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FMguru posted:on this most appropriate day, here is a good article about the bullshit that is the corporate "wellness" program (i.e. maintain perfect blood pressure, bmi, and glucose and also wear a company fitbit 24/7 or else we'll double your premiums) lmao @ boomers complaining about someone trying to improve their health.
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"I shouldn't have to pay more just because i don't manage my diabetus!! and i aint goin to no doctor cause they'll try to give me the autism!"
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Sep 3, 2019 17:06
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Shaggar posted:lmao @ boomers complaining about someone trying to improve their health.
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Sep 3, 2019 17:06
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so what. they're still better off than letting them lose their feet
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Sep 3, 2019 17:07
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lol that the country who doesn’t want the drat gubmint telling them what to do, is perfectly okay with their corporate overlords doing same
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Sep 3, 2019 17:11
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Turnquiet posted:google reached out to me. despite telling them that i think relocation to Silicon Valley on the verge of an economic collapse seems like a bad move they insisted that I have some conversations with the hiring manager, and since google doesn’t come knocking too often I decided to hear them out. I doubt whatever a L6 is in Sunnyvale could touch my qol presently, especially since I have a house, two kids and a dog, but part of me if curious about the process and if I am equal to it. are you able to work at a different campus? i wouldn’t move to the bay area even if my salary was doubled either. also equity is going to be half your total comp at google, so i wouldn’t just disregard the salary element outright
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jesus WEP posted:lol that the country who doesn’t want the drat gubmint telling them what to do, is perfectly okay with their corporate overlords doing same it would be a restriction of free speech if they can't make you tongue-polish their wingtips
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jesus WEP posted:lol that the country who doesn’t want the drat gubmint telling them what to do, is perfectly okay with their corporate overlords doing same THE FREE MARKET IS GOD THO
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Shaggar posted:lmao @ boomers complaining about someone trying to improve their health. quote:According to Wolford, it also “included private questions such as: How much sexual activity do you perform in a week? Is it vigorous?” Anyone who refused to participate was charged an additional $25 per month—up to a $300 yearly burden for workers who were often making less than $47,000 annually, the fifth-lowest salary rate for teachers in the country.
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jesus WEP posted:lol that the country who doesn’t want the drat gubmint telling them what to do, is perfectly okay with their corporate overlords doing same the government does this too. in Medicare/Medicaid they're called health risk assessments. they're critical to population management
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Sep 3, 2019 20:29
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Turnquiet posted:I doubt whatever a L6 is in Sunnyvale could touch my qol presently, especially since I have a house, two kids and a dog, but part of me if curious about the process and if I am equal to it. an L6 in Sunnyvale starts at around $500k total comp.
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Sep 3, 2019 20:44
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my wife is having to do the whole song and dance. the most promising one is significant pay bump, but a temporary 3 month term. i figure if she lands it, she can collect fat paychecks while looking for a real permanent job, as opposed to collecting zero dollars, apart from my disability checks otherwise. it just sucks, she’s been getting interviews and her specialty is very narrow. so there’s few other qualified people that even exist for these jobs. so they’re either ghosting her or just taking their sweet time. but if they’re ghosting her it makes me wonder who else they’re finding? it’s a very small hiring pool in that field and she has a solid resume with no red flags or black marks that i’m aware of.
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Shaggar posted:the government does this too. in Medicare/Medicaid they're called health risk assessments. they're critical to population management
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Sep 3, 2019 20:57
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The Management posted:an L6 in Sunnyvale starts at around $500k total comp. after accounting for taxes and other cost of living increases it's more like 6.4 figgies.
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jesus WEP posted:my government doesn’t do it, have you considered that your country is just very bad at this oh yeah cms fucks it up all the time and they don't actually do what they're supposed to with the data
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Sep 3, 2019 21:08
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I got enlightened as to how bullshit these programs were years ago when I didn't get my discount because I didn't improve my BMI (which was on the high end of normal) because I literally was too muscular
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Sep 3, 2019 22:54
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yeah lemme stop exercising you loving dipshits
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Trimson Grondag 3 posted:got knocked back for the role 
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Sep 3, 2019 23:12
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The only thing more useless than BMI is waist measurements as health datum. E: Besides my posting, obvs.
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Sep 3, 2019 23:20
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Captain Foo posted:I got enlightened as to how bullshit these programs were years ago when I didn't get my discount because I didn't improve my BMI (which was on the high end of normal) because I literally was too muscular wait, “normal range” doesn’t count? are eating disorders covered under the insurance? because that’s how you get eating disorders
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Sep 3, 2019 23:23
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Unless you get to sit in one of those water tanks a la Dragonball Z while they use the displacement to get a perfect measurement of your fat percentage, you're not getting a useful number.
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Sep 3, 2019 23:36
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hobbesmaster posted:wait, “normal range” doesn’t count? Oh just wait until "profits must go up every quarter, at an increasing rate" becomes a health idea!
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Sep 3, 2019 23:37
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Sep 3, 2019 23:40
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in retrospect I’m mostly sad that I don’t get to quit so that’s probably not ideal.
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Sep 3, 2019 23:42
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pathetic little tramp posted:Unless you get to sit in one of those water tanks a la Dragonball Z while they use the displacement to get a perfect measurement of your fat percentage, you're not getting a useful number.
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Sep 3, 2019 23:56
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ShadowHawk posted:Is this something you can just get done somewhere for a few dollars? I get wildly different body fat estimates from all the other inaccurate sources like those electrical current scales. Hydrostatic weighing isn't crazy expensive, usually less than 100 dollars, but I think the places that will do it are mostly in big cities across the country, about the same availability as a Dexascan, which is also pretty accurate. It's more finding a place and the time to do it. Hydrostatic weighing is an experience though. You have to expel all the air from your lungs, and then sit perfectly still while getting dunked underwater while you have to hold your breath - which you do not have now because you expelled all the air from your lungs.
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Sep 4, 2019 00:03
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The Management posted:an L6 in Sunnyvale starts at around $500k total comp. yeah, becoming a staff at google/facebook or principal at microsoft/amazon is $$$
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Sep 4, 2019 00:14
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don't you basically have to be part of a company they acquired to come in at that level?
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Sep 4, 2019 00:15
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does anybody here record their phone screens? back in march or so I installed an app on my phone called ACR, which has recorded about 30 or so phone screens since then. I think it would be really useful to listen to other people's experiences doing phone interviews
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Sep 4, 2019 03:58
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a question for the people who have done this more than me; ive been looking at job listings and found a few that look decent but they require "expert" level skills in a language i have no experience in. should i bother applying to them? i have 12 years experience in other languages and am pretty confident i could pick one up given a few weeks but im scared that i would go into an interview and get asked some basic language specific question and look like an idiot
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Sep 4, 2019 04:22
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apply to every position. if you are junior apply cio who cares. it’s their job to reject you.
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Kuvo posted:a question for the people who have done this more than me; ive been looking at job listings and found a few that look decent but they require "expert" level skills in a language i have no experience in. should i bother applying to them? i have 12 years experience in other languages and am pretty confident i could pick one up given a few weeks but im scared that i would go into an interview and get asked some basic language specific question and look like an idiot depends on what else they list and how closely that fits your non-language skills. if the role is like "low-level network programming BUT IN ERLANG" and you do low-level network programming in something else, gently caress it and apply, maybe do some practice/tutorial readthroughs if you get past the phone screen. if it's something that really and truly requires expert knowledge of a language (idk, writing a compiler for it or w/e), then reconsider, but most postings aren't that
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The Management posted:an L6 in Sunnyvale starts at around $500k total comp. maybe i gotta interview at the goog
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barkbell posted:apply to every position. if you are junior apply cio who cares. it’s their job to reject you. this happened to me once i thought i was interviewing for a team lead position turns out they wanted a replacement cio oops it got as far as interviews with the board before i was rejected
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florida lan posted:depends on what else they list and how closely that fits your non-language skills. if the role is like "low-level network programming BUT IN ERLANG" and you do low-level network programming in something else, gently caress it and apply, maybe do some practice/tutorial readthroughs if you get past the phone screen. one of the companies i was looking at has both a frontend js/react and backend python positions. my current job is full stack js/knockout/c# so maybe i can ask them to fit me where they think i would work better barkbell posted:apply to every position. if you are junior apply cio who cares. it’s their job to reject you. ya this makes sense. ill apply and see what happens. thanks
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Sep 4, 2019 05:42
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:this happened to me once a cio at a medium sized company probably has less assets under their control and can do less damage than a senior devops person at a large high tech enterprise
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Sep 4, 2019 05:45
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hobbesmaster posted:a cio at a medium sized company probably has less assets under their control and can do less damage than a senior devops person at a large high tech enterprise that is basically how the misunderstanding happened their purchasing budget was normal and in line with like, spending at other jobs i was qualified for... and there were like five direct reports... and the job description was written crappily turns out it was like a 500 person firm and what i thought was a team lead was actually appointed by, and reported to, the board of directors oops
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i am just a java dweeb who has sometimes dallied in purchasing i was totally unprepared to deal with like, board politics and poo poo
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Sep 4, 2019 06:31
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rofl are companies still using BMI as a useful metric for determining what your discount should be? amazing
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If using BMI means that less people will be eligible for discounts, then yes they will absolutely keep using that as a metric.
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