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by oofta-boofta 3y ago
> Does anyone know if this idea is one of those terrible ones or is genuinely feasible? They've done it India, a country notorious for red tape. Which begs the question: how long will it take California's bureaucratic ineptitud
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by oofta-boofta 3y ago
Good! A massive win for moving away from a throwaway society.
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by oofta-boofta 3y ago
Are banks pulling back on lending or are their customers pulling back on applying for credit? I think that's an important distinction, and I really believe it's the latter. Also note that US housing inventory is incredibly low at
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by oofta-boofta 3y ago
Anyone comparing sales/growth/general economic measurements from COVID until now is running a fool's errand. Compare metrics w/Fall of '19 and use the average from the past decade to really gain insight.
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by oofta-boofta 4y ago
> The racialization here is so silly. That's exactly the point: big tech's silly tokenization/racialization only provides superficial diversity. They almost exclusively hire people of means.
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by oofta-boofta 4y ago
I love how tech claims to love diversity among it's employees but then they snatch up the Asian, White, African American, etc, students who also just so happen to be all be wealthy and go to the best CS schools.
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by oofta-boofta 4y ago
Same, bought an M1 16" MBP w/the Max chip, basically all the best specs. Unless there's a titanic shift in performance I probably won't be buying any new laptops for a while.
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by oofta-boofta 4y ago
Your classist rant is dumb, bad, and so poorly thought out I don't even know where to begin other than possibly accusing you of being a shill bought and paid for Starbuck's PR team to astroturf anti-union sentiments. You sound lik
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by oofta-boofta 4y ago
You could just not have the expectation that people are robots who are the corporate definition of productive, 24/7.
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by oofta-boofta 4y ago
Whether or not you should be concerned is really dependent on where you sit in the industry. Former barista who did a 90-day bootcamp and trying to find a job? Oooof, good luck. Have a BS in Comp Sci and work on backend/distributed sys
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by oofta-boofta 4y ago
I think it doesn't nearly tell the story though, the tech market is highly stratified and specialized. Was there an over-hiring of sales people, hr, middle managers, and underqualified engineers? Yeah, definitely. I saw bartenders beco
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by oofta-boofta 4y ago
If you're a new grad or an intern applying for a "brand name" tech company, you're gonna have a rough time. There's lots of companies out there that pay well, offer far better wlb, and aren't nearly as "pi
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by oofta-boofta 4y ago
This was the most obtuse portion of the entire diatribe, and further cements my rather low opinion of Meta leadership; they have all the data in the world, but have no idea how to make proper conclusions from it.
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by oofta-boofta 4y ago
This just reinforces what I've been saying for years: seeking promotion is for chumps. You'll make far more money and advance far quicker from job-hopping between companies than you will trying to seek internal promotion. Google,
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by oofta-boofta 4y ago
"Did you see what she was wearing?"
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by oofta-boofta 4y ago
>Our findings reveal that when organizations hire employees from other, unhealthy organizations (those with a high prevalence of mental disorders), they “implant” depression, anxiety, and stress-related disorders into their workforces. E
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by oofta-boofta 4y ago
> People will crap on Google or Salesforce "why did you hire so much?" - but during the great resignation - what were they supposed to do? Gee, I dunno, maybe NOT double in size like Salesforce did? https://www.macro
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by oofta-boofta 4y ago
Because Starbucks corp owns the Starbucks brand, they're not going to let just anyone operate under that brand. Stop being obtuse.
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by oofta-boofta 4y ago
I don't think tech companies and "the market" even looked that far ahead.
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by oofta-boofta 4y ago
Whew boy you hit the nail on the head. Google just seems to be aimless at this point, and now with the layoffs (despite their immense profitability) they're going to have a much tougher time hiring and retaining top talent.
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by oofta-boofta 4y ago
It's mostly sales, hr, and lower level managers. Here's the number that I keep tossing around: in June of 2019, Microsoft had about 144k employees. In 2022, they had about 221k employees. They're laying off 10k, which still m
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by oofta-boofta 4y ago
The day I opened my own business and started doing C2C work was the day I was able to deal with the whole "red tape" thing. Burnout doesn't come from working hard, it comes from there being a dichotomy between the level of ef
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by oofta-boofta 4y ago
How much do you want to bet the employees working on this were apart of the anointed 12k that just got laid off
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by oofta-boofta 4y ago
Especially given the strong economic numbers that just came out, yeah I don't buy the "bad macro climate" argument anymore. It's really plain as day: these CEOs make some cuts of 5-15%, their stock price goes up. This is
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by oofta-boofta 4y ago
One of the best lessons I ever learned about the stock market, and economics in general, was that markets are a measure of human sentiment, NOT actual value. See: Richard Thaler.
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by oofta-boofta 4y ago
> Almost seems like they're sticking up their middle finger to "the man" for making them post pay ranges. Attempting to portray Netflix as anything else other than a conglomerate doing it's damnedest to pay as little