nexxai posted:

Oh right, I forgot my again!

I was the Senior Cloud Analyst for our company, and so they sent me to Microsoft Ignite in November to learn even more DevOpsy stuff. While I was in Florida, I received 3(!!!) internal job offers (including one from my own team), each of which were super interesting. My existing position with more responsibility, DevSecOps engineer, and Solution Architect (the first in our company).

I took my time to think about them while I was gone, and when I got home, I settled on the Solution Architect position. I was also told by the Enterprise Architect I'd be reporting to that his 1 year vision is to be leaving the company, and so at that time, I'd become the Enterprise Architect and I'd be responsible for hiring a new Solution Architect.

I've never worked for a company that actually recognized talent within their own organization so I'm kind of beside myself at this point.

kensei posted:

My boss gave his notice on the 30th. They called and offered me his job on the 31st.

kensei posted:

My boss gave his notice on the 30th. They called and offered me his job on the 31st.

Nth Doctor posted:

What up, Ignite buddy?

nexxai posted:

whaddup

That was the first "real" conference I'd ever been to, and I'm not exaggerating when I say it was life-changing. Spending 8 hours a day just learning new stuff is like my utopia. I told my wife (half-joking, half-not) that I should say gently caress all 3 of the jobs and become a professional conference attendee.

kensei posted:

My boss gave his notice on the 30th. They called and offered me his job on the 31st.

quote:

E. Junior researchers

In many aspects of government, as in the tech world and investing, brains and temperament smash experience and seniority out of the park.

We want to hire some VERY clever young people either straight out of university or recently out with with extreme curiosity and capacity for hard work.

One of you will be a sort of personal assistant to me for a year — this will involve a mix of very interesting work and lots of uninteresting trivia that makes my life easier which you won’t enjoy. You will not have weekday date nights, you will sacrifice many weekends — frankly it will hard having a boy/girlfriend at all. It will be exhausting but interesting and if you cut it you will be involved in things at the age of ~21 that most people never see.

I don’t want confident public school bluffers. I want people who are much brighter than me who can work in an extreme environment. If you play office politics, you will be discovered and immediately binned.

ookiimarukochan posted:

Very senior UK government advisor just put up a job advert on his blog looking for "expert coders" who are "weirdos" if any of you are looking for a job right now (it's also an implicit acknowledgement that GDS is useless, which the goon who works there at a senior level and gets angry at me when I'm rude about them will love, I swear)

ookiimarukochan posted:

Very senior UK government advisor just put up a job advert on his blog looking for "expert coders" who are "weirdos" if any of you are looking for a job right now (it's also an implicit acknowledgement that GDS is useless, which the goon who works there at a senior level and gets angry at me when I'm rude about them will love, I swear)

quote:

People in SW1 talk a lot about ‘diversity’ but they rarely mean ‘true cognitive diversity’. They are usually babbling about ‘gender identity diversity blah blah’. What SW1 needs is not more drivel about ‘identity’ and ‘diversity’ from Oxbridge humanities graduates but more genuine cognitive diversity.

We need some true wild cards, artists, people who never went to university and fought their way out of an appalling hell hole, weirdos from William Gibson novels like that girl hired by Bigend as a brand ‘diviner’ who feels sick at the sight of Tommy Hilfiger or that Chinese-Cuban free runner from a crime family hired by the KGB. If you want to figure out what characters around Putin might do, or how international criminal gangs might exploit holes in our border security, you don’t want more Oxbridge English graduates who chat about Lacan at dinner parties with TV producers and spread fake news about fake news.

By definition I don’t really know what I’m looking for but I want people around No10 to be on the lookout for such people.

We need to figure out how to use such people better without asking them to conform to the horrors of ‘Human Resources’ (which also obviously need a bonfire).

Weedle posted:

This is the absolute worst job listing I have ever seen in my life.

quote:

One of the UK’s top employment lawyers described the post – which circumvented the usual Whitehall recruitment process and was peppered with the type of combative language Cummings has become known for – as “quite outrageous from an employment law perspective”.

“I am surprised the Cabinet secretary allowed this advert to go out,” said John Bowers QC, a leading employment barrister who also recalled what he described as Cummings’ “cavalier approach” last year when he sacked a young aide.

....

The head of Britain’s biggest civil servants’ union said that Cummings’ comment: “I’ll bin you within weeks if you don’t fit – don’t complain later because I made it clear now”, implied that he “wants to hire and fire at will” and revealed an anti-trade union mentality that would be “strenuously resisted”.
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A former head of the civil service, Lord Kerslake, cautioned Cummings against launching a “war” on the government service, warning that it cannot be changed overnight.
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“What I would guard against is getting into a war with the civil service where they get given the blame, if you like, for anything that doesn’t quite go right – it works a lot better if you deliver change with the grain of the civil service.”

TinTower posted:

Cummings and his ilk love wanking over the Northern working classes, but I bet they’ll take one look at my non-binary rear end and bin the application.

Shut up Meg posted:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jan/03/dominic-cummings-call-for-no-10-staff-may-break-employment-law


Land war in Asia, fighting with the civil service.

Shut up Meg posted:

'Work date nights and weekends with me. You won't have a boyfriend'

TinTower posted:

Cummings and his ilk love wanking over the Northern working classes, but I bet they’ll take one look at my non-binary rear end and bin the application.

Thanks Ants posted:

gently caress all governments hth

ookiimarukochan posted:

Very senior UK government advisor just put up a job advert on his blog looking for "expert coders" who are "weirdos" if any of you are looking for a job right now (it's also an implicit acknowledgement that GDS is useless, which the goon who works there at a senior level and gets angry at me when I'm rude about them will love, I swear)

Weedle posted:

This is the absolute worst job listing I have ever seen in my life.

sfwarlock posted:

nexxai posted:

I really did not want to be this angry on a Saturday

RFC2324 posted:

Its an old posting, its already been filled.

by a goon

Wibla posted:

Is he ok?

sfwarlock posted:

Dirt Road Junglist posted:

Me: is it the Rogue listing? Yup, it’s the Rogue listing.

Too bad, cuz their beers and public houses are drat good.

Weedle posted:

I’m generally opposed to capital punishment but that Rogue Ales guy should get the chair for selling beer brewed from his beard yeast.

RFC2324 posted:

I'd be fine with it(I think its pretty loving cool) if I felt confident they are keeping it separate and marked with giant neon labeling so no one can possibly drink it without knowing.

otoh, I dislike all rogue beers anyway so its probably poo poo

Inspector_666 posted:

The beer they use it in is pretty clearly labeled but like you said, Rogue makes bad beer anyway.