy' this: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/dec/16/self-checko...
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by JBlue42 4y ago
I didn't think what happened with Southwest could get so bad but my last flight with them was in 2021. Post-early COVID, it was pretty obvious every airline was struggling with reduced and/or ill staff. I flew from the East Coast
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by JBlue42 4y ago
You're getting a few saucy replies but it does work and you don't even need a physical letter. Find the "Our Leaders", "Our Corporate Team" section of a companies website, drill-down to the best fit, send an em
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by JBlue42 4y ago
Agree with those mentioning seeing a therapist but, until then, here are some books that have helped me and were written by practicing therapists. "Living an Examined Life: Wisdom for the Second Half of the Journey" - James Hollis
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by JBlue42 4y ago
It's interesting how we have decades of knowledge and experience that sales people typically blow smoke up the execs you-know-what and fail to deliver to various degrees yet those execs are still gung-ho on implementing expensive &#x27
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by JBlue42 4y ago
>I have a strong belief that technical skills aren't as important as the ability to be a suck-up in most mega-corps. Hasn't it always been this way at organizations, tech or not? Not even suck ups but people that don't cau
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by JBlue42 4y ago
I feel like pc86 was just being straightforward about how those decisions are made. They can speak for themselves though. When I was part of a mass lay-off, it was big enough to trigger CA state law where they had to detail everything. You
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by JBlue42 4y ago
I've enjoyed reading books by James Hollis, a Jungian psychologist. These two are approachable. Read the description of each and check out whichever speaks most to you as they cover some similar territory. - What Matters Most: Living a
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by JBlue42 4y ago
Move or ask local candidates what they're willing to do to address the issue. Usually it takes something bad happening. I also don't think a lot of the changes people want will be coming to US cities as quickly as they hope. I&#x2
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by JBlue42 4y ago
The difference is that at Netflix someone who isn't keeping up will not be subjected to a 1+ year long process driven by HR before they are eventually fired. Instead they will be given specific time by their manager and if the problem
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Ask HN: “Managing Up” – Working with the C-level
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by JBlue42 5y ago
Thanks for the explanation.
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by JBlue42 5y ago
You never know. While working in an ITAM role, I've had a manager point out a line item asking why we need 30 DisplayPort cables. This was in an org with multiple sites, 2000+ employees, using dual monitor setups both in house and remo
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by JBlue42 5y ago
>* A merchant account and Spreedly for payments Can you explain why you go this route instead of something like Stripe?
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by JBlue42 5y ago
>vertical farming and controlled environments! Curious what this involves for you. Are you in an urban, rural, exurb, etc area? What are you growing?
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by JBlue42 5y ago
Both planned and unplanned. Get a bit of rain or light wind in LA and you'll see brownouts at the very least throughout the city. The past two years hasn't been so bad but previous to that the only place I had been with more frequ
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by JBlue42 5y ago
Yes, I should've brought up the newsletter as an additional resource. The $24 is still the 50% off price. I didn't have any issues dropping that amount on it despite being unemployed because I already knew you from your newsletter
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by JBlue42 5y ago
Agreed. It's 133 pages. Content is good for those like myself trying to answer "Where to start" with cloud stuff. Still cheaper than LinuxAcademy/ACloudGuru. If it leads to a six-figure career, a $24 investment is worth
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by JBlue42 5y ago
I had no idea. :(
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by JBlue42 5y ago
These are books or book series but can give you different pathways into whatever you're interested in. - Try graphic novel versions that intro you to philosophers / concepts. At LAPL, we have the "Introducing..." series[
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by JBlue42 5y ago
I also enjoyed Kaag's "Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are"
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by JBlue42 5y ago
Wish I could upvote this more. Just thinking back on that time and hearing from my parents about multiple middle-aged male members of their church committing suicide during that time. There were more than just economic effects for so many y
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by JBlue42 5y ago
If you use all Apple products (phone and laptop), you can set up Apple MDM on all of them. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204142 https://developer.apple.com/documentation/devicemanagement http
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by JBlue42 5y ago
>Angela Lansbury had me brainwashed decades ago Bedknobs and Broomsticks got you too... ;-)
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by JBlue42 5y ago
My anecdata is that the majority of times someone has gained access to a user's system somewhere that it has not been anything technical but purely social engineering. Whether that was a secretary at a medium-sized company or someone i
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by JBlue42 5y ago
Government, healthcare, many other industries that don't move as quickly for various reasons.
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by JBlue42 5y ago
It's worse (mentally, financially, socially) for the one getting laid off than for the company. Places that are used to high turnover already have systems in place to go through the whole process. In the US, the need to 'go along
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by JBlue42 5y ago
Umm...not quite. Most US states have at-will employment, so an employee can be fired for any reason, at any time, effective immediately. For an employee, the implied social contract is to give two weeks notice.
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by JBlue42 5y ago
I find it really interesting. I had a great manager at my last company. Very good people person, would read on his own time to try and improve himself, etc. He had also been in our department the longest - upper management was always coming

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