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by jrsj 4y ago
Your ability to negotiate a salary at all is a function of a diversity of salaries though. Limiting that in favor of more equal pay across the board means you’re more likely to be stuck getting paid what others are getting paid regardless o
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by jrsj 4y ago
In a simple poll like this though more complex topics won’t be on peoples minds, that’s a flaw in how this was conducted.
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by jrsj 4y ago
Very hard for me not to have this opinion now after working in a few different companies where half my coworkers seem to not be doing much more than jerking off all day and at best accomplishing a days worth of work in a week. How could any
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by jrsj 4y ago
This can’t be true imo because neither absolute could actually ever exist. There’s always elements of all of these things at play in various aspects of society. Despite being grouped & framed as polar opposites they can’t be mutually ex
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by jrsj 4y ago
It’s sort of a false binary where neither can actually exist, they’re just ideological terms. If you wanted to think about it in a simplified and overly broad way you could model it as a range of 0 to 1 where the actual reality can only eve
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by jrsj 4y ago
There’s definitely a sizable fringe community of fascists with outsized cultural influence online, but their line is more “fascism was good actually” than “real fascism hasn’t been tried yet”.
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by jrsj 4y ago
By accepting a compromise between the two, which seems like the only sane way to do it to me. Otherwise if you go too far in terms of solidarity you end up with totalitarianism (everything is the state & the state is everything)
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by jrsj 4y ago
It reads to me that the true intent is more in restriction competition and individualism more than it is promoting well-being and solidarity. I’m no fan of what they’re criticizing but you do have to consider what the alternative would be
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by jrsj 4y ago
“Neoliberalism” generally refers to the policy shifts under Reagan, Thatcher, etc. the “liberal” part of the word coming from the original sense of it and not the modern American version just meaning “left”.
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by jrsj 4y ago
There’s some gotchas with case sensitivity that I honestly can’t remember but I think it was related to some of the more C#-y bits. As for syntax it really is the .NET elements & the relative verbosity of common things you’d interact wi
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by jrsj 4y ago
(Not an aficionado) I feel like it is superior in many ways, but the syntax and case sensitivity have always been a barrier for me. It’s still worth it though when it’s the right tool. I don’t do Windows stuff often though so it’s always
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by jrsj 4y ago
From a sales standpoint alone no, but from a profitability standpoint definitely. A lot of time and money was poured into developing a game engine from the ground up that ultimately ended up not being very good and thankfully is being repla
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by jrsj 4y ago
When you zoom out a little it makes a lot of sense. FF15 and FF13 were both failures, company had serious financial issues before FF14 took off. Hopefully you will get to enjoy FF16, and making that game wouldn’t have been possible without
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by jrsj 4y ago
Constantine adopted a 7 day calendar a few years after adopting Christianity. Christians had already adopted that calendar from Jews.
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by jrsj 4y ago
They definitely didn’t invent it, but I would say it’s fair to give Christianity itself credit for converting Rome to a 7 day week & then most of the rest of the world after. It takes a religion with certain characteristics to accomplis
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by jrsj 4y ago
Difficult to do because when you want to do something like this there are a lot of tools that can be used to cover up for the behavior. There was a paper trail of “evidence” created that would give them a degree of protection. This particul
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by jrsj 4y ago
It usually starts as an HR initiative & then ERGs are created as a means of fulfilling goals set by the HR departments. I wouldn’t really characterize it as bottom up, although I’m sure there are plenty of companies where C suite &
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by jrsj 4y ago
For 2) corporations themselves may not be doing it with that in mind but when management consultants like McKinsey etc began pushing for this stuff I absolutely believe it was a consideration.
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by jrsj 4y ago
Had a similar experience visiting Texas and I’m looking forward to moving there myself soon.
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by jrsj 4y ago
They have a DE&I gun to the head of every hiring manager in the company so it doesn’t particularly matter what you’re applying for, there’s strong pressure to hire candidates that help meet HRs goals.
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by jrsj 4y ago
If anyone has seen Severance on Apple TV, the animosity fostered between the MDI and O&D departments is an excellent example of the strategy behind this last point. “Management isn’t taking advantage of you; it’s the person sitting next
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by jrsj 4y ago
I guess what I mean is that I believe this will become a political issue again & the backlash will be strong enough that cultural & media elites will no longer be able to maintain it.
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by jrsj 4y ago
I sat next to a guy who once complained that our new Pakistani CTO fired our black coworker for no reason (he was a top performer but was called “lazy”) and then proceeded to fire 3 Indians and only bring Pakistani candidates to the final r
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by jrsj 4y ago
This was really just a joke about how an old white guy could go “undercover” and become hireable again, I definitely wouldn’t recommend anyone actually do something like this.
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It didn’t take long after Silicon Valley was no longer on the air for the entire industry to become more absurd than its parody. I really don’t think any of this is sustainable either. Latinos in particular seem very opposed to this stuff &
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by jrsj 4y ago
I’m younger but from a similar background. I don’t have many opportunities available to me, and my family is going to be dependent on me financially when they can no longer work. It’s extremely stressful to have all of this hanging over my
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by jrsj 4y ago
This reads as very sarcastic but these policies are just as bad if not worse for Asian men as well at this point. It’s Asian men who are suing Harvard over it, not white men. And to be frank many women, Latinos, and others have expressed th
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by jrsj 4y ago
Sadly this would probably work. Bonus points if you tell people your pronouns are they/them, HR departments really can’t get enough of that.
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by jrsj 4y ago
I share these concerns as well, my advice to anyone that will listen is to save everything you can because this industry chews people up & spits them back out a lot faster than you would expect. And if you want longevity you had better
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by jrsj 4y ago
And still not much is being done to help them in practice. There’s a deep culture of classism in American corporations which these initiatives completely ignore, so the people who really need help and more opportunities don’t get much.

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