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It’s a good thing when people leave for a place that suits them better. I would leave a team that made issues I don’t care about an important part of the job, but that doesn’t mean I think they’re doing anything wrong.
people who are marginalized don't have the luxury of putting it down the list of their priorities
Yes they do. High income tech worker are not oppressed in any meaningful way. It’s just a coincidence that they look similar to people who have real problems.
From the post she linked:
Basecamp should be a place where employees can come to work with colleagues of all backgrounds and political convictions without having to deal with heavy political or societal debates unconnected to that work.
I completely agree with this and it’s the kind of environment that I would prefer to work in.
The real story is the woman with beard emoji and two new ways to represent vaping
Never. Friendship comes from spending regular unstructured time with other people. It’s very hard to make real friends on purpose.
More proof that we should all be listening to Alex Jones.
What do you expect to see or hope to test for?
I think the idea is that financially secure people are more willing to speak their mind. Getting salary upfront means everyone has small scale “fuck you” money. The problem here is that most people don’t actually have a reason to care about their employer’s problems, so not speaking up is often just a strategy of least resistance.
It could be worse. You could be Canadian
It's obvious: you have a cultural problem, and you can't change people... so have to replace people.
This makes no sense at all. The government exists to serve those people who are getting replaced, so if you fix their problems by replacing them then nothing has actually been solved. You’re putting the importance of the government and the region over the people which is backwards.
Gamification will be rampant and will absorb people in to it.
When I see how much mundane grinding people are willing to do for video game rewards, it makes me wonder if status or cosmetics in a virtual world will ever be used in place of real compensation for work. Maybe as a gig economy thing? That would effectively give the world controllers the ability to create currency. Virtual economics are already huge and people work in them for fun.
The post is just trying to help people cope with knowing that they're behind. It's not a good approach to life.
Lip reading ASL is pretty tough
A foot rub isn’t a sex act? All conditional sex is rape. If the other person doesn’t enthusiastically and unconditionally consent, then it’s rape. This is obvious, and if you’re having a hard time getting it then you’re probably a sex offender.
Sex for money is coerced sex, which is also a form of rape.
People won’t complain in person if they’re looking at me from a bad angle or I’m standing near a window
I don’t know how to fix it, but there are countries where the problems don’t exist and we would be better off as part of them. The average Canadian home owner now makes significantly more money on the house they live in than they do from their job. It’s a completely broken country and I expect it to stop existing within my lifetime.
I’d love to believe this, but dev and IT people are not paid exceptionally well in most of the world. That says to me that the high salaries are a consequence of social structures and the current economy, not that the skills are super valuable. It’s proximity to money that actually matters.
Another screw up! The best thing that could ever happen in my life would be the Canadian government collapsing and the country getting annexed by the USA. Such an evil country. It’s so embarrassing to live here.
It’s easier to replace the word “white” with “Jewish” since the arguments about disproportionate wealth and representation will still hold. Everyone knows that’s wrong, so I don’t know why they think white is any better.
There’s nothing noble about giving your money away for free to middle men.
a dampening effect on agility, individual contribution, risk taking, etc. which is opposite of what you want for a software shop.
These are company problems and not employee problems. The employees have no incentive to care about this so unions are a way to get more power over the things that matter.
It’s slavery as a service. Great for saving costs because you only pay for the time that you actually use, and you can outsource the maintenance of the service to the provider.
If real slavery was still legal it wouldn’t even be used because the paycheque to paycheque employee model is so much more cost efficient.
Perhaps it stops at like $500k/yr?
It stops once somebody’s net worth is already so high that their annual income is irrelevant. Those are the real wealthy people.
$150k is not even enough to buy a small home near your workplace in a lot of cities. Janitors had better living conditions 50 years ago than $150k earners do today
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What's special about podcasts that makes them so much more offensive than music? There's lots of songs that are so much worse.
hard to fire bad performers
Why do you care about this as an employee? You get nothing when somebody else makes the company more money.
Food and housing is extremely cheap in America. Americans have an extremely low cost of living and low taxes compared to every other wealthy country. Also higher wages for similar jobs.
Wikipedia says 60%
Soon we will have physical DDOS by IoT monkey bot net. What a time to be alive