tiggybear

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by tiggybear 9y ago
I think the expectation that I have random projects that I'm passionate about to be more disrespectful of my time. I have to compete against an unknown, I don't know what the other people interviewing will be doing for their proje
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by tiggybear 9y ago
Just find the pharmaceuticals these greedy assholes are dependent on to stay alive, buy up the manufacturing rights, shut down production, and get rid of some of the world's problems. Could probably could get a kickstarter going, I&#x2
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by tiggybear 9y ago
Honestly, I think the socioeconomic status of your parents should be more heavily waited in "diversity" measures than skin color.
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by tiggybear 9y ago
it's about power
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by tiggybear 9y ago
>What is the reason to not get a salary accordingly to my seniority, expertise and work output? I've said this many times and will say it again, most people's salaries are more closely aligned with their leverage than their out
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by tiggybear 9y ago
If we had more equality, which would be a result of forcing all salary info to be public, you wouldn't have to worry as much about being robbed.
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by tiggybear 9y ago
Depends how you look at it. I think rich people are more likely to look out for each other. You can often see this in the way our laws work, if the middle and lower classes are screwed over it's a huge fight to bring justice. But if ri
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by tiggybear 9y ago
Your paid based on your leverage not how much your output is worth. If supply of workers with your skills goes up, your leverage to negotiate goes down and so does your wages. Labor does not get to share in economic growth, they get to spli
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by tiggybear 9y ago
Don't forget about the entitlements of the business owners. Many, many, many believe they are entitled to highly skilled and highly educated workers without paying them enough to afford the shittiest house/condo within an unreason
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by tiggybear 9y ago
Then quit supporting these companies by working for them! The elite have this country over a barrel, it sucks. All anyone that isn't rich can do is to choose to die before they will work for these companies. We've got tons of youn
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by tiggybear 9y ago
My friends that are residents in podunk Illinois are making 65k/year. It goes very far there. Yea, if you break down all their on call hours and shit, it's not very much hourly. But they still make more than most people in their s
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by tiggybear 9y ago
I don't think his basis for rejecting that premise is fair. That's like rejecting the premise that certain vegetables taste good to us because they are good for us! Our senses evolved to pick out things that are good for us.
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by tiggybear 9y ago
Actually we have known for a long time that most people's salaries are completely decoupled from the value they create. I've never seen anyone claim the opposite except for business owners and middle management. Everyone wages ar
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I watched my patients die of poverty for 40 years. It’s time for single-payer(washingtonpost.com)
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by tiggybear 9y ago
I mean Googlers tend to be highly socially conscious, independent-thinking, and financially secure employees, right? Seems like a perfect company to test some new tech collective bargaining attempts. What happens if 80% of googlers organize
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by tiggybear 9y ago
Do bad engineers not get fired?
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by tiggybear 9y ago
Sales can get a percent of the value they generate because they have more leverage than engineers. Plain and simple. They have direct relationships with customers and the value they bring in is easier to show. This line from the article was
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by tiggybear 9y ago
Work for yourself? Whenever we need to hit consultants for some work, we NEVER make them do technical exercises. We just trust their word. However, the people that want a steady paycheck are put through much more tedious tasks for less pay.
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by tiggybear 9y ago
Had a final interview over Skype once (they were supposed to fly me out - but I guess decided to be cheap at the last minute) and then they he me to do white board coding exercises in a google doc. It was a really sucky way to do an intervi
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by tiggybear 9y ago
Why is there no SJW outcry over this like there was for James Damore? Why are google employees not threatening to quit their jobs over this? Are the progressive employees at Google only progressive when it comes to gender?
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by tiggybear 9y ago
Im hesitant to even type this, but I've had similar thoughts. If a lot of gender is just a construct and our gender roles are rooted in a time when women were taught to be subservient to men, then it's highly possible that a lot o
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by tiggybear 9y ago
In my experience, no. I don't believe quality from a repetitive process has much to do with passion. I live in SoCal, the land of taco shops, and most are manned by wage slaves. I'm sure most are completely happy doing their job,
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by tiggybear 9y ago
I really, truly believe it is immoral to 'not care about money.' I really think all of this crap that employers shovel on us, care about the mission, changing the world, have passion for what you do every day, and take pride in tr
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by tiggybear 9y ago
This makes no sense to me. If an entrepreneur had 20+ clients over 10 years, does that make them unable to find a client that will work for them? The author likely has a different view of the purpose of employment compared to many.
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by tiggybear 9y ago
Last time I was interviewing for jobs I took the lowest of my 3 offers. There were several reasons for this, I will refer to the accepted offer as A and other offers as B and C. 1) Large corporation vs small corporation, offers B and C were
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by tiggybear 9y ago
Well what's the justification for the tax break? If it's "well, self-employed people are important so we should just throw money at them" then that's not a very good reason. Why not have them pay 0 taxes? While I&#x
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by tiggybear 9y ago
Shouldn't this be the case for most people? Increase leverage not output, or more ideally increase them both at the same time. Without more leverage you may not be able to extract the extra value you create with more output, but withou
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by tiggybear 9y ago
I think people just realize that employee pay is often never tied to how much value an employee provides, but rather how much leverage an employee has. This gets confusing as employers often view leverage as value, but it's a different
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by tiggybear 9y ago
The other day I was thinking about Uber Therapy, get a mini therapy session on the way to your destination!
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by tiggybear 9y ago
Hey, you're allowed to declare bankruptcy if things go wrong, not the end of the world! Now if you were locked into your home loan until you pay it off or die, then you probably have something to really be concerned about.

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