jvreagan

nstead I'd be much more impressed to have a "see ya in the afternoon, get some sleep" culture

I've led teams for over a decade that have oncall duties. One principle we have lived by is that if you are paged outside of hours, you take off the time you need to not hold a grudge against the team/company. Some people don't need it, some people take a day off, some people sleep in, some people cash in on their next vacation. To each their own according to their needs. Seems to work well.

We also swap out oncall in real time if, say, someone gets paged a couple nights in a row.

I would like to understand whether there are any states that even occasionally backs the employer in non-competes for the general layperson. In my experience, courts tend to side with someone who's willing to work over employers.

This is why non-competes are a joke in the US. Courts aren't going to enforce them. Almost every state has an industry where moving between companies, or starting companies to compete with existing companies, exist (midwest auto industry, New York financial industry, Texas energy, etc).

It's great that California is so explicit. I wish other states would follow suit. But the only times I've ever seen a court uphold a non-compete is for highly (8 figures) compensated employees.

Was going to find a place in here to comment on Together.

I remember spending $1500k on a professional license circa 1999, and still think it was the best money I've ever spent on an IDE. Incredibly powerful for large-scale systems, and made large-scale, readable-code development fast.

Baseball cards are in the same boat in terms of demand, although the prices for most are not increasing that much. At least in the last few months, and in certain areas of the country. I've gone from selling a few cards from my hall-of-famer collection per year to multiple people asking to pay for my entire collection. And people are asking whether I have football, basketball, and hockey cards. Which has literally never happened before.

Incredibly grateful for what Bezos has built. I learned more in my 6 years at Amazon that I have in my 20 other years in the industry. And Amazon gave my autistic spectrum son a chance when literally nobody else would.

Thank you, Jeff.

2016 also had open violent attacks on democratic process to certify president election, remember? Riots, destruction of property in November and December 2016? Calls for electoral college voters to switch their votes. Ring a bell?

Hilary Clinton used the term "stolen election" throughout the last four years, including 2020. That's not an input, it's an output. People - including the media - called Trump an illegitimate President for 4 years. That's not an input, it's an output. Perhaps you should be the one paying more attention instead of getting defensive when your hypocrisy is exposed.

You can try to spin it or rationalize it all you want, both sides are behaving the same.

You just described both sides.

Side a: 2016 US election was stolen. 2020 was fair and square. Side b: 2020 US election was stolen. 2016 election was fair and square.

Seems that there are a small number of people who think a) both elections were stolen or b) both elections were fair and square. They are being drowned out by sides a and b.

If you fit side a or b above, you might want to some logical thinking. Pretty simple to see the two sides are simply opposite sides of the same coin, both deeped in hypocrisy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFpYj0E-yb4

Old news. Been happening for decades, by design.

Prisoner firefighters in California are volunteers that opt in and receive significantly reduced sentences for their service and often end up working for Calfire upon release.

Up From Slavery by Booker T Washington. Teaches you anything is possible despite your circumstance. Thankful my kids have read it and taken it to heart. This should be a must read for anyone IMO.

More recently, Disparities and Discrimination by Thomas Sowell was a real eye opener for me.

Perhaps your assumption is flawed.

When I lived in King County Washington half the time my vote was sent back due to mismatching signature. Heard similar stories from others. Maybe it stops fraud, but the high false negative rate is egregious.

Thomas Sowell covers this exact topic in detail with data in his recent book Discrimination and Disparities. In summary, you are spot on and he explains why, using global and historical data. And why society is best served this way. In fact he says we shouldn’t be asking why there are differences in outcomes, but rather why would we expect outcomes to have even distribution among groups.

The book was even better :)

Jeff Bezos says this exact thing in a slightly different way: "If you don't listen to your customers, you will fail. If you only listen to your customers, you will fail."

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Same thing way back in the 80s. Only they would buy a small fruit (lime, lemon) for 10 cents with a 10 dollar stamp... then use the change to buy their liquor. And this was a middle class neighborhood.

Never saw stamps used for what they were supposed to be there for. Sad.

My eldest has chosen the CC route, started by graduating HS early and been taking CC classes in the spring and now summer. So far so good, and is really teaching him about where he wants to take his education.

Wish I would have done this 25+ years ago, as someone who does indeed feel like my college degree from a "Prestigious School" was not worth the time and money investment.

Ah, touche

Or, you could, you know, talk directly to your partner...

You are proving the OPs point: they are looking for people where "I don't know" is acceptable in collaborating with others, not for people where saying "I don't know" is considered a failure or humiliating. If someone is humiliated being asked a question they don't know the answer to, then they aren't a culture fit.

As Jeff Bezos says, the older he gets, the more he realizes he doesn't know.

Most people have no issue with saying "I don't know." I've worked with people that can't say "I don't know" - they are incredibly toxic.

And due to great income mobility in the US those 2 out of 5 Americans don't stay there long. Or they don't have to.

http://www.aei.org/publication/some-amazing-findings-on-inco...

As a Gen-Xer, I think that cynicism had its roots in both the 80s and 90s with the number of companies that left our parents out to dry with disappearing pensions and people doing the math to realize that Social Security was unsustainable and would be gone by the time we retire. And somehow our generation was expected to support all of society including the generation behind us.

I would postulate the opposite - I would have thought because we believe that neither companies nor the guvmint would be there to support us, we would have fended for ourselves better (I know that's how I personally took it, and many/most of my friends). But you might be right... sounds like an attitude of "ef it, we're doomed" set in.

If you are being passed on the right in the US then you are doing it wrong. Slower traffic keep right except to pass. By your definition, you're in the wrong lane.

Lane surfing happens in the US because people here don't understand how to drive on freeways. It is non-existent in Germany because drivers there know how to drive.

I used to live in Seattle, a perfect example of a city that has enough freeway but still has traffic jams because people drive cluelessly. Not just my opinion, but the opinion of traffic enforcement in Washington.

And people on their phones while driving just make the situation worse.

Exactly what I’ve done over the last 20 years. I FSBO and pay a lawyer by the hour at the doc signing. Not to mention I sell at a higher price than what realtors who try to land my business state I could sell for.

In the US a huge number of people (large enough to be dangerous) reject climate change consensus

You just proved the parent's point...

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then they want to cheat as much as legally possible on their taxes when they're grown up.

If it's legal, it isn't cheating...

Better yet, take the %age that goes to the recruiter and give it to the candidate. Seems like a better way to close new hires.