elmo-shrugged

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by elmo-shrugged 10d ago
I've been at U.S. companies that paid lip service to this flexible sort of coverage, but once you are actually useful in the dept you're in, your boss never wants to let you go because upper management didn't build in the red
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by elmo-shrugged 17d ago
that's a cool perspective, thanks for sharing. totally makes sense that if you've internalized "bad stuff happens to me", you'd see your successful status as more precarious and not want to change anything, even for
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by elmo-shrugged 1mo ago
yes - this is what people are doing in my workplace, unfortunately. you can write the most concise and effective documentation possible for a feature of some complexity, and people will still be asking their chatbot to make a soundbite out
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by elmo-shrugged 1mo ago
if they didn't rtfm they are not being respectful of your time. unless you are literally first-day brand new, you should not be approaching a mentor for help getting unstuck without an answer ready for "what have you tried?"
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by elmo-shrugged 2mo ago
thankfully, the discover feed can be unpinned to hide it unless you go look for it. it was horrid for me too.
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by elmo-shrugged 2mo ago
honest question - did that cliche ever apply to women? or non-white people? i'm well aware of the stereotype but 100% of the time, seen it as a scrubby white guy in a hoodie.
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by elmo-shrugged 2mo ago
Give subjects a chopstick for each hand and say you have to hold one end and type with the other, and then test recall/understanding? That could be interesting
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by elmo-shrugged 2mo ago
"What you want to get better at" can turn into "what they can do for you", though. Like if a conference or training course would help you start or improve on your goal, and they can approve you to get it paid for.