Conditional morality is disgusting and unjustifiable

No nothing like that, they just offered the teeny tiniest little raises when we'd had 7+% inflation so our wages were effectively set back 2-3 years.

The ceo gave himself a $2 million bonus or something insane.

This is exactly why I'm so goddamn happy I'm in a union, we fought off the fucking cunts and won. Secured significantly better conditions and guaranteed raises for several thousand people all in one go. It was a pretty narrow vote though, they literally hired a guy to generate internal propaganda about how good getting a pay cut was going to be...

https://open.spotify.com/track/2XT9sIXc72K8XGVudX4Eln?si=77ikx2OdR3CzZjy9bxlwPQ

Given some of Intel's crap lately, meeting the bare minimum could be considered a big thing for them

There's an XKCD for that

Tech companies do something sane? Never.

Honestly I expect half the reason is the headlines

4080 performance at a brand new price!

It's less the interview itself I'm worried about and more the coding tests most companies expect you to complete these days.

I'm a great programmer and problem solver, but a coding interview is exactly the wrong setting to demonstrate those skills because of the way they limit your tools and time. I also don't really work in a way that they're expecting, in the past I've lucked into faking it for entry level positions but I'm in a much more senior role now so the expectations are much higher. My current job never required such a test but they're basically the standard now.

I'm done with my job.

I hate the company because I'm ethically opposed to the business model, I want to actually help people instead of building more efficient ways to steal money from small businesses and the families of dead clients. On-top of that our latest manager is the next in a line of increasingly intense micromanagers who keeps looking at our engagement scores and is basically making our jobs harder and more annoying in response, he can't work out why it's getting worse...

I want a new job, anything that lets me actually help people. Hard to do when you don't have any official qualifications, a disability and are neurodivergent so interviews are a nightmare.

Great news for them, now that coal is cleaner they can switch back and make even more progress!

It makes my day every single time I go riding through the city and I see cargo bikes. So many families are using them now, it's rare for me to make a trip to aldi and not see at least one cargo bike locked up.

Supposed to but doesn't really. I'm Australian and our governments at both state and federal levels have been slowly eroding the ability for smaller parties and independents to even join the race by restricting funding and labelling it a win for electoral fairness.

The voting system doesn't matter when fascists get control, they won't let it go not matter what.

EVIL STRINGBEAN!!!!

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We waste the two hours doing code reviews that only three people actually need to be present for, I always appreciate the chance to zone out and do something else for a big part of the day. Follow that with lunch and I've just done half a day's work by watching TV

Yeah exactly right? I've had Americans tell me that snakes and spiders are too scary, snakes will actively run from people (mostly) and spiders don't care about you they just want flies and stuff.

Meanwhile in NA you've got powerful prey species that will just randomly wander through town, not to mention all the gun violence in the USA...

Most dangerous thing here are the cars tbh.

I really really hate this narrative. Time and time again people tell me they would love to come to Australia but it's too dangerous.

This isn't a dangerous place, most of our wildlife is harmless and/or actively avoids people. It makes me so damn sad every time another friend tells me how deadly my home is, and even worse they refuse to listen to people who actually live here because they've been told Australia is dangerous their whole life.

Eat shit Albo, fucking biggest disappointment ever. So much potential from the supposedly left faction of Labor and we still cop shit like this.

That's fair, I just like windows and that's really all there is to it. I've had a few Linux installs in the past, but never really found an advantage to anything except compiling this one specific python library, but these days I can do that very easily running WSL, VS code SSH'd to my server or more recently a jupyter server that I can connect to from any device with a web browser.

Now macOS on the other hand, I absolutely despise. It was one of the first OS's I learnt to use back in primary school, and now that I have to use it for work I have absolutely no nice things to say. Unintuitive, missing basic features and slow to navigate, and I can assure you that none of this is due to unfamiliarity...