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tehinternet posted:That seems like a really good idea, honestly. 500 people, 98% of which are remote. I couldn't tell you how it got started for I've been there less than a year. Probably HR, for there are other general Team rooms, for example a "watercooler" room where people BS and post cat pics
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E: see you answered above alreadyGreenNight posted:We have what we call a Genius Bar in Teams that folks pose questions to and everyone in the company has it by default, so someone will pose an excel question and typically someone knows the answer, not IT. It works really well. This sounds like a pretty good idea! tehinternet posted:That seems like a really good idea, honestly. Yeah, this.
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There's a rub on that return to office in San Antonio guy, he's offering me clearance and uhm what I would call an extreme amount of money and I don't get out of bed for less than 150k.
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jaegerx posted:There's a rub on that return to office in San Antonio guy, he's offering me clearance and uhm what I would call an extreme amount of money and I don't get out of bed for less than 150k. I mean, if it’s enough to make sense, then do it for a couple years then gtfo.
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jaegerx posted:There's a rub on that return to office in San Antonio guy, he's offering me clearance and uhm what I would call an extreme amount of money and I don't get out of bed for less than 150k. You able to live that Security Clearance life?
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posting w/ me invalidates any security clearance so yw
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Hughmoris posted:You able to live that Security Clearance life? astral made me lose my long post, short version. I don't want a commitment and I can't live that not-weed life when I realize how much happier and more productive I am on it so yes, I ain't that security life. also in the clam down stance. who the gently caress needs more than 150k a year? e:not really astral falt, i just happened to hit that 1 outa 99% error jaegerx fucked around with this message at 02:18 on Aug 28, 2023 |
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Yeah I got a lot of poo poo for having edibles at the last Cisco live from the feds when they were doing my clearance.
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jaegerx posted:also in the clam down stance. who the gently caress needs more than 150k a year? Coast FIRE life is real. Maybe it's just me but post COVID everything and I mean everything is just so much expensive especially for anyone who lives in a big city.
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If anyone itt makes more than 150k pm me and I'll let you buy intergenerational indulgences 1k = 1 slang term you're excused from learning
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Crosby B. Alfred posted:Coast FIRE life is real. I genuinely do not know how most people are doing it. We are very fortunate that we can just absorb the cost because we are both professionals -- that's a terrible term, but I don't know of a better one, white-collar is not the same thing -- but our grocery bills alone for a family of 3 went from maybe $100 or a bit more per week to $300+. Given that most people, if I remember the statistic right, don't have the cash on hand to cover a $600 emergency, I really don't understand how the average person can afford an extra $800 a month or so in food.
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All my close friends and even acquaintances that aren't lawyers, doctors or in tech or some adjacent tech field have multiple jobs and live with roommates. The weirdest part about all of this is that I get way more flak than I expected for my success. To me, I'm just playing the game. 
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This seemingly coordinated push for RTO in September is gonna be real cute as we roll into the yearly fall COVID wave.
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guppy posted:I genuinely do not know how most people are doing it. We are very fortunate that we can just absorb the cost because we are both professionals -- that's a terrible term, but I don't know of a better one, white-collar is not the same thing -- but our grocery bills alone for a family of 3 went from maybe $100 or a bit more per week to $300+. Given that most people, if I remember the statistic right, don't have the cash on hand to cover a $600 emergency, I really don't understand how the average person can afford an extra $800 a month or so in food. 100% My wife and I are so lucky to live in a low COL area. I mean, it’s Florida so maybe not that lucky. But as far as being able to afford to live beyond sustenance wages, yeah. I have no clue how my son is going to afford a place when he finishes school. I mean, it wasn’t roses when I started out, but it wasn’t *gestures to housing market, prices in general* this bad. Even the modest 3/2 ~1400sqft house I bought in 2010 in the semi-rural outskirts of our area (30-40 mins from city) for $72k (with a $600/mo. mortgage) are over $300k now. loving why? A: investors and speculators ruin everything
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tehinternet posted:100% AirBnB investors and the adoption of algorithmic property price setting systems hosed everything in the past 15 years.
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If we are going to get into a housing a chat, let me point at housing supply vs. shrewd Airbnb and real estate investors. One is much, much more impactful than the other especially when you have large groups like Blackrock opening voicing on quarterly calls that reason housing is so high is due to restriction on development hence their investments. Or if we are going to make an IT analogy it's that single family housing doesn't scale.
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tehinternet posted:100% I like to keep tabs on my childhood home to really drive home how bad it is. 2 br /1bath ~1000sqft home in a lovely part of volusia county. Sold during the housing market crash for 35k. Sold in 2021 for 180k and Zillow estimated the current price at 247k. There’s no universe where that house is worth six figures, let alone a quarter million.
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I got an email from a trust that apparently some guy with my name owns and he lost money on his rental properties this year so I sent an email back saying good and to gently caress him.
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Cyks posted:I like to keep tabs on my childhood home to really drive home how bad it is. Unfortunately, that universe is the one we exist in, largely because we don’t build housing! Institutional investors certainly don’t help, but we also are faced with constant reminders that we make it far too expensive to build projects from solar to housing to infrastructure of all kinds. What I’m saying is death to the environment protection agency 
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The Iron Rose posted:Unfortunately, that universe is the one we exist in, largely because we don’t build housing! Institutional investors certainly don’t help, but we also are faced with constant reminders that we make it far too expensive to build projects from solar to housing to infrastructure of all kinds. Which GOP super PAC are you funded by??? lmao
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Internet Explorer posted:I find it hard to believe that the reason why housing is so expensive is because the real estate and developer industries simply don't have enough power. Real estate =! developers. Real estate agents are focused on flipping homes because they get a cut every time you move to another place. Developers are focused on building buildings and then building the next one. That's it. I don't know where anyone lives but as someone from Southern California who's literally in Bangkok right now I want to scream at the top of my lungs so bad.
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Internet Explorer posted:I find it hard to believe that the reason why housing is so expensive is because the real estate and developer industries simply don't have enough power.
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Housing costs being what they are is due to a confluence of events that I doubt anyone in this thread fully has a handle on (myself included). I’ve given up on moving into something bigger for now despite our family outgrowing our house. Bought it in 2016 for $270k and today I’d put it on the market for $650k (we have been consistently renovating it, without it the house would be $500k-ish which is still nuts). The equity does 0 good when our target homes are now bumping up to or over a million dollars. My only question is who is showing up with cash offers for $800k properties over and over again and how. The houses in my area aren’t being sold to investors or anything, I’ve heard people say COVID accelerated the timeline on people receiving inheritance’s. My buddy is an actuary and says the life insurance industry is totally hosed at this point. Not sure how  that is though
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Vargatron posted:Which GOP super PAC are you funded by??? lmao I’m being facetiously extreme (re: the epa, we genuinely don’t build enough and houses genuinely cost stupid money because we have precious little housing and far too much red tape), which clearly the failed to sufficiently communicate!
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I also hosed up by posting before being properly awake. My bad.
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i am a moron posted:My only question is who is showing up with cash offers for $800k properties over and over again and how. The houses in my area aren’t being sold to investors or anything, I’ve heard people say COVID accelerated the timeline on people receiving inheritance’s. My buddy is an actuary and says the life insurance industry is totally hosed at this point. Not sure how Post-COVID a lot of people who have had stock in tech companies or large companies for that matter have done very, very well. It's funny how there is this narrative that Americans aren't doing well financially, worst income disparity since the gilded age, etc. and while all of that is true there are still a lot of Americans that have done quite well even if they aren't millionaires. And if you are just dropping $350k on a house you skip interest payments.
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Vulture Culture posted:Remember that the industries aren't monoliths, and they involve individual homebuilders, contractors, and other local workers as much as they involve big corporate entities. Seeing what's been happening in my own area over the past two decades or so, I absolutely believe that the big corporate powers-that-be are working to stack the regulatory environments to make it impossible for independent builders or homeowners to actually comply with those regulations in any reasonable or affordable way. This ends up pushing small operations in those areas into house-flipping even more, because there's too much risk in making too substantial a change to a house, and pushing it out of legacy compliance into a more restrictive regulatory regime. This is really the correct take. Big developers will fight changes in regulation that make it easier to build housing, because they've mastered the complexity, and the complexity limits competition.
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  at owning property in my hometown in the Bay Area - I've been hit by the dot-com crash, the 08 crash, and have been averaging 50% unemployed for the last four years. Otoh, Starlink is loving banging, virtual backgrounds for video calls are both good & ubiquitous, and there are still 100% remote jobs out there. It may be homestead/#vanlife/liveaboard time
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The Iron Rose posted:I’m being facetiously extreme (re: the epa, we genuinely don’t build enough and houses genuinely cost stupid money because we have precious little housing and far too much red tape), which clearly the That's not at all why houses cost too much money, although it's true we should build more affordable housing. It's like saying Tesla stock is too expensive because they produce too few cars. It has literally nothing to do with that. I mean, do you think we experienced a 2x boom in population between 2018 and 2023 to explain the 2x price difference?
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Not to mention that there is enough vacant housing in the US to home every homeless person there.
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Is that even counting housing that's been purchased as an "investment" and left empty, or just empty homes for sale?
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Cup Runneth Over posted:That's not at all why houses cost too much money, although it's true we should build more affordable housing. It's like saying Tesla stock is too expensive because they produce too few cars. It has literally nothing to do with that. If Tesla produced ten times the number of cars, it would certainly reduce prices! To continue the Tesla analogy, look at the price war in the Chinese EV market for the first half of this year, which is a direct result of the glut of EV production for China’s internal market. You don’t see that sort of sustained reduction in prices unless you have manufacturers competing with one another aggressively for market share, which has the end result of producing market efficiencies and better value for the consumer. While some of it was certainly monopolistic - which is why Chinese regulators intervened at a certain point - you still have huge benefits for the consumer at a paltry cost to the taxpayer This isn’t really the thread for it, so I’ll drop it after this (feel free to reply tho unless IE steps in). But you’re going to have a hard time convincing me that part of the solution to extreme demand for housing is not via radically increasing local supply. Kibner posted:Not to mention that there is enough vacant housing in the US to home every homeless person there. Not homes where people want to live and not homes that are liquid in local markets at affordable prices! The Iron Rose fucked around with this message at 16:21 on Aug 28, 2023 |
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I don't have a lot to add to housing chat except this anecdote: On the street where I now live there are about 20 structures, every one of them is a duplex/townhouse for ~40 residences. Of those 40 residences, not a single one of them is owner occupied. I am told that until recently, at least 60% of them were "professional" airbnb properties. My unit specifically was an airbnb property until I moved in. My landlord owns 4 of these properties and has been in the process converting all of them into long term rentals since last year.
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thread inspire me to move my most popular tweet to bsky:
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Crosby B. Alfred posted:Post-COVID a lot of people who have had stock in tech companies or large companies for that matter have done very, very well. It's funny how there is this narrative that Americans aren't doing well financially, worst income disparity since the gilded age, etc. and while all of that is true there are still a lot of Americans that have done quite well even if they aren't millionaires. I live in one of the hottest counties in the US, but it’s in Ohio and I know enough people are where I live that I would be shocked if this was the case. This isn’t a big tech hub where people are getting RSUs rained down on them, and I doubt many of them are sitting on enough of anything to cash out and buy a million dollar property in cash.
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The Fool posted:thread inspire me to move my most popular tweet to bsky: ah but if we simply produced ten times the number of houses
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