• chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    “We opened a position in response to feedback from the person whose former role you’re interviewing for.”

    “You increased staffing?”

    “No. We created an opening in response to their feedback.”

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    This would a funny question at my work.

    You want a change? Scope it and present at the sprint planning. If it makes sense it gets built.

    Happens multiple times every 2-3 weeks.

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      Everyone’s making jokes but if you’re serious they meant “stuttering”.

      Edit: per vocabulary.com

      If you’ve ever heard a young child stammer and trip over his words, you know what it means to stutter.

      Use the verb stutter when someone gets stuck on certain word sounds, either because she’s speaking too quickly or eagerly, or because she has an actual speech disorder, also called a stutter. The word itself is somewhat onomatopoeic — a word that sounds like what it means — with its repeated t sounds. Stutter is thought to be related to the Middle Low German word stoten, “to knock or strike against,” which is the way a stutterer’s words sometimes sound.

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      It’s when a person can’t spelt very good.

      Now I don’t want to fix the title.

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        Good on you for leaving it. Boosts engagement and eff em anyways.

        Also, I didn’t know titles could be edited. Is it not like Reddit in that way?

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          “engagement” only impacts a a couple of the sorting algorithms (active, and??) available here.

          Every part of a post can be edited here. But I agree with OP in standing by it once others have brought it up.

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      It behooves you to ask the interviewer some questions, too. It helps to give you an idea about whether or not you want to work there.

      There were definitely times when I had a bad interview, I still got the job, and I wished that I hadn’t. Don’t ignore warning signs because you’re desperate! Sometimes it’s better to have no job at all.

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        Not sure about you, but I don’t think having no job would be good for me.

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      7 hours ago

      If nobody ever questioned anything, nothing would ever change. Be the change you want to see, and stop shitting on people for actually standing up for something.

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      Thank you.

      People who post shit like this seem to think the streets are littered with such a rich variety of job offers that we can pick out the best ones like we’re shopping for avocados, completely oblivious to the fact that the vast, vast majority of us need a job right fucking now to survive, and are going to happily snag the first offer we get no matter what evil fuck it’s for.

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        I’ve been there, too. I ignored warning signs because I was desperate, and then wished I hadn’t later. Saying that you will accept any job that comes your way is a good route to getting fucked over.

        You might think that you need the money, but it really isn’t worth it when you lose your job a week later and your temp agency won’t answer your calls anymore. There are some crazy, toxic workplaces out there.

      • acargitz@lemmy.ca
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        Remember post COVID how people were quiet quitting and CEO’s were talking about how workers had too much power?

        I remember.

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          I think that was before mass firings because the CEOs think that the ai will save us or at least overworked employees will that have to save the company. Trying to apply for a tech job right is terrible.

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          If your argument is that this is good advice, mine is that it’s only good advice for someone who has the luxury of putting it into practice.

          Let me make sure my family has a home and won’t starve, and then I’ll happily join you on your quest to improve corporate culture.

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            No, my argument is that there is a class war and we’re losing it.

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              Attention, single moms working at McDonald’s: In case you were unaware, there is currently a class war going on, and according to this guy I was talking to on Lemmy, we’re losing, and it’s your fault because you chose feeding your kid over being a smart ass in the job interview.

              Edit: for those of you making yourselves mad over my little splash of reality here, kindly do the following once your breathing normalizes:

              1. Re-familiarize yourself with Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

              2. Examine your own life and circumstances and ask yourself if you’re truly the revolutionary you’re pretending to be right now.

              This post was never about class war. It’s bad interview advice and that’s it. Settle down.

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                You’re itching for a fight, when nobody started a fight with you. I am not saying whether this is good or bad advice. I am saying that the fact that this looks like bad advice is because we are losing the class war. I am saying that I remember a time when the balance of power was different, when we temporarily had the upper hand in the class struggle due to the COVID weirdness. During that time, people were actually doing things like quiet quitting, and strong-arming employers, and that in that environment advice like the one in the meme did not come off as bad advice.

                I’m describing a dynamic, not blaming workers. If I had anything to say to the «single moms wokring at McDonalds» (you did an instrumentalization there, like the «kids in Africa») that would be «hey, how can I help you folks unionize?».

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                It is about class warfare. Of course it is. You being bad capitalism by having kids and buying a house without a stable job sure sounds like a you problem. Maybe you should settle down and put some more job applications in?

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        You’re right. Better to lick the boot. Don’t even think about saying anything that might even be slightly uncomfortable, just accept what they let you have and be happy, right? Fuckin scab

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          If licking boots is the only thing keeping someone alive, maybe don’t berate them for licking boots. It must be really nice living rent free in your mom’s house but many of us have to choose between having jobs or being homeless

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        The “elite” don’t have any more power than what you give them. At the very least, shut the fuck up if the only thing you can think to say is negative, defeatist garbage.

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    “Employees were complaining about low morale. So we threw them a mandatory after work pizza party for team building! It was a real hit, almost everyone showed up!”

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    Your average hiring manager for IC level employees will have no insight into that.

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    I think we put in speed bumps a few years ago due to an employee complaint about speeding. I hate whoever suggested that. Not because people weren’t speeding/ riding tails, but now half the people drive 10 MPH going over 20 MPH speed bumps.

    In reality we’ve had a lot of good things due to suggestions over the years.

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      Speed bumps now are designed to make SUVs do 20. I don’t have an SUV, I can’t do 20 over them!

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        Meanwhile in my jeep, “what speedbumps?”

        It’s almost as if speedbumps are stupid. If they really wanted to address speeding traffic calming designs would have done it better and been prettier to look at.

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          You’re right. We should replace them with an automatic speed camera hooked up to automatic machine guns.

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            Seriously though, lane narrowing is more effective at speed reduction and traffic calming than speed bumps. Both, even, are better for particularly stubborn stretches of road.

            This does a much better job at reducing car speeds, and it is also vehicle size agnostic. People on SUVs feel far more threatened by narrowing lanes and will absolutely slow down. While they will plow through a speed bump because they can’t feel them with their emotional support tank’s suspension.