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by petsormeat 1y ago
Yes. Last full time software development job was in 2017, under the most abusive manager I've ever had in my 20+ years in tech. Took a full year out just for psychotherapy. Unfortunately, the subsequent years had me branded with that &
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by petsormeat 1y ago
The travails described in this post could just as well be my own, except that my career disintegration began in 2017 or so, soon after I turned 50. I've pursued every job search strategy this author lists, and encountered the same lack
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by petsormeat 2y ago
I‘ve found that the „high expectations“ were acutely stressful because they were concealed: there was no way to match them. This story wonderfully expresses the dread of trying to guess what’s expected of you by an employer. Yes, a middling
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by petsormeat 2y ago
This was a compelling story for me to read, after leaving a tech job so abusive that I didn’t work full-time for five years. When you envy the cashier at the minimart for their ostensibly more straightforward work day, it’s time to resign.
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by petsormeat 2y ago
I have lingering bitterness for the irresponsible New Math experiment in my elementary education. I couldn't tell time on an analog clock until I was 12, thanks to the blithe dismissal of "rote" multiplication tasks.
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by petsormeat 2y ago
It's disappointing that California's Bureau for Private and Post-Secondary Education (BPPE) continued to approve this boot camp. I thought the rationale for creating the bureau was to discourage scams in job training.
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by petsormeat 3y ago
There's a short book that covers this period of British computing history: Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing, by Mar Hicks. It's more history than sociology, though the
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by petsormeat 3y ago
The Conspirituality podcast episode "Coaches Coaching Coaches" discusses how the wholly unregulated "life coaching" trend operates very much like network marketing, and cons buyers with similar claims to freedom from wag
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by petsormeat 3y ago
There's a fascinating podcast series about this place, which goes more into depth about its problem with land sale fraud: https://www.npr.org/podcasts/890392491/california-city
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by petsormeat 3y ago
Of course it's the CxOs who tout their companies' onsite "culture"--they're not the ones crammed into open-plan, surveilled work stations, discouraged from leaving for non-work appointments, and subjected to mandato
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by petsormeat 3y ago
My parents had a similar experience in their idyllic exurb, where affluent retirees can afford lengthy home renovation projects. A neighbor's multi-car garage had noticeable traffic to and fro, on a country road in a small town where e
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by petsormeat 3y ago
This. The large numbers of Chinese citizens graduating from US, UK, and Australian universities will be more appealing hires for work in PRC.
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by petsormeat 3y ago
It's already difficult to attend California's public universities as a state resident; the more popular campuses prefer nonresidents/international students because they pay full price. No-tuition residents will be even less d
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by petsormeat 3y ago
There's an intriguing line in this article that I wish were explored further: what is the role of increasing liability and insurance costs in the withdrawal from public amenities?
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by petsormeat 3y ago
Glad to see this channel promoted (am not associated with it). What had been an entertaining hate-watch of stupid McMansions for overpriced sale is now an empathetic, disturbing examination of how Americans can abruptly fall into poverty on
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Technique turns maps of lost neighborhoods into possible VR landscapes(newatlas.com)
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by petsormeat 3y ago
And I wonder if this 1975 story inspired A Zed and Two Noughts ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Zed_&_Two_Noughts )
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by petsormeat 3y ago
If companies were truly desperate for developers, they'd strive to retain the older, experienced ones already in the business, who usually offer the benefit of uncomplicated legal status.
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by petsormeat 4y ago
It's great how the copy sustains the mood of nonsensical good cheer: "Life is rich and sweet and good and healthy like a warm, soothing, scented essential oils massage in a steamy hot~springs bath~house ~* Aspen, Alice, Alpine&quo
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by petsormeat 4y ago
Imagine refreshing FuckedCompany.com manually (no browser capacity for async fetch yet) to see which lavish VC-funded money laundering scheme in South of Market would now have tumbleweeds blowing past the empty Aeron chairs. This was my eve
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by petsormeat 4y ago
I spent my freshman year of high school in rural Kentucky. Many of my classmates lived on tobacco farms. We had a _student_ smoking lounge at school!
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by petsormeat 4y ago
I wonder how this tactic works with people in arranged marriages: for? Against?
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by petsormeat 4y ago
I still love this line in that source: ` var realStartupsThatAskedToBeRemoved `.......
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by petsormeat 4y ago
> why women often make the best spies for our times When I worked as a secretary, I was amazed at how unguarded men are in front of women in the workplace, particularly those of us in lower status roles. They seemed to think we had no ca
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by petsormeat 4y ago
Can't tell if this is snark, but gotta hand it to the Twitter Bootstrap project for making off-the-shelf CSS libraries acceptable.
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by petsormeat 4y ago
After twenty years of daily wine drinking, I woke up feeling terrible and looking worse, and just--quit. I was curious how things would proceed if I just didn't drink alcohol. I put a hash mark on my office whiteboard, and wondered how
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by petsormeat 4y ago
In some counties, this could lead to physical harm to those poll workers: https://archive.ph/fGn0r
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by petsormeat 4y ago
I have many coworkers with English as their next languages. I feel terrible for them when they use phrases like these, innocently assuming they're becoming more sophisticated in their usage of English.
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by petsormeat 4y ago
Private health insurance can be extremely expensive, especially if you have a chronic illness, or are over age 40. I buy my own as a freelancer; the monthly premiums for even a basic plan are extortionate. There are government subsidies for
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by petsormeat 4y ago
Walked outdoors in the sunshine.

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