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by fatnoah 4y ago
Same. My neighborhood has lots of gas stoves, but no gas service. Nearly every house has propane for cooking and oil for heating.
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by fatnoah 4y ago
As a very frequent cook (with a high CFM vented range hood) I'm very excited to move to induction, but the main issues I had when checking a while ago was the lack of an ability to eyeball the level of heat and the lack of front contro
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by fatnoah 4y ago
> ...isn't the above quote just describing a ponzi scheme without using the word ponzi? It's definitely not a ponzi scheme. It's using money from new investors to pay existing customers vs. using money from new customers
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by fatnoah 4y ago
> ..and the CEO doesn't get to choose "less growth" with investors breathing down their necks. Investors in private and public businesses demand growth, so naturally executives will optimize for that. I'm currently a
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by fatnoah 4y ago
All I know is that I can be car #105 in line at Chick-fil-A and I'll get my food faster than being car #2 in line at McDonald's. Whatever they're doing is working.
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by fatnoah 4y ago
> and letting the manager know as a courtesy Yeah, I can see the new approval thing being a pain. As a manager, I've had no problem with long vacations as long as there's enough notice for the team to plan around it. Beyond t
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by fatnoah 4y ago
It's not wrong. You no longer have to be physically present to have your money stolen. It's safer for everyone.
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by fatnoah 4y ago
Is this 4 weeks total of vacation, or a single 4-week vacation. Most places I've worked have required some kind of approval for taking 4+ weeks off at once.
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by fatnoah 4y ago
In a bit of irony, when my last company did this, we all had a conspiracy theory that the goal was to reduce the cost of the layoff. As it turns out, there was a layoff a few months after the change, but the company paid out all of the PTO
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by fatnoah 4y ago
My previous company recently changed PTO policies, and the result was that it depended on your state. My memory is a little fuzzy, but it basically went something like: In some states, all PTO was immediately removed from the bank as of th
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by fatnoah 4y ago
I'm the weirdo that actually loves this. I always feel compelled to hoard limited resources, including vacation hours. I'd estimate that I take 100%-200% more time off when I have "unlimited" PTO. When I'm working
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by fatnoah 4y ago
As I mentioned on a related post, this information isn't especially useful without additional information. Salary range for a senior Engineering Manager at Google as $218k-$326k, but when all factors (joining bonus, joining equity, an
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by fatnoah 4y ago
I'd look into companies that are going to pay the most, which is why looking only at base could be bad. For example, a senior software engineering manager a couple years ago might see something like Amazon,FB, and Google base salaries
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by fatnoah 4y ago
I work in an industry (Tech) where stock-based compensation for senior folks like me is > 50% of my compensation, and in many cases, that's where the difference in pay arises. Having just the cash compensation made available isn&#x
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by fatnoah 4y ago
Nice, glad to hear it's a good package. I had only a 60 day warn period to find a new job, which was a bit stressful. Good luck!
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by fatnoah 4y ago
Interesting. Somewhere else in (this or another thread on HN) someone mentioned that their wife was affected and would have pay & benefits into March, and then 5 months severance after. My hope for folks affected (and, as a former SFDC
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by fatnoah 4y ago
FWIW, I was laid off earlier in the year, and was put on garden leave for 60 days. My vesting stopped immediately, even though I was still employed for 2 months.
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by fatnoah 4y ago
> You had to because you were studying for a specific exam, which you would fail if you only understood the deeper concepts but not specifics of the questions on that exam. I mostly operated that way on a class-by-class basis in grad sch
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by fatnoah 4y ago
I don't think the article's comparison with Denver is particularly fair. Looking at Denver's municipal website shows that they have a main fleet of 70 large plowers, and a smaller fleet of 26 4x4 plows which are used to crea
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by fatnoah 4y ago
The letter doesn't explicitly say (I'll way to hear from friends at CRM to get actual details) but their SEC filing mentions stock-based compensation as an associated cost of the layoffs, so it sounds like accelerated vesting migh
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by fatnoah 4y ago
>Completely random engineering layoffs are happening today My gut is telling me that the "randomness" is intentional to eliminate, minimize, and/or mask any potential bias in the process.
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by fatnoah 4y ago
Salesforce is giving a minimum of 5 months severance to affected people. That's not too shabby.
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by fatnoah 4y ago
This always gets me. Executive "responsibility" in cases like this is ballooning wealth as a result of the too-rapid growth, and then a further increase when the stock pops as a result of the layoff announcement. A stock gain of
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by fatnoah 4y ago
The quote below is from the email sent to employees, which was also filed with the SEC: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1108524/000110852423... > In the U.S., affected employees will receive a
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by fatnoah 4y ago
I didn't even bother because I figured the cash would be meaningless, and I've already got monitoring because my info was part of the OPM breach a while back where all of the same information plus my secret clearance background ch
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by fatnoah 4y ago
I had the cassette drive for my C64, and I remember just how amazingly long it took to load and save even the most trivial things.
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by fatnoah 4y ago
My parents got me a Commodore 64 when I was 8 years old. It was used, but came with a massive trove of software, including Gortek and the Microchips, which was an introduction to programming in Basic. I checked it out, and when I learned I
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by fatnoah 4y ago
I can attest to the pay cut being impactful. With a teen in private school, the cut means things will be comfortable, but we're dialing back eating out, canceling a planned trip to Europe, etc.
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by fatnoah 4y ago
In this case, the drop is literally 50% in W2 income, as I went from a public company with RSUs to a startup. In the previous job salary was higher and RSUs were a decent amount, even after stocks tanking. Startup equity is decent, but th
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by fatnoah 4y ago
It's too late to edit, but the US rate is $145/day, not $145/week. Mea culpa

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