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721.
by pandaman 3y ago
Has anybody noticed requests for referrals from Indian students/fresh grads flooding Linkedin? Is this a caste thing? What kind of referral you can expect from a complete stranger other than "This person is of the right origin
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by pandaman 3y ago
I don't really see a point in complaining about street noise with open windows/doors. You can close them and if you had not been living in an apartment you could have ones that do not pass a lot of noise. Nobody said there is no s
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by pandaman 3y ago
5th floor? Sounds like you already live in high density housing.
724.
by pandaman 3y ago
>with the window facing back open just a crack That's your problem right there. I figure if I opened the window on the opposite side of the house and there were no wind, birds and insects I could easily hear traffic too. The differe
725.
by pandaman 3y ago
I am sitting in my house 100 feet away from a 4 lane divided street and don't hear a thing.
726.
by pandaman 3y ago
This is a claim from one of the militant urbanist YouTube channels. The method used to establish that was using a microphone next to a road. The issue is that people don't care about the noise on the street nearly as much as they do ab
727.
by pandaman 3y ago
It depends, makes a difference for me as I like to be aware of the surroundings. Seeing that some people drive while looking into their phones, I figure, it may not matter for everyone.
728.
by pandaman 3y ago
I am pretty sure IIHS is setting up lights according to the DOT regulations when they test. As the report says: "The low beams never exceeded glare limits". It's simple geometry - headlights at the same angle will intersect w
729.
by pandaman 3y ago
PTO accrual: you have a PTO balance, which you can spend as you wish and which is filled by a certain number of PTO hours each pay period. Mandatory 4 weeks: you have to take 4 weeks off each year. You cannot spend your PTO as you wish. In
730.
by pandaman 3y ago
It's not a bit higher up, it's quite a lot and makes a lot of difference in adverse weather (like getting water in your engine or not getting water in there and driving safely through a flash flood, for example). Also the visibili
731.
by pandaman 3y ago
Most states have rules against driving too slowly and impeding normal flow of traffic. Furthermore, most states have specific rules for bicycles and other slow vehicles to drive furthest to the right they can with exceptions allowed for lef
732.
by pandaman 3y ago
And this is exactly why people fight with unions. It's not just they don't give benefits, they enable people who think they know better than oneself what one needs. In the USSR they had mandatory daily calisthenics for workers, so
733.
by pandaman 3y ago
I am talking about my employment as a SWE in various private and public businesses in the US since it's the topic of this HN post. >I'd love for a $400k salary to be a condition too, but life is full of compromises. I simply ha
734.
by pandaman 3y ago
There are alternatives I listed, the choice is not between "unlimited time off" and "mandatory". "Unlimited time off" would probably stand beneath "use-it-or-lose-it" in my evaluation because with the
735.
by pandaman 3y ago
You are not selling unions very well: why would I want mandatory time off? If I want time off I will take it, my coworkers taking or not taking it does not concern me a single bit. More so, being forced to take time off is not a benefit for
736.
by pandaman 3y ago
In the recent tech layoffs, how do you figure the distribution of WFH employees was among those who were let go, higher or lower than average at the company? Also, with the office attendance being part of performance review in some companie
737.
by pandaman 3y ago
This is not weird at all if you ever tried to argue with the Left, making blatantly obvious false statements is their way to bait you into arguing semantics and accept the main narrative. E.g. in this case many went after the semantics of t
738.
by pandaman 3y ago
SSDI is not a short term, short term disability is a private insurance, usually provided as a benefit, but also available for purchase yourself.
739.
by pandaman 3y ago
"Sick days" means the company will pay you for that number of days missed being ill, if you are ill for longer then you will have to make a claim against your short term disability insurance and long term disability after that. So
740.
by pandaman 3y ago
So, if you actually respond with a number at some point and get an unexpected offer, then what happens? Don't you end in the same situation as somebody who just called the number first and got another offer afterwards? Do you set a har
741.
by pandaman 3y ago
>My strategy would be to not respond with a number to any offer until I have all of the offers I expect to get on the table (either that or those companies have told me definitely that they are not interested in going any further, so I c
742.
by pandaman 3y ago
Because you could use your offers against each other as a leverage, dropping any of the offers decreases your leverage. Most people want more leverage when negotiating, not less.
743.
by pandaman 3y ago
>That's not the same as saying you would refuse any offer for less. So you haven't answered the question I actually asked. The question is ambiguous, in some cases I stood on my number and would not take anything less, in other
744.
by pandaman 3y ago
>If you say 210, are you going to absolutely refuse any offer that's less than that? I, for one, tell the number, which if was given to me during negotiation would result in acceptance on my part. > You've already hypothesiz
745.
by pandaman 3y ago
If you had a handful of 230s you would not negotiate? That's quite rare, most companies optimize hiring for the most probable case, not for the outliers.
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by pandaman 3y ago
>Because you've now anchored the negotiation at 210 as the max, and he's going to try to get you for less because this is business. Why though? The manager has a budget, you are within the budget, getting into negotiation when
747.
by pandaman 3y ago
Because if you were an important hire you'd be impressed more when the comp was eventually pushed all the way to 250 from 200 than to 250 from 230. There is no advantage in offering you 225 or 230 at all.
748.
by pandaman 3y ago
You argument is essentially hanging on the assertion that the first number an employer would offer is also the maximum number it could offer. I know exactly one company that operated like that: they'd make the maximum offer and if yo
749.
by pandaman 3y ago
The sheriff's website just confirms that they had been released and not in jail.
750.
by pandaman 3y ago
Do you realize the stocks had such a rally also due to the massive, massive amount of government subsidy? The same "untrue" cost of borrowing drove them up just like all other assets, including the real estate.

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