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pointsofdata posted:Just saw "the bulk of turnover is voluntary" as an hr response to a glassdoor review about high turnover way to drat with faint praise, hr "at least we're not having mass firings!"
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:the catch is that much of this is already true if you work a high-paying white collar job in the u.s. all of this is true :/
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pointsofdata posted:Just saw "the bulk of turnover is voluntary" as an hr response to a glassdoor review about high turnover the volunteering will continue until morale improves
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pointsofdata posted:Just saw "the bulk of turnover is voluntary" as an hr response to a glassdoor review about high turnover lomarf
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Someone should make a thread titled "poo poo people say on Glassdoor" where people post poo poo they've seen people say on Glassdoor. It'd be goldmined in minutes I bet.
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Nov 28, 2018 02:22
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:the catch is that much of this is already true if you work a high-paying white collar job in the u.s. i knew peeps who paid $160k/year all up for private school and day care and considered it cheap he was pretty up in the line of people for the  but you know, not freefree great schooling, pay $1.5 million for a home
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bob dobbs is dead posted:i knew peeps who paid $160k/year all up for private school and day care and considered it cheap paying for private school is a choice, it’s free by default in all 50 states also computer touchers tend to make a lot of money e.g. I don’t know too many people with daycare bills because they prefer to employ nannies
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Nov 28, 2018 05:16
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:paying for private school is a choice This does not seem like much of a choice in America. Okay free schools, but the best teachers get paid private, and the best students taught by the best teachers get scholarships.
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Nov 28, 2018 06:01
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qhat posted:This does not seem like much of a choice in America. Okay free schools, but the best teachers get paid private, and the best students taught by the best teachers get scholarships. private schools often pay much less than public, and have lesser credential requirements (hint: private schooling is almost never about education)
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if you only look at uppermost quintile households, you would conclude the u.s. has the best public education in the world. because kids in computer touchers income bracket households have great outcomes if you looked at only the bottom two quintile households, you would draw very different conclusions
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Nov 28, 2018 06:20
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:private schools often pay much less than public, and have lesser credential requirements That's weird to me. Well, in the UK at least, you get paid significantly more than public, and btw if you get paid public you get paid dogshit. We're talking £25k or less. Although I have teacher friends here in Canada and they get paid v.nice. UK though, as someone who had experienced both systems, private there is significantly augmented over public.
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oh I forgot you are a non-American yeah private schooling in America is nearly always about either race or religion.
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just my 0.02€ but making high figgies in the us under the current state of things seems like there is also a significant chance to have your high quality life ended by some desperate guy with a gun i mean it's not at brazil levels of armored corollas yet but uhh it does seem a lot like jit bull is correct and the figgies are mostly meant for ensuring that you get to life your life in safety without crippling medical debt etc. whilst in a more egalitarian country i just will not have to worry about this poo poo because for the most part the system is not rigged to churn people to poverty and desperation that said i will probably still accept an offer to work in SV or even the US in general because i come from eastern europe where you do not look a gift horse in the mouth
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:oh I forgot you are a non-American if you're sending your kids to philips academy, it's ostensibly about religion but mostly about turbocompetitiveness
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Penisface posted:just my 0.02€ but making high figgies in the us under the current state of things seems like there is also a significant chance to have your high quality life ended by some desperate guy with a gun yes, but the odds are that the desperate guy will be you (we have a high suicide rate in part because guns have a very high success rate. American men make a relatively normal number of attempts, but succeed more often than other countries)
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:yes, but the odds are that the desperate guy will be you a gun is a very effective tool for people looking to commit suicide, which is bad enough. the problem is that some of those people also avail themselves of its effectiveness in taking a few additional people along for the ride.
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:the catch is that much of this is already true if you work a high-paying white collar job in the u.s. i had a coworker in the bay area who got hantavirus at yosemite during that outbreak in 2012, they survived but as a complication they effectively couldn't use a computer anymore and left the company, im sure that threadbare safety net worked great for them once they needed it ultimately if you're gonna self insure by living and working in the US you basically need to already have 10 million in the bank disclaimer: im now living in NZ and earning over 3x the local median income in the sweden of the south (with better weather), seeing that happen to someone was a major factor in the move Progressive JPEG fucked around with this message at 19:26 on Nov 28, 2018 |
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Counterpoint: just don't get sick and continue to act like you'll never get sick. Once you have "enough" wealth leave to a better country before you get sick
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Janitor Prime posted:Counterpoint: just don't get sick and continue to act like you'll never get sick. Once you have "enough" wealth leave to a better country before you get sick this is basically my plan, yeah and hoping that if i'm wrong that health/long-term disability insurance doesn't gently caress me over (lol it will if i ever need it)
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Penisface posted:just my 0.02€ but making high figgies in the us under the current state of things seems like there is also a significant chance to have your high quality life ended by some desperate guy with a gun I mean my opinion should come with a grain of salt because I literally have ptsd from growing up in the ghetto and am mentally unable to accept my present financial situation yet somehow I spent 30k on airfare this year.
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Progressive JPEG posted:i had a coworker in the bay area who got hantavirus at yosemite during that outbreak in 2012, they survived but as a complication they effectively couldn't use a computer anymore and left the company, im sure that threadbare safety net worked great for them once they needed it every job I’ve ever had offered long term disability insurance, at 70-80% of final salary additionally this is one of the very few things covered by America’s threadbare social safety net — social security will chip in enough to keep you alive (you really, really want that group disability policy tho)
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foreigners get hella smug about American living conditions because they see poo poo in the news that poo poo is genuinely horrifying, but it happens to average Americans, not overpaid computer dweebs working a software job means money and comfort and safety, rivaling or exceeding conditions in every other country on earth
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unless your LTD plan decides not to pay out for whatever reason. SSDI is its own special ball of poo poo, being persistence-tested welfare for people who really really don’t want to work in addition to sometimes accidentally providing benefits to the disabled
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Janitor Prime posted:Counterpoint: just don't get sick and continue to act like you'll never get sick. Once you have "enough" wealth leave to a better country before you get sick the only health scenario I worry about is early retirement
if you are under 65, able bodied, and you retire, it’s a crap shoot private insurance markets are unhealthy and you might literally have to move across state lines to get reasonable healthcare
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Kevin Mitnick P.E. posted:unless your LTD plan decides not to pay out for whatever reason. SSDI is its own special ball of poo poo, being persistence-tested welfare for people who really really don’t want to work in addition to sometimes accidentally providing benefits to the disabled again, only a problem for poor people. computer touchers just pay a lawyer
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i cracked open my retirement today to the tune of $5k ($3.5k after withholding) since I don't expect short term disability to get through appeals before February assuming it pays at all of course, assuming me and doctor(s) can successfully justify it (assuming it deserves to be justified, being mere anxiety/depression/idkwtf anymore) Ciaphas fucked around with this message at 06:51 on Nov 29, 2018 |
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Nov 29, 2018 06:49
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Ciaphas posted:i cracked open my retirement today to the tune of $5k ($3.5k after withholding) since I don't expect short term disability to get through appeals before February you should probably talk to a lawyer if they denied your initial claim also, you should post in BFC to fix your budget because a few months out of work should not be driving you to crack open your 401k
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always assumed 10k ish would be enough since i have no home ownership/maintenance emergency concerns, live alone, never travel, try to keep the little spends in line (not always successfully, true), and hey, work's disability would be sure to keep me held up and it did, 'til my brain broke in the same year as my back and they said 'no way jose' on a second go at leave lovely lesson to have to learn under the circumstances but, well, hopefully i'll remember it if i get by 
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yeah this was a really bad way to learn that 10k is not an adequate emergency fund you should definitely talk to a lawyer btw. merely talking about your problem is free and only a lawyer can tell you whether they can help
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jit bull transpile posted:I mean my opinion should come with a grain of salt because I literally have ptsd from growing up in the ghetto and am mentally unable to accept my present financial situation yet somehow I spent 30k on airfare this year. 30k on airfare? $2500 per month on airfare? $575 a week on airfare? nice.
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Fiedler posted:30k on airfare? $2500 per month on airfare? $575 a week on airfare? a family member back home is fighting cancer and we've flown home a lot of times to take care of them. I'm physically too big to sit in coach because I'm a giant so we fly first. what I'm trying to say is that I might describe stuff in a crisis like manner but in reality I can afford to drop money like that but my ptsd keeps me from accepting the idea I have a stable and safe living situation. it's hosed up.
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:foreigners get hella smug about American living conditions because they see poo poo in the news i don't even think it's because i see poo poo in the news it's more like this jit bull transpile posted:what I'm trying to say is that I might describe stuff in a crisis like manner but in reality I can afford to drop money like that but my ptsd keeps me from accepting the idea I have a stable and safe living situation. it's hosed up. i don't have any diagnosed ptsd nor would i say i grew up in a ghetto but still having grown up in post soviet 90s and living in japan now i feel the way i like living my life doesn't fit - it's some accident of fate i got this computers gig and i better not get too greedy unless i fall off the train (or tech stops being a well paid sector) and then i end up back at square 1 with an unsustainable lifestyle it's probably the same thing which gives some billionaire's kid the confidence to walk up on stage selling a juicer that they really actually do believe they are saving the world with, except the opposite
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jit bull transpile posted:physically too big to sit in coach doesn't stop the people I get stuck next to
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:working a software job means money and comfort and safety, rivaling or exceeding conditions in every other country on earth agreed. im a loving idiot and i scrooge mcduck my way through life without ever caring about my bank account balance or consequences of my financial actions. it owns, but it's def not fair.
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got a call from a recruiter this morning!! it was the same recruiter who called me a week and a half ago, she didn't even know we had previously spoken and (again) offered me jobs i'm unqualified and anti-interested in just kills my will to even fuckin try, this sort of thing. "finally, someone looked at my resume and saw something good to discu--oh"
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should probably just give up on this anxiety treatment and go back to work tbh
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Ciaphas posted:got a call from a recruiter this morning!! Hey Ciaphas, have you considered applying outside your country? A few years ago when I was looking for a job, I expanded my search and started applying to jobs in contries like Germany, Finland, Sweden and the Netherlands to keep myself busy. I got quite a few phone screens and managed to land 2 job offers from Germany! Ultimately I took a job at Amazon in Seattle, but still it was nice and refreshing to have all these other places to apply to.
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I haven't, but i'm bound to admit that's more out of fear of the unknown than anything else--even realizing Las Vegas area wasn't gonna cut it alone took me way too long to admit  i'll keep that in mind when i'm ready to try again today/tomorrow
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Ciaphas posted:should probably just give up on this anxiety treatment and NOPE
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