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by wreath 5y ago
Thanks for your detailed input! I've been around people who were fired in Germany as well, both as what you described in 1) and 2). 2) takes a lot of effort, a lot of people and the negative effect of that person's performance on
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by wreath 5y ago
But is that at the will of your direct boss or there is a process that they have to go through? Like, if for some reason I piss off my manager, they get mad and fire my ass on the spot? How common is this in tech companies?
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by wreath 5y ago
I never read this book. I bought it at some point in mid-2020 and it was too real, i had to put it down because it was making me angry.
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by wreath 5y ago
I see he is based in Berlin, Germany (according to his LinkedIn) where it's extremely hard to fire people (especially for reasons he mentioned in the post) once they are past the 6 months probation period. This smells like he is giving
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by wreath 5y ago
The author mentions firing people in almost every point. Is firing people in the US so easy that it is a go-to solution to solve these problems?
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by wreath 5y ago
(american) football __games__ feel like bigger than the most important games of other non-US sports, including soccer.
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by wreath 5y ago
I didn't have facebook for the last few years and I was wondering if I'd have to come back to it to be able to access local news/info. Never happened and never needed to. It's true though that in some countries that&#x27
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by wreath 5y ago
You misunderstood one of the two statements.
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by wreath 5y ago
How do I justify my career advancement as a non-privileged (according to woke standards) person w/o luck and the effort I put it to capitalize on that luck?
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by wreath 5y ago
I had the misfortune of interacting with what OP is calling "strong woman template" and they were as pleasant as any men with "tough guy" attitude. Rude, obnoxious, entitled, unkind, and always on edge. At least these ar
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by wreath 5y ago
> - Women, queer people, and minorities should be hired, treated, and paid the same as straight cis white men No they should not. They should be paid similar to someone with similar work experience, skills, potential and likability.
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by wreath 5y ago
Im really (negatively) surprised by an artist who is straight up against freedom of speech even if he disagrees with the content. We're in this weird place where we label anything we disagree with as disinformation. I'm a big fan
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by wreath 5y ago
Someone here on HN once mentioned that they cleaned or worked on their deck or whatever while working and nobody cared. I did the same (well, no deck but other stuff) when i had long stretches of downtime or notice that nobody else cares as
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by wreath 5y ago
My wife has this problem. I have a bit more tolerance. There is no else I try to convince to use such software. WAF is accurate but because I don't run it by someone else.
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by wreath 5y ago
That's not what I meant. When you are employed in tech and pay say 25% taxes, saving 1200 for a bad day (when you are unemployed and have to pay insurance yourself) is not so bad compared to when you pay 40 taxes.
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by wreath 5y ago
I think what you're talking about is not only shitty code but also poor design which is far more dangerous. Writing shitty code behind good design is a different story, and to my understanding, this is what the author describes.
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by wreath 5y ago
> You can solve that with occasional, in-person team meetups (a few times per year). Unfortunately this doesn't really cut it. There is a huge difference between the teams I worked in where we were all remote vs the ones where all o
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by wreath 5y ago
If you're not eligible for ALG II (so I guess your first year of unemployment), do you have to pay for insurance from your unemployment benefits?
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by wreath 5y ago
It's a huge difference when you compare absolute numbers for sure. But also there is a huge difference in taxes. You could argue 1200 is not so bad when you pay 25% taxes instead of 40% for example.
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by wreath 5y ago
> We're just colonised by massive US corporations which ship the profits back to the US (and avoid as much tax as they can!). We're colonized by the over-regulation that doesn't appreciate entrepreneurship and stifles inno
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by wreath 5y ago
Depends where in Europe. In Germany, if you lose your job you still have to pay for health insurance, at least the first three months until your unemployment kicks in (assuming you're eligible for it, like in most cases) and I don&#x27
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by wreath 5y ago
> And the ruling on broadcasting licenses for streamers was relaxed a lot, it's required if you had more than 20 000 viewers on average over the last 6 months, only very few german streamers are affected by that. That doesn't m
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by wreath 5y ago
> . But that's the tradeoff in Germany - it's restricting free speech to protect pro-democratic elements. Whether that works or not is going to be an important question in the next years. It's a tradeoff and before you kno
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by wreath 5y ago
and do you think if the stupid government shuts off Telegram, these groups will cease their activity and change their minds?
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by wreath 5y ago
Overcounting is equally lying too though, no? It makes the situation look worse than what it actually is, and potentially use that as a pretext for certain measures. Just say it as it is Bob!
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Europe Slowly Starts to Consider Treating Covid Like the Flu(bloomberg.com)
5 points by wreath 5y ago|1 comments
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by wreath 5y ago
It's kind of usual for the beginning of the year. But also a lot of people don't want to go back to the office and already relocated elsewhere during the pandemic. Where I currently work we're experiencing this as well, half
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by wreath 5y ago
What's different about it? Wasn't it already a long process where the company applies end of March, you get notified of your selection early April, if you are selected you can enter the US in October?
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by wreath 5y ago
> At least one job where I was a good fit seemed to auto-reject me. This has been my experience as well. I'm wondering if I were to select "i don't need sponsorship" would have changed things.
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Ask HN: Do US companies not sponsor visas anymore?
2 points by wreath 5y ago|7 comments

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