FlapYoJacks posted:

why is number angry today?

cat botherer posted:

I've got a PhD and 5 years high-level data science experience, and a lot of connections. I got laid off on the 3rd round and haven't found poo poo despite applying to about 500 jobs at this point. I almost got this one job but lost out because they said I was "too engineering-focused." They only asked me engineering questions, of course that's what I'll talk about.

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

Too many people got jobs and average pay increased too much. Labor must be disciplined.

net work error posted:

I will admit my initial guess that threads would do well was under the assumption that it would have basic features like chronological order.

RC Cola posted:

Has anyone who runs threads commented on the blowback from everyone wanting that basic feature? Or things like seeing the people you follow and not just influencers and grifters?

triple sulk posted:

for roughly 100 cold applications, i get 75 with no response, 20 automated rejections, 2-3 "already filled" or "position cancelled" emails, and 1-2 phone screens that maybe get a second interview half the time. recruiters are useless and don't understand anything they're hiring for. all of them straight up do not reply to messages on linkedin. i've had several hiring managers ghost me, some of whom who were the ones who reached out first.

referrals are non-existent now even when asking on various sources. i can get some interviews from cold applications which is better than a lot of people, but the bar is so high and opaque that you can't tell what they're hiring for, and the roles are never the exact same so you can only hope your specific experience is exactly what they want. most of the time they're not actually hiring hence all the ghost jobs.

Rochallor posted:

They want you to just see influencers and grifters.

Of all the twitter replacements out there, the only one I actually like is cohost, which is actually a pretty neat platform. Naturally, no one uses it. Threads is DOA, I don't understand how Mastodon works, and blusky is invite only and run by the same guy who flipped twitter to Elon in the first place.

FlapYoJacks posted:

why is number angry today?

Rochallor posted:

They want you to just see influencers and grifters.

Of all the twitter replacements out there, the only one I actually like is cohost, which is actually a pretty neat platform. Naturally, no one uses it. Threads is DOA, I don't understand how Mastodon works, and blusky is invite only and run by the same guy who flipped twitter to Elon in the first place.

Nonsense posted:

Rochallor posted:

They want you to just see influencers and grifters.

Of all the twitter replacements out there, the only one I actually like is cohost, which is actually a pretty neat platform. Naturally, no one uses it. Threads is DOA, I don't understand how Mastodon works, and blusky is invite only and run by the same guy who flipped twitter to Elon in the first place.

shrike82 posted:

https://twitter.com/unusual_whales/status/1676948203751759872?s=20

alarumklok posted:

both parties are great for the economy, because crushing the poor into a fine paste and using them as ink for dollar bills is good for the economy

Nonsense posted:

shrike82 posted:

https://twitter.com/unusual_whales/status/1676948203751759872?s=20

Nonsense posted:

SardonicTyrant posted:

Cool, can I have one?

gradenko_2000 posted:

it's difficult for me to believe the official line from Bluesky that they need to keep gatekeeping registrations because they don't have enough infrastructure available to support an influx of users. Part of the whole "cloud computing" concept is that you should be able to deploy large-scale projects very quickly.

DancingShade posted:

Cloud computing might have meant something originally but these days it just means "someone else's server rack".

HallelujahLee posted:

they never ever go much deeper into these jobs added because im going to guess like 95% of them are temporary or garbage jobs

xiaoren posted:

All else equal, doesn't more productive workers mean less workers, though?

HallelujahLee posted:

they never ever go much deeper into these jobs added because im going to guess like 95% of them are temporary or garbage jobs

anime was right posted:

or fake jobs to project growth/internal hires only that are posted externally

Shear Modulus posted:

Atjack has like a bazillion dollars from selling versioj 1.0 to elon though

Saltpowered posted:

I absolutely don’t want to give it to companies but Bernie’s thesis there isn’t company accurate. Many companies do pursue automation for job replacement but some, even incredibly lovely ones, often pursue automation for reasons other than job elimination.

I used to work for a complete dogshit company in most every way who was pursuing RPA (robotic process automation) in their factories but not to fully eliminate jobs. They had put RPA in their factories as an augmentation to existing works specific for very repetitive tasks that could injure works over time or dangerous tasks.

They were able to increase production rate in the areas they added RPA because automating these tasks meant the employee doing them could work faster safely. So there was definitely a capital driven motivation but they had realized that it was more effective to use automation to increase productivity than eliminate jobs. You can argue that instead of automation you could have hired more people but those people would be specifically doing jobs that were inherently very dangerous or could cause serious longterm injury.

I have some other examples from the software space where automation was pursue for additional governance or accuracy rather than job elimination. This isn’t to say these companies respect their workers or wouldn’t separately pursue automation as elimination. I’ve definitely seen the same companies pursue RPA to eliminate roles as well.

My only point is not all automation is solely for the elimination of jobs and some is even to the benefit of the worker (as a side effect). Bernie’s thesis should be that automation is developed primarily with the goals of capital in mind and any benefit to a worker is incidental to the process.

Shear Modulus posted:

Atjack has like a bazillion dollars from selling versioj 1.0 to elon though