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yeah, it was really obvious what they were doing when they exclusively promoted lovely javascript lern2code boot camps in underprivileged areas. A torrent of desperate candidates willing to work for basically minimum wage is great for them.
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Jonny 290 posted:i actually went from lease to month-to-month starting October 2019, because I was gearing up to relocate my fat rear end to the PNW with an approximate six month clock my old neighbour and his partner were really down on the luck and barely getting by and he won $15k on some kind of mini lottery and bought a moving truck and this was not long after the earthquakes decimated this town and he fuckkn made bank, ended up moving out of town onto a HUGE (acres and acres) section that even had an abandonded chicken tunnel that felt about half a km long anyway moving is the worst job in the world. he helped me when I moved out of my exes and all he asked in return was for me to take him out for a meal and a drink.
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Aug 21, 2023 21:03
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Jonny 290 posted:yeah, it was really obvious what they were doing when they exclusively promoted lovely javascript lern2code boot camps in underprivileged areas. A torrent of desperate candidates willing to work for basically minimum wage is great for them. the coding underclass
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Aug 21, 2023 21:03
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echinopsis posted:an abandonded chicken tunnel an abandoned what
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Aug 21, 2023 21:05
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As a boot camp graduate myself, there were basically three types of folks in my class... 1) College grads with non-CS degrees, looking to re-skill. 2) Folks with no degree but a mild-to-strong grasp of computers/programming. 3) Folks with no degree and a weak grasp of computers/programming. Our program was particularly good, with six months of 40-hour/week training and multiple major projects to complete (and thus have on our Github for employers to review). A few years out now, there have been basically three tracks we've fallen into... A) Working as actual devs (or SREs), making the deece figgies. B) Working in solution engineering/b2b "customer success"/other non-dev-but-technical roles, making acceptable figgies. C) Never got a tech job and doing blue collar work, now saddled with a five-figure loan they took out for the course (done through the boot camp's private loan partner, so not an actual student loan that qualified for any of the recent deferments). Folks from group 1 and 2 ended up with outcomes A and B (with more 2s as As and more 1s and Bs, surprisingly). Basically everyone from group 3 ended up with outcome C, though. As much as the boot camp touted their screening process and how they would only take students who were totally ready, it was clear that they let in a few people who clearly weren't really just to make their numbers. It's hard to say that it was completely predatory, though. I'm definitely in a much better career now because I went there. A buddy of mine was literally homeless when he went there but 6 years later makes a good enough living that he owns his own home and supports his stay-at-home spouse and their kid.
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Aug 21, 2023 21:09
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haveblue posted:an abandoned what oh like a big structure for hen farming
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Aug 21, 2023 21:13
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so not like a secret tunnel for chickens to use to get to work like the stonecutters have
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Aug 21, 2023 21:15
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I was thinking like the alameda-weehawken burrito tunnel but for tenders
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Aug 21, 2023 21:18
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think bigger, friend. whole roast chickens shot at relativistic speeds
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Aug 21, 2023 21:19
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echinopsis posted:anyway moving is the worst job in the world. i helped my best friend move when he and his wife bought their first house. we rented a van and spent two days going back and forth and we were both physically wrecked afterwards. they moved again in 2021, except now they were moving out of a bigger house and had three kids so there was 5x as much stuff. i was prepared to help again, but they ended up hiring a moving company who did the entire job in one morning and then went off to do another in the afternoon. it would have taken us a week and probably crippled both of us.
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Aug 21, 2023 21:20
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bob dobbs is dead posted:think bigger, friend. whole roast chickens shot at relativistic speeds Compromise: Whole raw chickens shot at just over the speed of sound, arriving fully-cooked via atmospheric friction.
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bob dobbs is dead posted:think bigger, friend. whole roast chickens shot at relativistic speeds if the airplanes survive that, they'll survive anything
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haveblue posted:I was thinking like the alameda-weehawken burrito tunnel
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Sweevo posted:i helped my best friend move when he and his wife bought their first house. we rented a van and spent two days going back and forth and we were both physically wrecked afterwards. they moved again in 2021, except now they were moving out of a bigger house and had three kids so there was 5x as much stuff. i was prepared to help again, but they ended up hiring a moving company who did the entire job in one morning and then went off to do another in the afternoon. it would have taken us a week and probably crippled both of us. ugh yeah. they might not be cheap but if you can afford it you’re saving yourself a lifetime of remorse never mind if something gets damaged it’s covered moving beds uostairs and then around corners?? pivoting?? gently caress that noise
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Aug 21, 2023 21:39
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echinopsis posted:anyway moving is the worst job in the world. he helped me when I moved out of my exes and all he asked in return was for me to take him out for a meal and a drink. That is a good dude; I hope you bought him more than that. Moving blows.
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Aug 21, 2023 21:51
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echinopsis posted:ugh yeah. they might not be cheap but if you can afford it you’re saving yourself a lifetime of remorse beds are easy because they come apart. sofas are the devil. their old house still has a scratch on the front door frame where we had to move a 300kg double recliner thought it.
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i think it’s unethical to ask your friends/family to help you move if you can afford movers in no other circumstance is demanding backbreaking physical labor with only pizza and beer as payment accepted, stop that poo poo
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Aug 21, 2023 21:57
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ive used movers the last three times I’ve moved and it’s worth every god drat penny still stressful as poo poo and loving sucks though (the packing)
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Aug 21, 2023 22:24
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Sweevo posted:sofas are the devil.
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Jonny 290 posted:i'm replacing my Ikea L sectional next week because i have a friend visiting and the cushions are blown out and i wanted a new couch anyways, and i have this exploding sense of dread centered around getting rid of this stinky huge hunk of poo poo already option a: invite a literal crazy person to your place from craigslist/fb marketplace to take it option b: chop it into tiny pieces and filter it out in your trash bit by bit like a shameful secret or a body you need to quietly dispose of
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well-read undead posted:option a: invite a literal crazy person to your place from craigslist/fb marketplace to take it option c: fire
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Aug 21, 2023 22:43
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last time i moved we were moving across country and uhaul decided reservations mean jack and poo poo and didnt have the right size, (or any size other than "comically small") and i spent 3 hours driving all over town and calling uhauls trying to get what i loving reserved months in advance, the day before said cross country move. eventually we got one that was like the next size down and we had to surprise downsize and got rid of like half our poo poo, including our dining room and living room, and my office desk (been working from home for years so it was large), in the span of a few hours. what a nightmare that was, ill never use uhaul again (i already didnt like them)
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Aug 21, 2023 22:46
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actually i hate that reservations mean jack poo poo these days, company can just tell you to go gently caress yourself on a whim but lol if you try and cancel a reservation 48 hours in advance
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Aug 21, 2023 22:48
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well-read undead posted:option b: chop it into tiny pieces and filter it out in your trash bit by bit like a shameful secret or a body you need to quietly dispose of there are five residences on our little weird block here and we share a 3 cubic meter dumpster which looks like this  and somehow three of the residents manage to buy entirely new living rooms every week and fill this motherfucker up fifteen minutes after it's emptied with old couches and TVs (somebody threw out a 40" 720p that only had vga and dvi in last week, wow) over and over again. How much furniture are you assholes buying like ive had to seriously race and beat them to the punch because my overflow trash can has a bag of kitchen trash with rotting chicken bones in it cause you threw an entire bed into it last week and i couldnt take out my trash
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tragedy of the commons
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infernal machines posted:tragedy of the commons my bedroom suburb of denver (Lakewood) has about 200k people and we have 52 trash companies. it's insane
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Aug 21, 2023 23:04
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texas power company shopping dynamics, but for rotting chicken bones and litter box scoops
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pickup here is managed by the city. they contracted it out to a third party years ago, but at least it's reliable and consistent and doesn't rely on whoever the landlord picks this is curbside though, if you have a dumpster like that i'm pretty sure you still have to contract directly, but there's only a couple companies that service downtown afaik
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Aug 21, 2023 23:21
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trash of the titans is one of my favorite simpsons episodes
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sounds like one of the neighbors has taken advantage of the dumpster capacity with a side hustle of taking away people's furniture
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Jonny 290 posted:and somehow three of the residents manage to buy entirely new living rooms every week and fill this motherfucker up fifteen minutes after it's emptied with old couches and TVs (somebody threw out a 40" 720p that only had vga and dvi in last week, wow) over and over again. How much furniture are you assholes buying could it just be randos pulling up and dumping their poo poo in the dumpster for free?
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Jonny 290 posted:there are five residences on our little weird block here and we share a 3 cubic meter dumpster my old apartment locked these bins in the "one half lid closed, the other half lid propped open one foot" position so people couldn't fill it with furniture. they also had a very nosy person living in the unit with the balcony overhanging the garbage area.
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Mr. Crow posted:last time i moved we were moving across country and uhaul decided reservations mean jack and poo poo and didnt have the right size, (or any size other than "comically small") and i spent 3 hours driving all over town and calling uhauls trying to get what i loving reserved months in advance, the day before said cross country move. eventually we got one that was like the next size down and we had to surprise downsize and got rid of like half our poo poo, including our dining room and living room, and my office desk (been working from home for years so it was large), in the span of a few hours. lol they're an oligopoly so good luck. Which leads to Mr. Crow posted:actually i hate that reservations mean jack poo poo these days, company can just tell you to go gently caress yourself on a whim but lol if you try and cancel a reservation 48 hours in advance Anything from moving trucks to airplane tickets to healthcare, you have to accept their terms or else, but their side of the deal is entirely fluid and subject to change beyond the last minute with no recourse.
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that's just the efficiency of capitalism 
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Eeyo posted:could it just be randos pulling up and dumping their poo poo in the dumpster for free? Naw, i got dvr poo poo its neighbors
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Jonny 290 posted:i'm replacing my Ikea L sectional next week because i have a friend visiting and the cushions are blown out and i wanted a new couch anyways, and i have this exploding sense of dread centered around getting rid of this stinky huge hunk of poo poo already saw it up, put it in the bathtub, and dissolve it with powerful chemicals. drain it down
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other than the smell it works great for unwanted furniture and political dissidents make sure you wear protective gloves
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fisting by many posted:my old apartment locked these bins in the "one half lid closed, the other half lid propped open one foot" position so people couldn't fill it with furniture. the friendly neighborhood branch of the communist party organizes trash services and waste pickup and It Just Works. i can bring whatever furniture or large crap down there and just place it in the designated zones and theyll handle it from there, and the dumpsters just downstairs are separated into metal, glass, paper, batteries, lightbulbs, or refuse
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fart simpson posted:the friendly neighborhood branch of the communist party organizes trash services and waste pickup and It Just Works. i can bring whatever furniture or large crap down there and just place it in the designated zones and theyll handle it from there, and the dumpsters just downstairs are separated into metal, glass, paper, batteries, lightbulbs, or refuse
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they have a food waste bin too but for some reason they only open it from like 5pm to 8pm every night and they have two ladies wearing red volunteer jackets who make sure you arent throwing any plastic bags or whatever in there and they ask your apartment number and write it down every time (idk why they do that part)
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